How to form a bush correctly
For preventive pruning, old dried leaves and faded buds are removed.
Lateral layers - stepchildren are also torn off to prevent thickening of the crown.
Adult overgrown violets also need to form a bush.
Their lower leaves usually grow strongly on the sides, the peduncles lengthen, which spoils the overall impression of the type of plant.
Complete pruning of the lower leaves can solve this problem. The method of rejuvenation is also suitable, in which, in order to obtain a new plant, the upper rosette of the violet is cut and rooted.
Violets of the RM variety Royal lace are one of the most beautiful representatives of their kind. With proper care, they can be a worthy addition to the finest collections of these indoor plants.
It will come in handy for owners of most popular varieties, for example Saintpaulia “Duchess”.
Diseases of the violet "Frosty cherry"
It is believed that this variety is quite hardy and not susceptible to disease. Also, pests are not very scary to strong violets. However, with improper care, certain problems can still arise.
If you do not observe the temperature regime, allow excessive moisture, water the violet with tap water, do not follow the lighting, then "Frosty Cherry" may well get sick, despite its strong immunity.
The most common diseases of this variety include:
- late blight;
- powdery mildew;
- rust;
- fusarium;
- gray rot.
Late blight is a disease as a result of which brown spots appear on the leaves of a flower, which become larger and larger. As a result of the development of the disease, the leaves begin to wilt, and in the end, the flower dies. First of all, the oldest, lowest leaves are affected.
If you want to keep the violet, try cutting off the top and root it. The lower part, along with the roots and soil, will have to be thrown away. If there were other plants next to the diseased violet, they must be processed, even if there are no signs of the disease.
Powdery mildew appears due to fungal spores, which can spread when violets come into contact with hands after infected specimens, or in any other way. At first, violet leaves become sloppy, a white bloom appears on them, which does not rub off.
If the plant is not treated, that powdery mildew will infect not only it, but also the surrounding violets, will begin to appear on the leaves in the form of sores, and the leaves will die off.
Rust on a violet "Frosty cherry" looks at first in the form of a brown "rusty" bloom on the leaves, and later, if the violet is left untreated, leads to a complete deformation of the leaf and a brown color. This usually happens when the plant is overflowing. Try not to water the violet for a while. and treat the leaves with a special anti-rust preparation.
Fusarium is the most dangerous disease. First, it attacks the roots of the violet, which begin to rot, and then it is transmitted to the trunks and leaves, as a result of which the leaves wither, and the plant dies.
Fusarium "Frosty Cherry" is especially common after flowering. when it is weakened, as well as violets that stand in cool rooms - at temperatures below 16 degrees, the risk of disease increases many times over.
It is impossible to save a diseased plant; it will have to be destroyed. It is best to prevent fusarium by maintaining the optimal temperature for violets, and proper watering with warm water.
Gray rot is usually caused by the inexperienced owner of Cherry Frost spraying their violets. As a result, mold appears on the leaves and flowers.
Such flowers and leaves should be removed, after which it is necessary to reduce watering, ventilate the room with a violet, and treat the flower with a fungicide. This disease is treatable.
Growing conditions
In order for our plant to bloom for a long time, certain care conditions must be observed.
Seat selection
This variety blooms for a long time, but the flowering intensity depends on how you position it correctly.
Expert opinion
Nesterenko Ilona Mikhailovna
Florist, houseplant specialist. Mistress of a country house with a garden and a vegetable garden
Illumination plays a huge role. In order for the flowers to have bright, saturated colors, you need a sufficient amount of light. If it is not enough, the flowers will fade over time.
Lack of light will also affect the leaves. The disadvantage will be expressed in the lengthening of the cuttings, and with an excess of light, the middle will be clogged.
It is recommended to place Saintpaulia on the east or west side. When located on the south side, try to exclude direct sunlight, which is destructive for it.
Pot selection
Which pots are best?
ClayPlastic
It is best to use a plastic container for planting, such pots have many holes, which improves aeration of the roots.
