Special care for capricious arrowroot at home
Capricious arrowroot care at home requires a special one. Tropicana is appreciated for the beauty of its leaves. Place the flower in the bedroom. It absorbs negative energy, closes it in a folded sheet, ensuring a sound night's sleep. It has been noticed where the arrowroot lives, there are no loud scandals and major quarrels. Flower amulet. The plant does not carry poison in itself, it is not dangerous for others.
Arrowroot care at home, types and photos
The Indians used arrowroot juice as an antidote in the treatment of wounds with poisoned arrows. The plant itself is considered harmless.
A flexible stem cannot independently hold several heavy leaves upright. Therefore, with age, the flower spreads on a stand or is grown as an ampelous culture. You can organize support and help the plant to place the leaves so that they are all in the diffused light flux.
It is clear that all the beauty of a plant is in its healthy leaves. Preserving them is the main concern of the amateur. This is not easy at all, given the exactingness of arrowroot to care. In addition, this plant is a sissy. The flower is easily infected with diseases and it is inhabited by a lot of insect pests. Arrowroot species differ in color, shape of flowers, but they all have beautiful leaves.
How to properly care for arrowroot at home
A tropical plant in nature settled under the dense canopy of trees, not far from flowing streams. Therefore, it grows in diffused light, there is always moist air from the forest substrate below, and the flowing stream creates a moderate soil moisture. These are the conditions you need to create an arrowroot flower when caring for home.
- It's easy to create the right lighting. Arrowroot can be placed in the back of the room, but so that there is enough light. The flower cannot stand direct sunlight, and the illumination is for its good. If you don't please with the lighting, the leaves will tell you. In the shadow, they lose the sharpness of the lines, fade.
- A heat-loving plant in summer requires a temperature of 20 - 25 degrees, in winter 18. But even a cold stand and a small draft will leave their mark on the leaves.
- Water the plant only with soft water at room temperature. The frequency of watering depends on the state of the earth clod. It should dry out a little on top between waterings. In winter, the plant is moistened 2 times a week, and one watering can be replaced by spraying the leaves. Moisturizing for arrowroot is a favorite procedure. To create the desired climate near the plant, there must always be a lake with water - a saucer or an aquarium. A pallet with pebbles and sphagnum moss, as always, will help out a grower where there is dry air.
- You need to fertilize the plant, but in moderation. Arrowroot does not tolerate overfeeding, especially nitrogen fertilizers. One gram per liter of water as a standard fertilizer for ornamental plants is sufficient in summer. Fertilize after watering 2 times a week.
- Pruning arrowroot is done in two ways.If the bush is launched and there are many ugly leaves on it, you need to cut the greens at the root and remove them in a dark place. Water in moderation. New growth will go from the root, it is possible to correct mistakes in caring for arrowroot at home. You can cut off the leaves with cuttings and root them in the same pot for the splendor of the bush.
If you follow the proposed methods of caring for a flower, it will delight with its appearance and even bloom, which rarely happens at home.
It is important to know that the arrowroot is transplanted in the spring, after a year. In this case, a wide bowl is chosen, the roots of the flower are superficial.
At this time, carefully damaged leaves are removed, the root system is revised, if necessary, the bush is divided for reproduction. You need to carefully divide the root, take care of the arrowroot like a baby. Each detached nodule should have 2-3 dormant buds. After the transplant is completed, the leaves must be cut off and the flower must be waited for.
Drainage in a pot consists of broken pots, expanded clay, brick chips, pieces of charcoal. The bulk layer should be at least 5 cm. The substrate can be bought in the store, or prepared by yourself:
- peat - 2 parts;
- humus 1 part;
- leaf land - 4 parts;
- sand - 1 part.
The addition of chopped sphagnum moss, bark and earth from conifers, charcoal crumbs with ash residues on them is encouraged. The more components, the lighter the soil.
Signs of improper home care for arrowroot
The plant quickly reacts to the wrong content by changing the appearance of the leaves. If you study the signals, you can quickly correct mistakes and the bush will delight you with beauty for a long time. The main SOS are modified leaves, they are:
- turn yellow;
- dry;
- curl up.
Yellowing leaves indicate that the flower does not receive its portion of water through watering or leaves. But if the leaves have yellow spots, then the sun's rays that fell on the leaf and burned it are to blame. Maybe you lowered the temperature unacceptably and froze the plant or blew it with a draft.
The arrowroot plant is under the auspices of Aquarius. It promotes the resorption of blood clots, soothes, acts as a barometer. Before the rain, she raises the leaves up.
If arrowroot leaves began to dry out from the edges, remember how long ago you fed the plant, what water you water. The hard salts that build up on the teapot also clog the ducts of the plant. Rare watering, excessive drying of the soil will give the same reaction.
Leaves curled - the plant is cold and shriveled. The arrowroot does not have enough water, and it hides the remains from evaporation, so it twisted the sheet into a tube.
Only with insufficient care for a moisture-loving plant, a spider mite can start on it. If the colony has not yet gained strength, the plant can be saved. The yellowed leaves must be burned along with the living creatures.
In arrowroot, the energy of Mars, Sun and Mercury was combined. During the day, she absorbs the energy of aggression. The moon rules at night, and the raised leaves protect the sleeping man's peace. Arrowroot makes a person more open and sociable. With a wish of happiness, present an arrowroot to your friends!