That flowers grew in pots and were pleasing to the eye, it is not enough to have the warm house and windowsill on sunny side. What if the purpose is to grow up not simple seasonal flowers, but rare, unusual species of plant demanding special leaving? How to grow up dioneyu (Venus flycatcher) in house conditions and not to allow it to die?
Provide that you have ordered seeds or bulbs of rare grades – not only that it is necessary to wait for them long, so yet there is no guarantee that sunflower seeds will give shoots and will grow. And if grow, what will turn out, too it is unknown. To see true beauty at home, but not on the monitor screen, it is necessary to treat seedling seriously, nutrition of the soil in house conditions has to be good and with higher quality, than on bed in kitchen garden. And all because the earth in pots is not enough, to roots is no place to expand. The plants growing on swamps in South or Northern Carolina have got used to other weather conditions that twice complicates task: opportunity to grow up rare grades under the open sky is excluded (however, cultivation of dionea in the heated greenhouses during the winter period, is quite possible). If your purpose is to grow up carnivorous plant, it is necessary not only the nobility how to feed seed that it has arisen, also, it is necessary to take care of future fertilizing of the predator beforehand. Dioney is on the verge of extinction because of mass collecting for sale.
Features of dionea
Named flower in honor of Venus – the Greek goddess, mother Aphrodite. The plant belongs to family of the Sundew family, and has no other versions.
The flower is low (not higher than 15 cm), has underground, short stalk and tiny traps (7 stretched sockets leaves) with toothed, shchetinisty hairs which close exit as soon as the first victim is caught. Once the trap feels foreign substance on "uvula", it slams as if the little oyster, and begins to digest food about ten days. Because of lack of nitrogen of the natural soil and necessary vitamins, in priority at predatory rosyanka – slugs, mollusks, bugs. Before emergence of full-fledged shutters traps, white inflorescences which have to fall down are formed in the spring. Forming of traps falls on the summer period. Glands in scarlet shutters exhale fragrant nectar which as magnet attracts insects on the last feast. The same glands begin to produce actively digestive juice (secret) which begins to split mollusk or fly. Life cycle of trap – 3-5 insects. Having digested the last, the trap falls off back. If shutters were closed, but could not catch food, or have grabbed stone, in half an hour, they will swing open again and will spit out unnecessary.
Correct care for plant
The western or east window – the most favorable place for rosyanka life. In the morning or in the evening, the flycatcher needs to be warmed up sunshine (not less than 6 hours of constant light). It is possible to use special lamps for houseplants. Try to choose such place that in the middle of the day the direct sunshine did not burn gentle leaves, that is, in midday hours on flycatcher the shadow has to fall. The pale green, become thinner stalks and shutters, light pink trap inside – the first sign that dioneya suffers from the shortage of the sun.
Several times a day air the room, but avoid cold air, special through. The humidity indoors has to be high, it is not lower than 70 percent.
The perfect place for Venus flycatcher – terrarium or aquarium (height of 15-20 cm) with obligatory light lamp, and open top. Fill up inside layer of small stones, then distribute the land fertilized by riding peat, sphagnum moss and quartz sand in the ratio 1 to 1. Also, substrate of mix of peat, perlite and sand will approach (4 2 and to 1). Perlite – rock of volcanic origin who is better for killing in purified water in advance. Updating of the soil carry out every three years. The earth from kitchen garden will not approach: in it too large number of mineral substances which will not allow plant sprout.
For the summer period the terrarium with flower is exposed on balcony, it is not necessary to rearrange it from place to place – absolute rest, without movements or rotations is necessary. Ideal temperature – 22-30 degrees of heat, in winter time – is not lower than 7-10 degrees. In the winter (since the end of October prior to the beginning of March) the flycatcher sleeps and demands less the sun and waters. At the time of hibernation, the stalk and leaves dry, become brown.
The best water for watering – rain or distilled. Do not allow that the soil dried up, always support humid environment, but be not overzealous, otherwise not to avoid rotting, formation of mold fungus or death of the whole stalk. Not to flood plant, the pot is submerged in container with purified water if dioneya landed in pot. It will take what is due to it independently.
Landing of seed, change of store plant
If you have ordered seeds of Venus flycatcher, prepare that they can arise very long – several years if are got at young rosyanka. If you already have mature plant, it is better to wait few years and only then to collect black seeds for new seedling.
Somehow to accelerate process, prepare pots: the sphagnum moss has to be the main component inside. For formation of mini-hotbed envelop pots food wrap or package. Only this way it is possible to achieve the correct temperature. Seeds before disembarkation in holes ret in special Topaz solution (no more than 3 drops in water), and do not dig in in pot – only slightly priporashivat fertilizers. Then irrigate seed with water (by means of spray), put seedling to bask in the sun (23-28 °C). To support damp the earth, it is necessary constantly. 20-35 days later the first boring has to appear. After their emergence, in few months, prepare new, deeper, constant capacity, it is desirable glass with drainage holes for protection against excessive moisture.
If you have bought the ready, sprouted bulb or adult flower, it is necessary to land it at once in the prepared aquarium. Accurately place bulb backs in the friable soil so that the top was on surface. The same treats seed with the sprouted sprout: boring has to be in the public eye.
Mature dioneyu it is necessary to pull out accurately from pot together with soil lumps, then to wash out them, trying not to damage backs and to put, without stamping the earth.
Having reached growing, the Venus flycatcher does not demand additional fertilizers, to touch it fingers, forcing traps to slam, is not necessary. The plant is not gluttonous, and eats 1-2 insects for all summer whom it catches and kills independently, at the same time not all shutters are involved in catching. For hibernation the flycatcher does not need food. You watch that the spider or fly were not too large size – being given from edge, the little body of insect can provoke rotting of shchetinisty fibers.