any advice to taking care of ferns?
i clipped some dead off but omg thereβs so much #helpneeded #FernFriends #BostonFern

0ft to light, direct

5β pot with drainage

Last watered 4 months ago
@pelssy Iβm just here to complain about growing ferns indoors! π they seem to do wonderful outside in the humid summer weather that we have in Pennsylvania, but in the dry heat of my home for the winter months they just dry out and become miserable. π©
@pelssy
Hi!
I think that you, yourself have solved the problem!
They need to be near humidifiers... they're dried out.
I used to spritz mine twice a day. He wouldn't grow at all and looked sickly. When I stopped spritzing and changed to bottom watering, it was like night and day. The soil on top was continuously wet from all that spritzing and that's not a good thing.
No wonder he previously a targeted host to fungus gnats!
Oops π¬! Sorry for the diversion. A good, clean humidifier should do the trick. Only fill it with distilled water. 55 to 60 percent humidity and they should perk back up.
That's such a gorgeous fern...Simply beautiful ππ€
Hi!
I think that you, yourself have solved the problem!
They need to be near humidifiers... they're dried out.
I used to spritz mine twice a day. He wouldn't grow at all and looked sickly. When I stopped spritzing and changed to bottom watering, it was like night and day. The soil on top was continuously wet from all that spritzing and that's not a good thing.
No wonder he previously a targeted host to fungus gnats!
Oops π¬! Sorry for the diversion. A good, clean humidifier should do the trick. Only fill it with distilled water. 55 to 60 percent humidity and they should perk back up.
That's such a gorgeous fern...Simply beautiful ππ€
@nellz4estfairyz right!!! iβm in canada and itβs like -50 right now so it is obviously in the house and it hates the indoors!!!
@CutePolypremum i was thinking bottom water too might be better and humidifier!
@pelssy
Yup π
I did mention that.... definitely bottom water and a good humidifier ! π
Yup π
I did mention that.... definitely bottom water and a good humidifier ! π
@pelssy omg π π³-50 I hope that was a joke! Itβs going to be about -10 here at night this week, -20 with the wind chill. I have one fern in a self watering pot, one fern in rehab in a giant cheese ball container π«, and two others thatbi@ just praying will grow! lol π
@pelssy
Yikes π³π¬
I just read your post again. -50? Me thinks that is too much! Lol π
Anyway...I just read that ferns like to be left alone and basically hate being in a high traffic area, especially where humans and/or pets can brush by them...
Hoping this helps!
Yikes π³π¬
I just read your post again. -50? Me thinks that is too much! Lol π
Anyway...I just read that ferns like to be left alone and basically hate being in a high traffic area, especially where humans and/or pets can brush by them...
Hoping this helps!