The standard home temperature significantly shortens the flowering period of plants, which are designed to survive for several or several weeks, e.g. decorative perennials (primroses, hellebore and bells) or annual plants (healers).Long-lasting decoration made of plants that will stay in our apartments for many years should be sought among thermophilic plants, the optimal temperature for winter rest is 18-22 ° C.
Among them there are many species known and proven by our grandmothers and mothers: dracaena, fig trees, monstera and many plants popular in recent years: palyscias, pachira, zamiokulkas. Many species, such as anthurium, stephanotis, calathea and some orchids, such as phalaenopsis, bloom profusely every year despite the high temperature in the apartments.
Among potted plants we can also find many species that are too cold in our apartments, incl. allocasia, adiantum, platycerium.These are usually plants from humid equatorial forests, requiring high air humidity.For these reasons, growing them in homes can be troublesome - these plants feel best in the so-called tropical windows.
How to save dry plants
Central heating keeps the air humidity in the apartments very low. Under such conditions, the substrate in the pots dries up very quickly.Particularly vulnerable to drying out are plants that are strongly overgrown, creating a large mass of greenery.Large or numerous leaves transpire intensively, which causes the plant to lose significant amounts of water.
Plants growing in small pots with a small amount of substrate are more susceptible to it.This is particularly unfavorable in the case of the most popular peat-based substrates, which are characterized by shrinkage, which means that it is very difficult to re-draw water after severe drying.
Water poured into the dried peat substrate is leaking like through a sieve.The only solution is to put the entire pot with the plant in water for a dozen or so minutes.Plants are taken out of the water when air bubbles stop escaping from the pot.
