Blooming in winter beauty - cyclone. Flower: care and peculiarities of growing at home

Cycles (aka cyclamen) is a perennial plant that belongs to the Mersin family and grows in the wild under warm climatic conditions in the territories of North Africa, Asia Minor and the Mediterranean regions. At the end of the 19th century, breeders brought out a large number of different garden and indoor cultivars. To learn this interesting ornamental plant you can on a tubular bulb of the rounded form, green with silvery ornaments to leaves of the heart-shaped form having long petioles, and beautiful bright flowers, in the form reminding butterflies. There is a wide variety of coloring buds of cycling. They can be red, tender pink, white and even purple. Interestingly, about 8 months a year the plant "sleeps", dropping all the leaves and stopping to bloom. The popularity of this houseplant increases with every year, as unlike most other flowers its beautiful flowers pleases in the winter season of cycling. The flower under favorable conditions will bloom for a long time, from October-November to March. In this article, we will look at how cyclulation is grown. Flower, care for which will not be difficult, will grow and bloom for many years. If you are only planning to buy cycling, first study the characteristics of its cultivation. In the flower shop, you should choose a specimen with a heavy and not wrinkled tuber, which must necessarily have kidneys.

Cycles (flower). Care for an exotic plant: soil, lighting, humidity, temperature

For this plant friable light soil fits. You can buy a special soil mixture in a flower shop or make it yourself. Sandy soil, deciduous humus and peat will be needed to make the substrate at home, all ingredients are taken in equal parts. At the bottom of the pot must be put 1.5 cm drainage, which is perfectly served dry cortex and foam. Important: the tuber of cycling is not completely buried in the substrate. It is buried only two-thirds. It prefers a plant small in size with low sides, in a large container the tuber can rot and die. Cycles - a demanding plant in terms of temperature conditions. It is very important for him to maintain a temperature of 10 ° C to 15 ° C during the flowering period. The cool content of the plant is the guarantee of its active and prolonged flowering. In addition to temperature, the amount of light is important for him. The plant loves diffused light, but not direct sunlight, so the perfect storage area can be a glazed balcony or terrace. Direct sunlight on the leaves of the plant is allowed only in winter. When properly kept in a cool (no more than 15 ° C) bright spot, the plant does not need additional spraying and safely tolerates the available humidity. In summer hot days, you can additionally moisten the leaves of the plant from the spray. Since autumn, all sprayings are stopped to prevent decay of the tuber.

Cycles - a flower, the care of which lies in choosing the right irrigation regime. One of the main rules is regular watering with cool water. It must be done correctly: water must be poured into the pan or to the edges of the pot. Experienced growers try not to get water on the growth zone of the tuber, the tip of the stem, buds. Earth during watering can not be waterlogged, otherwise it will easily die cyclone. The flower (the photo below shows the correct way of watering) is very whimsical, so give it extra attention.

The moistening regime must take into account that the plant requires a new portion of the liquid only as the upper layers of the substrate dry out. It prefers only a soft, settled water cycling plant.

Flower: leaving after dropping leaves and buds

After flowering gradually reduce the watering of the plant, making it more rare. When the leaves are completely dry (June-July), the pot with the cycle is placed in a cool place on the side. After two months, the plant will release the first sprouts, after which they transplant into a new container with a fresh substrate. During transshipment, remove bad roots and place the tuber into new soil, deepening it to two-thirds of the height.