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Title: Growing Houseplants


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Growing Houseplants
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Why grow houseplants?
  • To enhance room decor
  • Fill in gaps
  • Brighten an area (empty wall space, unused
    fireplace, stairwell, corner)
  • Soften sharp edges
  • Create separate areas in a room

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Grouping plants
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Garden rooms
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Why grow houseplants?
  • Fragrance
  • Direct traffic
  • Improve indoor air quality

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Choosing houseplants
  • How is the plant to be displayed?
  • Location, duration
  • How much time and skill is involved?
  • How much will it cost?
  • What size and shape of plant?
  • What will be the growing conditions?
  • Light, temperature, humidity

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Types of houseplants
  • Foliage plants
  • Trees
  • Climbing plants
  • Flowering plants
  • Flowering houseplants
  • Flowering pot plants (temporary)
  • Cacti succulents

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Foliage plants - trees
  • Dracaenas

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Foliage plants -trees
  • Yucca Norfolk Island Pine Rubber tree

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Foliage plants - Trees
  • Ficus

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Foliage plants
  • Philodendrons

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Foliage plants
  • Caladiums Sanseveria

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Foliage vines
  • Philodendron, ivy, zebrina

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Small foliage plants
  • Rex begonia

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Small foliage plants
  • Maranthas

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Foliage plants - ferns
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Flowering houseplants
Cyclamens
  • African violets

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Flowering houseplants
  • Bromeliads

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Flowering houseplants
  • Spathiphyllum

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Flowering pot plants
  • Gloxinia
  • Exacum
  • Azalea
  • Gardenia

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Flowering pot plants
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Flowering pot plants
  • Hydrangea Poinsettia

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Cacti
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Succulents
  • Jade plant
  • Kalanchoe
  • Sanseveria

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Houseplants and light
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Houseplants and light
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Diagnosing light problems
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Diagnosing light problems
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Light and phototropism
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Light intensity
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  • link

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Light and flowering
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Artificial light quality
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Artificial light
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Changing light
  • Shade to sun acclimatize first
  • Sunny to shade foliage plants will survive, but
    not flourish
  • Flowering plant fewer blooms

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Watering houseplants
  • Different plants have different water
    requirements
  • Watering frequency and amount varies with growth
    phase
  • Environment influences watering
  • Container size, composition, media type
  • Room conditions (temperature, humidity)

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Houseplants and water
  • Detecting soil moisture

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Diagnosing water problems
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Diagnosing water problems
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Methods of watering
  • Top watering
  • Bottom watering
  • Immersion
  • Wick watering

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Watering problems
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Diagnosing humidity problems
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Diagnosing humidity problems
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Providing humidity
  • Location
  • Groupings
  • Misting
  • Pebble tray

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Plants and temperature
  • Avoid drafts
  • Vents, poorly sealed windows
  • Keep inside curtains during winter
  • Avoid sources of heat (stove, refrig.)
  • Humidity is influenced by temperature

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Displaying principles
  • Containers
  • Lighting
  • Colors background, plant
  • Grouping plants
  • Plant supports and stands

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Containers
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Antiques as planters
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Shopping for plant containers
  • Furniture stores
  • Garden centers
  • Home improvement stores
  • Department stores
  • Discount stores
  • Online
  • Plantcontainers.com
  • Mailorder companies

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Displaying houseplants
  • Double potting

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Hanging baskets
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Lighting
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Colors
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Grouping plants
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Bottle garden
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Terrariums
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Making a terrarium
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Plant supports and stands
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Totems
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Displaying bromeliads
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Caring for houseplants
  • Fertilization
  • Cleaning/grooming
  • Repotting

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Fertilization
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Fertilization
  • Type of plant
  • Timing of fertilization
  • Some plants have active growing season
  • Most plants grow very little during winter
  • Type of fertilizer
  • Slow-release, liquid, soluble powder
  • Frequency of fertilization
  • Type of plant, type of fertilizer

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Cleaning/grooming houseplants
  • Remove dead leaves
  • Deadhead spent blooms
  • Pinching (shape)
  • Cleaning
  • Wiping
  • Brushing
  • Sponging
  • Immersing

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Repotting
  • Violets
  • Orchids

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Potting mixes
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Pest problems
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Aphids
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Mealy bugs
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Scale
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Spider mites
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White flies
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Thrips
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Fungus gnats
  • Fungus gnat remedy

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Pest control
  • Soap sprays
  • Systemic insecticides
  • Yellow sticky cards

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Specialty houseplants
  • Orchids
  • American orchid society

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Specialty houseplants
  • Bonsai

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Propagating houseplants
  • Cuttings (stem, leaf)
  • Division
  • Layering (air layering, simple layering)
  • Seeds/spores

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Buying houseplants
  • Poisonous houseplants

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The End
  • Final exam
  • All plants propagated in lab are yours

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Did you learn?
  • How to grow a plant outdoors
  • How to grow a plant indoors
  • How to propagate plants
  • Growing plants can be an enjoyable hobby
  • Growing plants can be valuable
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