Plant care
Watering takes a special place in the care of the violet. Excessive soil moisture, as well as its overdrying, is not permissible. You need to water the plant 2-3 times a week, depending on the air temperature. For irrigation, use warm water that has been settled for at least a day.
Attention. Watering with cold water will shock the root system and provoke its decay
For watering violets, use a watering can with a long spout or a syringe pear. Water should not come into contact with the leaves of the plant or the center of the outlet. If water accidentally gets on the leaves during watering, they should be immediately blotted with a napkin.
It is important to properly water the Vodyanoy violet. You can water the violet through the pallet, placing a flower pot in it at a height of 2/3
After 30 minutes, the violet will absorb the required amount of liquid and the pot can be removed from the tray. Bottom watering will help prevent waterlogging of violets.
You can water the violet through the pallet by placing a flower pot 2/3 high in it. After 30 minutes, the violet will absorb the required amount of liquid and the pot can be removed from the tray. Bottom watering will help prevent the violets from becoming waterlogged.
Experienced flower growers advise using wick irrigation for watering violets. To organize it, a pot with a violet is placed with a cord with a diameter of 0.3 to 0.5 centimeters. The end of the cord is released through the drainage hole and placed in a vessel of water located under a pot with a violet.
The plant absorbs the required amount of moisture through the cord.
Organization of feeding violets Water
Normal growth and abundant flowering of violets is possible only if it is provided with all the necessary nutrients. The plant needs nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in sufficient quantities. Excess nutrition is just as harmful as lack.
For optimal plant nutrition, the following fertilizers must be used:
- Mineral substances - superphosphates, which provide active growth and flowering.
- Complex mineral mixtures.
- Organic fertilizers - humus or humus.
Organics for dressing are used during the formation of a leaf outlet. Phosphorus-potassium - during bud formation and flowering. Fertilizers are applied every 2-3 weeks under the root.
Fertilizing violets is not recommended in the following cases:
- After transplant within 30 days;
- In case of weakening of the plant by diseases and pests;
- In the heat and in the winter.
Important. It is not recommended to use fertilizers in tablets and granules for feeding violets.
These fertilizers are intended for large plants. Applying them to violets growing in small pots can disturb the dosage and harm the plants.
Violet Water is fed with mineral and organic fertilizers.
Violet Water Hygiene and Rosette Formation
Violet leaves should be regularly cleaned from dust settling on the villi. For this, the plant is bathed under the shower once a month. The violet is placed in a bath and washed with a weak stream of warm water. After bathing, the plant should not be immediately exposed to the window so that water droplets do not provoke burns.
Violet Water independently forms a beautiful rosette, but you need to help her by turning the pot 45 degrees every 3-4 days. The rosette must be regularly freed from old leaves and drying peduncles.
Once every 4-5 years, the violet rosette is rejuvenated. All the leaves of the lower row are removed from the plant, then the crown is cut off and rooted in water. After the roots are formed, the rosette is planted in a pot of soil.
Drought tolerant steppe plants with flowers
This chapter lists steppe flowers with names that do not tolerate stagnant moisture.
Adonis (ADONIS). Buttercup family.
Spring adonis (A. vernalis) is an elegant spring plant of the steppes of Europe and Siberia.It is a perennial with a short rhizome and branched stems that form a bush.
20-30 cm high. Leaves are light green, finely divided.
The flowers are single, bright yellow, up to 8 cm in diameter, shiny and very elegant. Adonis blooms in early spring (late April - early May).
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with rich, loose alkaline soils, well-drained. This drought-resistant steppe plant with flowers does not tolerate stagnant water.
Reproduction. Preferably by seeds, as it does not tolerate the division of the bush. Seeds do not sprout amicably, within a year. Sowing freshly harvested. Planting density - 5-6 bushes per 1 m2.
Adonis is a difficult plant to cultivate - an object for experienced hobbyists. But with proper planting, it can decorate a flower garden for 10-15 years without transplants.
Anaphalis (ANAPHALIS). Aster family (Compositae).
