Fuchsia is a beautiful flower, which is named after Botany L. Fuchs. This is unpretentious and easy to leaving a plant suitable for novice flows. Performing some rules, you can provide good growth and flowering.
Fucese care rules
Before buying a flower, you need to choose his location, because he does not like to perplete in other places. It should be a lit place without straight hit of the rays of the sun. You can also create artificial lighting with luminescent lamps. With a lack of light, Fuchsia goes to growth, pulls out and pleases its owners with beautiful bloom.
Normal plant growth occurs at a temperature of 20 degrees. But in winter you need to rearrange the flower instead of With low temperatures of 8-10 degrees of heat. The optimal version of wintering is a glazed balcony. If there is too stuffy in the apartment, then the plant should be transferred to the street to a fairly lit place so that the rays of the sun fall only in the morning. In the evening, Fuchsia prefers halftime.
How to care for fuchsia - fertilizer
- Fuchsia is a gourmet who needs permanent comprehensive feeders throughout the growing season. Each growth stage involves a different ratio of fertilizer elements, namely nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
- The plant loves organic feeding and soil fertilizer by trace elements containing boron, manganese, magnesium, iron, selenium, zinc. Thanks to which the plant grows well, long blooms, decorative characteristics and resistance to different pests are improved.
- Roots can not feed into the dry or waterlogged soil. Still it is not recommended to feed the plant for three weeks after the transplant. Also, in any case can not fertilize the weak and diseased cuttings. When fertilizing once a week to do the concentration recommended in the instructions. If fertilizers are applied at each watering, then cooked portion to be divided by the number of irrigations. It is best to combine with root feeding foliar.
- Foliar application - is spraying the underside of the leaves, because there are located the stomata, through which feed on plants. Consequently, the absorption of the weak fertilizer solution is faster. Young plants require fertilizing fertilizers that contain nitrogen. For the fledgling plants need to choose fertilizers containing phosphorus and potassium. If you have not repot the plant, it is necessary to feed his fertilizer that contains a large number of trace elements. Once passed bloom, it is necessary at the time to finish dressing. If you follow the manufacturers instructions, fuchsia will long to please its magnificent flowers.
How to care for fuchsia - cropping
Care involves topping. It is necessary to enhance the growth of shoots and the resumption of a new cycle of fertilization. Thanks to the cutting plant is an improvement. The first topping is carried out after cutting ukorenel. Then you can do it every spring before flowering period. The plant receives a beautiful shape with a uniform cutting the branches on the sides through 3 pairs of leaves. Topping procedure is best done after the shoots will rise slightly.
How to care for fuchsia - transplantation
Fuchsia undemanding to transplant, so it should be done when the roots have climbs from the drain holes. This means that there is insufficient space. Transplant must be performed in the spring. To do this, you need to buy the ground or do it yourself from peat, humus and compost and sand.
Drainage is very important to control absorbency plant moisture. As useful additives may be used humus and sand, and when grown on loge - loam which retains water.
Transplant is necessary to choose a larger pot. This will allow to receive additional air flow, improve rooting. Crop shoots needed for the third part of the total length. For good flowering should add bone or horn spoon flour to 1 liter of a mixture.
reproduction fuchsia
Fuchsia is multiplied with cuttings, as well as seeds. The first way to spend better together with trimming. So that the cuttings are rooted need to put it in water or a soil from vermiculite and wet sand.
Purge roots plant can within a month. Throughout the rooting process, the plant can be sprayed.
The reproduction of the second way is quite easy. To do this, it is necessary to place seeds in the ground, which consists of vermiculite and sand.
How to care for fuchsia - watering
In the summer, a regular and abundant irrigation is needed, in winter - more moderate. Of course, abundant irrigation does not mean that the plant needs to be poured! Watering is needed in the case of soil drying. Fuchsia loves increased air humidity, for this reason the plant needs to spray and wash. Water for watering is desirable to defend.
Fuchsia, which grows in his homeland, can produce edible berries. But it is quite difficult to get them in the house. Flowers of this plant often decorate dishes, which are also edible.