How to care for violets: a comprehensive guide

Where to put the violet

Put violets - so scientifically called it a houseplant - on a windowsill or near a window. Violets like diffused light, not direct sunlight. To outlet formed symmetrically, a couple of times a week, turn the plant in the same direction by 45 degrees.

Well, if the windows are located to the east, west or north. If, however, to the south, in the spring and summer have pritenyat plants.

To protect Saintpaulia, using, for example, light curtains, paper or bamboo blinds. But the metal - not the best option. They heat up and act as old battery.

Another way of shading - parchment paper or sun protection film, which are sold in conventional hardware stores. Close the window to her third of the spring-summer season and into the fall, remove.

Where to keep the summer violet

During warmer months, leave the plant on a windowsill. It is not necessary to submit it to a private balcony or loggia.

At a temperature of 27-28 °C includes a fan, but do not point it directly to violet.

If it works in the room

air conditioning, Make sure that the temperature did not drop below 18 °C, and the air flow does not enter the plant.

In most solntsepok, if the room is more than 30 °C rearrange violets on the floor. There are a few degrees lower than the temperature. The short lack of light is not so bad, as overheating.

Cool the air near the plant and help bottles of frozen water or cold generators for household refrigerators-bags. Put them next to the violets, but saw to it that they do not touch the leaves.

Where to keep violet winter

In cold weather, keep the plant at a temperature not lower than 18 °FROM. If the sill is too cold, move to another location violet.

If the sill itself is cold, place the pot with a plant lined with foam or foamed film. And make sure that from the window frames do not ash pit.

What water to water violet

Use only prepared. Dial tap water in a jar, let it stand for a day or two, and then boil. Thus in the moisture hardly remain and the chlorine salts are harmful to plants.

You can also use filtered water, but distilled does not fit all.

Pour violet warm water only a few degrees higher than the temperature in the room. From cool may start root rot and the plant dies.

What is the use of irrigation techniques

through pallet

Pour the water and after 15-20 minutes, make sure that the ground on top of wet. Then pour everything that is not absorbed.

over the top

Carefully pour the liquid in the pot. Be careful not to get wet leaves and especially the center of the outlet. After 10-15 minutes, remove any excess moisture from the pan.

How often to water the violets

Check daily to touch the ground in a pot. If the upper layer of earth coma dried out, the plants need moisture.

Do not water violet, if the ground is still wet, no matter how many days have passed. Excess water will transfer it heavier than slight drying.

As humidify air

Saintpaulia loves moisture. They are comfortable at a relative humidity of 60% air.

To ensure that such conditions are:

• use humidifier air;
• place near the violet small vessel of water;
• Saintpaulia put together with the tray on a plate of expanded clay or moistened sphagnum;
• spray from a spray water near the plant but not on it.

This is especially important in winter when the air in the dry flat due to heating.

How to bathe violet

On the leaves of plants accumulate dust. To get rid of it, every couple of months arrange violet water treatment.

Before bathing, close the pot ordinary transparent plastic bag to prevent moisture from getting to the ground. Over time, as accustomed, the package will be discarded.

Turn water. Make sure that it is quite warm (temperature comfortable for the hands), and the pressure slightly. Take the pot and gently tilt to the plane to the water falling on the leaves, but not dripping inside.

In turn, gently wash each leaf fingers. Do not use sponges and brushes, they will damage the plant.

NEXT to the outlet center with young leaves remain dry. If by chance it wet, blot the moisture with a paper towel.

Violet not return to its original place immediately after the shower. First, let it dry. For example, it is convenient to bathe the plant in the evening and at night to leave the bathroom. And in the morning again to place on a window sill.

How to transplant violet

When and how often to repot violet

Even if you do not like a pot in which you purchased the plant, do not rush to change it. Wait at least a month. During this time, violet adapts to the new location, and the transplant will not add to the stress.

Saintpaulia need to repot every six months maximum a year. If you do not do this, the plant would be bad to grow and blossom.

Home - violets not transplanted at a temperature above 28 °FROM.

What land is needed violet

Senpoliy like light and loose soil that retains moisture well. It is best to take the shopping ground for violets. Other options are not always suitable in composition.

Be sure to add disintegrating agents such as perlite, vermiculite or sphagnum moss, chopped into pieces of 1-1.5 cm. Without them, the soil quickly sealed and will be bad to dry.

Pochvosmesi options that you can cook for my violets:

• shoplifter ground, crushed peat moss, perlite and vermiculite in a ratio of 6: 2: 1: 1;
• shoplifter soil, perlite, vermiculite, chopped sphagnum in a ratio of 1: 1: 1: 1.

Also add about a teaspoon of charcoal on the pot (mini violets will suffice ¹/₂ spoons). Mix all the ingredients.

The mixture should be homogeneous and air. It violets roots are in abundance and receive the moisture and oxygen.

What is needed pot violet

Not too big. Otherwise Saintpaulia long will grow and bloom soon.

Optimal - top pot having a diameter of two to three times smaller than the outlet violet. In height it should be about the same as the width, or even a little less.

Materials are suitable and clay, and plastic. The main thing - the presence of the pan and the drainage holes at the bottom.

