Asplenium Crispy Wave Plant
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The Crispy Wave is an Easy Care plant suitable for the home or office for any occasion.
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Crispy Wave Care
Bright apple-green, shiny, wavy leaves of the Crispy Wave make it a delightful addition to your houseplant collection.
As a houseplant it is easy to grow, as long as it has a warm, very humid environment. The Crispy Wave is an excellent air purifier.
* Watering - The key to providing your plant with just enough water is that the soil mix is well-draining but it retains moisture consistently and does not dry out. Make sure that the pot your plant grows in has a drainage hole. Use room-temperature water. Cold water might shock the plant. Sometimes the shock can cause some leaves to drop.
It is important to use filtered or rainwater. Tap water contains fluoride and other minerals that can accumulate in the soil and burn the roots.
It is difficult to establish a strict watering schedule for your Crispy Wave fern. Touch the soil frequently to make sure it does not dry out. Water thoroughly but make sure the excess water gets drained out through the drainage hole.
* Light - Your Crispy Wave Plant normally grows in the shade of large trees, getting only the filtered, indirect light. Try to provide the similar light: bright to medium bright indirect light, ideally from the window with northern exposure.
Do not expose your plant to direct sunlight, or the leaves will burn. If you do not have a choice and all your rooms get too much light, shade them with light curtains or place your fern behind another large plant.
* Temperature - As a tropical plant, your Crispy Wave fern likes to be consistently warm.
Avoid sudden changes in temperature that might shock your plant. Try not to keep your plant near a direct source of heating or cooling or near a drafty window or door. The consistently right temperature is, together with humidity, the key to making your plant thrive.
* Humidity - Maintaining high humidity in the room where you keep your Crispy Wave fern is absolutely crucial to keeping it healthy. The ideal humidity should be between 60 and 90 percent.
If you have a humidifier, you can maintain the humidity under control. If not, you can increase humidity by placing the pot on top of the pebbles in the tray filled with water.
Placing together a bunch of plants that like high humidity will create a micro-climate and benefit all of them. Make sure that there is enough air circulation between them to avoid common house plant pests that also love humid, hot air.
Crispy Wave is one plant that really loves its leaves misted. Misting is not enough to ensure proper humidity, but will make the plant happy, especially in the winter when the house is heated and the air is normally dryer. This is also the time when the fern is not growing vigorously so you are not watering it as frequently as usual, so it is not getting enough water that way either. Spray your fern a few times a day.
