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Mikado Plant Care
Mikado Plant Care. A swamp plant native to Brazil, the Mikado plant is often sold with very little or no instructions for care, making its upkeep somewhat difficult. Luckily, with a few key pieces of information most people can keep the Mikado plant in good health and enjoy its beauty.
A swamp plant native to Brazil, the Mikado plant is often sold with very little or no instructions for care, making its upkeep somewhat difficult. Luckily, with a few key pieces of information most people can keep the Mikado plant in good health and enjoy its beauty.
Planting Location
Unless you live in a very humid and wet area of the world, you will find that the Mikado plant does best when planted in a rather shallow clay pot. If you would like to try to grow the Mikado plant outdoors, you will need to plant it in a mound of very moist nutrient-rich soil, much like you would plant a cucumber or melon. This is a very slow growing plant, so you may not see much activity for several weeks after planting, regardless of location.
Watering and Humidity
The Mikado plant needs very moist---but not watery---soil. It's best to plant the Mikado plant in a pot that allows you to water from the bottom, as this is more like swamp conditions than being watered from the top. How often you need to water the Mikado plant depends on the moisture in the air and how quickly the water evaporates from the pot. In addition to watering the soil, you will need to spray the plant with a spray bottle once a day or so to keep the humidity level at 70 percent.
Because the Mikado plant is very particular about humidity, you may want to buy a small gauge to measure the humidity in the air near your plant.
Sunlight
The Mikado plant does well in bright but indirect or filtered sunlight. Sun coming through a greenhouse is ideal, but filtered light through a terrarium or through a closed blind is usually adequate. These plants often do quite well in a bright, humid, warm bathroom settings. As long as the moisture in the soil and the humidity is right, the Mikado plant seems to thrive in any number of hours in indirect sunlight.
Common Problems
While the Mikado plant is still new to many markets and much is still unknown about the species, the plant is known to suffer from fungus if the humidity level is kept too high. This is where your gauge will come in handy, helping you keep the humidity right around 70 percent to avoid the growth of fungus on your Brazilian swamp plant.
