Spring is unfailingly considered a season of fresh initiatives and revitalization. For plants it is a very active span as they wake up from their winter sleep. For horticulturists this is a very active season for not only outdoor plants but our indoor plants too. Spring is the best season for indoor plant maintenance.
Fertilizing plants in the spring and summer months will render the best results. A good rule of thumb to keep in mind when fertilizing is that less really is more. Don't fertilize a plant that has just been re-potted for a few months or a new plant just brought home from the nursery. The fertilizer nutrients are already in a nursery plant and the fresh soil of a re-potted plant.
I also evaluate my plants in the spring to see if they require re-potting. There are three basic ways to determine if your indoor plant needs re-potting:
1. If the roots are growing out of the drainage hole.
2. If the roots have totally filled the pot and are growing around in circles.
3. If, when you add water, it immediately drains out the bottom. This is a problem of either the soil altogether drying out, or the roots so completely filling the pot that they are self-strangling and can't take up any water at all.
After re-potting, it is a ideal opportunity to consider showing off your plant in a splendid, natural-looking macrame plant hanger.
Macrame plant hangers are also a good manner to get that plant that needs more or less light into a superior place to receive its specified light. Typically plants are accompanied by a guideline on the amount of light that is prescribed for them. During the winter, less sun comes inside than in the spring and summer. It is good to know which windows have the less to more sunlight that comes through on any given day with sunshine. The north exposure has the least amount of light. The east exposure has the next brightest; the west exposure is the next brightest with the south exposure being the brightest of all.
Pruning a plant to recover its shape and cultivate more even blossoming throughout the plant is also optimally completed in the early spring or late summer.
During this spring I am enjoying the blossoms of my numerous African Violets and the spring flowering of my Christmas Cacti. I also have many macrame plant hangers in my home so they can all have their special showplace. It is fun indulging your plants...they live for it!
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