Gerber room: the secrets of care from professionals

The most interesting thing is that the gerbera grown in home conditions, are able to bloom and pleasing to the eye for a few years.

This plant, with flowers like chamomile, but with a wide variety of colors and shades, has always been a garden or hothouse.

Growers, however, learned to grow gerbera in pots on the windowsill.

Naturally, particular care plant torn from familiar surroundings will be somewhat different, but with the right approach of flower will please long-flowering, a riot of colors, and to become a real gem of a home garden.

To plant to please their owners, need to know some of the secrets of care.

1. Unlike other plants, which after purchase need to be transplanted to another soil, gerberas should not do it. Better to wait a couple - three weeks to adapt.

As soon as the leaves begin to level off - you can begin to transplant. Moreover, it is necessary to transplant, and not to handle as much as possible free from the old stores of the earth.

2. Photophilous plant, able to withstand direct sunlight, but it is more comfortable to be eastern or western window.

3. Watering is necessary to make so that the soil was always damp. Overflow, Nedolya - unacceptable.

The main thing is to keep the water from falling on the leaf rosette, because that will rot the roots. Water should be soft and correspond to the temperature of the soil.

When spraying care must be taken not to get water on the flowers.

4. To gerbera bloomed long and abundant, it is recommended after flowering, somewhere in the beginning of November to provide plant shading cool room with a temperature of 16 - 18 degrees. Since mid-February, the conditions are restored.

5. Another point for abundant flowering is that the buds that are faded, have to be removed. And just break off.

If you cut, the rest of the flower stalk will begin to rot and ruin the whole plant.

6. To prolong the flowering is very useful annual handling, preserving earthen coma. The pot should be slightly larger, drainage is required.

7. Again, for an extended flowering need fertilizing, the potassium and calcium content must be increased.

Iron is also vital for the normal growth and good appearance of the leaves.

Subject to all of these simple techniques, gerbera will please their masters beautiful and abundant flowering.