Why does my purchase "groom" adapted home, and a friend's withered

"Bride and groom" (actually - kampanula ravnolistnaya) Were favorite potted flowers of thousands of Soviet housewives. And now somehow disappeared from the window sills. But recently in our local shop brought "brides and grooms" the Dutch (who would doubt it?) Cultivation.

Almost at the same time with a friend, we bought this miracle before March 8:

After reading the information on the Internet (not on the site - where half of the information does not correspond to reality, and sometimes harmful), I learned that to adapt the plant at home is very difficult. A person buys it, enjoying the gentle beauty of a month or two (if you're lucky), and then the bell dries.

To prolong the life of the flower with a probability of about 80%, it is necessary to take drastic measures:

1. The most important thing. Without waiting for the flowers will shrink, cut them with peduncles. What happened was:

Let me explain why. Kampanula on forcing - a plant designed to buketnogo flowering. Well, you know, to attract a buyer. We also need to stimulate the growth of new shoots, the main thing - from rhizomes.

If the buds are not removed, the forces (ie nutrients) will go to the flowering plants and not on the root growth and new growth from it will not. Here plays the role of another factor. Flowering for kampanuly - method of reproduction. Covered with buds, the groom thinks: "Well, today a bunch naplozhu seeds. And from the root until you can not grow. "

My friend, knowing that I obstrigla flower, looked at me like I was a fool. Tipo "It's a pity the same." I think a lot of inhumane to leave the plant in a condition unsuitable for life.

2. Two-time treatment against pests - I will not explain why.

3. Transfer on the day of purchase in a clear pot of orchids on the size of the root system with a margin of 1 cm at the edges. I drilled on the bottom of the hole and planted.

Why transparent? To see the growth of roots, and that I needed.

Why is the day of purchase? Because flowers are watered stores somehow, it is necessary to check their status urgently. My plant has also proved flooded.

I put the "groom" on the very sunny window in his home - south-west. And waited, watering as soon as the ground dries out the top layer. A dried out it in 2 days.

A month went by the root, new thin twigs. And now it passed 2 months, my thoroughly overgrown bush and scored New buds:

And the girlfriend bush potsvel and withered. Here you have a "pity".