How to care for gloxinia, so she had a lot of colors
Educational Program A Life / / December 19, 2019
All you need to know about watering, pruning, transplanting and wintering beautiful plant.
Where to put gloxinia
Place the flower on bright ambient sunlight. The best option - the window sill on the east or west side.
In the northern part of the room is dark and the plant it should be dosvechivat such as fluorescent lamps. Leave a flower on the southern windowsills too, should not be without shading. Gloxinia better place near the window and make sure that it is not in the direct sunlight.
Directly choose plants for a place where there are no drafts.
In the spring and autumn gloxinia comfortably at normal room temperature. And during winter dormancy flower must contain at rates of 7-10 ° C thermometer.
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How to water Gloxinia
Use for irrigation filtered or the supernatant water at a temperature a few degrees above ambient. Add in a pan or on top in a pot. Be careful to prevent moisture from getting on the leaves and flowers.
With spring on the second half of August Gloxinia watered every two to three days or less, to the top layer of soil in the pot had time to dry. Excess water is removed from the pan. Do not allow any complete drying of the land or water logging.
Since late summer gradually increase the intervals between waterings a day or two. And when the leaves wither completely stop moisturize gloxinia.
Begin watering the tuber when again put him in the ground. First moisturize moderate, pour very little water. And the gradual transition to the normal for the warm season mode.
From spring to autumn for gloxinia helpful high humidity. But spray the flower is not worth it. It is better to surround its capacity with water or moisture from the spray just spray gun a little away from the plant in a couple of days.
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How to fertilize gloxinia
About a month after the beginning of the awakening and growth of leaves and until mid-August gloxinia fertilize every 10-14 days.
Use complex fertilizer designed for flowering plants. Follow the dosage recommended by the manufacturer. Oversupply of nutrients harmful to gloxinia.
During the preparation of soiling do not need to rest and wintering.
If you do not feed at all, flowers will be small and infrequent.
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How to care for gloxinia after flowering
After the first flowering plant too early to prepare for the rest. Scissors or a sharp knife cut the stem to the first pair of leaves or in full.
It stimulates the re-bloom, after which gloxinia begin to prepare for the rest.
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How to prepare for the winter Gloxinia
Since the second half of October or November to early March in the gloxinia rest period. During the preparation for it the leaves turn yellow and dry up.
As soon as the leaves die off, the plant is ready for the winter. Remove the tubers from the pot and shake off the ground, remove the dried roots and leaves. Once put in regular plastic or zip package. Fill peat or vermiculite and close.
Keep until spring a compartment for a refrigerator fruit or other dark cool place at a temperature of from 7 to 10 ° C. Once or twice a month, check the tuber. If a rich condensate will be inside the package, the contents dry.
When the time comes to wake plant, simply remove the bag from gloxinia and put in a light place at room temperature.
Winter dormancy is not only first-year plants that still did not manage to form a sufficiently large tuber of 2 centimeters. After hibernation such gloxinia can not wake up at all.
In order to ensure normal conditions for wintering without rest, leave a flower at the same place. Fluorescent or special lamps for plants provide gloxinia daylight hours is not less than 12-14 hours. Then it will escalate the tuber and will be ready for next season.
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How to transplant gloxinia
At the end of February or beginning of March, the plant comes out of dormancy. This is the best moment for transplant gloxinia into a new pot. Choose a container of about a centimeter wider than the former.
Thus pot diameter should be 5-6 centimeters longer tuber. In too large capacity easy to flood the plant, due to which it can be lost.
Use ground for violets. It can be purchased in a specialty store. Add baking powder, perlite or vermiculite - about a quarter of the total.
At the bottom necessarily lay least 1½-2 centimeters drainage of expanded clay.
Before planting shake off a tuber from vermiculite or peat. Carefully inspect. If there are rotten areas, cut them with a knife and treat these places pounded charcoal.
The pot lay drainage and land. Make a small indentation and place the tuber concave side up. Sprinkle with the ground about two-thirds to the top of the left open. Carefully pour, without coming into contact plant.
When will the leaves, add a little of the earth, that it completely covers the tuber.
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How to properly care for gloxinia
- Put the plant in a well-lit place, but not in direct sunlight.
- Protect from drafts gloxinia and abrupt temperature changes.
- Watered regularly. Do not let the soil in the pot dry out completely, or to turn into a swamp.
- Maintain high humidity. For example, the put next to Gloxinia small containers with water.
- From spring to late summer, fertilize the plant.
- Do pruning after the first flowering, to achieve re.
- Create a plant suitable conditions for the winter in a cool, a dark place.
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