Use Mist Sprayers

Experience Their Many Benefits

Mist sprayers may not be the best watering method for the types of plants you grow, your watering technique may be different for each one.

Some green fingered individuals find that their growing skills are better for indoor plants rather than outdoor plants. Others find that looking after shrubbery is more their forte than growing orchids.

Let’s take a look at the types of gardeners who use mist sprayers to get the most out of the plants they cultivate, and discuss the benefits of using misting rather than direct watering.

When growing plants originating from a warmer and more humid environment, try to replicate their ideal growing conditions to get optimum growth. This can involve calculating nutrient levels, providing the right amount of light, sheltering from certain elements and mimicking the natural environment.

Benefits

Mist spraying delivers a steady and constant stream of water gently; this also conserves water. Crops, bonsai trees, house plants and flowering plants all respond to this method of watering.

In farming, large amounts of water can cause the plants to burn when the sun is strong, but misting provides a more gentle way to hydrate the crops.

Flowering plants will benefit with spraying as it helps preserve their delicate flowers and foliage while providing all over hydration.

Air Plants

There is also a type of plant known as an air plant. These plants get their name because they do not need soil to grow. Instead, they root themselves to an object; commercially this is often an ornate shell or stone; and get all their nutrients through water in the air.

These air plants originate from both the tropics and temperate zones where there are enough nutrients in the moist air to keep them alive.

In a domestic environment, these plants need to be cultivated using mist sprayers to replicate their original environment.

How Air Plants Compete for Survival

It is thought that these types of plants developed to take increased advantage of sunshine and therefore increase their chances of survival.

Plants growing on the forest floor for example have to compete with many other plants and trees for sunlight and nutrients, whereas a plant that has developed to take advantage of a plant that has already become established will stand a better chance of survival.

It is therefore essential for every gardener to determine the types of plants that they want to grow and work towards mimicking the natural environment in which these thrive.