How to look after hibiscus

How to look after hibiscus

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The hibiscus represents evergreen bush of family of Malvov with beautiful and bright flowers. Some of its versions can be grown up in house conditions. Abundant blossoming all the year round will allow you to receive the correct and timely care for hibiscus.

Instruction

1. Hibiscus – unpretentious plant. The flower perfectly feels in rather lit room, only provided that there is abundant blossoming. Allocate to plant the western or east window. Try to avoid hit of direct sunshine on hibiscus. It is very important that the indoor air was not cooled lower than 12 wasps during the winter period. It is necessary to contain plant at temperature 20-25os in the summer.

2. It is regularly recommended to spray hibiscus, increasing air humidity (leaves of hibiscus are displaced at excessively dry air). In warm season it is possible to take out houseplant in garden or on balcony, having found the suitable place covered from wind and rain.

3. Since the beginning of spring and to the late fall it is necessary it is abundant to water hibiscus. You watch that the soil in pot did not dry up, remained slightly damp (but do not pour, differently roots will decay and the plant will die). In the winter waterings should be reduced. Do not water the soil with cool water at all, the settled water of room temperature for this purpose will approach.

4. The hibiscus, as well as many other plants, needs fertilizing. Use for this purpose mineral fertilizers and the cow manure divorced in water (once in two weeks). In cold season the Chinese rose feed up phosphorus and potassium, according to the enclosed instruction.

5. House dust can become serious hindrance for breath of plant. Therefore do not forget to wipe leaves with damp sponge from time to time and to spray hibiscus with water from spray. Annually in the spring the young hibiscus needs to be replaced in pot, slightly large diameter. That more the blossoming escapes were formed in the spring, it is recommended to shorten branches at change. Lay layer of haydite or crushed stone on bottom of pot. For change mix by one part of the peat earth, sand and humus, add two parts of the cespitose earth and pieces of wood charcoal. Already created adult plant is enough to replace every three years, changing only top soil.

6. The hibiscus is vulnerable to defeat by voylochnik, web tick, plant louse and the whitefly. To get rid of these wreckers, it is necessary to spray periodically hibiscus with special means which can be got in specialized shop. Before use of any given medicine attentively study the instruction.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team

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