The geranium is unpretentious plant which can blossom almost all the year round. Decorate with it balconies and flower beds in garden. She perfectly feels on windowsill. The geranium is natural anti-septic tank and purifies air in the apartment from harmful microbes. After the wintering on windowsill if the flower has strongly expanded, then seat it.
It is required to you
- - The wintered geranium;
- - Sharp knife;
- - Sand;
- - Water;
- - New pots;
- - Cespitose earth;
- - Peat;
- - Manure or humus.
Instruction
1. Be engaged in replacing and cherenkovaniye of geraniums at the end of February beginning of March. But if geranium it is abundant it zakustitsya, then it is possible to make removal of shanks from it at all seasons of the year.
2. Cut off shanks from old bush under oblique angle. Do this procedure by sharp knife. Carefully remove buds if they are from escape. Leave 4-6 leaflets. Remove the lower leaflets from shank. Do not keep old plant, it in the new blossoming season will be ugly.
3. Put shanks on paper towel in the darkened place for couple of hours. The cut has to be slightly dried. It is possible to implant shanks in several ways.
4. The first way: put shanks in glass with water. In three weeks the geranium will give backs. It can be replaced in pot.
5. The second way: fill in small capacity peat with sand in equal proportion. Deeply thrust the shank dried on air in this mix. Periodically water, in process of soil drying. In three weeks replace geranium, together with earth lump, in the paved way in normal pot.
6. The third way: thrust shanks diagonal cut in crude sand. Sprinkle two days with water on sand from the spray. Then put shank in pot with the earth.
7. Prepare pots for new shanks of geranium. Tanks have to be small, then geranium will be abundant to blossom, but not to start up new green leaves. Wash out pots in weak solution of potassium permanganate. Properly rinse water and dry up.
8. Make special soil substrate. Mix the cespitose earth, peat, sand and humus in equal proportions. Add a little clay. The earth for geraniums has to be dryish, and that plant can decay.
9. Put the taken roots shanks in the prepared pots. Geraniums love sunlight, but not direct beams. Protect plants from drafts. Do not spray with water.
10. Prishchipyvayte young shanks that the geranium evenly developed and formed side escapes.