Is the new bought potted houseplant always cannot last more than one month in your house? Sometimes, we have to face the reality that we really don’t know how to grow plants. Actually, just a few key factors we should take note then we able to make the houseplants grow healthily as what we want. Even we’re not a born green finger, we may keep our houseplant grow vigorously too.

Place in the right place with suitable light intensity

Houseplant may differentiate to 3 types according to different light intensity requirement as fully shade plants, semi-shade plants or fully sun plants. For example, fully shade plants could growing under the dark corner which did not receive any natural sunlight in the house like bathroom, bedroom and living room or dining room. For semi-shade plants, it require expose to indirect sunlight. Therefore, it can only places besides the window, door entrances, and balcony or in the outdoor pavement under the roof where could receiving ample of indirect sunlight. If we place the right plant in the suitable place, we could save a lot of works in exchange the wilted houseplant and moving out the houseplant to outside for sun exposure. Example of fully shade plants are Calathea and Syngonium. And the semi shade plants are Sansevieria, ZZ plants and Ficus plants.

  
Watering according to the different water requirement

Besides that, houseplant can differentiated to different water requirements level high, intermediate and low. For those who always forgot watering their houseplant may choose low level water requirement plants. It needs to water once a week only and those plants are high tolerance to drought. For those wish to spend more times with their plants, they may choose intermediate or high water level requirement plants which may need to water at least twice a week. High drought tolerance plants are Sansevieria, ZZ plants, succulent plants and Ficus plants.

Exchange the pot and soil when soil compaction occurs

Soil compaction will affect the infiltration of the water to the soil. It will restrict the growth of the plants because the efficiency of roots in absorbs will be decreased. Besides that, soil compaction reduce the oxygen level within the soil particles which will restrict the growth of the good bacteria growth around the roots system. 

Pruning if the plants have overgrown and the roots start to entangle in the pot

Overgrown plants will cause the roots system entangled within the pot and affect the plants absorb the water and nutrients from the soil. Besides that, entangled roots will cause the soil compaction and make the plants face the problems mentioned above. Besides that, overgrown plants may cause the plants fallen due to the imbalance ratio of the plant’s crown. The whole trunk and crown unable supported by limited roots system beneath the plant. Therefore, change the unfit pot immediately once you found your potted houseplant have overgrown to avoid the problems we mentioned above.

Growing houseplant is not a difficult job, it brings a lot of benefits to our health and improve our lifestyle. So, start planning to create a greenery corner in your house now. Just remember the above mentioned tips, you could be a green finger too.