Bow hemp: tips for buying, caring for & propagating

Bow Hemp is a popular houseplant. Here's everything you need to know about buying, planting, caring for, and flowering scrunchie.

The Bow Hemp (Sansevieria) is an air purifier and a stylish object in offices, bedrooms and apartments. The versatile survivor shows himself in the most beautiful shades. Here you will find all the important information about bow hemp.

Even if you don't believe it at first glance, the easy-care houseplant belongs to the asparagus family (Asparagaceae) and is even with that dragon tree (dracaena) related. Bow hemp is a succulent plant that needs little water. Its elegant growth and its air-purifying effect make it particularly popular. Since it also produces oxygen at night due to its succulent metabolism, bow hemp is the optimal one

Plant for the bedroom. In our special article you will find an overview of the Top 10 Air Purifying Plants.

Bow hemp: origin and properties

Dry desert and savannah landscapes are its homeland. Originally, the robust bow hemp comes from different regions of Africa and Asia. Its succulent leaves are supported by woody fibers, giving it its German name. These fibers were used in the production of rope and textiles, similar to the fibers of sisal and hemp. Allegedly, the hemp-like fibers were even used as bowstrings - this is how the name of the tropical to subtropical plant came about: bow hemp.

Bow hemp is characterized by its skyward-reaching succulent leaves that sprout from the ground singly or in rosettes. A height of 1.5 meters, depending on the species, is not unusual. However, it takes a long time for the plant to reach this size. As an easy-care houseplant, the Sansevieria discovered early and so it exists in a wide variety of breeds.

Bow hemp flowers: Does bow hemp also bloom here?

Seeing the flower of your own scrunchie is something special and not a very common occurrence. Each individual shoot of the plant flowers only once in its life. For this, the plant must feel very comfortable and be a bit older. However, with proper care and a lot of patience, you have a good chance of experiencing flowering. This usually happens in March. The whitish, greenish, yellowish or even pink flowers are arranged in upright inflorescences and are intensely fragrant. Since the small flowers produce a lot of nectar, you should put an old newspaper or something similar under the pot to be on the safe side to prevent a mess.

However, in order for seeds to develop after flowering, pollination by moths is necessary. This is probably not possible in your own four walls, but maybe it will work if you help with a brush and thus play the pollinator.

Buy bow hemp

The nice thing about bow hemp is that it hardly knows any pests and diseases. For this he has to endure the most unbelievable designs. From braided to colorfully painted to colored hats, everything is included. If you want to be able to enjoy your purchase for a long time, it is better to use a natural variant. Because there is already a sufficiently large variety of species and varieties to choose from. In this article you can read more about the topic Buy bow hemp Experienced.

Bow Hemp Species

Over sixty types of bow-tie hemp are now known. But only a few of them have made it into our houses in the most diverse cultivated forms as varieties. We have listed some of the most important types and their varieties below:

• Sansevieria trifasciata: The best-known and most popular type of hemp as a houseplant is undoubtedly the species Sansevieria trifasciata, which originates from tropical Africa. Their broad leaves are marbled in light green, dark green, and gray-green colors. Sure you will 'Laurentii' have met before. It is similar to the wild form, but its leaves have a very decorative yellow-green edge.

• Sansevieria cylindrica: Originating from the dry savannahs south of the Sahara, this species is now also triumphant in our interiors. Sansevieria cylindrica As its name suggests, it has cylindrical leaves. These are rather light green to green-grey and have dark green horizontal stripes. The variety is similar to the wild form, only slightly greenish-yellow 'Variegata'. The leaves of the variety 'Boncel' do not grow upwards in a straight line as for Sansevieria cylindrica typical, but fan out to the side. It is precisely this species that is offered in the trade in a very different and diverse manner: Leaf cuttings standing next to each other, intertwined, with colorful caps and much more. However, all these arrangements are not types or varieties, but merely creative ideas of the marketers.

• Sansevieria francisii: This species also has rather cylindrical leaves, which, however, grow upwards in a manner that builds on one another in an almost trunk-like manner. If the stem-like structures become longer and harder to keep upright, the plant will lie down and continue to grow while lying down.

plant bow hemp

Bow hemp comes from dry and sunny-hot semi-deserts. The soil there is sandy, stony, hard and, on top of that, poor in nutrients. You should definitely keep this in mind when planting. You can use cactus soil as a substrate. But you can also use a half-half mixture of commercially available peat-free garden soil - for example our sustainable Plantura organic universal soil – and make sand. It is important that the substrate has good permeability to water and is rather low in nutrients. Alternatively, you can grow your bow tie in hydroponics with clay granules. The pot should have a drainage hole to allow excess water to drain away. You can also place some potsherds in the bottom of the pot for extra drainage.

Since the sheet hemp is one of the slow-growing plants, you only need to repot it every few years. Early spring is the best time. For this, choose a pot that is only slightly larger than the old one.

Summary of planting bow marijuana:

• Repot only every few years in spring
• Use cactus soil or a garden soil-sand mixture as a substrate
• Pot with drainage hole and possible drainage layer made of potsherds

Planting bow hemp: The right location

Bow hemp likes extremes: lots of sun, lots of heat, lots of drought. If possible, give him a bright and warm place. Although it can get by with a little less light, it grows faster and more colorfully in the sun. Direct sunlight doesn't bother him at all and he gets along well with little humidity. In the summer, it also really appreciates some fresh air outdoors in a sunny and dry spot. As with other plants, bow hemp must be gradually acclimated to direct sunlight in order to avoid sunburn. In late summer, however, you should bring him back into the house in good time. Make sure that it never has to endure less than 10 °C in winter. Even better, it's nice and warm at over 15 °C.

Cultivate bow hemp

With the bow hemp you get an easy-care roommate in the house. He is used to dry times in his homeland and so he prefers it too dry to too wet. He also prefers to be fertilized less than more. It takes a lot to kill a bow tie. However, if it is to flower, then it should not only be lively, but also feel good as a fiddle. more on the subject Cultivate bow hemp find out here.

Propagate bow hemp

Propagating the bow tie is not difficult. While propagation from seeds is rare due to the rare flowering and seed formation, bow hemp can also be propagated via leaf cuttings and division. How exactly man Bow hemp propagated, you can read about in this special article.

Is Bow Hemp Poisonous?

As an inhabitant of a barren landscape, the scurvy hemp is exposed to many a hungry animal. No wonder, then, that this plant produces a stomach poison that is not only effective against wild animals, but also against cats, dogs and humans. But no need to panic. Although there are unpleasant side effects when consumed, neither you nor your cat will die. For rats and mice, however, the bow tie can be deadly. More information on how poisonous bow hemp is, see this article.