Two species of this drought-resistant steppe plant growing in East Asia and North America are cultivated. A bush with erect stems 50-80 cm high, with white-tomentose pubescence of stems, leaves and flowers. Leaves are narrow, linear, entire. At the ends of the shoots there are small silvery baskets in the corymbose inflorescence. Self-seeding easily.
Types and varieties:
Anaphalis three-veined (A. triplinervis) - with larger leaves.
Anafalis pearl (A. margaritacea) - the leaves are smaller.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with dry neutral soils.
Reproduction. By dividing the bush (spring, late summer), seeds (sowing before winter). Transplant and division after 3-4 years. Planting density -9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Used in mixed flower beds, mixborders, rockeries.
Goniolimon (GONIOLIMON). Lead family.
Steppe and semi-desert perennials, typical tumbleweeds, forming a dense spherical bush 10-40 cm high from highly branched inflorescences and oblong ovoid leaves, collected in a ground rosette.
Look at the photo: these steppe flowers, which are silvery "balls", can decorate any flower garden on dry soil and a winter bouquet.
Types and varieties:
Beautiful goniolimon (G. speciosum) - rosette leaves are rounded, gray, inflorescence in the form of "deer antlers".
Goniolimon Tatar (G. tataricum) - leaves are ovoid, pointed, inflorescence is looser, corymbose.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with deep, well-drained, sandy soils. They do not tolerate stagnant moisture. Resistant to salinity.
Reproduction. Preferably by seeds, seedlings bloom in the 2-3rd year, it is better to replant young plants. Perhaps cuttings in the spring. Stocking density - single.
An excellent plant for rockeries or as tapeworms on dry slopes, against the background of an inert layer (crushed stone or gravel). They are also used in arrangement, especially in winter bouquets.
How to care?
White violets, like any other varieties of indoor plants, need proper care, which begins with planting a flower in a pot. In order for the snow-white beauty to take root faster, begin intensive growth and further delight with lush flowering, it should be planted in garden soil mixed with sand, while a drainage layer of expanded clay is necessarily poured onto the bottom of the pot.
Lighting plays a huge role in the development of such colors: violets are very fond of light, but direct sunlight is contraindicated for them. In winter, when the length of the day is reduced, violets need to be additionally illuminated with fluorescent lamps. In addition, the flower should be provided with regular watering, feeding, pruning and placed in a room with a humidity of at least 50%.
Temperature regime
Growing white violets requires a temperature between +20 and + 22 ° C. The plant is afraid of temperature changes in the room, and if the regime is unstable, it may die. Also, the development of flowers is badly affected by a high temperature exceeding + 30 ° C, under such conditions, their foliage becomes pale, and the flowers decrease in size.This plant can also die from drafts.
Top dressing
The main criterion for caring for violets is the timely introduction of amino acids, vitamins and microelements into the soil. Only mixtures specially designed for violets should be used as fertilizers. Top dressing is recommended to be applied at least twice a week.
At the same time, it is important to pay attention to the limitations
Watering
White violets are very moody to water. For them, both lack and excess of moisture are dangerous. Water procedures are best performed twice a week, it must be done with settled warm water. Many growers prefer to moisten flowers as follows: water is poured into a large tray, and pots with plants are placed there, they are left in a container for half an hour.
Fight disease
With improper care, white Saintpaulia can get sick. Most often it is affected by powdery mildew, rust, late blight and gray rot. At the same time, powdery mildew is considered the most common disease of violets, in which a white bloom appears on the foliage of the plant. To save the plant from death, they are treated with bentlan and foundation. Gray rot is characterized by the appearance of gray spots on all parts of the plant, including the peduncle; for the treatment of the flower, they are transplanted into a new soil and treated with a fungicide.
As for late blight and rust, they are no less dangerous for violets.
Pruning
Despite its miniature appearance, the white violet needs periodic pruning, thanks to which it takes on a beautiful shape and has three tiers. In addition, pruning is carried out to remove yellowed foliage from below. The plant is cut (plucked) along the old foliage, leaving the central young rosette intact. In the event that the flower is heavily overgrown with stepchildren, they also need to be pulled out or cut out, thus freeing the base.
