Isn’t it about time when you have increased African violet?
Imagine a house plant that blooms all the time and can do it for a few years – half a century or more by some accounts. In fact, if two months go without a flower, it means that you need to make some adjustments in the maintenance regime of your African violet.
In addition, it is a plant that is constantly giving you a clone of your own – spring -sucking surroundings around your base. However, these should be separated, as their presence will reduce flowers. If you want to develop the same variety more or pass them with friends, you can easily root out the suckers.
The African Violet (St.Pulia Iontha) was first seen in 1892 after the Walter von Saint-Paully Elear, when it was seen growing outside a rock in a hill rainfall near the border of Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa. African violets are spatial for this region, which means that their habitat is limited to this single place on Earth. The St.-Paul sent two species of the plant back to Germany, where they were hybridized and their children were hybridized. Currently, over 10,000 African violet varieties exist. Flowers appear in every version of violet, purple and pink, and even a yellow cultivation that was a breed with laborious perseverance. The leaves can also have ruffled edges.
The African violet should be re -prepared immediately after purchasing as the soil they are grown include almost completely beaten moss. Pete moss is a hydrophobic material that quickly turns dry bone until it is placed in a moist greenhouse. There are a lot of African purple soil mixture available in the nursery, but you should mix them with half and half perlite to create ideal soil conditions. You can also make your own mixture containing 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 vermiculite, and 1/3 perlight.
Since fertilization can often be as much as you form a saline in water every time you produce your soil every six months. Note: The soil of all tropical indoor plants should not be changed less than once a year. Crowd in a pot, however, can increase flowers in some plants, so just because you change the soil does not mean that you need to replace your current container with a large. With African Violet, the law of the thumb is to place a plant in the same size vessel until the distance from one end to the other is more than three times the diameter of the pot. The shallow utensils are also intelligent to grow African violets, not deeper than two or three inches, keeping in mind that, in their residence, their roots grow on the surface of mossy-edged rocks and grow in the soil. At the cost of more leaves and flowers, the root growth is increased as a result of deep pots.
Water when the surface of the water is dry. Distilled water is best, but people who use tap water allow it to sit up to 24 hours before application as it will allow chlorine, which can burn African violet leaf, which can lead to harmless instability in the air. Water can be done from top or bottom or from bottom. Either in the case, the pot should not be left in standing water for more than a few minutes to avoid the problems of earthen fungi. To keep the humidity high, pour the pebble into a dish of water under your plant, ensure that it rests on the pebble under the pot, or keep more African violet or other tropical plants nearby. A haumidifier designed for indoor plants in particular will also keep relative humidity elevated, for African violet, at least 50%. Keep water from the leaves and keep your hands with them as well. If you are going on leave, make sure your soil is moist and then place your plant in a zipper plastic bag to keep hydrated.
Fertilization is best weekly. Some liquid fertilizers will ask you to put a certain number of drops in a gallon water with each water. Others may recommend a spoon fertilizer in a gallon of water once a month; Nevertheless, since water should be done weekly, it is better to add a quarter teaspoon of fertilizer per gallon with such a product every week. A balanced fertilizer (20–20–20) is generally recommended, although to encourage the flower, the percentage of phosphorus (medium number) may be elevated above the other two (nitrogen and potassium).
African violets do best with 12 hours or more ambient light, but cannot bear the light directly because it burns their leaves. An eastern, morning exposure is the best, suitable for universal moth orchids (fruitopsis), your plant is kept from window glass to 12–18 inches. Low light results in thin, deep green leaves, while in large light the leaf can increase largely. In both cases, the flowers will be sparse to exist. You can test your exposure by placing your hand behind your hand next to the window between your African violet and nearby window. If a shade is inserted, the light is sufficiently bright, but if heated the back of your hand, the sun is too hot for your plant and will burn its leaves. If your residence is without enough natural light, you can employ either fluorescent or LED lights to grow African violets. Keep 10-12 hours of light a day at a 12-inch height above the plants.
African violets are easily promoted with their leaves. Separate the newly formed leaves in the spring, cut into the stems of the leaf or cut the petioles at an angle of 45 degrees, leave an inch petiole under the leaf, and put it in a mixture of light soil, such as half-rat, half-gourd. Within a month, the roots will start forming from the petioles (leaf stem) and by the end of the second month, the new child’s leaves will emerge on the soil surface. By the end of six months, the plants will be of sufficient size to keep them in their own pot. Leaf trunk, many other indoor plants, will also be rooted in water. Old external leaves should be abandoned and not used for spread.
Local nurseries selling citrus trees are now rare due to extensive quarantine on citrus trees due to citrus greenery disease. However, Mark Mehal informed me that there are hundreds of citrus trees certified by the California state in Garden View Nursery in Irvindel that are growing in screen houses. Nursery 12901 Lower is located under power lines on Azusa Road. In addition to citrus, they have hundreds of avocado and other fruit trees in 30 ”box sizes from five-gallons. Nursery hours are at 8 am on Tuesday-Saturday and Sunday at 10 am on Sunday-Saturday and Sunday at 10 am.
California native of the week: As its name suggests, Wavyleaf Soap Bush (Chloroglam Pomeridianum) can be used for clean purposes. A member of the Lily family, its roots and bulbs produce a soap solution when mixed with fiber water. If you are looking for its bulb, be prepared to excavate as it remains as deep as two feet underground. In addition to its unusually wavy leaves, which can be 18 inches long and can be clusters at the ground level, soap bush contains flower stalks that can occur in the sky up to a height of seven feet and in July, the white bloom cloud can burst. Doug Kent, who brought this plant to my attention, used it to wash a bike trip in Northern California. They found that it is growing abundantly along the coast of Mendocino and Sonoma Counties. Close to the house, it thrives in Cleveland National Forest and is seen at that place while walking with some trails. Wavyleaf soap shrub seeds can be ordered at plantflowerseeds.com.
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