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- How important is the watering of plants?
It cannot be stressed too strongly that watering is the key to your success with indoor plants. Watering is 75% of the battle. Every time you water, you must strive to give the plant exactly as much as it needs. Too much or too little water causes the plant to grow less than optimally.
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- Is constant trimming needed?
You will notice that when plants are growing strongly, they rarely need any trimming. If your plant need constant trimming, is recommended to check the watering and light.
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- Does the position of the window affect the plant?
Yes, here is a table with the light according to the position of the window.
- A North window is 100fc - 200fc
- A East window is 200fc - 400fc
- A West window is 300fc - 700fc
- A South window is 400fc - 1000fc
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- What about artificial lights and dark corners?
- Bright Light is about 80fc to 150fc
- Average workspace light is about 50fc to 80fc
- Hallways and lobbies have about 20fc to 50fc
- A dark corner has 5fc to 20fc
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- Hints about light
- Light is used by a plant to produce food.
- More light equals faster food production.
- Window light is brighter than artificial light.
- All plants have a minimum light level.
- Light affects a plant's water usage.
- Plants with papery-thin leaves grow fastest.
- Plants with thick leathery leaves grow slowest.
- Fast growers need the most light.
- Slow growers tolerate the least light.
- Light is the most important environmental element in plant care.
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- What is the best way to water plants?
There is only one best way to hand water plants. You must allow them to go dry until they have nearly started to wilt. If you don't let them dry out sufficiently each time, you will retard the growth - sometimes fatally. When you water, visualize the roots. The roots need both water and oxygen. They get oxygen when the soil, dries out. If you keep the roots wet, oxygen cannot enter the soil and roots suffocate.
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- Hints about watering
- Plants use water in direct proportion to the light they receive.
- The best time to water is at "The Point of Wilting".
- Slow growing plants (leathery leaves) need the least water.
- Fast growers (thin, papery leaves) require the most water.
- Never soak a plant - except in bright window light.
- Overwatering is 10 times worse than underwatering.
- Pour the water evenly over the entire root surface.
- Undewatering signs are yellow leaves or brown tips.
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- How should roots be treated?
The worst way to treat the roots is to give them a good soak every time. This method will make sure that the plant dies very quickly. Of course, fast growing in bright light may need a good soak every week, but this is an exception.
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- Hints about roots
- Roots need oxygen in addition to water.
- Roots get oxygen as the soil dries out between watering.
- Roots will pump as much water as you give to them.
- Rootbound plants are the easiest to water.
- Most of the roots grow in the lower half of the pot.
- Slow growing plants are the easiest to overwater.
- New growth (roots or leaves) is important for overall health.
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