8 lazy-person plants that keep shooting up even if you ignore them for two months
Recently Huahua went to the flower market and found that there were really a lot of people buying flowers, so today Huahua is here to recommend a few flowers you must grow at home in autumn and winter. They look good and are easy to care for, absolutely essential for lazy people. Leave them alone for ten days to half a month and they still grow vigorously, while for diligent people they even end up dying the more they're cared for!
Grow a kalanchoe in autumn and winter, drought-tolerant and pretty!
Reason to recommend: drought-tolerant, blooms beautifully in autumn and winter
Kalanchoe has fleshy roots and stores a lot of water in its body. Once it's overwatered, the roots rot easily, so for flower lovers who always forget to water, it's completely suitable to keep a pot at home!
Care tips:
1. Kalanchoe
is extremely drought-tolerant
. Normally wait until the potting soil is completely dry before watering. About2-3 waterings a month
is enough. Once it's overwatered, it's very prone toblack rot
。2. As a flower that blooms in wave after wave through autumn and winter, kalanchoe is practically a must-grow in every home in autumn and winter. If your kalanchoe won't bloom, besides giving it
6 hours of sun
every day, at night you can move it toa completely dark room
, orcover it with a black plastic bag
, and that will promote flower bud differentiation.
Grow a snake plant in autumn and winter, drought-tolerant and shade-tolerant!
Reason to recommend: drought-tolerant and shade-tolerant
If your home doesn't get good light and you usually don't have much time to care for plants, then you might as well grow a snake plant! Placing it on a north-facing balcony or on your desk is a good choice!
(Photo by: Pangtouyu)
Care tips:
1. Snake plants are highly adaptable to light,
they can take direct sun
, and basicallysurvive with just a bit of light
, completely unrestricted.(Photo by: Taiyang Shen)
2. Snake plants have shallow roots, and once overwatered the roots rot. For lazy plant keepers,
2-3 waterings a month
is completely enough, no need to wear yourself out watering every day!(Photo by: Niumeng 2345)
Grow an air plant in autumn and winter, it survives even with no care!
Reason to recommend: survives without soil or fertilizer
If there's one plant that can survive without soil or fertilizer, it's definitely the air plant! Buy a small one and put it on a windowsill, desk or office table, and even a lazy person can keep it alive!
(Photo by: Shenyang Shenlv)
Care tips:
1. Use wire or another container to hang the air plant in midair. Varieties with green leaves fear sun exposure, so put them in indirect light; varieties with gray leaves don't fear sun, so direct sun is fine.
(Photo by: Wuying Wuzhi)
2. Mist it about 2-3 times a week. Find a small spray bottle and mist it and the surrounding air whenever you have a moment. As long as there's water, it will grow like crazy, a complete blessing for lazy people!
(Photo by: 500c500)
Grow a mother of thousands in autumn and winter, it bursts into a big cluster even with no care!
Reason to recommend: leaves root as soon as they fall to the ground, no more fear of cuttings dying!
Just from hearing its name, you should know how easy kalanchoe daigremontiana is to keep alive, and it also has another name, "mother of thousands". As long as you keep one at home, before long it will basically take over every flower pot in the house!
(Photo by: Xuejie Weiwu)
Care tips:
1. As long as winter temperatures stay above 0°C, kalanchoe daigremontiana will survive. Flower lovers who want to grow it in autumn and winter should best move it somewhere a bit warmer.
(Photo by: tianyajianke88)
2. Kalanchoe daigremontiana not only propagates fast but is also drought-tolerant. Basically 2-3 waterings a month is completely enough. Before watering, wait until the potting soil turns pale, and never let water accumulate. Otherwise the roots rot easily.
(Photo by: Yuanyang Heibai Naicha)
Grow a peace lily in autumn and winter, and may your whole year go smoothly!
Reason to recommend: drought-tolerant, shade-tolerant, blooms even in poor light
Many flower lovers want to grow flowering plants, but their homes have poor light, so they might as well get a peace lily. Basically once you bring it home it keeps blooming with little care, so all you lazy people should hurry and get one!
(Photo by: Liangpi Xiaozi)
Care tips:
1. Peace lilies are shade-tolerant; placed indoors somewhere with a bit of light they'll survive, but if you want blooms, still give them a bit more indirect light. If your peace lily won't bloom, you can spray a little gibberellin.
(Photo by: Huanhua Chengfeng)
2. Peace lilies are drought-tolerant and don't need much water. Normally water when you see the potting soil has dried out completely; generally once a week, and once every half month is enough when it's cold in winter. If you usually notice the peace lily's leaves look a bit gray, you can also mix expired beer with water at 1:50 and spray a little on the leaves.
(Photo by: Caomu Duoqing)
Grow a baby rubber plant in autumn and winter, lush green all year round!
Reason to recommend: shade-tolerant, evergreen all year round
If you want a touch of green at home all year round but don't want to put in much effort caring for it, then you should definitely choose a baby rubber plant! Baby rubber plant leaves are thick and fleshy and basically don't wilt or run short of water, staying lush green all year round, very suitable for lazy people to grow!
(Photo by: Bingxue Xiaohan 668)
Care tips:
1. Baby rubber plants are shade-tolerant. Except in winter, when they can take a little direct sun, in other seasons move them to indirect light or partial shade, and the leaves will get greener and greener and brighter and brighter.
(Photo by: Xuese Huaerzi)
2. Autumn and winter weather is dry. If you want your baby rubber plant greener and shinier, you can occasionally mist its leaves with a spray bottle, and if you want to add nutrients you can also spray a little beer solution.
(Photo by: Baibai denfy)
Grow a gloxinia in autumn and winter, and it instantly becomes a blooming machine!
Reason to recommend: shade-tolerant and able to bloom
Who says you can't grow flowering plants at home if the light is poor? Gloxinia begs to differ! If your home has poor light in autumn and winter, then you need a pot of gloxinia!
(Photo by: Yizhan Guangyin)
Care tips:
1. Gloxinia likes partial shade and can't take direct sun, so just put it indoors somewhere with good indirect light; under partial shade it blooms even more!
(Photo by: Zise de Meng Lanse de Meng)
2. Gloxinia leaves have quite a bit of fuzz, so when watering be careful not to get water on the leaves, otherwise it will cause the leaves to rot.
(Photo by: Diewu Canghai Yeyexin)
Grow a lucky bamboo in autumn and winter, water culture is the least trouble!
Reason to recommend: easy to keep in water culture
Quite a few people dislike lucky bamboo because its leaves yellow easily, so they stop growing it. In fact, lucky bamboo is very simple to care for; just put it in a water-culture vase and in no time it grows lush green!
Care tips:
1. Lucky bamboo in water culture is very easy to keep; basically just change the water once a week. If the roots rot, use a sterilized knife to cut off the rotten roots, sterilize them, then put them back in water to regrow roots!
2. To prevent yellowing leaves in water-cultured lucky bamboo, you can drop a rusty iron nail into the water-culture vase, or scrape off some rust powder and drop it straight into the vase, and that will supplement iron for the lucky bamboo and prevent yellow leaves!
(Photo by:
Zining Xi 123)
Besides these 8 that Huahua introduced,
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