How to conduct transplant

Remove the plant from the pot and remove the old soil from the roots. Osypetsya loose earth itself, simply shake it.

In the same pot, pour 1-2 cm keramzite drainage. Add the ground and plant violet in the middle.

Do not pack the soil too much.

How to care for violets after transplant

Soak a little ground in the pot. The next time watering after only five or six days. During this time, damage to the roots of drag.

How to fertilize the violet

To feed Saintpaulia, if it grows without a transplant for more than six or seven months. If you are updating every six months the soil, without dressings can do - and so the land contains enough nutrients.

Fertilize no more than once or twice a month. Use the special tools for violets or flowering houseplants.

Do not feed the plants in the heat (from 28 °C), which causes stress.

What if Violet does not blossom

If violet apparently healthy, and the flowers do not appear likely, it is not enough light. To solve this problem by choosing the more suitable location for the plant.

Another possible reason - too big a pot. To cope with this change will help.

How to care for flowering violet

If your violets beginning to bloom, when the temperature is kept in a room at 30 °With better remove the flower stalks at the base. Flowering in this heat can be dangerous for the plants.

If the temperature is lower, easy to care for the plant as usual. When all the flowers wither, remove the stems at the base of the most - carefully bend it to the side, it is easy to detach. Do not leave the stump, it will rot.

If all is not faded, but the dried flowers spoil the view, simply remove their nail scissors.

What problems can arise when flowering

Dry up and die buds

The reason may be the lack of humidity. To solve this, use one of the above tips.

Another option - a sharp change of conditions. This often occurs after the purchase of a flowering plant, especially during the cold season.

Too small flowers

It is due to the high temperature in the room where the plant is worth. And not only at flowering, but also during a bookmark of buds.

I changed the color of flowers

The store violets when re-bloom may appear inflorescences entirely new color. For example, from delicate white and blue or white and pink it can turn into a rich purple.

The reasons for this are not errors in care. Manufacturers tend to consider such a plant alive disposable bouquets and do not care about the color repeatability.

This does not mean that Saintpaulia not develop normally and re-bloom. But here is what will be the inflorescence, difficult to predict.

How to treat violet

bright spots

They are clearly distinguishable on the leaves, the elasticity of which is not lost. Generally plant It looks healthy.

These spots appear on the draft during the airing, so called skvoznyachkovymi. For plants, they are not dangerous, but it detracts from the appearance.

They can not be cured, only prevented. So when the room ventilation cover plants foamed film or newspapers.

yellowing leaves

The reasons may be different:

1. Overheating, direct sunlight or excessive lighting.
2. Lack of moisture.
3. Lack of nutrients in the soil.
4. Hyperacidity or improper soil.

Problems due to the sun decides to change seats. And in other cases, simply transplant the plant.

thickening middle

It arises for various reasons.

1. cyclamen mite

Young leaves, which is parasitic mite, curled up, much opushayutsya, become brittle and noticeably stunted.

Flower stalks are brittle and short, almost new buds do not develop. If even some of the flowers open, they also distorted shapes and unnaturally colored portions.

No web. Browse wrecker of the naked eye can not.

To combat the mite acaricide treated plants four times at intervals of three to four days. A wire processing once a year for prevention.

2. Excess light

A similar pattern is observed in the excessive lighting. This is especially true for plants that are on the southern windows.

To remove the symptoms get to a new place of Saintpaulia.

3. Problems with the ground

If the ground is picked up incorrectly, over time it is sealed, and the plant lacks moisture. Another possible reason - the accumulation of salts in the soil due to irrigation water unsuitable or imbalance of nutrients.

The best solution in all cases will change.

limp leaves

If the leaves are soft even when wet ground, the plant with the roots of the problem. Perhaps they rotted. This could happen if the earth dry well, and then profusely watered. Or during a night of airing the soil slightly cooled, and the situation worsened watering.

When such symptoms, remove the plant from the pot and inspect the root system. If you see white roots, leave them, and all the affected (brown), remove the knife or razor.

About half an hour put violet to pale pink solution of potassium permanganate, and then transplanted into a new soil mixture.

If the roots have rotted completely cut them, remove the bottom row of leaves and trim the trunk.

And then put in the water to form new roots.

Another option - sprinkle the trunk of an antiseptic (pounded charcoal) and lightly air dry. Then landed in the ground and cover with a package for effect greenhouses.

Whitish and like flour raid on the leaves

This is powdery mildew, a fungal disease. It contributes to the development of the combination of temperature below 16-17 ° C and high humidity.

If the infection occurred during the flowering time, remove the flower stalks.

Double treat violet fungicide based on penconazole, with an interval of 10-14 days.

Increase the temperature in the room or move the violets in a warm place.

How not to get sick violet

1. Senpolii Provide adequate lighting, but protect it from direct sunlight.
2. Keep the temperature in the room where the plant is worth.
3. Pick correct soil mixture and pots of suitable size.
4. Repot every six months or a year.
5. Watering as the soil dries and regularly bathe.
6. Do not put in the same room with violets bouquets of cut flowers. This can lead to an infection with parasites.
7. Spend two to three-week quarantine new plants and keep them separately.
8. Isolate sick senpoliy the period of treatment.
9. Periodically inspect violets, to quickly identify the problem.