Scherzer Anthurium. How to achieve continuous flowering
Scherzer Anthurium one of the whimsical indoor plants and care for them is one of the time-consuming. Adequate care and maintenance will allow anthurium long time to delight and please their owners extraordinary beauty and elegance.
Main features of cultivation
To ensure continuous flowering anthurium is important to consider all the factors that contribute to the proper growth and development of plants.
The temperature and illumination
Given the fact that Scherzer anthurium, is a representative of the tropics, it is very love of light, so its content It requires good lighting, but it is worth to take into account the fact that the direct rays of the sun have a negative impact on the state plants.
For normal vegetation Scherzer anthurium is important to establish an optimum temperature, which in the summer should be kept in the range of 200 - 250 C heat in the winter holiday period + 15... + 16 ° C, it must be remembered that the plant does not react to sudden changes in temperature, and drafts.
Air humidity
For moistureloving anthuriums Scherzer required to maintain humidity in the range 85-95%, which can provide some ways:
- installing a humidifier in the room finding the plants;
- placing a water reservoir near the pot;
- spraying warm and high-quality water.
Direct entry of water to the plant is not a desirable phenomenon since it can cause the leaves of lime, resulting in the loss of decorative appearance.
Watering and fertilizing
For abundant flowering anthurium, plants need a well-organized irrigation. This will require:
Water for Irrigation should be soft enough (preferably rainwater) and spaced.
To this end, water intended for irrigation in the first place it is necessary to boil, and then defend it and add a little vinegar.
Watering the plant is rarely needed, abundant and regularly, but only after the soil in the pot dries. To ensure continuous flowering plants need to arrange holidays, reducing watering. Appropriate time for this is the period from September to February.
Dressing for anthurium should be carried out in the spring - summer period, every two weeks. Mineral fertilizers are applied in diluted form with a large content of potassium and phosphorus.
Transfer
Transplant young plants anthurium should be carried out annually in the spring at the beginning of growth, or upgrade directly into a period of growth. Transplanting should be done with extreme care, without exposing the roots and the leaves damage.
More mature plants are subject to transplant once every 3 years. For planting Anthurium better they fit larger ones, for a spacious root growth and Soil require substrates composed of coarse - fibrous, moisture and vozduhopogloschaemyh components.
Subject to the rules of care and maintenance, the plant can bloom all year round. Moderate temperatures, much water and sufficient humidity anthuriums Scherzer provide uninterrupted flowering.