Food Style Society Children Science & Environment Chennai Citizen Artscene HR & Education Home Decor Festivals & Religion Columns Mail us your feedback Recommend this page

Download Tamil Fonts

The main concept to understand is that plants in pots are like prisoners. They are forced to rely upon their owners for almost all their care. You have two main jobs with potted plants: 

• You must provide all the food 

• You must provide most of the water.

The soil in each pot associated with each plant is a big variable. Heavy thick soil will hold water better than a fine nursery mix, but can choke plant roots in heavy rain periods.

A loose peat-based nursery mix is excellent for almost all plants, but the plant owner must be more attentive to dry conditions. Small pots, for example, can require water every day when it's hot and dry outdoors. 

Wind and sun vary the need for water greatly as well. The point is, the amount of water you provide varies with outdoor conditions day by day. Therefore, you must think about outdoor conditions every day and vary the water you provide for your potted plants depending on the daily amount of rain, wind, and heat.

If that advice sounds like too much of a fuss for you, you have three alternatives: 

• Use only very tough plants like cactus for all your pots 

• Settle for ordinary plants in pots that always look like they're suffering (because they are) 

• Throw plants away, get new ones, often.

We have found that including your plants in your daily routine makes care very simple. Just add a pass by your plants every morning or every evening as part of your daily routine. There are many benefits: 

• It is a wholesome activity to go see your plants 

• By seeing your plants daily, you will know exactly how they should look when they are happy, and take quick action if attention is needed 

• You'll very much enjoy owning quality-healthy plants rather than constantly being in a stew about the poor condition of your plants when you don't provide them proper routine care 

• When you have guests over to your home, they will notice and admire your plants - you will get well deserved compliments.

Fertilizer: Where do people get the notion that potted plants can live and grow well with no food/fertilizer? You will marvel at and be delighted with the results you get using fertilizer on your potted outdoor plants. 

Every plant you buy has come from a professional nursery where the plant has been grown under perfect or near perfect conditions and care. There is a 99% chance that its new location in your outdoor pot is less than the optimal conditions at the nursery. Therefore, almost every plant will detect the decline in conditions and at first show signs of unhappiness. 

This is normal, so do not panic. It would be nice if you knew if your new plant was a low, medium or high light plant so you could start it off in a well-suited location outdoors. 

Do not feed right away. Get your water routine settled first. Once your new plant is perky and happy, make him even more happy with fertilizer. 

If you become a successful potted plant grower, from time to time your plants will outgrow their pots. 

If you want to continue to own the plant and watch it get even bigger and better, you'll have to re-pot. 

Go out and buy quality pots (with drainage hole(s) in the bottom) and quality nursery soil.

• Water based on daily changing outdoor conditions 

• Feed your plants quality timed release fertilizer or organic fertilizers of your choice 

• Go see your plants every day as part of your daily routine 

• Buy good pots and good soil.

Post your ads for FREE! Online Homeopathy Consulting! BSE/NSE Live Rent House in Chennai Matrimonials Find ur home at IndiaProperty Properties in Your City Horoscope with 10 Year's Prediction