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The shamrock is an indoor plant , often associated with Ireland and good luck . The leaves are like three - leaf trefoil with ticklish white-hot or light purple blossom . It is uprise from bulbs . Your industrial plant will take a rest period during the year , when it is permit to go dormant . prefer a time that the folio start to look a bit limp and stop watering it . As the leaves turn brown , clip them off . Place your shamrock in a cool , dry dimly light room for one to three calendar month . Bring it back out into a well - lit location , but not full sun , water it and feed it with a ecumenical - aim houseplant plant food . Re - pot your plant at this metre if it seem to be crowded in its current pot or if you want to separate it .

Step 1

Choose a fresh industrial plant container for your cuckoo bread plant life . It should be 2 to 4 column inch full than the original potty and 2 to 4 inches deeper .

Step 2

Scatter stones or broken in clayware piece over the bottom of the container . pour out in 2 to 3 inches of commercial potting soil . This grunge will tot nutrients to your shamrock ’s etymon , and it is warrant to be disease and weed - ejaculate free .

Step 3

Turn the industrial plant upside - down , while holding onto the base of the plant , and bug on the bottom of the flock . The plant should slide flop out , but if it does n’t push through the bottom of the drainage muddle with your fingers .

Step 4

Place the antecedent ball of the plant into the newfangled container . The top of the original soil should go under about an in below the top of the novel pot . If it is too abject or too eminent , aline the stain beneath it .

Step 5

stream extra soil around the ancestor bollock , pressing gently with your fingers to remove any strain pocket and to stabilize the flora . You are end when the add soil is even with the top of the original potted territory .

Step 6

Water your shamrock with enough weewee until it come out the bottom drain trap . Set it in it ’s original office .

Tip

Shamrock plant life are very sensitive . At metre the dead blossoms and leaves need to be hit . The plant may look wilt and sad after scavenge or when it needs piss . It will soon come to itself . Because bulbs multiply , if they seem over crowded when re - potting , view separating some and potting them in new container . Shamrock plants are great office gifts .

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