Fans of indoor plants often grow on their window sills zephyranthes. Caring for them is simple, and under favorable conditions every year he pleases its owners a bright and abundant flowering.
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Looks like a flower
The common people zephyranthes often referred to as "upstart" because it grows and blooms with a speed unusual for other colors.
Zephyranthes belongs to the family Amaryllidaceae and has more than 40 species. He rounded, small (less than 3 cm in diameter) bulbs. For continuous flowering lush recommended planted in 1 pot to ten follicles.
The leaves of plants remnevidnye or linear, colored green, about 30-40 cm in length and 1 cm in width.
The tubular stems grows up to 30 cm in height, flowers solitary, with well-open petals, large (up to 8 cm in diameter). Form they resemble crocuses sprout out of the ground with foliage.
zephyranthes flowers may be saturated pink or red or white, with large yellow stamens.
Regulations Plant Care
To plant bloomed profusely, you must choose the right place for his stay. As the flower loves the light, including tolerates direct sunlight, it is desirable positioned on the southern, eastern and western windows, and in the summer it is recommended to put it on balcony. The optimal temperature for cultivation in the autumn and the summer should be + 18... + 25 ° C, saving time - more than + 10... + 12 ° C.
for zephyranthes pots should be wide and low, preferably taking pottery. To avoid stagnation of moisture, which can lead to rotting of the bulbs on the bottom of the tank is necessary to arrange good drainage from the expanded clay, broken bricks, foam.
The soil is desirable to buy in specialized stores, is well suited to the soil flowering plants. However, if it is possible, you can make your own soil mixture. It should be nutritious, friable consisting of turf earth, humus and sand in equal amounts. Acidity is better to maintain neutral.
To prevent pests, soil need to shed a weak solution of potassium permanganate with hot and dry in the sun or in the oven.
The bulbs at planting should be completely bury in the ground, leaving only the surface of the cervix. Newly transplanted plants should be watered very often, so as not to bend the onions.
Humidification is necessary to increase, when the flower will go into growth, and will plug the ground leaves.
Zephyranthes demanding to watering during flowering. It is necessary to keep in a slightly earth com wet state by pouring as soon as the top layer dries. During the period of dormancy irrigation should be reduced, moistening the soil only in order to prevent the complete dropping of leaves.
To promote flowering, it is desirable to periodically feed the plant complex mineral or organic fertilizers.
Zephyranthes lends itself well to reproduce the children who each year are formed on the mother bulb. They can be carefully separated and planted in pots for several other pieces in the container 1. Seat plant must be in early spring, before the start of the growing season. If you do it at another time, you can not achieve a good bloom, it can only come in the next year.
If the plant was struck by such pests as Jose scale, mealybug Amaryllidaceae or spider mites, it is necessary to process the leaves, stalks, and the soil around the bulbs solution "aktellik".
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