How To Grow & Care Paan Plant | Betel Leaf Plant | Budget Gardening (Hindi)

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Betel leaf plant (also known as piper betel or wild pepper), it is a creeper herb grown in Asia and mostly in India and Pakistan, It belongs to Piperaceae family – the same family to which pepper plant belongs to.
We all know it's used to make a famous dessert that we love to eat especially in functions and weddings, its called PAAN, which is chewed with betel nut as a mouth freshener. This is also used in various rituals and poojas in India. It's also a medicinal herbal plant used for cough and cold.
This perennial herb is also grown in Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Growing Betel leaf plant is not so difficult but you need to be aware of some of its requirements. The betel plant or paan plant can be grown in containers, in a balcony, and even indoors in partial sunlight. You can also grow this plant in hanging pots. You can see this betel plant, I got from a nursery two months back. This was not in a healthy condition with pale-colored betel leaves and not really looking fresh and healthy. Now applying some care tips, I got this present plant, healthy with lush green leaves, and in fact, I tasted the paan dessert made out of this leaf, and it's really tasty.
Well, now let's talk about the care tips of betel leaf plants.

1. Planting Season: It should be ideally planted in Spring and Early Summer, but in tropical countries like India, it can be planted at any time of the year.

2. Growing Habits: The betel plant is basically a creeper and a perennial plant. It has heart-shaped green leaves. It can be either trained to grow as a creeper by offering support sticks and strings or It can also be grown as a ground cover.

3. Soil Requirement: Use any well-drained nutrient-rich soil for best results. And also here, remember to choose a deeper container if you are growing in a pot, because, it needs to have a well-developed root system to grow healthy.

4. Sunlight: Keep it in a partially shady spot in your garden. Do not provide too much sunlight to this plant. But this plant prefers a hot and humid climate for its growth.

5. Watering: It prefers a Damp soil but not soggy, so daily watering is required.

6. Keep Plucking the betel leaves from the bottom parts of the plant for promoting its growth.

7. Fertilizers: Occasionally – like once in a couple of months you can provide a nitrogen-rich fertilizer like decomposed cow dung or any compost like vermicompost after raking or tilling the topsoil. Do not use chemical fertilizers.

8. Pest control: Sometime it might be infested with pests like red mite – for which you can use neem oil + liquid soap mix spray. Also if overwatering is done or in the rainy season, it's prone to fungus. Pull off any infected leaves or branches to protect the plant.

And one more point is: you can propagate betel plant from stem cuttings either in water or in soil.

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