Dieffenbachia – fine tropical plant with fleshy motley leaves and attractive exterior. If yet this beauty is not at your place or you desperately wish to rejuvenate already izrosshiysya flower, it is a high time to think of rooting of young escape.
It is required to you
- - sharp knife;
- - capacity for water;
- - container or cachepot;
- - universal soil, or soil for dieffenbachias.
Instruction
1. Get necessary shoot. If the dieffenbachia at your place is already available, here everything is simple – you only need to choose suitable branch with strong leaf and to cut off it sharp knife. If you want to take flower on divorce from acquaintances, it is necessary to trust in this case in them. Actually, to choose necessary bosom not so difficult as can seem. Take strong leaf or branch is closer to the top and confident movement cut it knife. You should not break off leaves as in this case they are very strongly injured. The equal cut very quickly will begin to give young backs and will not begin to suffer from lack of moisture or deformation.
2. Now put your shoot in water and wait for emergence of small roots. Depending on sheet size, choose the corresponding capacity for water. It should not be very deep that the plant had opportunity to finish and turn to the sun as required, but also too you should not be fond of too small tanks. You remember the main thing – the leaf has to be in steady position and not somersault from any movement. At first do not expose your shoot on direct sunshine, give it two-three days to recover. After you notice that the leaf looks elastic and fresh, it is possible to put it on window. Speed of rooting of dieffenbachia depends on season, temperature outside the window and durations of daylight hours. Under favorable conditions in two-three weeks you will notice new backs.
3. Replace shoot in pot with the earth. It is necessary to do it only when roots of plant reach 3-5 cm in length and their quantity is not less than five. You, of course, can risk and put to the earth shoot with hardly formed roots, but it is better to stock up, nevertheless, with patience and to wait until they become longer. Do not put your tropical beauty at once in big container as in this case from her you should not wait for rapid growth. Until all earth lump is filled with roots, the plant will become simple not to be engaged in otrashchivaniye of leaves. For this reason for a start choose the small pot or cachepot which on radius is slightly exceeding width of leaf of dieffenbachia. After a while you surely will be able to replace plant in pot more.