CYCLAMEN
Cyclamen - a perennial plant that forms corms almost spherical shape, hence the name of the flower ("tsiklos" means "cycle"). Another name for the plant "dry aqua." Cyclamen also called "swine bread" because wild boar has long loved to feast on his club.
Green leaves of Cyclamen are on long stalks and have a decorative silver gray pattern. The flowers can be white, pink, purple hues, the petals of some hybrids are terry. Within 8-9 months, the cyclamen rests, finished flowering and dropping leaves. Flowering cyclamen is long and plentiful; depending on the type of plant and the conditions it may start in October and continue until the end of March.
Cyclamen room: how to select cyclamen
About to make a purchase, pay attention not only to the state of the foliage, but the tuber, which should be free of rot. Cyclamen is best to buy in the autumn, when the bloom is just beginning, well, if this plant will have a lot of buds.
Cyclamen: care, how to care for cyclamen
If you take good care of cyclamen, this houseplant will delight you for 20 years of its lush flowering. When planting tuber not bury in the ground, remember that its upper third should be above ground. Another important feature of the care of the flower - is growing cyclamen in a small pot to bloom was magnificent, but not tuber rots.
Growing cyclamen. Care during flowering cyclamen
During flowering cyclamen should provide cool air, the ideal temperature at this time is 12-15 degrees Celsius. Make sure that the temperature was above 20 degrees and did not fall below 10 degrees Celsius. Blooming cyclamen need a lot of light, but not direct sunlight, otherwise the plant will quickly wither, the flowering period can be reduced or ended.
This indoor plant needs regular watering. Watering is better in pallet or by immersion for several minutes. Take care that on tuber sprouts and no water. Eliminate the soil moisture, which can be detrimental to the tuber, and therefore for the flower as a whole.
You can spray the air around cyclamen, but in any case, do not direct the flow of drops of water directly to the plant (leaves, flowers, and tubers).
Indoor cyclamen. Care after flowering cyclamen
Usually in the spring for cyclamen begins a rest period. This means that flowering ceases, the leaves wither. Watering the plants in this period significantly reduced. If the leaves are fallen themselves, then they should be removed by twisting or using scissors, cutting as close to the club, but very carefully so as not to damage it by accident.
Recommended pot cyclamen move to a cooler shade and prevent drying out of the soil. Remember, cyclamen likes warm and dry air. Cyclamen can be taken into the fresh air in the shade.
When the plant leaves appear first, it means that the plant woke up and came out of dormancy.
Cyclamen tubers: Cyclamen transplant
Cyclamen transplant performed at the end of the rest period and the beginning of budding. During transplanting plants should replace earth com, remove dead and rotten roots cyclamen. After the transplant, the flower put on a bright place, protected from direct sunlight. Watering in the first two weeks after transplant should be moderate. And in two weeks you can start feeding cyclamen.
Cyclamen: reproduction, cyclamen seeds
Cyclamen are propagated by dividing the tubers or seeds. Seeds of Persian, European and Neapolitan cyclamen should be sown in late summer, the temperature of the air was in the range of 15-20 degrees Celsius. In 15-18 months starts flowering period of most varieties of Persian cyclamen. The period of sowing seeds kosskogo cyclamen have for the winter, in January and February. European cyclamen well propagated by dividing the tubers in February. It is believed that cyclamen grown from seed will be more adaptable to indoor conditions than those grown in the greenhouses of the Netherlands.
Cyclamen: care for the plant, the basic requirements
Temperature: The ideal temperature for cyclamen - about 12-15 degrees, the temperature should not be below 10 degrees or above 20 degrees.
Light: bright place, protected from direct sunlight.
Watering cyclamen: During the growing season and flowering cyclamen regularly needs watering.
If watering from the top, you need to make sure that no water enters in the tuber; this water is poured over the edge of the pot.
Humidity: Cyclamen likes moist air, so the air around the flower mono wet with spray, but ensure that moisture does not go directly to the plant. You can also put a flower pot on a tray of wet pebbles.
Care after flowering Persian cyclamen: After flowering cut to the tuber, reducing watering and fertilizing finishing plant. If there is a yellowed leaves, they are twisting with petioles, not cut. The remaining leaves in the spring pod so nut and the plant will go into a state of rest, then watering should be stopped. Pot should be put to the side and put in a cool place. To mid-summer flowers are not watered.
Around the middle of the summer pot put in place shadow outdoors. Periodically the earth begins to moisten. When the first leaves, the plants are ready for transplanting.
Care after flowering cyclamen other species: For the rest of cyclamen (all but the Persian), longer enough to unscrew the leaves and stop fertilizing.
Transplant Cyclamen: Cyclamen transplant is performed with a complete replacement of the old land. The soil to the Persian cyclamen: sheet, humus, sod land and sand, taken in equal parts. During the transplant removed rotten roots. Diameter pot ideal for cyclamen 12-14 cm If the pot is too small, the cyclamen bloom too early and flowering will be weak and short-lived. The large diameter of the pot is also undesirable.
For other species of cyclamen (all but Persian) should add ash or dolomite flour to reduce soil acidity. The ground for the Neapolitan and European cyclamen should be nutritious for kosskogo - poor.
