Post-purchase plant acclimatization
So we chose the plant. By far the best of the best. Let's listen to ourselves, maybe we still want to take that suffocator at the door? And it is cheap. It will already be your choice, but I will tell you what to do next if you bought a completely healthy and beautiful plant.
And you need to do so that this beauty and health do not disappear overnight. Therefore, we carefully pack or control the packaging process.
Feel free to ask to pack more carefully if it is winter or autumn outside the window. The plant must fully reach the house alive and healthy.
In many stores, plants are brought in cellophane bags on which the name of the plant is written. But even if your flower turned out to be without a bag, feel free to demand to pack in it, and then two layers of paper (of course, if the seller himself did not do this).
It would be nice to have two packages with you in advance - one heat-insulating - Ashanovsky (although these thermal packages are unlikely to be useful at subzero temperatures, but at least the possibility of draft penetration will be excluded), and the other, in which you put a flower and, having tied the package, put on the bottom of Ashanovsky or whatever other they give you.
Don't think these packages are superfluous. This is not cold for us, especially in warm clothes, and we don't need a frozen flower and tears.
Naturally, if summer, all this is not necessary, but it does not hurt to pack it in one layer of paper - so protect the plant from hot rays and dust. Although of course it is better to put it in a dark cellophane bag. But this is for an amateur.
So, packed, brought home. What to do at home:
It is necessary to find the most suitable place for growing, with the absence of drafts and direct rays, but not in pitch darkness. Take it as a rule - any plant (especially marant!), Having adapted to one place, will want to live exactly where it feels good. Even if you do not carry it to another room, even 20 cm from the previous place, the plant will not feel comfortable.
Choosing a place, we bet that it will become permanent for a marant miracle
3. Carefully unpack and carry to the bath. It is warm and humid, the flower should receive its positive charge.
After 10-15 minutes, carefully touch the leaves, if they have warmed up, then you can proceed to the second plan. Even if the flower is bought in the summer, I still advise you to leave it alone for 10 minutes in the bathroom.
4. Now we gently wash the leaves with a wet sponge soaked in warm (not hot) settled water.
Washed, now leave the plant alone with the bliss of moist air. But not for long.
The plant should not be very wet. You can not wash the leaves at all, but immediately after 10 minutes in the bathroom, take them to a permanent place and place them in a cellophane bag (for kentants and kalati, you can also for stromants). If you have an ordinary maranta tricolor or two-color, you can not worry and put just like that. No package.
Although the package can serve as a temporary quarantine.
5. Now we leave the plant alone, not forgetting to open (but not lower!) The bag every day and ventilate for 15-20 minutes. After a week, we increase this amount of time in fact - twice a day.
A week later, we observe the plant, how it feels, if, in your opinion, it has returned to normal, you can gradually lower the bag when airing.
When the adaptation period ends, which can last for marants from one week to a month, you can think about a transplant.
Here we will take into account the state of the plant as a whole, its roots (how much they took up space in the pot, they are not visible, or they all stick out of the ground above and climb into the pallet persistently), the state of the soil in which the plant sits.
Author of the article Lynx