Dekorativnolistvenny plants recover interior, give it expressiveness and favourably emphasize separate elements. One of the most effective houseplants can become shefler – high bush plant with the attractive, decoratively sectioned leathery leaves creating beautiful krone.
How to grow up houses to shefler
At all the decorative effect of shefler it is quite unpretentious, to grow up it in house conditions will not make special work if to know the minimum set of conditions with which has to satisfy the room and also in time water and feed up plant.
Sheflera does not transfer hot and dry air. In summertime indoor temperature has to be ranging from +16 up to +22 C, in the winter this indicator should not exceed from +14 to +16 S. Sheflere bright diffused light is necessary, but direct sunshine are harmful to it, they cause burns of leaves. It is possible to achieve observance of this condition if to grow up plant at east or southeast windows, with obligatory shadowing in hot time of day.
When landing it is necessary to pay special attention to good fertility of the soil: soil has to be soft, air, contain the cespitose, sheet earth, humus and bank sand. If the soil is got in shop, it is necessary to choose special soil for palm trees. The adult sheflera requires quite big capacity therefore 1 time in 3-4 years it is necessary to pass plant in new pot. It has to exceed previous no more, than on 4-5 cm in the diameter that the earth lump has been completely braided by roots.
How to look after sheflery
The plant is exacting to high soil moisture and air therefore it is impossible to allow dryings of earth lump, and leaves should be sprayed from spray with water of room temperature and to wipe them from dust. That shefler always had effective appearance, it needs regular cutting and forming of krone. For this purpose annually it is necessary to shorten the main branches on 1/5 part of their length in the spring, and escapes completely to delete too old, small and growing inside kroner, without leaving stumps. Quite seldom, but shefler can be surprised wreckers: if the soil has not been properly exposed to frost at change, in it web pincers, shchitovka or tripsa can breed. At the same time the plant loses decorative effect, lags behind in growth, and on bottom side of leaves it is possible to see colonies of wreckers. For processing it is necessary to use the insecticidal medicines "Spark", "Corrado" which can be found in Priroda shop. Timely watering and fertilizing is of great importance for normal development shefler. During vegetation it is necessary to water 1 time in 2-3 days, controlling humidity of earth lump, in the winter watering to reduce to 1 time in 7-10 days. In the summer of fertilizing it is necessary to bring 1-2 times a month, using for this purpose special fertilizer for dekorativnolistvenny plants, and it is possible to do without them in the winter.