Before landing of begonia it is necessary to find out what version it treats. Tuberous dumps in the winter leaves, and blossoms only in the summer and in the fall, evergreen will decorate your windowsill all the year round.
Instruction
1. The tuberous begonia can be used for registration of balcony or verandah, for this purpose it is placed in ceramic or metal vases, containers and wicker baskets. The period of blossoming proceeds since June to the frosts. For this plant it is the best of all to choose the places closed from wind on the West or East side.
2. This kind of begonias badly transfers change, it is grown up seeds or tubers. It is the best of all to get tubers in the spring, before landing they need to be killed in fungicide, and then to dry carefully. After that they are placed in the boxes filled with damp peat where they contain at temperature +15-20os.
3. When sprouts reach 5 cm in length, it is necessary to replace them in separate pots or boxes, placing at distance 15-20 cm from each other. The begonia can be planted on the balcony at the end of May, before it is contained in the warm and light room. As substrate it is possible to use the ready soil for begonias or mix of the sheet and cespitose earth, peat.
4. To prolong blossoming, recommend to introduce complex mineral fertilizers, it is abundant to water plant and also to delete pistillate flowers at the very beginning of their development. The buds which have appeared in the fall also should be removed that the begonia did not spend nutrients, this reception stimulates formation of tubers.
5. When there come the first autumn frosts, the plant needs to be covered for the night, it will prolong its blossoming. In the fall tubers need to be got from box, to cut off stalks, to clean from the earth then to place in the cool room with temperature +8-10os, having powdered with peat or the soil.
6. It is more difficult to grow up begonia from seeds, than from tubers. In December or January they are sown in mix of the sheet earth, peat and sand, at the same time it is not necessary to deepen seeds to the soil, it is only necessary to press slightly. Boxes cover with glass and pritenyat, the soil in them always has to be damp.
7. Approximately in month the seedlings dive to the earth of the same structure, and in March replace in the pots filled with the sheet and greenhouse earth with addition of the rerotting manure. When they take roots, it is necessary to feed up them weak solution of mineral fertilizers.
8. Sheet begonias make multiple copies shanks, for this purpose take leaf which length not less than 5 cm from the basis of plant. It is dug in so that it did not adjoin to the soil. The earth is humidified around and trampled down.
9. Stem shanks implant in the same way, as well as sheet, but they have to be not less than 7 cm in length. Without allowing to dry up cut, they need to be replaced at once to the earth. The best time for cherenkovaniye of sheet begonia the spring is considered and has begun summer.