Now it’s time to prepare houseplants for spring. We start when daylight lasts until 21-22 o’clock in the evening.
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – April 10, 2021 – Agriculture
In winter, in rooms with flowers, be sure to create the following conditions so as not to encourage them to grow: water moderately, ventilate the room without creating drafts.
In February, we put on the windowsill those plants that were removed from the light in the fall: gloxinia, clivia, tuberous begonia. These plants are abundantly watered, and as soon as they start to grow, we give root fertilization with complete mineral fertilizer for flowers. On frosty days, remove the plants from the windows so that they are not damaged by cold air.
It happens that gloxinia “confuses” the seasons and blooms in autumn and winter. In this case, it should be given the opportunity to “rest”, and after winter-flowering to take in a dark cool place.
Pruning
Cut thin, weakened, thickening the crown, extra shoots. At the same time increase watering and start fertilizing. At the same time, it is necessary to remember that to each culture the dose and the algorithm of waterings and top dressing. If the fuchsia bloomed in winter, cut it, leaving one bud on each side shoot, and feed.
Watering
Most houseplants are dormant, so water them rarely, monitoring the condition of the earth, maintaining cleanliness. Violets are kept at a moderate temperature, watering sparingly, but regularly, not allowing the ground to dry out.
Flowering – hippeastrum, begonia, clivia, kalanchoe, orchids – moisten with warm water, preventing even short-term drying of the substrate. Cyclamen watered only from the pan and kept with azaleas in a cool room on a bright windowsill. Flowers in a warm room are periodically sprayed. This is necessary not only to increase humidity but also to prevent pests.
Transplantation
Begonia and gloxinia tubers, stored since autumn in semi-dry soil, removed from the pots, cleaned of old roots and planted in a new soil mixture in clean pots, watered and kept on a clean windowsill.
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Source: Ukrgate