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Exquisite calla - flower for the patient gardeners

Perhaps you have ever been given a bouquet of exquisitely beautiful plants with unusual inflorescences. Kalla is a flower with an elegant appearance and strong character. He can hold out for a long time in the cut, delighting in his unusual. Of course, it's nice to get such an original gift, but it's much more tempting to try to grow this miracle at home.

Despite the African origin of this plant, it is quite possible to cultivate either in your room or on a garden plot in a greenhouse.

Hothouse creation

If you decide to do flower cultivation for cutting, to pamper yourself with fresh inflorescences at any time of year, then you need to allocate a corner for your plants in your greenhouse. Calla - the flower is very thermophilic, but in a heated indoor room with artificial lighting and ventilation it is quite comfortable. At the same time, it is even able to transfer temperature fluctuations tolerably from plus 8 degrees Celsius to plus 50.

Of the special conditions, the thickness of the fertile soil can be noted. It should be at least 50 centimeters. Plants are planted compactly. On one square meter it is permissible to place up to 5 bushes.

The plant has rather strong periods of activity and rest. To these cycles, the care that calla needs is also tied. The flower in the period of growth, as well as flowering, must be intensively watered and fed (preferably organic). And in a state of rest watering should be stopped.

There is also a small trick to increase the cut yield. In order for new buds to form more quickly, you just need not cut the stems with the inflorescences, and carefully pull them out of the sinuses. Then you free up space to form the next escape. He, of course, will be slightly inferior in size to the first. But you wanted to get as many flowers as possible?

Flower in the pot - calla

If the greenhouse is not everyone, then really try to grow an African beauty in an apartment can anyone.

For a pot with a plant, you need to pick the best place. Comfortably the flower will feel on the windowsill, where much sunlight gets to. Well, if it's not direct rays, but diffused light. If the duration of the light day is less than 12 hours, then take care of installing an additional fluorescent lamp. Otherwise your plant will refuse to bloom.

The period of activity in calla is replaced by a rest cycle. Usually this happens in the winter. The plant stops growing, the leaves wither, and a dream comes. In this period, it is necessary to achieve a temperature decrease of up to plus 18 degrees Celsius.

When it is time to wake the plant, the temperature rises to plus 24 degrees. This is enough to make your calla awake. The flower begins to develop actively.

Care instructions

Do not ignore the composition of the soil in the pot. In specialized stores, they sell ready-made substrates for aroids. Our exotic plants belong to this class. In the composition of these mixtures are present in equal proportions: leaf earth, humus and turf. In addition, in them in an insignificant amount of added clay, river sand (washed).

Calla - indoor flower with a very strict regime of watering. The earth in the pot must be kept wet all the time. But do not fill the plant. It is better to put the pot in a special tray filled with expanded clay, pebbles or sphagnum. In the filler regularly add water, which will gradually enter the substrate. Do not forget about daily spraying of leaves with water.

It is noticed that the shoots gaining strength after hibernation are very responsive to watering with acidified water. In water add a little bit of citric acid (but only a little bit), and then the resulting solution is gently poured into the pot.

As soon as the cycle of activity begins, with its rapid growth and development, the plant needs a good fertilizing. Fit organic and mineral fertilizers. But by the time of bud formation, exclude from the "diet" flowers nitrogenous fertilizing.

Prevention of negativity

Like all plants, your exotic beauty is prone to diseases. Yes, and pests do not mind getting on it.

Particular attention must be paid to the appearance of rot. It is easy to recognize by changing the color and deformation of the leaves. In case of detection of even the slightest signs of damage, it is necessary to carry out the treatment of the plant with a soap solution.

Often the flower is attacked by thrips. To these pests bypass your plants side, always in time to remove the slightest accumulation of dust and dirt from the leaves and sinuses of callas. And keep the humidity of the air. If the prevention is not successful, then again resort to water procedures using soap. And also spray with insecticides.

We multiply

You can try to multiply your home flower. Kalla can not boast of a good seed germination, but she is responsive to the division of the rhizome. It is the latter method that is used in the conditions of "apartment" cultivation.

The procedure is not too complicated. In autumn, when the cycle of activity decreases, the mother's bush separates part of the roots. This piece is placed in a separate pot with a pre-prepared fertile soil.

Then leave the pot alone until the spring comes. Try to keep containers with sleeping snacks in a room with a temperature regime of plus 12 or plus 15 degrees Celsius. The humidity in the room must be high.

If the winter has passed successfully, then in the spring you will contemplate the young shoots.

Similarly come with tubers.

Roots or tubers?

So what are the roots of your flower? Red calla has tubers, but white - rhizomes. Why such a variety?

The point is that this culture includes varieties that were removed from the Ethiopian calla, as well as the plants that emerged from the Calla Remannah (red) and the Calli Elliot (pink-lilac). For the first, the white color of the inflorescence and the presence of rhizome are characteristic. The latter are tuberous plants.

It is believed that red and pink calla grow much easier.

But in any case, whatever callas - white or red - you start growing, you will need all your patience to get the result. Only attention, love and everyday work will allow you to admire such exquisite and delicious inflorescences.

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