Give your flowers a spring-cleaning for the New Year: greener leaves, brighter blooms

Wipe the leaves and the dust is all gone, instantly green enough to drip oil!

In winter, to keep warm, windows are opened for ventilation much less often, so the air is relatively stale, and flower leaves easily become covered in dust. Not only does it look dirty, it also clogs the leaf stomata, which is bad for the plant's health. Huahua teaches you how to remove dust this way, making the leaves glossy and emerald green!

1. Find a banana peel

After eating a banana, don't throw away the peel just yet. Banana peel is a natural, wonderful material for wiping leaves. Banana peel is rich in natural oils, which not only absorb dust on the leaves but also make the leaves instantly glossy green!

2. Wipe the leaves with the inside of the banana peel

Hold the leaf with one hand and gently wipe the leaf with the inside of the banana peel with the other. Be careful to wipe both the front and back of the leaf all over. With one wipe of the banana peel, the leaf immediately becomes glossy!

3. After wiping the leaves, spray and rinse with clean water

Because the inside of the banana peel is fairly sticky, bits of residue easily stick to the leaves and may clog the leaf stomata. So after plant lovers have wiped all the leaves, remember to put clean water in a spray bottle and spray the leaves, and all the sticky stuff on the leaves will come off. The leaves will be as shiny as light bulbs!

4. Banana peel is suitable for wiping flowers with smooth leaves

Banana peel is suitable for wiping flowers with smooth, fuzz-free leaves, such as pothos, clivia and other flowers.

Throw away the trash on the pot surface right away, so your flowers can have a clean and tidy New Year!

Some plant lovers like to throw trash such as used tea leaves, cigarette butts and salted sunflower seed shells directly onto the pot surface. Not only does it look dirty and messy, over time it also breeds bacteria and leads to pests and diseases. During the New Year, don't forget to clear away the trash on the pot surface!

1. Tea residue easily grows mold and attracts pests and diseases

Tea residue poured on the pot surface easily grows mold and spoils, and also breeds a lot of bacteria, which easily makes flowers suffer from pests and diseases. This is especially true of unfermented tea residue: fermenting directly in the soil produces heat that burns the flower roots. Plant lovers, hurry up and throw away the tea residue on the pot surface!

2. Salted sunflower seed shells lead to soil salinization

Some plant lovers like to crack salted sunflower seeds and then throw the shells directly onto the pot surface. These salty shells cause soil salinization, which is bad for flower growth. If you want to use nut shells to top-dress the pot surface or line the bottom of the pot, be sure to choose ones that contain no salt!

3. Cigarette butts on the pot surface ruin the look

Some plant lovers toss cigarette butts directly onto the pot surface after smoking, leaving them there for as long as half a year. A flower pot isn't a trash can, and it really looks awful! Cigarette butts can be used to grow flowers, but you have to use the right method. Plant lovers can soak cigarette butts in water and then water the flowers with it, which can kill small flying insects!

Cut off yellow leaves and withered branches, so your flowers can welcome the New Year fresh and clean!

Some plant lovers, when growing flowers, can never bear to cut off yellowing leaves and withered branches, always feeling they will turn green again, so they keep them. Take advantage of the New Year and hurry up and cut them, so your flowers can welcome the New Year fresh and clean!

1. Cut off the yellowing leaves

If a few leaves among the lush green ones turn yellow, the whole pot of flowers looks a bit lackluster. Plant lovers, don't be reluctant to remove yellow leaves; keeping them just wastes nutrients for nothing!

2. Cut off the withered branches

Once a flower branch withers, keeping it is useless, and it won't grow again either. Plant lovers, don't hesitate, hurry up and cut it off!

If your flowers are still dirty,

then hurry up and give your flowers a thorough cleaning!

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