Codium is a flower that attracts attention with its bright and rather unusual coloring of leaves. The second name of the plant is croton. The worst thing that can happen with improper care is that the flower will drop all its unusually beautiful leaves. To prevent this, let's look at the most important aspects of the content of such a unique, unlike other plants.
Before you buy a flower in a store, think about whether you will be able to care for such a moody and difficult flower like a codium or codium. If you still decide, then, first of all, very carefully choose a flower in the store. Feel free to inspect the plant from all sides. Unfortunately, very often it turns out that in stores almost all plants are completely infected with a spider mite.
So, the choice has been made, the plant can solemnly be planted in the space reserved for it. Kodium is a flower that prefers a very bright place, its bright color of the leaves depends on the amount and brightness of lighting. But direct sunlight is contraindicated to the plant. Although the leaves of the flower seem rather dense, from the sun they instantly become covered with burns.
An important point: do not immediately transplant the plant into a new pot, it must first acclimatize. The transplant should be carried out as carefully as possible, the roots do not need to be cleaned, it is enough just to transfer the earthen lump into a new pot.
Kodium is a flower that reacts to inappropriate conditions for it, as a rule, with abundant leaf fall. Such a plant does not tolerate drafts, so the room should be ventilated in winter carefully. In addition, you can not place a flower in the immediate vicinity of batteries and radiators. Kodium mix - a flower, which is also contraindicated for sudden jumps in temperature.
This plant does not need a rest period, and therefore the air temperature should be the same all year round.
Kodium - a flower in which at a low temperature leaves instantly fade. They can also get brown at the edges.
Given that kodium is a flower whose homeland is the tropics, it just needs high humidity. Frequent spraying will successfully cope with this task. In the summer, you can’t take the flower out into the open air, because drafts and sudden changes in temperature will lead to the fact that not a single leaf can remain on your plant.
Kodium is a flower (photos are given), which loves a warm shower. This procedure removes excess dust and dirt from the leaves.
The main problem of codiums is also harmful insects, especially the spider mite. This pest simply sticks to this plant. The disadvantage of this parasite is that the tick multiplies very quickly, and if it is not noticed in time, a catastrophe is simply inevitable. You can get rid of the spider mite by treating the leaves with a soap solution. The plant should be isolated from the rest and subsequently treated with special preparations. Repeat treatment after about a week in order to prevent.