How to Plant Mint In Pot At Home

How to Plant Mint In Pot At Home

Do you already know Mint plant? It's a plant of menthol producer or mint flavor common in candy and cough medicine.
Menthol is also often used in the mouthwash industry. While at home, mint can be used to provide flavorings to foods and beverages. Naturally still if you do not know mint because the plant is not derived from the original Indonesia. But because of its many uses, especially from this mint leaves then there is no harm if you try to plant mint in pots in your home.

There are several ways that can be used to plant mint in pots but the most widely used method is to plant mint by using stem cuttings. So you simply cut the mint stems and then planted on the planting medium that has been prepared. But by using this way of planting mint, of course you must have mint plant first. If you do not have one then you can buy it at the grocery store that is around your residence.

How to Plant Mint In Pot?

Tools and Materials Necessary To Growing Mint In Pot
Mint plant, which looks healthy, fresh and free of pests / diseases.

• Pots of at least 30 cm in diameter
• Media Planting / Soil, sand and manure or compost
• Fractional tile
• Shovels, scissors / knives

How to Plant Mint In Pot

1. Plant Seed Preparation

Before planting mint in pots then need to do the preparation of plant seeds are as follows:

• Choose mature grown but not too old rods.
• Cut the stem of the mint rod about 1 cm from the top of the branch by using a clean sharp scissors / knife and have previously been wiped using a 70% alcohol solution.
• You can remove some mint leaves on the stem to reduce the occurrence of excessive evaporation or no leaves at all.
• Soak the mint rod in cold water.

There are 2 ways to plant mint in pot by using this stem cuttings that grow roots and shoots leaves in water first or directly in planting in pots. If you choose to grow root first in water then place the stalk in a glass / bottle that contains clean water and place it in the kitchen or window that receives indirect sunlight. About a week then you will see the appearance of white roots from the stem stem TSB. Wait a few more days until new shoots appear until the plants are ready to be planted in pots.

How to grow mint in pots by growing roots in this water has the advantage of being able to see root growth so it is more convincing you that the mint plant is growing. In order for the roots of the mint plant to grow quickly, you can dip the tip of the stems on root-growing hormone like honey before planted in planting medium.

1. Preparation of Planting Media

Planting media should be prepared before you plant mint in pots. You can buy ready-made planting media or mix it yourself with easily accessible ingredients around your home by mixing garden, sand and manure or compost with a 3: 1: 1 amount.
Make sure the pot used has a water hole at the bottom.
Insert tile fragments into pots as high as 1-2 cm to hold the planting medium so it is not easy to carry water.
Put the planting medium into the pot.

1. Mint Planting In Pot

Here is how to plant mint in pots that have contained the planting medium:

• Make a hole in the center of the pot containing the planting medium.
• Plant one mint in the hole.
• Cover the hole with planting medium and compact the surrounding planting medium for the mint plant to stand upright.
• Put this mint pot in a place that gets enough sunlight but not too hot.
• Flush the plants to taste.

1. How to Take Care of Mint In Pot

• Watering is done at the beginning of planting with enough water.
• Watering is resumed when the leaves buds have grown that is by watering regularly as much as once a day.
• Avoid watering mint plants too often because this plant is easy to rot.
• Unplug the weeds that grow in pots.
• Do the pruning is to pluck the mint shoots periodically so your mint plant does not grow too high and remove old leaves.

1. Harvesting

Harvesting of mint leaves can be done after the plant enters the age of 6 months. Harvesting can be done by picking leaves that have been 2 weeks old.

That's how to plant mint in pots, how easy is not it? Let us practice :)