Color FAQs

Question: I have a flower on the balcony, the temperature on which is about 8-12 ° C. Is it not enough? Or adjust? At what temperature should you remove the flower from the balcony?

Answer: Minimum for azalea 5-6 ° С. Therefore, now do not leave it on the balcony at night. Of course, spray on the balcony and generally at a temperature of about 8 gr. not necessary, since under such conditions the evaporation of moisture is very low. Water only when the top layer begins to dry out, keep in mind that if you bring it into the house at night, where it is much warmer, the soil will dry out faster. And now, while you have azalea on the balcony, beware of excess dampness...

Question: Since I was given gardenia (two years ago), it has never bloomed. I picked up buds several times and dropped them.

Guest_Sonata: gardenia loves light, but does not like heat; buds are formed at temperatures below 18-16 degrees; I often pour water into the pallet (regardless of watering), this helps not to pour the plant; once or twice a month I water gardenia with acidified water (I squeeze a little lemon juice into the water for watering) gardenia loves acidified soil.

The flowering stage begins from the moment the flower arrow appears until the buds fade. The flowering period averages three weeks. For two weeks the flower arrow grows, for 1-2 days the buds bloom (everyone can bloom at once, they can take turns) and for about a week the flowers are kept in dissolution. The duration of the flowering period depends on temperature conditions (the higher the temperature, the faster the peduncle grows, the buds bloom faster, the buds wither faster), on the number of peduncles (when the bulb blooms with several peduncles, the flowering period can last up to 1.5 months), on varietal features (terry varieties bloom 1-2 days earlier than non-terry)...

Question: How to root the Decembrist's handle?

Anyanya: Take it, tear off a twig (at least 3 segments) and put it in a glass of water, wait for the roots to start, and then, like all plants, you need to plant it.

Lenochka: That's right, only I took root even with two segments, you can in the water, or you can in the ground.

If the diffa begins to bloom and you want to see the flowering, then it just needs enhanced feeding. My bush blossom. All "oppression" was expressed in one sheet of smaller than usual size and only. You just need a mandatory weekly feeding with both mineral and organic fertilizers during the flowering period and after it for at least a month. Then you can switch to the usual feeding mode...

If the dracena rots, and it looks like this - leaves fall abundantly from the plant, the trunk at the base of the leaves has become soft to the touch, young leaves rot before they have time to grow, the tips of old leaves turn yellow very quickly, then your plant can only be saved by active actions. During the growth of the moon (see lunar calendar), the tip of the plant is cut off with a sharp knife or blade (5-10 cm, but leaves should remain on the stem of the handle and the larger the better), the wound is sprinkled with crushed coal (bought at the pharmacy), slightly dried. The severed tip (cutting) can be rooted in water or sand...

Question: Why do some kalonkhoe live well after flowering, and others only throw away?

Answer: I also made such a conclusion for myself. Moreover, with red colors there may be both a hybrid and a traditional Blossfeld calankhoe. Traditional - tenacious as I do not know who, withstands the most nightmarish conditions in lousy land and without watering. But red, but hybrids, just like all other colors (white, yellow, pink, orange) - die the stase after fading... My white and yellow are dead, and the red is still too rooted, but it has been sticking out in the form of a semi-dead stamen for more than a year. Suspicion of hybridity is caused by those that bloom too magnificently in the form of a very small bush. It's for the Reds. And all other colors are definitely hybrids.

Question: Tell me, I want to buy a croton, what difficulties may appear?

Lilu: My croton and I fought for survival for 5 months! At first, dry spots appeared, then the sheet fell off. He is bald almost completely. I sprayed it every week with epine (in addition to daily spraying). He lived under the package for 2 months. Now he stands on a pallet with wet expanded clay, has grown a new crown, and has released leaves and even a twig from the buds on the trunk.

Roses are loved by everyone both in bouquets and on windowsills, but how often those who took up their cultivation and breeding face problems. There are many questions, but there are three, the answers to which are of interest to everyone:

1. How you fight the tick on the roses;
2. How your roses winter;
3. What do you do with the rose you just bought.

Question: How to root a fat woman?

Lusi: Cuttings in the water should not be rooted - immediately into the land. Land for cacti and succulents, add 2:1 sand. I would try to drop off like this. Take a pot like a flat, drain on the bottom, sprinkled the prepared land, and without cutting anything dry, put the sprig on the ground, what the dry sprinkled with the land, and leave the green tail. I think they should, at least wake up a couple of kidneys and prophesy. If the land is taken from a new, that is, sealed package, then there is no need to water after planting, do not water for a couple of days, but spray a little so that the ground is only 1 cm wet. And if the ground is from an open bag, then after planting you can water, but literally a teaspoon.

There are a great many ficus trees, in nature they can grow in different climatic conditions, among them there are deciduous and non-deciduous (as they are called). For example, the ficuses Ali and Viandi are deciduous, for them it is considered normal partial loss of leaves in the winter. Perhaps, in the conditions where they grow in nature, they dump the foliage completely. But the room conditions still differ from the natural ones, at least in that the winter temperature in the apartment is higher. Therefore, following the call of nature, if they drop leaves, then not completely, but partially...

Question: Light small spots of incomprehensible origin appeared on the hoya leaves from the outside. It doesn't look like burnt ones either. What could it be? She feels like normal...

Irka: It's completely normal. Hoya always has small light green spots on the leaves - for this it is called "wax ivy." The young hoya does not have them, and with growing up they appear.

Question: Tell me how to grow yucca correctly, different sites advise different things, I'm confused... and her trunk will grow, or only leaves?

Natalie: Yucca loves sunlight, personally, she stands on the southern windowsill, which is not shaded by trees. In winter, there is always not enough light and the south window is just right. But in summer, sometimes you may need shading in the hottest hours - at noon on a sunny day. In the center of the room, yucca should not be placed at all, if it is large and grows in a tub or a large pot on the floor, then you need to put it at the window...

Recently, there have been so many drugs called immunomodulators, or phytohormones. That an inexperienced florist has the opinion that these drugs save from all diseases, pests and other misfortunes.

Indeed, quite often, with all conceivable problems in growing indoor flowers, they advise treatment with drugs such as epin, and recently zircon.
What are these drugs, are they so effective, how they differ and what they are for...

Adults are black flies with an elongated body about 3-4 mm long, which lay their whitish, translucent eggs in the roots of plants. Young, newly appeared mosquitoes can be about 1.5-2 mm light gray. The mosquitoes themselves, if they start, usually fly in large numbers, but do not cause harm, except for the diseases they carry and the larvae of other pests. And the larvae of the mushroom mosquito - whitish worms about 3-5 mm long with a black head - eat the root system of plants, from which it wilts, lags behind in growth, does not bloom, not rarely reaching complete death...