Growing conditions
If you create optimal conditions, then the flower can delight you with year-round flowering. Let's take a closer look at what our violet needs.
Priming
Flower shops sell a special potting mix for violets, but not all types can be used. Better to buy Terra-Vita soil.
You can also prepare it from turf and leafy soil, humus and sand. It is necessary to observe the proportions of 0.5: 2: 1: 1. Add a spoonful of superphosphate and half a glass of bone meal to the resulting mixture. Mix the ingredients very thoroughly. Soil for violets should perfectly absorb liquid, allow air to pass through and be loose.
Pot
The pot should be selected small, since the violet does not take up much space.
It is better for young flowers to choose a container of 5-6 cm, for adults - 7-9 cm.Large violets need to buy a pot of 11-13 cm.
You need to calculate individually as follows - the size should be 3 times smaller than the outlet.
Lighting
Violet likes light, so you need to place it on a north, north-east, or north-west window sill.
The south window is also suitable for this purpose, but it is better to curtain it up to the middle.
Daylight hours for her lasts from 13 to 14 hours, so in winter it is worth making artificial lighting.
Temperature
The temperature should ideally be between 20 and 24 degrees. A higher temperature is also suitable for a young violet, but it is better to keep adults in a twenty-degree temperature.
In winter, a decrease in temperature can be tolerated, but not lower than 16 degrees.
You should not put the violet in a place where there are a lot of drafts and the door often opens.
Attention! If the window sill gets very cold in winter, it is better to make a wooden or plywood stand. Otherwise, it can be bad for the roots.
Air humidity
Humidity should be about 65%, never less than 45%. If the indicator is close to this mark, it is better to place vessels with liquid next to it. You do not need to spray, as water should not be on the flowers and leaves of the violet.
Rooting
Leaves are used for propagation of culture.
It is important to select a healthy medium leaf and separate it from the mother plant with minimal damage. To do this, make an incision in the stem at an angle of about 45 degrees.
Then the sheet is placed in a glass with boiled cool water, which must be disinfected before that by dissolving one tablet of activated carbon.
The roots will be visible in a couple of weeks. After that, you can continue the process. The leaf should be placed in a vessel with holes made in it for oxygen circulation. A drainage layer is placed on the bottom, then the soil is located. It must be enriched with vermiculite or perlite. The leaf must be planted up to 3 cm deep, and then watered.
Sports can be spontaneously variegated. The light border of the petals may not be too pronounced. If you want the exact coloration of this variety, you can root the violet with the help of stepsons.
Features of the view
The root system of this species is poorly developed in length. Therefore, she does her work for a short time. As the plant grows, the roots are renewed: old ones are replaced by new ones. As a result, violets should be planted in small pots that restrict the roots and allow maximum air access to the flower. The drainage layer and the presence of holes in the pot also contribute to this.
The variety of varieties of violets is astounding. In appearance, they are different: with a border around the edges and without, in the shape of a star, corrugated or simple. By leaves, they are divided into female and male types.
Home care
Saintpaulias are capricious plants.For them it is necessary:
- Find the right place;
- Or create suitable conditions in the house for growing them.
Otherwise, under unfavorable conditions, the purchased violet of the Zivay variety will not take root and die.
You need to watch out for:
- Daylight;
- Room temperature.
Then the varietal violet will thank you with lush and abundant flowering.
Proper watering and feeding
Water the violet with settled water at room temperature. So that salts do not settle on the top of the ground, which will not allow the delicate roots of Saintpaulia to receive normal nutrition.
The earthen lump should always be wet, the soil should not be allowed to dry out, but the top layer should dry out a little. Excessive unreasonable watering of violets will lead to the formation of root rot, which can provoke the rapid death of the entire plant.
Top dressing is carried out regularly, with active growth and flowering of violets, and during the dormant period, liquid dressings are added to the water for irrigation once every two weeks.
Violets need proper watering.
Advice! In order for the variegation of the Zivay rosette and the flowering to be spectacular, violet growers use fertilizer with a high content of phosphorus in the composition.
When the soil is waterlogged, the variegated variety does not recover as easily as others. At the same time, its leaves become covered with brown spots, and the variety, if excessive moisture stagnates, can quickly die.
Lighting and temperature
For the normal development of children and the growth of an adult outlet, the duration of daylight hours should be at least 10 -12 hours.
Morevsky variety Zivay, like all variegated varieties, does not like high temperatures, the optimal temperature for it is 18-22 degrees.
The variety does not like bright sunlight, as well as too high a temperature. When exceeding which at the outlet:
- The center thickens;
- She stops growing;
- And it can even dry out the formed buds.
