Balsam - one of the most beloved window plants. He is unpretentious, is abundant blossoms almost all the year round, easily and just breeds. In the people has received set of caressing names: spark, touchy person, Vanka-wet.
Instruction
1. The balsam can reach half a meter in height, but at the correct forming of stalks of flower it is possible to give to bush any form - from cone-shaped pyramid to spherical. The color of flowers is very different: from white and lilac, to bright-red. At the correct leaving the balsam blossoms all the year round.
2. If leaves of plant begin to dry out or be twisted, so to plant became close in pot. This condition for the emergency change, in general it is recommended to replace balsam in annually early spring. Select pot for change for the size of root system. Too spacious will cause rapid development of roots which will seek to fill free space. It harmful influences blossoming, ovaries of flowers either are not formed, or dry up.
3. Select the soil for change friable and easy. It is possible to use the ready purchased mix intended for houseplants. The heavy, oversaturated by mineral fertilizers earth will promote formation only of green material of balsam, and its blossoming will be poor.
4. Room balsam – perennial plant therefore care for it has to be corresponding. The replaced bush it is abundant water. Further, to provide the correct water balance, place pot with flower in deep pallet where the surplus of water will flow down, the balsam itself will absorb moisture through roots in process of soil drying.
5. The best place for the replaced plant is spacious and light verandah or warm balcony. The bush will quickly stretch branches therefore it is necessary to watch that around it was rather free space. You remember also that the spark is afraid of drafts and direct sunshine which leave burns on gentle sheets. For creation of damp microclimate, it is recommended between pots with balsams to place containers with water.
6. At all love of balsam for moisture, it is necessary to watch the watering mode. Surplus of moisture in the soil can cause rotting of roots and radical stalks and also to become the reason of appearance of web tick or shchitovka from which processing of plant disinfecting solution will save. The structure can be bought in specialized tsvetovodchesky shops.
7. You make forming of green krone of plant prishchipyvaniye of tops of the escapes which are started up in growth. You carry out fertilizing to the period of active growth of green material, using nitrogen fertilizers, and for successful blossoming – phosphatic and potash fertilizers.