One of the most decorative and interesting plants grown by home flower lovers is peperomia. Home care for this green resident of the windowsill is both simple and painstaking. Not all growers know how to transplant, water and fertilize this plant. Peperomia itself is known to many, but few people know what it is called and that it has a huge number of varieties. Sometimes you can see pots with evergreen bushes, and sometimes you can find a beautifully flowering species with buds in the form of arrows.
Proper Peperomy Care
Choosing the optimal lighting, it is worth giving preference to western or eastern windows. Light is necessary, but it is desirable that it be scattered, without direct rays falling on the leaves. South windows are also suitable, but you have to figure out how to darken the plant. A peperomia houseplant, a photo of which can be seen in this article, does not tolerate bright light. If the leaves began to choke, curl and fall off, you should rearrange the pot in a darker place. When there is no place or opportunity to place the plant on a suitable window, you can leave it just in the room, with artificial lighting.
During the summer, +22 ° C is considered the ideal temperature, +18 ° C is suitable in winter. The main condition that must be met in order for healthy peperomia to grow is: home care should be regular, without a sharp change in lighting, fertilizers or humidity level. The roots of the plant are quite tender, so the internal temperature of the pot should not fall below +17 o C.
Peperomia - indoor flowers that require year-round watering, however, moistening the soil is only at the first sign of drying the soil. The roots of the plant can rot with rash over-watering. Outwardly, such an error of the grower looks like a causeless dumping of leaves. For irrigation use soft, ideally, a couple of days of standing water. Once a week, you can spray the leaves from the spray bottle to eliminate dry air and slightly raise humidity, which peperomia does not like very much. Home care involves mandatory fertilizing with mineral fertilizers every 2-4 weeks, depending on the time of year.
Peperomy transplant
After the plant has lived for three years, you need to pick up a new pot annually, preferably in the spring - in April. Soil is used loose, well-retaining moisture, but breathable. The pot should be wide enough so that the leaves have where to sit, but the depth is absolutely not important. Usually choose a container one and a half times larger than the previous one.
If a gardener masters hydroponics, it is difficult to come up with a more suitable plant than peperomy. Home care allows you to grow whole tropical oases on the windowsill, especially since the flower multiplies perfectly by cuttings, leaves or seeds. Lazy gardeners can recommend a simple division of the plant with an annual transplant.
Tip: a children's room is an ideal place for peperomia, which cleanses the surrounding area of pathogenic bacteria. The atmosphere in the rooms with this plant is usually calm, and the air is very fresh.