The refined anturium will decorate any collection of flowers. And to receive posterity from this whimsical handsome - at all limit of dreams of amateur flower growers. It is difficult to grow up new beautiful flower, of course, and time it will occupy much, but what you will make to satisfy natural inquisitiveness and sense of beauty.
Instruction
1. Old plants when in pot the set of stalks with roots and new escapes is formed, divide into several bushes. It is the best of all to make this procedure at change flowersof in March or April.
2. Reproduction is also made vegetativno - shanks from stalks, leaves. Stem offsprings with good root system separate from the main stalk and at once land in pots. If roots are poorly developed or are absent, shoots implant previously in sand or perlite. For this purpose they need to be closed transparent film or to place in small greenery, having provided to saplings the increased humidity. Top shanks implant similarly.
3. Seeds of anturium receive only in the course of controlled pollination. At first several days soft brush transfer pollen from one to other inflorescence. Bright fruits appear in 8-12 months. in them there are from 1 to 4 sechka. Seeds take out, wash with water and for 2 hours submerge potassium permanganate solution in 0.1%. Then at once couch and sow in light soil, having closed thin layer of moss of sphagnum at high humidity and temperature of 25 degrees. In 2 weeks after emergence of shoots the sprouts altercate, the second time plant dive in 1.5-2 months, landing on distance 2-3 cm from each other. Seedlings dive 2 more times, increasing distance between them every time by 1-2 cm. When the socket accepts the volume of 5-7 cm, they will be jailed in pots on 0.2 l, filled with soil mix of the same structure.