About Melt Water And Other Intricacies Of Watering Indoor Flowers

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

If you live in regions where winter is soothing with an enviable and clean snow cover, use this advantage in caring for indoor flowers - pamper them with melted snow water. For indoor pets, rain and snow water is much more useful than chlorinated water from a water supply system, which must be well settled before use

The benefits of melt water for plants

In the course of botanical experiments, it was found that snow water has a beneficial effect on indoor plants. With such care, the growth and development of pets is significantly accelerated. The most susceptible to such attention from flower growers are begonias, ferns, pelargoniums, primroses, cyclamens. The latter become prettier especially quickly before our eyes: flowering occurs more abundantly, has a longer period, and the color of the petals becomes noticeably brighter.

In addition, melt water does not saline the earth. Take a closer look at the surface of the soil and the sides of the pots - they do not have a white coating, which very soon appears when the soil is moistened with water directly from the tap. As an alternative to melt water - water from nearby rivers and ponds.

If only tap water is available for irrigation, it must be defended within 24 hours to minimize the negative effects of chlorine and lime on plants. You can also freeze tap water. It is convenient to do this in a basin. The first ice is thrown away. Freezing of the remaining water is carried out to such an extent that about half of the volume inside the ice remains in liquid form. The ice needs to be broken, the unfrozen water must be drained - it will no longer be useful for our purposes. And melt water is used for irrigation.

Water temperature for irrigation

But even melt water can cause significant harm to plants if it is not allowed to warm up to room temperature. To do this, the liquid must be kept indoors for several hours at the temperature at which your flowers are kept. It is optimal if, when watering, it even turns out to be several degrees higher than the thermometer shows. For this, the watering can can be held near a heater or a switched-on stove.

At the same time, irrigation of plants with warm water is excluded, which are to their liking to be kept in cool rooms. In particular, this applies to those cases when pets are at rest during the cold season. With such a mistake, the stems and roots will begin to rot, and the plants overwintering with foliage will begin to shed their green robe.

The time of year also plays a role in the timing of your flowers. So, in the summer months, it is more expedient to moisten the soil in the evening. This is due to the fact that moisture evaporates less from the soil during the night. In autumn and winter, flowers are watered in the morning so that the water does not stagnate and the underground parts of the plants do not rot.

Spraying plants - benefits and harms

For some flowers, spraying is recommended. Among other things, it removes dust deposits from the leaves. For flowers with a large leaf plate, dust is removed with a damp soft cloth. But it would be a mistake to perform these techniques at a time when the greenery is brightly lit by the sun's rays - this leads to burns. At the same time, in the sultry summer, moisture-loving plants are watered in the morning and in the evening, and spraying is carried out in the afternoon, when the sun is not so beaming. Spraying is also helpful in increasing the humidity in the surrounding air. For the same purpose, you can place wide flat containers with water, pallets with moistened expanded clay or moss near the flower pots.

It is strictly forbidden to spray flowers whose leaves are covered with villi. This is Coleus, Pelargonium, Siningia - from this, the foliage becomes stained, and then rots.