Indoor banana: growing conditions and care features
The indoor banana is a perennial that belongs to the herbaceous category. This plant can be grown as an ornamental or fodder specimen. Indoor banana has a rather attractive appearance, and is also characterized by ease of care, which provides it with special value.
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Optimal growing conditions
In order for the indoor banana to fully grow and develop, it is necessary to provide it with the following conditions:
- Lighting
- Temperature
- Humidity
- The soil
Banana is a thermophilic plant, so it needs to be kept at a temperature of 20-25 degrees. In winter, the growth of this plant slows down and therefore the indoor temperature can be reduced to 17 degrees. This plant cannot tolerate sudden changes in temperature, as well as drafts, so the banana must be protected from this.
The pot with this plant should be near the window on the sunny side. If it is not possible to install a indoor banana in such a place, then he needs to provide additional lighting.
Watering the plant:
- The successful cultivation of indoor banana is ensured due to the increased air humidity.
- To ensure this condition, it is necessary to spray this plant at least once a day.
- Also, you need to put a container of water near the plant.
- In winter, spraying a banana is done once a week.
Planting a banana must be done in the correct soil. To plant this plant, you need to take the soil under old deciduous trees in the form of a hazel, acacia, linden trees... At the same time, you cannot take soil for planting a indoor banana from under an oak, poplar or chestnut... It is necessary to take only the upper layers of the soil, with a depth of 5 to 10 centimeters. This is because this layer of soil is the most fertile.
Features of banana care
Indoor banana is quite unpretentious to care for. To ensure the full growth and development of this plant, it is necessary to water and feed it regularly. Watering this plant should be done only when the earth dries out a few centimeters. Before watering your indoor banana, you need to check if it needs watering. To do this, take a pinch of earth from the pot with three fingers and press tightly. In the event that the earth crumbles, the plant needs abundant watering.
When caring for a indoor banana, you must ensure that the ground is not often waterlogged.
This is due to the fact that as a result of waterlogging, the soil can acidify. Watering should not be poor, as a clod of earth can dry out and lead to the death of the roots. For irrigation it is necessary to use only settled water only. Its temperature should not be higher or lower than in the room.
If the cultivation of an indoor banana is carried out in an urban environment, then water for irrigation must be taken from the tap and defended. After watering (after 2-3 days), the soil is loosened as carefully as possible. For this purpose, a blunt stick is used.If the indoor banana is grown at a temperature lower than 16 degrees, then it is necessary to water the banana much less often. In the summer, the foliage of this plant is sprayed daily, and in the winter - once a week.
Indoor banana also needs feeding. It is necessary to perform this action in the summer period once a week, and in the winter - once a month.
Fertilizers can be used:
- Fish ear
- Humus
- Green manure
- Ash
When feeding this plant, it is necessary to adhere to the proportion of fertilizer preparation. If humus is used as a fertilizer, then it is necessary to take 200 grams and pour one liter of boiling water. Such fertilizer is infused during the day. For feeding a decorative banana, you should not take chicken or pork humus. Top dressing of this plant is done before watering. This is done in order to save the roots from burning.
When feeding this plant with ash, it is necessary to take one tablespoon of ash per liter of water. Adult plants that are more than one meter high are watered with fish soup. This fertilizer can significantly increase the yield of this plant. For cooking such fertilizer is taken fish waste, which is poured with boiling water and boiled. The resulting broth must be filtered and poured over a room banana. Fish waste is used in parallel with such fertilizers, vermicompost and humus.
Green manures are called weeds or any grass. To obtain them, grass is taken (lupine and quinoa are ideal fertilizers), crushed and poured with boiling water.
It is necessary to insist on this fertilizer during the day. If the banana is grown in a pot, then it is best not to use fertilizers of chemical origin. This is due to the fact that they can infect the roots of the plant, which will lead to its death.
Features of transplanting and planting a banana
Indoor banana is very fond of neutral or slightly acidic soils. This requires:
- Take one bucket of earth and stir it with half a liter of ash or ash.
- Also, two liters of coarse river sand and one liter of humus are added to this composition. In order to get rid of insects, the resulting mixture is poured with boiling water.
The sizes of indoor banana seedlings can be varied, so it is necessary to correctly select the pot. If the height of the seedling is 10-20 centimeters, then you need to take a pot with a capacity of 1-2 liters. Saplings 60-70 centimeters high need pots with a volume of 10-15 liters.
When planting a indoor banana, you must:
- Initially, put drainage on the bottom of the pot.
- Broken red brick or expanded clay can act as drainage.
- The drainage layer must be sprinkled with sand.
- This plant is placed in the pot as carefully as possible, so as not to damage its roots.
- The final stage of transplanting and planting a plant is filling the flower with soil mixture, which is prepared in advance.
When transplanting a banana, you must make sure that it is lowered into a new pot 1-2 centimeters lower than in the previous one. This will ensure that the banana grows and yields well.
Planting and transplanting a banana should not be done immediately in a large pot.
This action can lead to rotting of the root system of the plant and its death. When planting a banana, it is necessary to ensure the flow of air into the soil. For this, a stand is installed between the pallet and the pot. Banana is an unpretentious plant to care for, thanks to which you can not only decorate the design of the room with its help, but also get a good harvest.
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