Your pennywort has wilted? Add this to the water and it will grow more and more vigorous
Summer is the best season for water culture, but many plant lovers report that their pennywort, money tree... leaves are wilting and yellowing, and they die within a few days! Today, Huahua will tell you what to add to the water culture bottle so the roots stay strong and the leaves don't turn yellow!
Add a piece of activated charcoal to pennywort
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Many plant lovers find that their pennywort grown in water in summer goes all limp and dies of root rot within a few days. When water quality is poor, pennywort easily suffers root rot, so you might as well add a few pieces of activated charcoal to the water, which can effectively ease the problem!
How to use:
1. Crush the activated charcoal into pieces about the size of a fingernail; it is best not to grind it into powder, otherwise it will be inconvenient to use.
2. You can put 4-7 pieces in one water bottle. Each time you change the water, take the activated charcoal out and rinse it clean; once it dries, it can be used again.
Add a little vitamin C solution to gardenia
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Many plant lovers like to root gardenia cuttings in water in summer. Gardenia prefers acidic conditions, so if you drop a few tablets of vitamin C into the water, the gardenia will grow faster!
How to use:
1. Crush the vitamin C into powder, dilute 1 gram of vitamin C with 1000-1500 times its amount of water, and stir well to make the vitamin C solution.
2. Each time you change the water for the gardenia, add about 10 drops of vitamin C solution. This way the gardenia not only avoids yellow leaves, but also roots faster!
Water parlor palm with a little magnetized water
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Many plant lovers notice that even though they have added nutrient solution to the water culture bottle of their parlor palm, it just won't grow! This is mainly because the parlor palm's root system is not good enough to absorb nutrients; add a little magnetized water and the parlor palm will shoot right up!
How to use:
1. Wrap a copper wire around a U-shaped magnet, place it in a basin of clean water, and soak for 24 hours, and the magnetized water is ready.
2. Add the magnetized water to the parlor palm's water culture bottle. After a while you will find that the parlor palm looks much more vigorous and has shot up quite a bit in height!
Add a little ferrous sulfate solution to money tree
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Many plant lovers ask Huahua why the money tree's leaves are glossy green when grown in soil, but turn yellow as soon as it is grown in water. This is mainly because water culture tends to lack iron, and ferrous sulfate contains iron, which happens to solve this problem!
How to use:
1. Dilute 1 gram of ferrous sulfate in 500-800 grams of water to make a ferrous sulfate solution. Ferrous sulfate should be light blue; if it turns yellow-brown, it means it has oxidized and can no longer be used.
2. Add 6-8 drops of the prepared ferrous sulfate solution to the money tree's water culture bottle, use it once every 10 days, for about 3 times in a row, and the money tree's leaves will gradually become glossy green!
Add a rusty iron nail to spider plant
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Besides ferrous sulfate, a rusty iron nail can also supplement iron for plants! A rusty iron nail can release the iron ions plants need into the water, thereby preventing leaves from turning yellow.
How to use:
1. Simply put a rusty iron nail into the spider plant's water culture bottle. If the nail shows no rust, it is best not to use it, because it hardly oxidizes in water and has almost no effect.
2. For those who think the nail affects the look, you can soak the rusty iron nail in water for a few days; after the water turns yellow-brown, take the nail out and add the soaked water to the water culture bottle.
Add a little potassium permanganate solution to pothos
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Pothos grown in water often suffers root rot. Potassium permanganate is the disinfectant solution most commonly used by plant lovers when repotting; adding a few drops to the water culture bottle can also effectively prevent pothos from suffering root rot and yellow leaves!
How to use:
1. Dilute 1 milliliter of potassium permanganate in one mineral water bottle of water, and stir well to make a potassium permanganate solution.
2. Drop 20-30 drops into the pothos water culture bottle and gently shake to mix evenly. After 24 hours, replace the water in the bottle with clean water, and this way the pothos will be less prone to root rot.
Add a few drops of hydrogen peroxide to asparagus fern
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Beginners growing asparagus fern in water often see its leaves turn dry and yellow and its roots rot. This is mainly caused by a lack of oxygen in the water culture bottle, and hydrogen peroxide can effectively solve this problem.
How to use:
1. Add 4-5 drops of hydrogen peroxide to the asparagus fern's water culture bottle. The hydrogen peroxide will slowly release oxygen and increase the oxygen content, which can meet the asparagus fern's oxygen needs for a fairly long time.
2. Hydrogen peroxide also has a good sterilizing effect, and can effectively inhibit bacteria from breeding in the water culture bottle and prevent the asparagus fern from suffering root rot.
Add a little aspirin solution to lucky bamboo
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Lucky bamboo grown in water easily gets yellow leaves, does not grow taller, and sometimes even suffers root rot. The small aspirin tablets kept at home have a sterilizing effect and can also promote faster rooting!
How to use:
1. Crush the aspirin tablet, then dilute it with 1000 times its amount of water, and stir well to make an aspirin solution.
2. About once a month, add about 10 drops of aspirin solution to the lucky bamboo's water culture bottle. After a while you will find that the lucky bamboo's leaves turn dark green and its roots become white and sturdy!
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