PLANT CARE GUIDE

Your Guide to a Thriving Verde Vessel

Congratulations on bringing home your Verde Vessel! We've designed this beautiful jar plant to be your ultimate low-maintenance companion, bringing vibrant green joy into your life with minimal fuss. Your Verde Vessel is a little piece of "Pura Vida" – pure life, simplified.

The Verde Vessel Promise: Your new Verde Vessel arrives pre-set for success! With its carefully prepared substrate and unique top dressing, it's designed to be self-sufficient in its stylish jar. Like most low-key plants, little love goes a long way to ensure your Verde Vessel thrives for years to come!

Essential Care for Your Verde Vessel

1. Light: Finding the Perfect Spot

Care Card Tip: "Medium Indirect Light"
Detailed Guide: Verde Vessel plants are incredibly adaptable, but they truly flourish in medium to bright indirect light. This means a spot where it gets plenty of ambient light, but direct sunlight doesn't hit its leaves.
- Ideal Locations: Near an east-facing window, a few feet back from a south or west-facing window, or under bright artificial lights.
- Avoiding "Burns": As your care card warns, "Direct sunlight burns leaves." Harsh, direct sun can scorch its beautiful foliage, leaving brown or crispy spots.
- Low Light Tolerance: Verde Vessel can tolerate lower light conditions, but it won't grow as vigorously, and its beautiful variegation (if applicable) might fade. It might also become "leggy," with long stems between leaves.

2. Watering: The Art of Knowing When

Care Card Tip: "WHEN TOP INCH OF SOIL IS DRY"
Detailed Guide: Your Verde Vessel arrives with its soil perfectly moistened for its initial 8 weeks of self-sufficiency. You do NOT need to water it during this period.
- Checking for Thirst:
  - Visually check the Verde Vessel for water in the reservoir - if looks dry, it is time to water.
  - Gently insert your finger about an inch or two into the soil beneath the top dressing. If it feels dry, it's time to water.
  - Visually check the leaves - if they look and feel limp, it is time to water.
- How to Water:
  - The Key: Water just enough to moisten the soil thoroughly. You can often see the moisture level through the clear glass. Allow sometime between waterings to see how much water gets to the reservoir
  - Signs of Overwatering: Yellowing leaves, mushy stems, or a foul odor from the soil. If this happens, stop watering immediately and let the soil dry out significantly.
  - Signs of Underwatering: Drooping leaves that perk up after watering, or crispy leaf edges.

3. Temperature & Humidity: A Tropical Touch

Temperature: Verde Vessel plants are happy in average room temperatures, ideally between $6 5^{\circ} F$ and $8 5^{\circ} F$ ( $1 8^{\circ} C$ and $2 9^{\circ} C$ ). Avoid sudden drops in temperature or placing them near cold drafts.
Humidity: While they tolerate average household humidity, Verde Vessel plants absolutely love higher humidity! This encourages lusher growth and vibrant leaves.
- Boost Humidity (Optional): You can occasionally mist the leaves (avoiding too much sitting water on the top dressing), place the jar near a humidifier, or set it on a pebble tray filled with water (making sure the jar isn't sitting in the water).

Special Details for Your Verde Vessel

Optimized Water & Nutrient Delivery: The Intelligent Design

The true genius of your Verde Vessel lies in its carefully engineered internal environment, purpose-built for extended self-sufficiency and the long-term health of your Pothos. This stratified design ensures your plant thrives with minimal intervention, while actively combating common issues like root rot.

Intelligent Layered Design for Extended Self-Sufficiency: Your Verde Vessel isn't just soil in a jar; it's a meticulously crafted ecosystem. The strategic layering of materials within the vessel creates an optimal environment that supports your plant for significantly longer periods between waterings. This smart design means less guesswork for you and more consistent health for your plant.
Expert Moisture Retention for Weeks of Hydration: Our expertly chosen soil layers are engineered to efficiently capture and hold just the right amount of moisture. This robust water retention capability acts as a steady, reliable reservoir, ensuring your plant has access to the hydration it needs for weeks on end, drastically reducing the frequency of your watering tasks and eliminating the worry of your plant drying out too quickly.
Horticultural Charcoal Filtration for a Clean Root Zone: Integrated within the substrate, horticultural charcoal plays a vital role. It actively works to filter out impurities from the water as it's absorbed into the soil. This continuous purification process ensures a cleaner, healthier water reservoir around your plant's roots, which is a critical factor in preventing the buildup of harmful bacteria and fungi that commonly lead to root rot.
Precision Wicking for Optimal Root Health & Rot Prevention: The substrate's carefully designed composition facilitates a precise wicking action. This means moisture is drawn evenly and directly to your plant's roots as needed, preventing water from pooling excessively at the bottom of the jar. This constant, balanced moisture delivery – without waterlogging – is paramount in safeguarding against root rot, allowing your plant's roots to breathe and flourish.

The Magic of the Top Dressing (Sphagnum Moss & Horticultural Charcoal Mix): Your Verde Vessel features a special top layer. This blend isn't just for looks – it's functional!

Fungus Gnat Prevention: The dry top layer helps deter those annoying little gnats from laying eggs in the soil.
Odor Control: The horticultural charcoal actively absorbs any potential earthy odors, keeping your Vessel smelling fresh.
Clean Aesthetic: It gives your plant a polished, natural look, keeping the soil neatly covered.

Encouraging New Shoots & Fuller Growth: Verde Vessel plants are vining plants, and sometimes it can get a bit "leggy" with long, bare stems. To encourage a fuller, bushier plant:

The Power of Pruning: Locate a vine you want to shorten. Find a node (the small bump where a leaf emerges or used to emerge). Using clean, sharp scissors, cut the vine about 1/4 to 1/2 inch above a node. This stimulates the plant to sprout new growth from that node, leading to branching and a denser appearance.
Propagate Your Cuttings: Those pruned pieces can be easily rooted in water to create brand new plants!

Advanced Care (For a Long-Term Companion)

Fertilizing (After 6 Months+): After about 6 months to a year in its original jar, your Verde Vessel may benefit from light fertilization during its active growing season (spring and summer). Use a balanced liquid houseplant fertilizer, diluted to half-strength, every 4-6 weeks.
Repotting or Root Management (After Several Years): While designed for long-term enjoyment in the jar, your Verde Vessel plant will eventually become root-bound (roots completely filling the jar). This is a sign it's ready for a larger pot, or you can prune its roots carefully to keep it in the same jar (a more advanced technique).

Your Verde Vessel is more than just a plant; it's a living piece of art designed to bring you joy with effortless ease. Follow these simple steps, and you'll enjoy its vibrant presence for years to come. Pura Verde como Pura Vida!