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A keen florist picks up pets so that they give beauty, changing from season to season, in close sill conditions. Not many indoor plants delight in winter flowering. Hippeastrum is a luxurious winter flower with several huge stars on one peduncle. Why does not bloom hippeastrum, how to stimulate the creation of a bouquet on the windowsill? We use the experience of many lovers of bulbous plants.
Description of the plant
Very decorative flower belongs to Amaryllis, it is bulbous. A variety of different shapes and colors created by the nature of South America and continued by growers. There are more than 80 varieties and 600 hybrids of this regal flower. A lively bouquet preserves the beauty of about two months.
Flowers with a diameter of up to 25 cm are collected in a bouquet consisting of several giants on one peduncle. The plant propagates easily, with scales of bulbs, babies and seeds. And the seeds after pollination of two different flowers, you can get a new coloring of the star. For the flower to please him enough light sill, room conditions, and the creation of a rest period, when there is preparation for a new flowering. In good conditions, flowering is possible twice a year. Experienced flower growers can kick out the arrow to a specific date.
How to make gippeastrum bloom?
The effectiveness of hippeastrum depends on the moment of purchase, the choice of soil, the mode of maintenanceYou can multiply the flower yourself, but you can buy. At the same time, choosing an onion, it is necessary to undress it from the integument and examine for signs of disease:
- stagon sporosis is determined by a spot with a red border:
- dampness of the scales indicates other fungal diseases;
- inspect through a magnifying glass, detecting traces of insect pests;
- The bulb in the container must have dry opaque scales.
The purchased copy must be etched in a solution of potassium permanganate or a special preparation. Pick a pot slightly larger than the diameter of the bulb. Before filling the ground, create a drainage, a layer of soil, clean sand, on which to arrange an onion. Around pour and gently seal the ground. The soil level in the pot should be below the container edge per centimeter in order to be able to loosen the soil.
The soil consists of peat, sand and sod land in equal shares. Transplant plants do every three years. One bulb is viable for 10 years with good content.
Conditions for flowering of hippeastrum
There are several determining reasons why hippeastrum does not bloom at home. For decoration, it must meet a few simple conditions:
- cramped pot;
- onion depth;
- do not trim the peduncle after flowering;
- do not feed unrooted plants;
- do not feed until flowering;
- create a rest period.
Hippeastrum is loved by growers for unpretentiousness. He easily tolerates dry air in an apartment with central heating. During the rest period, he is satisfied with the darkening and temperature up to 13 degrees. At this time, the bulb accumulates energy for flowering. How to make gippeastrum bloom?
A cramped pot does not allow the plant to fatten. Each time, when transplanting after three years, the pot should be changed, but so that the distance from the edges to the bulb is 1.5-2 cm. The depth of planting should not exceed half of the onion body. At the same time, the plants are watered through a pallet, not soaking thickened scaly root. After wetting the coma, the rest of the water from the pan is drained. Each newly acquired plant must be labeled, introducing the name of the variety and the time of purchase.
Feed the plants only after rooting. Sometimes it happens that the acquired bulb blooms earlier. If you shake it for the arrow, the bulb will move. Then, despite the flowering, you do not need to feed. Wait for rooting, the signal will be growing leaves, then you can fertilize. Sometimes this period takes several months. It is not necessary to feed the plants before flowering during dormancy. If there are no leaves, watering is also stopped for a month. After that, the plant throws out the arrow, and then you can begin fertilizing irrigation.
suburban area Despite the recommendations made, hippeastrum does not bloom what to do? You can apply the cardinal method. In the summer stubborn arrange in the open air at the cottage. In the summer, he will grow a large rosette of leaves. Before the first frost the plant needs to be dug out and arranged in a room or greenhouse for drying. The leaves, drying out, will give the nutrients to the bulb. You should wait for natural drying out. In this case, the nutrients pass into the bulb.
Now put the onion in the pot and remove for a month in a darkened cool place. Flowering will be long and abundant. To create a dormant period for hippeastrum is a prerequisite for obtaining a flowering plant. Proper care and control of pests and diseases will make it possible to obtain a flowering plant even twice a year.
