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Picking a Healthy Plant
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| Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
When it comes to familiarize yourself with your garden, you have two choices, plant seeds or buy plants. Both have their own advantages. If you plant seeds and care for all day, you will experience is much more rewarding if you have a full and healthy plants. However, this method is much more risky. I can not tell you how many seeds I planted and never seen any trace of any kind.
If you choose to purchase the plant from a nursery and install it in your garden, it reduces a lot of work to do in good health. However, I found in the past that many incompetent nursery workers will absolutely ruin the future of the plant by putting certain chemicals or fertilizers in. I have adapted this weakness by learning to choose plants the healthiest of the bunch. Here I will discuss some techniques that I use in my selection process for plants.
May it sound superficial, but the only thing you need to check your future on plants is how they look good. With regard to plants, you can really judge a book by its cover. If a plant has been treated healthily and has no diseases or pests, you can almost always say how nice it seems. If a plant grown in soil unfit, or has any adverse effects in the lives of bugs, you can tell the Holey leaves and stalks wilted.
If you are browsing shelves of the nursery looking for your dream factory, you want to exclude anything that currently has flowers. Plants are less traumatized by the transplant if they are not flowers. It is better to find those that consist only of buds. However, if all you have to choose among flowering plants, then you should do the unthinkable and break all. It will be useful for the future health of the plant. I found that transplantation of a plant while it is in bloom in the results of a factory of death Ninety percent of the time.
Always check the roots before you plop the money to buy the plant. Of course, if the roots are in absolutely terrible, you can tell by watching the rest of the plant. But if the roots are a little out of shape, then you will probably not be able to tell just by looking at it. Inspect the roots very closely for any signs of brownness, rot or softness. The roots must always be a firm, perfectly formed infrastructure that holds all the ground. One can easily know if the roots are past their prime or before, depending on the root in the soil ratio. If there is a ridiculous amount of roots with little soil, or a strip of land with few roots, you should not buy this plant.
If you find discrepancies with the plant, either in the form of roots or any irregular features with the leaves, you should ask employees of the nursery. Although generally these things can be a sign of unhealthy factory, from time to time there will be a logical explanation for it. Always the nursery a chance before writing to the horrific. After all, they are (usually) professionals who have been dealing with plants for years.
So if you decide to take the easy route and get a plant from a nursery, you just have to remember that the health of plants has been left to someone you do not know. Usually, they do a good job, but you should always check for yourself. Also take all precautions as you can to avoid the shock of transplantation at the plant (where it has difficulty in adjusting to its new location, and therefore health problems in the future). Usually, the process goes smoothly, but it can never be too sure. |
posted by neptunus @ 10:10 PM
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