Monstera
Monstera – a beautiful evergreen related to vines. This is one of the most common houseplants. Young leaves are entire, perforated with age, and then completely split. The plant is not capricious and is growing rapidly, taking 3-4 years for half the room. Therefore, Monstera more would fit for cultivation in offices or other facilities such as spacious foyer or hall. Expanding, Monstera needs support, the best fit for this handset with moss. Numerous aerial roots also need to tie up, to send in the ground or to a support, but not cut.
Do not put the monster in the aisle, as pinnate leaves with grazing could injure or tear. Monstera also does not tolerate cold drafts – this will appear on the leaves brown stains or yellowing leaves healthy lifestyle.
Care Tips
Temperature: Moderate, in winter the optimum temperature of 10-14 ° C, at higher temperatures, Monstera is growing rapidly.
Lighting: It does not like direct sunlight. Many believe that the shade-loving Monstera and put it in the darkest corner – this is not correct. In fact, Monstera shade-tolerant, and the best place to put it where the bright but diffused light or light partial shade.
Watering: Abundant from spring to autumn, winter watered so that soil does not dry out, but was not too wet.
Fertilizer: From March to August, monster fed complex fertilizer for houseplants. Fertilizing every two weeks. Large plants can be a time for the summer in the upper layer of soil when transplanting or without added humus. Instead, you can still carry out watering mullein infusion, but the smell remains in the apartment.
Humidity: Regular spraying. From time to time monster leaves washed, rubbed with a sponge and polish. When the content of the winter about the heating system can dry leaf tips and spots appear.
Propagation: Air layering and cuttings. Do yoke must be leaf and air root. When Monstera is growing, she cut off the tip with one or more aerial roots and planted as an independent plant, with the royal plant continues to grow.
Flowering: In a culture rarely.
Transplanting: Transplant young Monstera conducted annually. Monster older than 4 years are transplanted after 2-3 years, but the top layer of the earth are changing every year. 2-3 pieces of sod soil, 1 part peat land, a part of the humus, 1 part sand. Young plants can be grown in a bucket, but plants older than 2-3 years old will need a larger capacity. It may or special pots (there are on sale – an enormous size), or wooden tubs. Failing to ensure a large monster suitable container for planting – a common cause of problems with health and beauty of the plant.
Disease: damaged schitovkoy and spider mites.
