Can't grow Cyclamen in the house? Try to follow the 5 rules, and you will be able to "fidget" with the flower.

Do you want to grow worthy cyclamens on your windowsill so that the neighbors open their mouths? Then a fiery salute, comrade vain (in an amicable way, of course!) Indoor florist. Today on the agenda - 5 rules for growing a flower at home, available to every grower. It came, it's time to voice them - for even in our village store they brought pots with bright candy flowers on long sticks.

Often, the joy of owning a Persian cyclamen fits into a cycle: purchase - the joy of flowering and a million photographs - "there is something wrong with the flower" - the tuber flies into the trash heap or sits neither here nor there. Cyclamen transplant

Cyclamen transplant

Sooner or later, you will have to

The purchased cyclamen can be safely transplanted after flowering. With one important exception - if, having brought the cherished pot home, you did not find that the ground is completely wet. Plants in shops are often watered generously and indiscriminately.

• And wet ground for a long time is a direct path to tuber rot, cyclamen hearts.
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• Do not try to dry out the soil without watering. The effect of the combination "excess moisture - drought" for a blooming cyclamen will become enchanting and fatal. At first, some of the roots will rot. And then, not only that the plant will not have roots to pull in enough moisture, so there will also be no moisture in the pot itself. The flower will wither one by one, and the leaves will begin to turn yellow and fall off.

Comrade! When planting, plant the cyclamen so that a third of the tuber sticks out above the ground.. This will save you from the gulf, and you give yourself the right to splash too much. And the growing point will be safe: if water gets on the bases of leaves and peduncles, they can fall off.

Watering subtleties

For the same reason, water the cyclamen in the pan. Pour in water and leave the pot for 15-20 minutes to soak all the soil.

If the pot is much larger than a lump of roots (which is initially not desirable), then they cannot fully draw moisture from the bottom. Then, putting it in a cyclamen in a tray of water, pour it gently along the edge of the pot. But please don't pour it into the center of the tuber!

Cyclamen is watered sparingly, allowing the topsoil to dry out a little. An exception is flowering: when squiggles of future peduncles appear above the tuber and before the last flower withers

Cool temperature during flowering? How?!

Most of the failures with cyclamen are due to its "spring" nature. The ancestors of our plants prefer to bloom as soon as the snow melts. And we keep them in hot and dry apartments.

And, although purchased hybrids are more forgiving to indoor conditions, they remember their past well. Therefore, in any recommendation you will find an impracticable prescription to keep the pot in the winter and spring at a temperature of 10-15 ° C.

If you are not the owner of a cool loggia, then:

• Do not expect much from cyclamen in the first 1-2 years of adaptation. Some get used to the conditions of the apartment immediately, others need time.
• In winter and spring, water the cyclamen with cool water. It will remind him of ideal conditions even a little bit.

Note to a friend: An interesting option is to grow cyclamen from seeds. As a result of a laborious process, citizens receive a flower that has become accustomed to home conditions since childhood.

Productive rest period

Cyclamen is designed in such a way that after flowering there is a period of rest. In nature, he "waits out" the hot summer without leaves and flowers. Domestic cyclamens have confused everything: they may confuse the seasons or not retire at all.

If your cyclamen after flowering began to unequivocally lose leaves:

• Make sure the plant is healthy. Feel the tuber: it must be firm. So you will make sure that the cyclamen is actually retiring, and did not decide to leave you.
• Reduce watering to a minimum. Now the cyclamen is watered so that the tuber simply does not dry out.

Unknowing citizens throw out the hibernating tuber, thinking that he is "that one". In fact, you just have to wait: soon the leaves and flowers will grow again.

Competent feeding

Yes, the cyclamen loves to eat. His patrimony is a fertile forest litter, rich in natural humus.

• The only time when the cyclamen does not need feeding is the rest period.
• Cyclamen busy building sheets? You can give an organic fertilizer or a complex-mineral fertilizer for decorative foliage. But without fanaticism - otherwise it will start to fatten: grow leaves to the detriment of flowering.
• To stimulate the growth of buds and the duration of flowering - complex mineral fertilizers for decorative flowering.

Do not forget that potassium must be present in the cyclamen diet. The health of the tuber depends on it. Potassium is not banana peels. This is a mineral fertilizer, where it is 8-20% in the composition.

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Sincerely yours, unsuccessfully howling against banana skins and sleeping teas, Fyodor Tyapkin-Sklyankin.