A neighbor's Decembrist is more beautiful every year than everyone else in the village. Went to him and asked directly what he was doing with the flower
Do you want to get an abundant flowering of the Decembrist? Then a fiery salute, comrade vain florist! Today I will retell the results of my invasion of my neighbor, whose "Christmas" year after year pleasantly surprise all passers-by.
Decembrists and a neighbor
Just imagine: snow-white snowdrifts, a neat country house made of logs, snow-white tulle and... bright crimson flowers of the Decembrists, almost completely covering the frame of the plant. I, of course, embellished it a little, because instead of snow-white snowdrifts in front of a neighbor's house there is usually a mixture of dirty snow with snow and mud.
I will not say that communication with a man is pleasant to me, because 2 years ago my chicken came to his chickens and he did not return it. But the desire to try out the recipe for the gorgeous flowering of the Decembrist exceeded pride. In the early September morning, pulling my head into the collar of my jacket, I trotted through 2 yards and got inside under a plausible pretext.
Why do the neighbor's Decembrists bloom differently than mine
Firstly, in order to stimulate flowering, the neighbor stops feeding all his bushes, which I counted 4 pieces during the inspection of the room. More precisely, he feeds the bushes at the end of August once - he pours it with a solution of potassium monophosphate with a strength of 0.1%.
I have no doubt, comrade, that you have now calculated the exact recipe in your head. But still I will clarify that this is 1 g per 1 liter. Just in case.
But it was a one-time action. Now, before the buds appear, the plant should not receive anything. Even watering becomes minimal. Now "Rozhdestvenniki" are standing on dry ground. Only occasionally a compassionate wife, no, no, let her splash, taking pity, a little water.
Note to a friend: The nature of the Decembrist is such that he does not need abundant food.
Let me emphasize, comrades. The Decembrist does not need any banana peels, boric acids, aspirins for flowering.. And now "sensational" recipes from every cornucopia on the Internet will pour in.
And citizens, looking at the picture with a scattering of flowers and looking at their green non-flowers, will rush to regale the poor fellows with hydrogen peroxide. In fact, popular advice is more likely to harm than produce the desired effect.
In general, comrades, on that very window I did not find the pots with the "Rozhdestvenniki". There were geraniums that had already lost their luster. After all, every Decembrist has a link. In a neighbor's case, a link to an unheated veranda. It is the low temperature (there is now about 15 ° C) that is the best magic pendel. Not boric acid or, even worse, a peroxide solution.
And only then, when the column of the still Soviet room thermometer drops to 5 ° C at night, the pots are brought into the house. By this time, bright pearls of the buds usually flaunt on them. I asked twice: no, they never fell from the rearrangement.
The third part of the secret is blackout curtains. Comrade, have you ever wondered why the Decembrist blooms at a certain time of the year? Because the Decembrist doesn't bud when the light lasts longer than 12 hours. We turn on bright lamps in the house - and involuntarily, without thinking about it, we extend the day. If you want to see a luxurious flowering, save the plant from artificial lighting.
Interesting fact: By the way, these two factors are the reason that the Decembrist "turns away". Many people complain that there are more colors on the glass side. Still: it's cooler there, and the lamps do not interfere.
And finally: during flowering, you should no longer allow the soil in the pot to dry out. Now it must always be a little damp, otherwise the flowers will fall off ahead of time. After flowering the neighbor once again feeds the Decembrist monophosphate and again sends him into exile on the veranda. And invariably gets a second bloom.
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