About 10 years ago a friend brought me a strange tree in a pot, because his office is moved, and the flower was put nowhere. Since undersized bush with white and green leaves caught on my windowsill. I note that, due to the young plants and the inexperience I did not understand at once that sit just three bitter root.
After 7 years of a tree has grown 10 times in the growth and greatly added to the splendor of the crown. I'm his seedlings, dividing the roots, and has received three separate plants. Since then, and began my pillows, how to make the Ficus benjamina I live well.
Terms of care Ficus benjamina
During the life of this most beautiful tree I have, I note several important observations that are crucial to this plant. I must say that two root feel well, grow and have Ryasnyi crown, but the most mature and high bush began to wither. Now just doing his resuscitation.
He loves his place
The flower is very upset when he changed place in the apartment. To their areal he gets used and does not like to frequent rotation. The maximum that I allow myself is to rotate the pot around its axis, so that branches are not drawn to the light source.
If you have a balcony in the apartment, or you live in your own house, in the summer (late May to end of August) it is possible to move a pot of ficus on a balcony or veranda. Despite the stress, street light conditions and natural moisture will benefit the plant.
important light
Ficus benjamina loves the light, it is one of the most important factors in caring for plants. Of course, aggressive light south side it will not work, but the darkened corners of the northern flats him exactly contraindicated.
With a lack of light the plant begins to drop leaves and actively wither. Maybe that's why one of my flowers capricious - it stands farthest from the window sill of the room.
loves to swim
This ficus - a tropical plant and, of course, he is grateful to the owner for the regular spraying and watering. But those pots, which are in the shade, require much less abundant watering and certainly not whimsical to the spraying. But those who stand on the windowsill above the radiators need in the first and second.
I have all their rubber plants once a week to bathe in a bath under a warm shower from the soft part of the jet of water. I give time to drain the excess water and dry off the leaves, and then I place the plant in places. During the week further watered as necessary - 1-2 x 100 mL per pot.
top-dressing
Each plant has a phase of active growth and rest. In Bendzhaminovogo ficus activity wakes up in March. It is from March to September, you can further nourish the tree regularly with something useful. I had previously used only mineral soluble complex and watered their plants. Special difference has not noticed. Now I want to experiment with a banana peel and natural, natural recharge (tea, ash, litter).
Feeding the plant, remember that it should be done:
- from March to May - 1 time per month;
- from June to September - 1 every 3 weeks.
Do not feed on plants often, because there acts the same rule "in the drop - medicine on a spoon - the poison."
Signs and beliefs of Ficus benjamina
Since ancient times, all the rooms and garden plants people confer special qualities attributed to them the strength comparable to the magical influence. Ficus benjamina is no exception.
- It is believed that the Ficus benjamina - a great cleaner and filter-energy flows, flower can convert streams, freeing them from the negative and dark manifestations. It is therefore recommended to put the pots with ficus in bedrooms or bathrooms, where going to a lot of people.
- It is also known for a long time that any kind of ficus helps to enrich the air with oxygen, removes from home atmosphere harmful to the body.
- Feng Shui followers definitely recommend to put Ficus benjamina in the south-eastern sector of the apartment - a zone of monetary income. It is believed that if a plant Ficus benjamina in green pots, decorate it with natural materials (sisal rope) prikopat coin into the ground and take care of the little tree, avoiding the litter of leaves, it will attract in the house financial well-being.