How to make gippeastrum bloom twice a year

Hippeastrum - a houseplant that pleases their owners gorgeous flowers. At the inexperienced gardeners there is a question about how to get the plant to flower more than 1 times throughout the year?

Conditions for flowering

The lack of flowering in Hippeastrum indicates that the care of plants is organized properly.

Allocate 2 factors that determine the potential of its flowering:

• presence in the bulb needed nutrients;
• organization of a period of rest after wilting stems.

In order to please their owners gippeastrum their flowering twice during the year experienced growers recommend to adhere to these guidelines:

• During flowering is necessary to feed the plant every week. You can use the complex fertilizer for houseplants.

If you do not, all the bulbs forces leave at the first flowering, and the second she just does not remain forces.

• Watering the soil in the pot as it dries. If the soil is too wet, it may lead to bulb rot and death of the plant.

If you happen to such trouble, watering should be stopped and removed from the surface of the bulb damaged areas.

• After wilting stems they should be cut off at the root. In early October, it is recommended to arrange the plants dormant period lasting 2 - 3 months.

To do this, a pot of gippeastrum placed in a cool place, it no longer watered and fed. 2 weeks after the beginning of the period of rest leaves plants wilt.

This means that they need to cut and remove the onion from the soil. Her carefully inspect for damaged seats. If any of you want to delete.

It is also deleted and the old roots on the bulb. The large number of children may slow down the flowering period.

To avoid this they should be removed. After that it is ready to be transplanted into a new pot and substrate. The bulb is immersed in the soil not completely, but only half.

The volume of the pot should be 5 - 8 cm more than the bulb itself. Particular attention is paid to the organization of the drainage system by means of which the soil is removed from the excess water.

From this moment the plant begins a new cycle of development, and it is ready for secondary flowering.

Compliance with these simple recommendations will enable the formation of stems on Hippeastrum twice during the year.