Their walls are smooth, which prevents the attachment of roots to them and, as a result, damage during transplantation.
Important! When reusing a plastic pot, it is placed in soapy water for a couple of hours. For disinfection
Also, the internal salt deposits are removed.
We calculate the size of the pot so that its size is 2/3 smaller than the outlet itself. Transplant only when the volume of the plant increases.
By neglecting advice when choosing a pot, you can ruin the plant. The roots of violets are not very developed in depth, using a large container, we "provoke" the root system to fill the entire volume.
This will affect the poor development of the aboveground part.
Soil selection
For violets, it is necessary to use a specially selected soil, which includes all the necessary micro and macro elements.
If it is not possible to purchase it in the store, you can mix the soil yourself. This will require:
- Garden or turf soil.
- Baking powder (vermiculite or perlite).
- Peat.
It is allowed to use a landless mixture. It is prepared on the basis of peat, with the addition of baking powder.
A feature is the complete lack of nutrients. Top dressing you make yourself at your discretion.
Whichever option you choose, the land should be:
- Lightweight.
- Breathable.
- Moisture-intensive.
- Not infected.
- With an acidity of 5.5-6.5 pH.
- With live microflora.
- With a set of essential micro and macro elements.
Watering
Health and active growth largely depend on proper watering. Moreover, the amount depends on many factors.
Periods when the plant requires increased watering:
- Increased room temperature (summer, nearby heater).
- Accommodation on the sunny side.
- Flowering time.
- Growth period (spring-autumn).
If the plant, for some reason, is not healthy or is in a cool room, then the amount of water consumed should be reduced, but not excluded.
Remember! If the violet you bought was on "wick" irrigation, overdrying the soil is destructive for it. Its roots are used to moist soil.
In watering, not only the amount of water is important, but also the quality. Be sure to use settled water at room temperature.
Temperature and humidity
This variety is the most unpretentious in terms of temperatures.
It is not afraid of changes and blooms beautifully both in winter and in summer.
Important! Frosty cherries do not tolerate high temperatures and high humidity. Flowers lose their doubleness
In winter, when the temperature gets lower, the white color predominates on the bush.
As the temperature rises, the color becomes brighter, and the complete disappearance of white is possible.
The rise in temperature will affect the size of the flowers, they become smaller.
Top dressing
For Saintpaulias, special fertilizers are used, developed specifically for them. But when using, you should be careful and not overdo it with the introduction.
Fertilizers with a high N (nitrogen) content are used for young plants. It allows you to build up green mass. Use K (potassium) and P (phosphorus) before bud formation and during flowering.
It is recommended to apply fertilizer to the substrate by the root method.
Fertilizing the plant in winter is not recommended. Violet should rest and gain strength.
Mr. Summer resident advises: how to change the flowers of violets of the Frosty cherry variety
With low light on the windowsill and a decrease in temperature, the owner of the plant will see petals in light colors, as the dark area decreases. Occasionally there is a pink color, like Le Isolde or Whipped Cream. Flowering with a lot of white tone can only occur during coolness.
When the chimera violet receives a sufficient amount of light, its main color darkens and even becomes burgundy with an excess of sunlight. During periods of high ambient temperature, red pigment becomes abundant (white pigment disappears).
Violet Frosty cherry is an attractive houseplant that novice amateurs and collectors are not indifferent to. The variety is easy to care for, not afraid of temperature changes, and in order to avoid deviations in color, it is enough to root cuttings from under beautiful peduncles with rich varietal pigmentation.
Usambara violet.
Family Gesneriaceae - Gesneriaceae.
Genus Saintpaulia hybrida - Hybrid Saintpaulia.
African violet saintpaulia hybrid.
Violets of breeders of the CIS countries - “M” (Morev).
Frosty Cherry (K. Morev).
Frosty Cherry, Moroznaia Vishnia (K. Morev) ..
Large double wavy white stars with wavy edges and a blurred cherry spot in the center of each petal.
