Indoor plants: 10 rules for a successful transition from winter to spring. Lighting, watering, air humidity

During the change of season, indoor plants require more maintenance. There are some guidelines to follow to help plants adapt to new conditions.

Houseplants: the impact of change

When spring returns, we see a change that occurs with our house plants: young leaves appear, twigs, some crops bloom. All this is pleasant and, in our opinion, good for plants. However, these environmental changes have a profound effect on indoor plants. They experience significant discomfort. Air temperature, humidity, lighting, and much more change. To make this period of change as easy as possible for plants, several rules should be considered.

Indoor plants: rules of care in the spring

1. It is necessary to be careful and observe the plant.

The appearance of any changes in the appearance of the plant is a signal for action. In the spring, the development of buds or buds, or new leaves suggests that the plant needs to start feeding.

You should also check if there is enough moisture in the soil, if there is a crust on the ground, if any pests have started, observe signs of the disease. All this must be done in time to prevent the development of irreversible processes.

2. It is necessary to replant indoor plants that need additional nutrition.

It is spring that stimulates plant growth, therefore, at this time, its need for more and more new nutrients increases. Therefore, they need a new land, or an increase in its space.

If the plant is not transplanted in time, a low level of nutrition will lead to diseases, stunted growth and death of the plant.

If the volume of the pot is optimal for the plant or this culture does not tolerate transplanting well, here you can limit yourself to replacing the top layer of the earth with a new nutritious soil.

It is necessary to transplant flowers, observing the rules for a particular plant, taking into account the size of the root system and the required composition of the soil.

It is necessary to loosen the earth and scoop out the top layer, which does not affect the roots. Next, you need to add the required volume for a given pot of soil. All this must be done at the very beginning of the growth and development of the plant.

3. The sequence of procedures.

It is necessary to resume feeding the plants only after the plant has given an active vegetation, strictly after transplanting or replacing the topsoil. After about a couple of weeks. As soon as the plant has taken root after replanting or renewing the land, when the frequency of watering has increased, then you can begin to introduce top dressing.

4. Resumption of watering

If the plant was watered without any special changes in winter, then in the spring it is necessary to continue watering in the same mode, gradually increasing the amount as the soil dries out. If the plant was not watered in winter, or watering was very rare, then it should be introduced in spring very carefully. Without causing waterlogging of the soil, so that the roots do not rot.

The water temperature should be warm.

The transition period to return to normal watering should last for about a month.

Air humidity has a very strong effect on the plant. Its level decreases sharply in the spring, when the weather becomes warmer, and the radiators work as usual.The air becomes very dry, which adversely affects not only the skin of people, but also plants.

It is necessary to increase the humidity using the methods we are accustomed to: air humidifiers, hanging wet towels, installing containers with water around the apartment, you can also use water soil.

It is good to spray from a spray bottle. It is best to do this in the morning with warm water.

Thus, here it is necessary to focus only on the aridity of the soil in the pot.

5. Spring pruning.

Not only shrubs and trees need to be pruned in the spring, but houseplants also need to be updated and cleaned. So, dried, damaged leaves and twigs, and other debris are removed from the surface of the earth. You can remove, improperly growing, branches if the plant is a shrub. You can also shorten the stems to give the bush a splendor.

However, it should be remembered that pruning is carried out only for those plants that need it.

You must be especially careful when pruning flowering plants. The removed shoots can be used for plant propagation, especially if the previous plant is already old.

6. It is necessary to monitor the level of illumination.

In winter, the lighting is very weak, plus a short daylight hours. Getting used to this, the bright scorching rays of the sun in the spring can adversely affect the condition of the plant.

So, under new light conditions, the plant can wither, lose color and leaves.

No matter how events develop, it is necessary to protect the plants from the active sunlight of spring, by installing a screen, you can hang a curtain or close the window with a newspaper. Particularly light-sensitive plants can be placed in a row farthest from the window.

The light should be diffused. The softening of illumination during the adaptation period is the key to the health of any plant in the spring.

7. It is necessary to control the temperature.

A sharp change in temperature must not be allowed. If the plants were in a cool room in winter, they should be rearranged at the end of winter to more

warm place. Plants that grow in warmth will tolerate the increase in outdoor air temperature more easily due to the change of season.

The worst events occur when, at first, the plants experience discomfort from being in a dry room, where the batteries continue to work, where the air is dry, and then, when the heating is turned off, the temperature in the room drops sharply, especially if there is a cold snap outside. Thus, plants find themselves in an even greater critical situation.

To avoid the appearance of this discomfort and keep the plant beautiful and healthy, you must try to keep the temperature as stable as possible during its sudden changes outside. So, for example, if the room gets very hot, you can put humidifiers, cover the batteries with rags, ventilate the room as often as possible. If, on the contrary, it has become sharply cold, you can cover the plants, insulate the pots, use thermal supports, or organize watering or sprinkling with warm water. The main goal here is to maintain the desired air parameters and stabilize them during the season change.

8. The life-giving power of oxygen.

For the normal growth and development of any plant, it needs fresh air. There are, of course, cultures that are afraid of drafts and cold, but fresh air must be supplied regularly.

In spring, when it gets hot, it is necessary to gradually increase the time and frequency of airing. However, with strong gusts of cold wind, you can skip a day.

When ventilating the room, it must be remembered that the air coming from the street is able to reduce the humidity indicators to a minimum. Therefore, when increasing ventilation, one should not forget about increasing humidity. These are, again, humidifiers, watering, spraying and containers filled with water.

9. Protection against drafts.

It is very important to ventilate the room, but it is worth remembering that almost any plant is afraid of both drafts and a sharp change in temperature, which always occurs near an open window, especially

in spring, when the room, strongly heated by the sun, cools down strongly when the window is opened, since the temperature outside the window is still slightly above zero.

You can avoid negative effects by moving the flower to another room during the airing, or by covering the plants for the airing period. You can simply rearrange the plant further from the window or cover it with a fence.

You should also be attentive to any movement of air: both warm, for example, from a radiator, and cold, for example, from glass or cracks in the frame.

10. Washing plants.

When caring for indoor plants, one should not forget about hygiene, and regularly wipe the leaves with a damp cloth. Only, having cleared of dust and other dirt, metabolic processes in the leaves and stems can normally take place.

The plant responds very well to foliage spraying. This procedure stimulates the growth and development of a young seedling.

If this culture does not tolerate leaf wetness, the cleaning procedure can be carried out with a dry cloth, using brushes and similar devices. Special polishes are available for woody plants.

In addition to washing the plants, cleanliness should be maintained around the plant. Garbage must be immediately removed from the soil, pots and pallets must be kept clean so that harmful organisms do not get in there, it is also important to wash the windows in which the plants stand, since this fact affects the illumination of the flower.

Summing up

Thus, observing the rules of caring for indoor plants, you can protect them and make the most favorable period of the change from winter to spring.