For the careful owner a flower – result of the correct care for a houseplant. Unfortunately, the long-awaited flower sometimes is a symbol of the termination of life cycle for the plant. Yes, in the nature the types blossoming all time meet. The flower is some kind of purpose of their life. Having directed all efforts for achievement of the treasured purpose, the plant perishes.
Instruction
1. There is not a lot of plants blossoming only once in life. In the wild nature one-color or monokarpichesky types not often meet: bamboo, puya to Raymonda, udumbara, agave, titanic aronnik, middlemist red and also some species of ferns. Monokarpichesky room it is even less.
2. The agave is a perennial plant, the succulent, leaves has triangular, fleshy, dense, there is no stalk. Room species of this plant differ in the small sizes and slow growth rates. The agave grows in the wild nature to enough impressive sizes – up to 5 meters and blossoms sometimes at the age of 100 years. Though in house conditions the succulent blossoms extremely seldom, you should not lose hopes. And without flower the plant serves as worthy decoration of an interior.
3. One more sacrificial flower – a guzmania. The sprawling green socket having in the center a bright inflorescence, yellow, pink, red. It is by sight some kind of reduced copy of pineapple. Blossoms extremely seldom in April – August. After blossoming surely perishes.
4. And, at last, the most popular flower with sacrificial character – an aechmea. There is a set of its types in the wild nature. For amateur flower growers are adapted an aechmea striped and the aechmea sparkling. A sort they from South America. Quite comfortably these flowers feel at the room temperature from 12 to 27 degrees. The aechmea prefers the damp soil: in a socket funnel regularly there have to be about two centimeters of water. The plant rain water is better to give to drink. This pet does not need any fertilizing, it is better not to fertilize him in general. Ideally grows in any friable not limy soil. The flower easily breeds: the sockets separated from a maternal plant. Blossoms mainly in the summer during a second or third of life.
5. The plants blossoming once in life in leaving do not differ in either special whimsicality, or the requirement of excessive care. However cultivation of a monokarpichesky flower well not to everyone. Very much close there are a triumph and the tragedy when you look at such flower. Not any flower grower can apprehend easily at the same time joy and pity during such moments.