Plant production

1
Plant production

• Lesson 5 Plant maintenance

2
Types of house plant

• Cacti have fleshy, water storing stems. They may
  have sharp spines but no leaves.
• Flowering plants are kept for their attractive
  flowers.

3
Ferns and foliage plants

• Ferns do not flower. They grow leaves from
  underground stems and need cool, damp conditions.
• Foliage plants are kept for their attractive or
  coloured leaves

A foliage plant
4
Pricking out

• Seedlings need to be pricked out from a seed
  tray, because they will probably have grown too
  close together.
• This means moving them to a pot where they will
  have more room to grow.

5
Potting on

• When plants outgrow their pot, they are said to
  be pot-bound.
• Pot-bound plants have roots poking out of the
  bottom of the pot.
• Pot-bound plants have to be potted on into a
  larger pot.

6
Dead heading

• Dead heading is removing dead flowers from a
  plant.
• If this is done regularly, the plant may produce
  more flowers.