In Soviet times, the most popular indoor plants were geranium and ficus. Now what can you not see on the windowsills and balconies. Flower shops are ready to offer many different types: someone likes to have more flowers, while others prefer decorative leaves and shoots, and others prefer both. The last group includes types of descriptions of how to care for them, described below.
Description: Home Care
An original perennial houseplant native to South America. Most love it for its beautiful leaves, although the flowers also look spectacular. Especially look carnations.
Flowering Description
The description belongs to the Gesneriev family and is a small bush with velvety leaves, studded with small flowers in the shape of a bell. They can safely decorate any home.
How to care for a flower of a description? This is not difficult to do. However, some nuances should be taken into account:
- loves moisture;
- does not tolerate drafts;
- better placed on the sunny side.
Several factors affect the life of a plant:
- lighting;
- humidity;
- air temperature;
- soil composition;
- proximity to other plants.
For each type of indoor plants, such conditions are individual.
Location selection and lighting
In its historic homeland, the flower grows in the tropics, which provide for high humidity, heat and sunlight. Therefore, when choosing a location, you must be guided by these points. The description will feel good on the window, shelf, cabinet, stand, where enough light and heat penetrate. It is possible to use it in the form of an ampel, only in a place protected from the wind.
Watering and humidity
The plant is very fond of water, but do not overdo it. You need to water regularly, but in small portions. Excess moisture can lead to fungal diseases and root decay.
For your information! Periodically, you need to spray the leaves with water from the spray gun, so that the humidity is 50-60%.
Fungal root system
Lighting and air temperature
Without the sun, this flower, of course, cannot, but it does not tolerate direct rays. The light should be a little diffused. For this reason, it is better to place it on the windows on the east or west side. Like a tropical plant, an epistemum needs optimally warm temperatures. The range should be between 18 ° C and 25 ° C.
Note! In winter, it will be preferable to rearrange the pot away from drafts.
Features of care at rest
Usually this period of time falls on winter time. As a rule, there are no special requirements during this period. It is only necessary to water less frequently (1 time per week), not to fertilize and place in a place protected from draft.
Features of care during the flowering period
Flowering occurs almost all year, but it is especially beautiful in spring and summer. It is at this time that the flower requires maximum attention.
Blooming Carnation
In order for the plant to have a healthy appearance, certain conditions must be observed.
- watering as the soil dries;
- top dressing once a month, preferably with a phosphorus-potassium mixture;
- temperature conditions in the range of 18-25 ° C;
- adequate lighting.
How to transplant an episode
With proper care, the bush of epithesis will grow rapidly. And then there is a need for transplanting into another pot. When to do it:
- young plant - 1 time per year;
- adult plant - 1 time in 2 years.
Seedlings
The most suitable time is spring. To make the transplant procedure less painful, everything should be done carefully and according to plan.
- Moisturize the soil in a pot.
- Outside, on the sides, tap the walls so that the lump is free.
- Take out the flower with soil.
- Remove diseased roots and shoots.
- Place in a new vessel, sprinkle with prepared earth.
- Water well.
- Put in the shade for a week.
When new shoots and flowers appear, it means that everything went fine, so you can put the flowerpot in its original place.
Possible problems, their causes and solutions
Like any living organism, the description will respond to any changes in the external environment: humidity, temperature, nutrients, lighting. This can be seen by the following signs: the leaves change color, become lethargic, dry out, growth and flowering cease.
Why does the blossom not bloom
There are several reasons. First of all, this is a lack of nutrients in the soil, then a lack of moisture, and the third - little sun.
Diseases and Pests
The presence of problems is caused, first of all, by the wrong content. The most common ailments:
- rot - excess moisture, damage by insects, fungi. In the latter case, the flower may die. More often than other parts, the roots suffer;
- does not grow - there is not enough light or pests are wound up;
- yellowed leaves - an excess of nutrients, often nitrogen;
- gray coating - there may be fungi, or maybe the acidity of the soil has increased;
- brown spots - reaction to cold water;
- drooping species - it is possible that nematodes are found in the soil;
- leaves curled into a lump - aphids.
Diseased plant
The description, the care of which is simple at home, is not much different from the content of other representatives of the flora. But so that she always delighted her master, you should still get acquainted with her agricultural technology.
Propagation of home-made epistasis
Such a plant as an episition will always find its admirers, because there are many varieties of it. And often the question arises, how to multiply the description.
In order for a healthy epition to grow in the house, reproduction should be done in one of five ways: cuttings, shoots, leaves, mustaches, dividing the bush.
For your information! The generative method is not excluded, although it is rarely used.
The choice of breeding method depends on the variety, age, general condition. The vegetative method is carried out in the following order:
- Cut leaf, shoot, cuttings.
- The slice is treated with a growth accelerating solution.
- The process is placed in a small vessel with peat-sphagnum soil, you can just in the water.
- It is watered.
- It is closed by a jar, a glass.
- After 1-1.5 months, roots appear.
- Transplant into a container.
Leaf propagation
Leaf-plate propagation is the most affordable and productive method. A healthy leaf is taken, placed in water. When the roots appear from below and a slight swelling from above, it is necessary to transplant the sheet into a container with soil and close it with a jar. After 1.5-2 months, young leaves appear.
Note! The old sheet does not need to be torn off, it will fall off itself.
Propagation by cuttings
Use cuttings or processes. An escape is taken with 4-5 leaves. The lower 2-3 pairs break off, and the process is placed in water. The vessel is better to take from dark glass or plastic. Roots should appear within a month. A young plant is planted first in light soil, then in ordinary.
Description
Description is an amazing representative of perennial indoor flowers, breeding of which will bring many pleasant minutes to any person. Velvety leaves are especially striking in their colors. But flowers are just as pleasantly pleasing to others.
As you can see, growing this flower at home is easy and simple. Even a beginner grower can do it. The main thing is not to pour the pot, provide enough light and make fertilizing on time.
