The main Christmas flower: Poinsettia. The feed to enjoy the blooms for the holiday

In preparation for the winter holidays is not a minor detail, and all the more important to take care of that for the big day happy blooms something of houseplants.

My favorite - the poinsettia, and in a few years, I have gained enough experience to share with you the secrets of how to get her to decorate a December!

And once it's important to clarify - it is about to push the poinsettia is not just for flowering - its buds are different just nondescript. But in parallel with the flowering, it also changes the color of the leaves around them - they are painted in red, festive color.

The process begins in the leaves at the end of November and this form they are able to maintain 6 months.

So, for the "flowering" poinsettia pretty self potassium. You can buy ready-made fertilizer, such as universal for indoor plants (on the basis of vermicompost).

But it is not the worst result can be obtained using the popular recipes wonder fruit "cocktail".

To cook it, you must do the following:

1. Take 2 pieces of citrus peel - fit orange, lemon, mandarin.

2. Add 2 pieces of banana skins, it should not just be mellow yellow - and with brown spots.

3. Fold peel in the glass jar, add 1 part of sugar.

4. Pour the mixture of boiled water so that all went under it.

5. Cover the container loosely with a lid and leave for 3 weeks.

6. After a specified period of time - strain the liquid and store in a refrigerator.

To fertilize the flower, dilute the "cocktail" of water for irrigation in the proportion 1:20. Efficiency can be seen, using this tool only 2-3 times at intervals of 10-14 days, ranging anywhere from 20 November.

From this dressing poinsettia extract not only potassium, but also phosphorus, nitrogen, vitamins, starch, sugar and magnesium.

The main thing - do not overdo it and do not think that feeding her this means more possible to achieve the best results! Quite the contrary - poinsettia ill excess of active substances.

Speaking of flowering poinsettia is important to note that any fertilizing for colorful beauty will not go in her favor, if you do not provide a plant at the stage of forming flower buds and the formation of buds strictly definite duration of light day. More precisely, it should last no longer than 10 hours a day.