Nightshade room and principles of caring for him

Nightshade - a plant native to South America is considered. At home, most often grown nightshade lozhnopoperechny. Looks like a small shrub plant, which has a wavy lanceolate leaves.

Nightshade blooms with small white flowers, but they do not create an attractive look to this plant. The main pride of nightshade - its bright fruit: round orange berries or bright red hues.

How to care for nightshade?

All species of the family Solanaceae are very fond of light. In winter it is better to shift to the south window, and in the summer on the balcony. By the temperature regime no special requirements, as long as it was not too hot. Nightshade tolerates harsh temperature changes.

Watering nightshade should be held frequently and liberally, especially if it bears fruit. In winter, you can reduce the number of irrigations, replacing them periodic spraying, while avoiding soil drying. To fruited bush, it is necessary to additionally feed nutrients. Recommend to do it 2 times a month, using complex fertilizers for flowers. In the winter time you can reduce the fertilizer twice.

Nightshade, as well as other shrubs need to periodically prune, it is better to do it immediately after fruiting. After a winter nightshade often throws off the leaves, so circumcision is not hurt, on the contrary, it has a beneficial effect on him. First, cut the main stem, it stimulates the growth of side branches, and then pinch the rest.

Reproduction and transplant

Transplant ideal spring. The soil in the new pot should be loose. On the bottom of the pot carefully poured layer of expanded clay, or any other drainage material. Before transplanting the plant is necessary to cut by a third.

Nightshade often without apparent reason ceases to bear fruit, flowering takes place, but the fruit is not fastened. To fix this, you need to manually with a brush to make pollination.

Shrub propagated by cuttings or seeds are used as purchased, and with the fruit of the nightshade room. If use reproduction cuttings, their ground and covered with a film, as long as the stalk had at least some leaves. For good branching it is recommended to periodically pruning.

Nightshade - a beautiful shrub, which will decorate any home, but you must know that it is still quite toxic, so dangerous to keep it in the house where there are children and animals.