Areca Palm Care: Fertilizer and Pruning
Areca Palms are lovely indoor plants with pretty green leaves. To keep them healthy and beautiful, you need to feed them the right food (fertilizer) and give them a little haircut (pruning).
Additionally, Areca Palms are fantastic at cleaning the air and giving off oxygen, making them a wonderful addition to your indoor spaces for a breath of fresh air.
In this article, we will guide you how to care your Areca palm. Whether you are new to gardening or an expert, these tips will help your Areca Palm thrive and stay beautiful.
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Fertilizer for Areca Palm
Areca palms are known for their slow growth, making them ideal indoor plants. They should be kept away from direct sunlight as they prefer indirect or filtered light. These plants typically do not produce flowers or fruits, which means there is no need for chemical fertilizers. Instead, opt for simple organic liquid fertilizers.
“Give simple organic liquid fertilizer to Areca palm.”
(i) Growing season:
- During their growing season (from February to September), you can use cow-dung liquid fertilizer every two months.
(ii) Rainy season:
- Before the rainy season, consider applying neem cake liquid fertilizer, and before winter starts, give some mustard cake liquid fertilizer.
- If you don’t have these specific solutions, Seaweed solution can also work well.
Additionally, you can provide Epsom salt to the plant, but it’s essential to use it only when the plant shows signs of needing it.
- Overusing Epsom salt can cause stress to the plant and result in browning leaves.
Pruning Areca Palms
Areca palms typically don not require extensive pruning, but they do benefit from occasional trimming.
- If you notice a frond that is severely damaged, with burnt leaves or affected by fungus, it is best to remove the entire frond.
- Additionally, if the tips of the leaves turn brown, it is a good practice to trim off those browned sections.
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