Benjamin's ficus – popular plant among flower growers. It grows at tree. Trunk its quite flexible therefore it is possible to bind trunks of several plants, "to braid them in braid". At this type of ficus magnificent krone which it is quite possible to cut and give it the desirable form.
1. Benjamin's ficus loves constancy: light location, regular moderate watering and spraying of leaves. Lack of light, overwetting of the soil, low indoor temperature, drafts and having even watered with cold water can cause subsidence of foliage.
2. After you have brought plant from shop, at once replace it. Take pot a little bigger on diameter. Lay on bottom drainage from haydite or beaten bricks. Fill the soil on 1/3 pots.
3. Prepare soil as follows: take ready soil for ficuses, mix it in equal proportions with the garden earth and baking powder. One more good mix for ficus it is possible to make of the sheet earth, humus and peat in proportion 2:1:1. Pay attention that the earth has to be air-permeable. Remove the damaged roots, leaves and branches, cuts powder with wood ashes. Put plant in pot. The soil and well condense with Dosypte it. Water with the warm settled water.
4. The good result after the postponed stress is yielded by spraying by solution of epin or ecoforce. That to plant it was comfortable in your house create it fine conditions of keeping. Put it to the warm and light place. Dosvechivayte daylight lamps.
5. In summertime the ficus quickly grows. Feed up him two times a month complex fertilizers or special fertilizers for ficuses at this time. Before achievement of five-year age recommend to replace Benjamin's ficus annually when the container becomes close. Then is more rare, but it is regularly necessary to replace top layer of the earth in pot, pouring fresh substrate. Do it when on it the white crust (salt raid) appears.
6. At cultivation of ficus of Benjamin there can be some problems. If on leaves there were brown spots, it is signal that indoors too high temperature, or you have overfed it with fertilizers. At excessive watering there are yellow spots or sheet edges turn yellow. If the leaves wrinkled and dry, so the plant has got solar burns or the soil has dried up. Look after ficus correctly, and it will please you many years with beautiful view and elegant foliage.