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Prune this Episode #6: Guide to dividing House Plants; Sanseveria, Ferns, Aspidistra. Learn to divide house plants with horizontal rhizomes. Basic plant care techniques to start new plants. Be a do it yourself pro! These plants are naive to Japan, they are very hardy, and they can withstand neglect and tolerate low light. They are perfect high traffic office plants that make for beautiful interior landscaping. Have a green thumb
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Do plants wilt at the sight of you? With these tips, anyone can keep a houseplant alive -- even you!
To complete this How-To you will need:
A plant
Knowledge of its native environment
Water
Fertilizer
A soothing voice or a radio
Step 1: Pick a plant that's tough to kill. Hardy varieties include spider, rubber, and snake plants, and pothos, aloe vera, and peace lilies.
Step 2: Choose a good location. Plants do best in the light and temperature of their native environment. For instance, tropical plants like their surroundings bright and humid, while cacti need sunlight but very little water.
Tip: Put houseplants that thrive on humidity in the bathroom -- the dampest room in the house.
Step 3: Find out your plant's foot-candle requirement, which is how many candles it would take to light the plant from one foot away. A plant that needs 250 or fewer candles is a low-light plant; one that needs more than 1,000 requires very bright light. If your plant didn't come with this information, search for it online.
Step 4: Poke the soil with your finger before watering. If it's moist, leave it alone. Overwatering is the no. 1 killer of houseplants.
Step 5: Fertilize a few times between the spring and fall. Low-light plants only require fertilization once or twice a year. Slow-growing plants need less fertilizer, while faster growing varieties need more. Choose a fertilizer that contains nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Water the soil before fertilizing to prevent fertilizer burn.
Tip: Watering your plants with the water in which you boiled vegetables or water from your fish tank gives them nutrients that help them grow.
Step 6: Talk or sing to your plants. Some research has indicated this can help them thrive, as does playing certain kinds of music. Indian sitar music works best, followed by classical music. Stay away from heavy metal: Plants exposed to loud rock music died after a few weeks in one famous experiment.
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You don't need a green thumb to have houseplants that flourish; you just need to know which ones will thrive in your home.
To complete this How-To you will need:
Informed purchases
Hardy varieties
Step 1: Consider your schedule
Consider your schedule. If you are out of town a lot, choose plants that can go a couple of weeks without watering, like jade or rubber plants, mini-geraniums, golden pathos, or any kind of philodendron.
Step 2: Think about lighting
Think about where you want to put plants, and then pick ones that will thrive in the light those rooms provide. Your local nursery can tell you whether a plant needs high, medium or low light.
Tip: Windows facing east, west, southeast, and southwest provide a lot of light; north-facing windows provide low light; and south-facing windows provide medium light in summer and a lot of light in winter.
Step 3: Evaluate your space
Evaluate your space. If it's limited, look for plants that can live in small pots, like Chinese evergreens, African violets, ageratums, and lantanas.
Step 4: Combat pollution
If you live in a congested city, consider plants that remove pollutants from the air, like English ivy, peace lilies, spider plants, and aloe vera.
Step 5: Take humidity into consideration
Take humidity into consideration. If you live in a dry climate, avoid houseplants that require high air-moisture levels unless you plan to put them in a room that's often humid, like the bathroom.
Tip: Tropical plants like Pink Sunburst cannas, caladiums, and lantanas need humidity; succulents and cacti are desert plants that thrive in dry air.
Step 6: Go with hardy plants
Increase your chances of bringing home plants that will thrive by choosing varieties known to be hardy, like ZZ palms, wave petunias, dragon trees, ivy, and crotons. If you manage to kill those, switch to silk plants!
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Studies done by NASA and The Associated Landscape Contractors of America have shown that certain houseplants can reduce and absorb air pollutants, thus aiding to the air quality. The link above is to a great article highlighting these points, and explaining the top houseplants to improve air quality.
After you've read the article on the page, there is a multitude of products available for houseplants at Clean Air Gardening. These can help your indoor houseplants grow, and will leave you with better air quality.
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Even though houseplants are kept inside the house, they too require the same basic necessity as any other plants found on the outside in order to survive. This includes water, soils and lights.
Providing your houseplants with water and soils are easy, the most difficult and tricky part of having a houseplant is actually providing them with sufficient light. This is because most of them are placed in areas where it might not get enough lights throughout the day, if this is the case for you and your houseplants, there are always artificial lights that you can turn to in order to provide them with this essential.
When choosing the light bulbs and lamps for your plant, make sure to choose colors that have the full spectrum of light, in order for full development. If your plant grows only under red light, it'll often be long and tall but not strong enough as compared to a more proportionate growth under the white light, since it consists of the entire spectrum.
The thing to know when using incandescent bulbs are to make sure that they are not placed too closely to your plants, as this runs the risk of over exposure of heat and thus subsequently killing your plant. Heat is a big factor to consider when you choose these lights, and the same goes for halogen light.
Halogen light should only be used for showcasing purposes and not suitable for the growing and nurturing of houseplants. They are generally stronger white lights than your normal bulbs and therefore once again placements of these bulbs are important.
On the other hand, the best form of lights you can give your houseplants is lights from a fluorescent lamps, this is because they have the full white spectrum and often can artificially create a day like environment for your plants, which gives them the best possible growth development.
Sometimes if you find that some of your houseplants are dying, even you have used fluorescent lamps, then perhaps you can try adding a mirror to reflect the sunlight from the outside, this will allow you plant to get the maximum amount of light they need.
The placement of these artificial lights are important and should be thoroughly considered and planned out before implementing them, they can either help the growth of your plant or kill your plants if you are not careful!
The air ventilation within your home and your kitchen area is important as they can affect your health negatively, thus you should implement commercial exhaust fan to keep your home well ventilated! Find information and discounts on various commercial exhaust fans here!
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Everything you need to know about choosing and caring for houseplants. An extensive plant directory describes 300 indoor plants; an alphabetical chart provides at-a-glance information on each plant's needs and preferred conditions.... More >>
Indoor Plants: The Essential Guide to Choosing and Caring for Houseplants
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