How to care for hydroponic plants in the office during summer
Comparison photo of lucky bamboo. Photo by Xu Yihang
To improve the office atmosphere, many white-collar workers keep some green plants to lift their mood. The most popular are clean and relatively easy-to-care-for hydroponic plants. Lucky bamboo, spider plants, pothos, and Alocasia macrorrhizos (giant taro) are all fairly popular varieties. But when asked how they usually care for the plants, many people have no idea. Yet many people are not very good at caring for them, especially during this hot season. Many flowering plants show yellow leaves, wilting, and leaf drop. Master Li, a female horticulturist who has run a potted plant and fresh flower shop in Xiasha for 4 or 5 years, is here to tell you.
Master Li says summer is a hurdle for many plants, but offices now have air conditioning; you just need to pay attention to ventilation, and the plants can get through summer safely. If plants stay in a closed environment for a long time, they easily end up in poor condition, or even wither. In addition, Mr. Zhang's lucky bamboo had gone without fertilizer for a long time, causing a lack of nitrogen and other nutrients in the water, so the stems and leaves were weak and the leaves were thin and yellow.
You can try putting a little adult vitamin powder into the growing water, or go to a store and buy some plant nutrient solution to add to it, trim off the withered yellow leaves, and after a while it can still grow back well.
Simple tips: For keeping flowers in the office, first choose the right plants, second understand the characteristics of each flower, and third, for the intense heat, do a good job of ventilation, sun protection, and moisture retention.
Generally speaking, offices can be divided into two types depending on orientation: those with sunlight and those without. South-facing offices get sunlight, so the range of plant choices is wider; popular succulents, for example, can all be placed there. North-facing offices get no sunlight, so you can generally choose shade-loving plants such as pothos, spider plants, peace lilies, and money trees.
In hot weather like now, you should turn off the air conditioning at night, open the windows to ventilate the plants, and avoid yellowing and leaf drop caused by poor ventilation. At the same time, in the evening you need to use a spray bottle to mist the plant leaves to keep them moist. During the day, offices facing the sun should place plants a little farther from the window glass to avoid scorching. In addition, you can apply some fertilizer according to different conditions to help them grow.
How should hydroponic plants placed in the office be cared for during the hot summer
Comparison photo of lucky bamboo. Photo by Xu Yihang
August 14 news from China Landscape Web: To improve the office atmosphere, many white-collar workers keep some green plants to lift their mood. The most popular are clean and relatively easy-to-care-for hydroponic plants. Lucky bamboo, spider plants, pothos, and Alocasia macrorrhizos (giant taro) are all fairly popular varieties. But when asked how they usually care for the plants, many people have no idea. Yet many people are not very good at caring for them, especially during this hot season. Many flowering plants show yellow leaves, wilting, and leaf drop. Master Li, a female horticulturist who has run a potted plant and fresh flower shop in Xiasha for 4 or 5 years, is here to tell you.
Master Li says summer is a hurdle for many plants, but offices now have air conditioning; you just need to pay attention to ventilation, and the plants can get through summer safely. If plants stay in a closed environment for a long time, they easily end up in poor condition, or even wither. In addition, Mr. Zhang's lucky bamboo had gone without fertilizer for a long time, causing a lack of nitrogen and other nutrients in the water, so the stems and leaves were weak and the leaves were thin and yellow.
You can try putting a little adult vitamin powder into the growing water, or go to a store and buy some plant nutrient solution to add to it, trim off the withered yellow leaves, and after a while it can still grow back well.
Simple tips: For keeping flowers in the office, first choose the right plants, second understand the characteristics of each flower, and third, for the intense heat, do a good job of ventilation, sun protection, and moisture retention.
Generally speaking, offices can be divided into two types depending on orientation: those with sunlight and those without. South-facing offices get sunlight, so the range of plant choices is wider; popular succulents, for example, can all be placed there. North-facing offices get no sunlight, so you can generally choose shade-loving plants such as pothos, spider plants, peace lilies, and money trees.
In hot weather like now, you should turn off the air conditioning at night, open the windows to ventilate the plants, and avoid yellowing and leaf drop caused by poor ventilation. At the same time, in the evening you need to use a spray bottle to mist the plant leaves to keep them moist. During the day, offices facing the sun should place plants a little farther from the window glass to avoid scorching. In addition, you can apply some fertilizer according to different conditions to help them grow.
How to care for hydroponic plants in the office during the hot summer
To improve the office atmosphere, many white-collar workers keep some green plants to lift their mood. The most popular are clean and relatively easy-to-care-for hydroponic plants. Lucky bamboo, spider plants, pothos, and Alocasia macrorrhizos (giant taro) are all fairly popular varieties. But when asked how they usually care for the plants, many people have no idea. Yet many people are not very good at caring for them, especially during this hot season. Many flowering plants show yellow leaves, wilting, and leaf drop.Hot summer
How to care for hydroponic plants in the office
Recently, reader Mr. Zhang uploaded a photo to our newspaper's WeChat public account "Qianjiang Evening News Today Xiasha," showing 6 hydroponic lucky bamboo plants. Although they were about the same height, the three on the left were tall and sturdy with thick, plump leaves; the three on the right had thin, slender stems, thin and yellow leaves, and quite a few leaves that were about to fall off.
Mr. Zhang said: "The ones on the left are kept by a female colleague in the office next door, and the ones on the right are mine. We all keep them in vases in water, so why is the difference so big?"
Mr. Zhang said these three lucky bamboo plants had long been neglected; when he saw the water was gone, he just added some water. Usually the office windows were not opened much, the air did not circulate, and with the air conditioning on for a long time, it was especially dry. This female colleague, however, was more attentive; she also kept a humidifier running for a long time to add moisture, and put half a vitamin C tablet into the lucky bamboo's growing water.
Afterward, the reporter showed the photo to Master Li, a female horticulturist who has run a potted plant and fresh flower shop in Xiasha for 4 or 5 years.
After learning the specific situation, Master Li analyzed: "This may be related to two aspects: ventilation and fertilization."
Master Li says summer is a hurdle for many plants, but offices now have air conditioning; you just need to pay attention to ventilation, and the plants can get through summer safely. If plants stay in a closed environment for a long time, they easily end up in poor condition, or even wither. In addition, Mr. Zhang's lucky bamboo had gone without fertilizer for a long time, causing a lack of nitrogen and other nutrients in the water, so the stems and leaves were weak and the leaves were thin and yellow.
How to save it? Master Li said: "You can try putting a little adult vitamin powder into the growing water, or go to a store and buy some plant nutrient solution to add to it, trim off the withered yellow leaves, and after a while it can still grow back well."
In addition, Master Li also gave readers some simple tips: "For keeping flowers in the office, first choose the right plants, second understand the characteristics of each flower, and third, for the intense heat, do a good job of ventilation, sun protection, and moisture retention."
Generally speaking, offices can be divided into two types depending on orientation: those with sunlight and those without. South-facing offices get sunlight, so the range of plant choices is wider; popular succulents, for example, can all be placed there. North-facing offices get no sunlight, so you can generally choose shade-loving plants such as pothos, spider plants, peace lilies, and money trees.
In hot weather like now, you should turn off the air conditioning at night, open the windows to ventilate the plants, and avoid yellowing and leaf drop caused by poor ventilation. At the same time, in the evening you need to use a spray bottle to mist the plant leaves to keep them moist. During the day, offices facing the sun should place plants a little farther from the window glass to avoid scorching. In addition, you can apply some fertilizer according to different conditions to help them grow. Source of this article: Zhejiang Online - Qianjiang Evening News