Sheflera – original treelike plant of family araliyevy with the dark green leathery leaves collected in characteristic "umbrellas". Also poecilophyllous views with white and yellow spots meet. The homeland of plant – damp subtropical forests of Southeast Asia. In room conditions at good leaving of shefler reaches 2 m in height. To avoid excessive growth and to create magnificent krone, top sprouts of tree cut off. From such escapes the shefler can try most to grow up.
Instruction
1. So, cutting shefler has taken place, and you have caught long-awaited top escape. Sharp knife it on shanks about 10 cm long. Put them in bank with boiled water. To avoid rotting, it is recommended to add to water of a little pounded activated carbon. Cover to bank with transparent plastic bag that liquid evaporated less intensively. Put in warm (22 wasps), moderately lit place.
2. From time to time check condition of shanks shefler. Approximately in month you will see on them the characteristic hillocks demonstrating that growth of backs has begun. You do not hurry to land shanks in soil – for them it will be severe stress. Wait for forming of linear roots of sufficient length.
3. Prepare pots. They have to be small as shefler will not begin to flush until its roots do not master all volume of pot. Cultivation shefler requires the friable earth. If you buy the ready land in flower shop, take soil for palm trees. If you mix substrate independently, take three parts of the humous or compost earth, by one part of peat and sand. Surely fill on pot bottom haydite layer for drainage.
4. Land shanks shefler to the earth. That they have better endured this process, backs can be opudrit slightly previously korneviny. Find for plants warm, but not roast (from 16 to 22 wasps) the place with scattered lighting. Poecilophyllous types need more heat and light.
5. Care for sheflery is simple. Water saplings regularly, but it is moderate. The gulf will inevitably lead to their death. Between waterings the top soil has to manage to dry out, but do not allow full drying of earth lump at all. The plant does not take out dryness of air therefore regular spraying is recommended.
6. Fertilize to shefler special complex medicines for dekorativnolistny plants once in two weeks during its intensive growth which begins in April and continues till September. At once after landing of shanks shefler in soil it is not necessary to fertilize them – you risk to burn roots. You introduce fertilizer only after process of active formation of new escapes begins.
7. Further in process of opletaniye of earth lump roots you transfer plant to new pot which diameter will be 10-20% more. Shefler replace young plants every year, plants are more senior – time in 2-3 years.