Kalanchoe — very beautiful and useful plant which meets in every secondary residence. It not only often and magnificently blossoms, pleasing the owners, but also can be useful at treatment of different diseases, for example, at cold and diseases of ears, skin diseases. That the flower has not expanded and was not extended, and was accurate rounded shape, it is necessary to cut off kalanchoe in time.
It is required to you
- - kalanchoe;
- - sharp knife or edge.
Instruction
1. First of all define type of your kalanchoe as different grades differently belong to cutting. The normal kalanchoe of Blossfeld blossoming in red colors it is possible to dive without restrictions. Even if you will leave only one stump, after a while it will sprout and zakudryavitsya. With yellow, pink, white flowers treat care for rare hybrids more carefully, they can even die as a result of the wrong cutting.
2. If the plant has outgrown (it often occurs in solar places), has got out of compact shape, and the ugly sickly top was formed, remove it. After each blossoming surely cut off all peduncles. That buds were formed, put plant on dark windowsill (it is possible even to close flower for the night bucket or box) and you hold practically without watering the whole month. Then rearrange on the light place and begin to water, such change of the mode favorably acts on kalanchoe, and it almost for certain will blossom.
3. That kalanchoe grew at dense bush, watch escapes carefully. As soon as they begin to grow, pinch off at them two top leaves. In the place of nipping two escapes will seem after a while, let's them grow to emergence of the third couple of leaves, and cut off them at this level. Wait for emergence of two more escapes and the third couple of leaves, make nipping again. Arrive thus until the accurate dense bush roundish is formed (or demanded) forms.
4. Last time cut off escapes of kalanchoe in November (at the southern window) or in the winter (at the western or east window). Consider that in the winter of kalanchoe it is desirable to keep in the cool place, optimum temperature 10-15? Page.
5. To make multiple copies kalanchoe or just it is possible to update shanks. For this purpose cut off young escapes from 10 to 15 cm long fine edge or knife. Remove leaves from the lower part of shank, dry 1-2 days. Prepare for flower the place in pot with mix of sand and damp peat. Place shank on depth about 5 cm, around well trample down the earth. It is not necessary to close shank polyethylene or can and also to spray with water. Just moderately water it and you hold at temperature of 20-25? Page.