Plants and Flowers

Purchase of tropical plants: Quarantine

December 4th, 2007

You would like to put the bought plant on a window sill as soon as possible, but not hurry. Two-three-week quarantine will allow you to determine – whether this plant sick or healthy, whether there are plant pests, whom you have not noticed at once (for example, such pests as coccids, have development cycle in some days, and it is not enough to destroy only adult specimen – you should repeat treatment in a certain amount of days). A quarantine plant should be put separately from the others, taking into account conditions of its maintenance. Whether to transplant it or not - decide from roots: if roots have densely twined land clod, transplant it; otherwise - wait.

If you see, that a plant has the big dark leaves – then, most likely, it grew in a shadow. Train it gradually to bright light to avoid burns. And on the contrary, a plant with light leaves, most likely, was exposed to the sun, and being placed in a shadow it shed leaves.

Any changes in conditions of the maintenance should be gradual - it is one of the main keystones to success.


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