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Location and soil

For the Ficus Ginseng to thrive well, it needs a bright location without being in direct sunlight. Drafts should be avoided at all costs, as well as a cold surface or heating air that is too dry. The Ficus Ginseng does not particularly like larger temperature fluctuations, but it can spend the summer outside in a sheltered place.

The soil is ideally rather coarse-grained and well-drained. Pull your ficus ginseng as bonsai, then you can use special bonsai soil. A mixture of sand, clay and earth is also suitable and significantly cheaper. As a houseplant, the Ficus Ginseng also thrives well in commercially available Potting soil.

Planting and repotting

When planting and repotting, make sure you have a drainage hole in the planter and create a drainage layer on the ground. All you need to do is put a few large pebbles or two pieces of pottery over the drainage hole so that it does not flow through Earth becomes clogged.

You should have a ficus ginseng every two to three years repot. With bonsai you use this opportunity to prune the root ball. If the planter of the bonsai or the pot of the houseplant still fits, then it is sufficient to change the potting soil.

Water and fertilize

You should not water a Ficus Ginseng according to a schedule but as required, namely whenever the top soil layer has dried a little. In summer this can be the case every two days, in winter it is usually much less often. Rainwater or stale water is more suitable than very hard tap water.

From April to the end of August or the beginning of September fertilize Your Ficus Ginseng about every 14 days with commercially available liquid fertilizer. Alternatively, you can Fertilizer stick(€ 9.82 at Amazon *) or Slow release fertilizer use. Special fertilizer is not necessary, nor is bonsai fertilizer.

The ficus ginseng in winter

The Ficus Ginseng is not hardy. It can hibernate well at room temperature, but also a little cooler at approx. 12 ° C to 16 ° C. As an evergreen plant, it needs a lot of light even in winter.

The essentials in brief:

• Location: bright, without direct sunlight or drafts
• Temperatures between 18 ° C and 22 ° C
• Soil: coarse, permeable substrate (bonsai soil or a mixture of loam, earth and sand)
• water and fertilize as needed
• not very lime-tolerant, use rainwater or stale tap water
• if necessary, increase the humidity or spray the plant with low-lime water
• Regular pruning only required for bonsai
• not hardy
• Overwinter at room temperature or 12 ° C to 16 ° C