Ficus is one of the most unpretentious plants, has strong roots, rarely gets sick, and at the same time grows very beautiful bush-shaped tree. Therefore, many housewives share with each other the outgrowths of this plant in the hope that it will easily take root. Ficus is really relatively easy to take root in a new place, only for successful adaptation it needs help.
How to prepare the ficus for transplant?
Before transplanting the ficus, it is placed in a jar of water, so that the plant gives roots, and only then it is transplanted into a pot of soil. Some plant growers are advised to wait until the trimmed tip of the stem dries, and immediately plant the ficus in the ground, but this method requires experience in plant breeding. To make the plant easier to take root in a pot with soil, it is necessary to select a special substrate for young plants in the flower shop. After the first watering, you need to let the land dry completely, usually it takes up to several days, and only after that you should re-water.
How often to transplant the ficus?
It depends on the age of the plants. Young plants require a transplant every year. After the ficus reaches the age of four years, the transplant can be performed every two years. In an adult plant, to determine that the transplantation time has come, you can by the most banal sign: if the roots are already getting out of the drainage, and the ground after watering is drying out too quickly, then this ficus has grown from this pot.
When to transplant the ficus?
It is better to transplant the ficus in the summer-spring period, just at this time the ficus calmly reacts to the change of the pot. Many believe that the unpretentiousness and endurance of the plant means that the ficus can be transplanted in the fall. In fact, this is not so. Despite the strong root system and good "immunity", the ficus very much do not like transplantation. Even the Benjamin ficus, which is distinguished by one of the strongest root structures, tolerates transplant only in "convenient" for it spring or summer time.
How to transplant the ficus of Benjamin?
To transplant the Benjamin ficus, you need to prepare a suitable potty land for indoor plants, but not on peat basis, baking powder (vermiculite, perlite or river sand) and clay drainage.
- The earth needs to be mixed with baking powder to make the structure of the earth coma more friable.
- First of all, a layer of drainage is laid on the bottom of the pot. Its height should be from 1.5 to 2 cm.
- Then the ficus is carefully pulled out of the old pot and thoroughly cleans the roots from the old soil. You can use water to soften clods of earth. Just dip the roots in a basin of water or hold under the tap. Of course, until the ideal purity of the roots are not cleaned, but knocked down lumps after cleaning should not remain.
- After that, the cleared ficus is put in a pot and sprinkled with earth. Pour the earth in small portions, periodically ramming your fingers around the roots.
- Attention! The stem of the plant can not be lowered too low into the pot!
- After the transplant, the land should be watered, but not very abundantly.
- A week later, when the land is completely dry, you can re-water the ficus. In no case should you water the ficus after planting before the land dries completely, even if the ficus starts to fall off the leaves.
It happens that the size of the pot is picked up incorrectly, and the ficus gives all the signs that it's time to transplant it, in the very
How to transplant the ficus by the method of transshipment?
In fact, this method assumes the least removal of land from the root system. Ficus literally falls out of the pot with an earthen lump, which is slightly shaken off and the plant plunges into a new pot. The gaps between the old earthen coma and the new pot are filled with a new earth with fertilizers. In the first time after transplantation, the ficus will slow its growth, may lose leaves - so it will react to the transplant. Do not pour it with water, you just have to wait until the plant recovers from stress.