Plants are wonderful things that have been gifted to us from the universe. It not only helps us breath better but also provides us with the food we love to feast on a daily basis. Botany is the deeper study of plants and their nature; it covers the biology and phytology of plant life and other branches of biology on other organisms. A plant’s personal needs are very simple to keep up with, but not quite simple for those who are always in a hurry, having a constant busy schedule, or is stuck in-between their school exams, whatever the case may be, it’s quite hard for many to keep up with their plants and understand their names, I’ll try to help you with this by listing some of the basic survival needs of a plant.
Basic survival needs of a plant and the logics behind it:
• Providing the plant with their daily dose of water. Water is necessary and essential for our plants; it is how they use their energy from the sun to create food for themselves. During the process of watering your plant down, they’ll use the carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from the water they’re absorbing through their roots and release oxygen as their byproduct. And it is personally best to water your plants during the morning or (if you don’t have enough time in the morning) during the evening. Just so, if the leaves get wet, they’ll have more time to dry out.
• Giving your plants the sunlight, they need to grow better. This is a very common rule of growing your plants and keeping them healthy, it’s best to keep them outside in the sunlight or allowed them to have an effective source of gaining sunlight other than being outside. Plants absorb energy from the sun and produce the nutrients they need in order to survive. Although, too much sunlight is a dangerous thing and if they absorb more energy than they should have, this can lead to critical conditions and the excess can damage crucial proteins.
• Giving your plants space and air to breath in healthily and safely. The plant’s living roots need oxygen and plenty of space to breathe in and grow along the way. The leaves also need space so the sunlight can get to them, and oxygen helps them covert the food they produced into energy.
• Providing plants with the structure they truly deserve. Plants need structure that will help them survive, since plants have all different kinds of parts on their body such as roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits. There are structures to help them survive within their confirmed comfort and a healthy environment, there are some materials that help to anchor their roots and shelter them from crucial conditions, are greenhouses, although, these are very harmful to the environment but helpful in protecting plants. I do believe we should learn other ways of protecting our plants while protecting our environment all together.
As I have said earlier, plants are very difficult to deal and keep up with maintaining their personal health, but this doesn’t have to always be difficult, we could also change our routines in protecting the environment by not using greenhouses but yet there’s not much that works as useful as greenhouses does for plants. Don’t quote me on that though, there might be something but I’m sure we all personally prefer planting and gardening traditionally, so I don’t use greenhouses, but I have heard of many who does, they mainly use them as a protection source for plants during the winter and harsh conditions. Still, if you have a disliking for greenhouses, you definitely don’t have to take that as an advice of helping your plants out.