How to propagate Dekabrist at home

Decembrist - a wonderful flower whose appearance brings home the spirit of Easter Week and gives a feeling of comfort. Increase the impact of its charms will help the reproduction of plants. To learn how to do it right, you read in this article.

Propagation by grafting flower

Few people prefer to use this method, however, for those who are interested not only a good result, but getting pleasure from the process, it might be useful.

For this purpose, use Opuntia or Pereskia aculeata: branched top of the plant is cut off and eliminate the axial body plates and top sheet cleaved.

Decembrist graft comprising two or three segments, make an acute via wedge, and placed into the formed Opuntia crack on the stem, connects part of the axial needle plant organ or long tenon and secured with tape or plaster.

Compound parts into a whole requires a temperature of eighteen to twenty degrees Celsius for fourteen days. After the beginning of the growth of a fastening bandage gently removed.

Then axial plant organ was removed and leaf disks shoots. Flowers that have passed through the grafting procedure in mid-spring, the buds have already formed the first winter.

Propagation by cuttings flower

In order to propagate the plant cuttings containing three to five segments, and a little dried then dropped to them in a moist medium, sprinkled into a temporary vessel with low walls.

On the cutting it is recommended to wear plastic bottle or jar of glass. The bottle should be cut to happened something like a greenhouse. From time to time a bottle or jar must be lift.

This action will prevent rotting of the cutting. Dive it in a permanent capacity is permitted only after the appearance of roots. It is not recommended to transplant the sprouts in large vessels.

Features Christmas flower

With the onset of budding period container with a flower can not be interchanged. Failure to do so leads to premature shedding of inflorescences of plants.

Flower not withstand moisture irrigation containing bleach.

It is to spray the plant only warm water.

It is not recommended to allow over-wetting of the substrate. This is especially true care for plants in winter.

The nutrient medium should be made as complex and fertilizers.

Chemicals recommended to breed stronger than written on the outside of the container.

The plant can be grown and how ampelnye flower, and as a simple bush.

So, multiply the plant can be described by grafting or cuttings; easier to carry out this procedure the second of these methods.