A plant from the tropics with beautiful white flowers - "Women's Happiness". Home care

According to folk tales, it is believed that the houseplant "Women's Happiness", or otherwise - spathiphyllum, is capable of bringing love and joy to the house. It is a herbaceous perennial with dark green leaves of piciform form up to 30 cm long. Spathiphyllum is a representative of the family of aroids and blooms with white flowers collected in the inflorescence-cob.
In this article, we would like to talk about the secrets of growing the unpretentious and beautiful plant, which is "Female happiness". Home care for him under the power of any florist. The plant continuously blooms with snow-white flowers, perfectly adapts to ordinary room conditions and is able to decorate the interior of any apartment with its beautiful appearance.

Spathiphyllum - "Women's happiness". Care at home. Lighting and temperature in the room

If you bought a flower and do not know where to place the pot, choose a place on the western or southern window for it. Here the plant will feel well and abundantly blossom than in the northern window. Although spathiphyllum is reconciled and with a lack of lighting, getting used to the shady side. He prefers scattered light, so in hot weather it is desirable to shade from the direct rays of the sun. Unpretentively and to the temperature conditions, the plant "Women's Happiness". Caring for it means maintaining the room temperature all year round within 18 ° C - 23 ° C. It does not require coolness in the winter season, since it does not have an expressed period of rest. The main thing is not to subject the plant to overheating or hypothermia and to protect it from drafts that it can not stand.

"Woman's happiness". Home care: soil requirements for planting and transplanting

Plant transplantation is carried out once a year, provided that the pot is small, less than 18 cm in diameter. If the container is larger, it can be transplanted once every few years, only by updating periodically the upper layer of the substrate. Moving to a new pot is preferably in the spring flowers room "Women's Happiness." Care for the transplanted plant does not differ from usual. The new soil must be light and loose. It is desirable to make a substrate from a mixture of humus, leaf land, peat, charcoal and add to it a small amount of sand. Not bad for spathiphyllum and substrate from coniferous soil, humus, leaf land, peat and sand (all the ingredients in two parts, except for the latter - it takes one part). You can also buy ready-made soil for planting. At the bottom of the pot must be put drainage: a layer of pebbles or expanded clay.

"Women's happiness": care at home (watering and fertilizing)

Humidification of the substrate should be moderate and regular. The plant can not be poured, otherwise its leaves will be covered with brown spots, and in no case can not be dried - it can die. Spathiphyllum prefers high humidity, and therefore it must be sprayed from the spray gun daily, and once a week to make a bath under a warm shower. It is desirable to remove dust from the leaves of the plant with a moist napkin. Feed "Women's Happiness" fertilizer for indoor flowers, which can be found and bought in a flower shop. During the flowering period, phosphorus and potash top dressings are not forgotten, in the period of active growth - about nitrogen fertilizers.

Flower "Female happiness". Care at home - reproduction

If you want to breed spathiphyllum at home, then it is possible to do this by dividing the rhizome. The operation is performed at the next transplantation: the plant is gently removed from the pot, the excess soil is removed and the rhizome is divided into several parts so that three leaves remain on each fragment obtained. After that, the separated parts of the plant are planted in separate small containers and they are looked after as in the usual adult plants - watered, sprayed and fertilized.