The cyclamen – krasivotsvetushchy perennial plant, enjoys deserved popularity at flower growers. In warm climate it is possible to grow up it in garden, in northern areas the cyclamen with success is grown up in the apartment.
It is required to you
- - cyclamen seeds;
- - plastic pot.
Instruction
1. In house conditions usually grow up cyclamen Persian – it is quite unpretentious, resistant to adverse conditions and is simple in cultivation. Its blossoming happens in the winter when the majority of plants have a rest. It is possible to grow up cyclamen in several ways: to buy young plant in shop, to grow up from seeds or to multiply the child.
2. Advantages of cultivation of cyclamen from seeds are indisputable: seedlings adapt to microclimate in the apartment at once and grow under natural conditions. But it is necessary to stock up with fair patience, the cyclamen quite slowly grows. Seeds for crops can be bought in shop or to grow up. For this purpose it is necessary to wait for maturing of seeds after blossoming. It is better to make landing at the beginning of February that by next winter of plant have blossomed.
3. Before crops the seeds need to be wetted for 24 hours in warm water, then to land them in soil for seedling at distance of 2-3 cm from each other, to powder with layer of the earth 1.5-2 cm and to water. Sprouts cyclamen better if air temperature does not exceed 10-15 degrees. Shoots need to be covered with film and to air periodically.
4. The first eyelets of shoots appear in 4-6 weeks and grow very slowly: the first 3 months at cyclamen the tuber strongly develops. At this time it is necessary to support soil dampness, without allowing its overwetting. When there is the third present sheet, seedlings need to be raspikirovat, after that growth will accelerate. In 9-10 months the cyclamens already have flower kidneys therefore it is necessary to feed up them mineral fertilizer.
5. If the plant was bought in shop, it is necessary to replace after the end of blossoming it in other soil. In all other cases the change is done when the plant begins to leave summer hibernation. At change you should not bury tuber – the cyclamen blossoms better when third of tuber is over the surface of the soil. The pot has to have drainage holes and exceed the tuber size only a little – it is necessary that the cyclamen felt better and more magnificently blossomed.
6. At good leaving the blossoming is very magnificent and long, since October until the end of March. At this time it is necessary to provide to cyclamen optimal conditions. Air temperature has to be within 12-20 degrees, bright diffused light and good air circulation is important. The window coming to the North or the warmed loggia will be ideal. In process of soil drying the plant needs to be watered, trying that water did not get on tuber and leaves, it is better to pour water in pallet. Once a month it is necessary to introduce in soil liquid fertilizer for flowers.
7. After the end of blossoming it is necessary to cut off the withering leaves and to transfer cyclamen to the cool dark place. Watering needs to be reduced to minimum, but it is impossible to allow dryings of earth lump.