Revive Your Dying House Plants, Follow These Gardening Tips
Nursery Today Desk
New Delhi: Indoor plants are so attractive and delicate at the same time. Its presence enhances the look as well as the energy of your room. And if you are passionate about plants, you must have also experienced how difficult it is to grow healthy indoor plants. They are very fragile and demand a lot of attention. Here are some pro tips to prevent you from making any kind of mistake and contribute to healthier growth of your plant.
Watering: Avoid over watering. Over watering rots the roots of the plant and hence it dies. To anticipate the requirement of water for any plant, you can look at the soil. If it’s dry, good watering is required; if it’s lightly moist, little watering is needed. It is not necessary to water house plants every day.
Also, Water the plants on right time, either early morning or evening. Watering during midday may kill the plant as water evaporates from the soil and the plants get scorched.
Pruning: Remove the dry leaves and hoe the top soil, if you see the plant has started to dry completely. Avoid using liquid fertilizers, adding cow dung manure proves to be the best option for revival of drying plants.
Sunlight: Over sunlight and under sunlight, both are harmful for the plants. Different plants have different requirement of sunlight. It’s better to do some research on your plant and then decide its location.
Nutrition: Nutrition is very necessary for the soil to grow any plant, alone fertilizer is not enough for this purpose. You can add compost (germy compost or homemade waste compost), to help plants get enough nutrition.
Prevent excessive humidity: The soil around the plant should still be reasonably moist, but you may not be watering it enough. When the plant’s soil is not self-draining, this occurs. You can also lower the humidity by making holes in the pot, adding some sand to the soil, using coco peat, placing some stones in the pot, etc.
Repotting: You can revive your drying plant by transporting it to a bigger pot so that its roots can spread. Add materials to the soil to allow it to drain properly. Mix either cow dung or compost with the soil to give more nutrition to the roots.
Protect from insects: Spray insecticides to the plants from time to time by diluting it with water. This will prevent your house plant from dying because of any disease or insect attack.
Make compost of dead plants: Compost the plant if it is fully dead. It can be applied in either way. The benefit will extend to other plants.
After implementing these tips, wait for around a month to conclude whether the plant is completely spoiled or not. Taking these measures can make possible that a new plant will be ready in a month.