In cool conditions, Zivay thrives. At the same time, the freshness of flowering remains for at least three weeks.
Air humidity
In winter or summer, the violet can suffer from insufficient air humidity. The optimal indicator is considered to be 50-60%. To increase the humidity in the room, automatic air humidifiers are used. Can be used:
To grow Saintpaulia, moist air is needed.
- Decorative containers with water;
- Or put the pots on wet trays:
- Moss;
- Or expanded clay.
What kind of soil does he prefer?
They buy special soil for Saintpaulias. It must be well breathable; for this, baking powder is added to it.
Baking powder:
- Vermiculite;
- Perlite;
- Foam balls;
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Sphagnum moss.
Important! Baking powder is needed so that the soil is not compressed and the delicate roots of the violet receive enough oxygen.
To prepare the substrate, take 1 part of baking powder, for example, perlite and mix with 2 parts of soil for Saintpaulia. If the violet grows on wick irrigation, then even more baking powder is added to the substrate in a 1: 1 ratio.
Pruning and hygiene
As the green mass grows on the outlet, juvenile, all asymmetrical and damaged leaves are removed from it. The stepsons who have appeared in the sinuses are removed, otherwise the rosette will grow curved.
Attention! The variety forms well itself, therefore, having correctly formed a young plant in the future, an adult rosette will not bring much trouble.
Reproduction methods
The varietal violet is propagated in three ways:
- Rooting a cutting (leaf);
- Stepsons;
- By rooting the peduncle.
Most often, the violet is propagated by leaf cuttings. To preserve the maternal properties of the plant, it is better not to take too old or young leaves for cuttings.
A stalk from the second row of rosette leaves is best suited. If a violet is blooming at this time, it is better to choose a stalk from under the most beautiful flower that has good doubleness.
Transplant rules, rejuvenation
The grown children are transplanted by the transfer method into a new larger pot when the roots become cramped. But, you should not immediately plant the outlet in a pot that is too large:
- The diameter of the pot should be smaller;
- And violet leaves should be 2/3 larger than its diameter.
Adult violets, who are several years old, undergo a re-rooting procedure:
- An elongated bare stem is cut off;
- The lower layer of leaves is removed;
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And they are planted in a new substrate in a greenhouse.
After new roots have formed, the plant is taken out of the greenhouse and put in its usual place.
Violet Mother's heart: variety description and characteristics
Violet Mother's Heart: photo
The variety of violets Mother's Heart described in this article was obtained quite recently in two thousand and fourteen, by the violet grower A.P. Tarasov. The flowers of this beauty reach eight centimeters in diameter and are framed with a snow-white border around the perimeter. A lot of flowers are formed on one bush, they grow in a "shock". The plant itself is not spreading and not wide, such characteristics make it attractive and create individuality. Bright lemon-colored stamens are the end point of the mother's heart violet image
The flowering period is short, but it will be enough to get an aesthetic pleasure from the beauty of the culture. Over the years, the violet only improves, it grows, gains vitality, and with each next transplant, the color becomes only richer and eventually acquires a burgundy color. The texture and shape characteristic of the species is acquired, and the petals become wavy.
At the peak of its maturity, covered with beautiful flowers, the plant becomes beautiful, according to everyone who could see this beauty.
The leaf plates are smaller in comparison with the petals. The color of the leaves is faded green, and the shape sharpens to the upper edge, but they begin their growth from a flat rosette. The chaotic distribution of light and dark color does not leave anyone indifferent. Plant breeding is done with leaves. For this, only healthy leaf plates are selected, since only in this case the least stress will be applied to the mother bush during the separation process. This manipulation is performed as follows:
- The incision in the stem should be at a forty-five degree angle.
- The sheet is placed in a container with water (boiled or settled) at room temperature.
Violet water specialists recommend to disinfect the water by dissolving the “Carbo activatus” tablet in it.
The first violet roots You can see the mother's heart in about 10 - 14 days, this will indicate that it is time to start the next stage. The leaf is transferred into a container with soil and additional holes on its surface, which are made for better air exchange. The bottom is covered with a drainage layer on which the soil is laid out. For better growth and development, the earth is mixed with minerals such as hydromica or perlite. Violet leaf AB The mother's heart is deepened by three centimeters and the soil moisture is controlled by constant watering.
If you find that the distinguishing border on the petals is not bright or inconspicuous, you should switch to the method of breeding using the pinching method. The scheme for its implementation is the same as when separating the leaf, but you can take a chance and plant the seedling directly into the soil.