Plain green quilted leaves. Leaves become darker with age than in children. It is necessary to select the lighting mode, with a lack of light, it can pull cuttings, with overexposure the center is clogged.
Semi-double, unusual cherry-red flowers with a white center and border. The flowers of the variety are large, but not from the first flowering. Over time, the flower darkens, becomes more saturated.
Flowers hold for quite a long time. The saturation of the flowers depends on the intensity of the light. If a blooming violet is rearranged to a zone with a lower light intensity, then it will begin to brighten over time.
When cool, the cultivar blooms with a lot of white. With heat, the red pigment becomes a lot, up to the complete disappearance of the white. At low temperatures, the overall dark area decreases.
It always blooms luxuriously in winter and summer, with a lack of light, the peduncles can stretch out, and the flowers are slightly paler than usual. The variety loves warmer conditions, but reacts poorly to a combination of heat and high humidity (double flowers become simple). It is necessary to ventilate the room.
The lightest and most prolific of the red-flowered varieties, it is absolutely unpretentious, not afraid of any temperature changes. To avoid sporting deviations in color, it is better to root cuttings from under the most beautiful peduncles with a rich varietal color. The variety is very easy to care for, even a novice amateur will grow this beauty.
Do you know that…?
When purchasing an adult flowering plant, choose plants with unopened buds. Such specimens will bloom longer. If the flowers have already blossomed, choose those in which the flowers have just opened, it is desirable that there are buds among them. An adult plant with formed buds can bloom for two months or more, depending on the variety and keeping conditions.
Useful properties and uses of violets
This houseplant not only pleases households with its beautiful flowering. Violet is actively used in folk medicine. It has anti-inflammatory, laxative and diuretic effects. Violet herb helps with bronchitis, sore throat, whooping cough, headache, migraines. A decoction based on the herb of violets can be used for external and internal use. Infusion of violet flowers is used for convulsions, epilepsy, tinnitus.
Popular folk recipes from violet leaves and flowers:
- With angina. Pour 50 g of plant flowers with 200 ml of alcohol. Close the lid and leave to infuse for 7 days. The prepared tincture is taken in 30 ml before meals 3 times a day. To achieve an effective result, you can gargle with this tincture.
- When coughing. In an equal amount of about 50 g, take dried leaves and violet flowers. Then pour a glass of hot water and leave to infuse for a day. Then strain, heat slightly over low heat and sweeten. Take 4 times a day for a teaspoon. Duration of treatment is about 7 days.
- For insomnia. Take 3-4 grams of flowers and pour boiled milk (200 ml). Leave in this state for 30 minutes. The prepared composition must be drunk before bedtime, and the flowers must be eaten.
It is recommended to add a decoction of violets to the water for bathing babies. With regular use, it helps to cure rickets, eczema, scrofula and skin rashes. When using violets to treat various diseases, remember that the plant is poisonous. It is recommended to consult a doctor before using decoctions and infusions based on violet leaves and flowers.
Video about blooming violet "Frosty cherry":
If you put the flowering Saintpaulia of this variety in an area with less illumination, then the violet petals of the Winter Cherry variety will begin to brighten. Indoor flowers of the Frosty cherry species prefer a warm climate, because their ancestors are from West Africa, but they do not tolerate high temperatures in combination with high humidity. In the cold, the intensity of the shade becomes weaker.
If the temperature outside the window is low in flowers, white predominates, and in the heat, red predominates, to the point that the white areas on the petals of Saintpaulia may completely disappear. The flowers of this variety are large in size, but this feature is noticeable from the second and subsequent flowering. It may seem that the plants of this variety bloom better with a candle flame, but most likely this is a subjective feeling.
As for the leaves, they are slightly lighter in young plants than in mature Saintpaulias. It should be noted that at all kinds of indoor flower exhibitions, violets of the Frosty Cherry variety are invariably popular among visitors due to their bright and rich color.
Possible growing problems
With all the variety of forms of leaves and flowers, Saintpaulia, with improper agricultural techniques, demonstrate similar problems, which it is quite possible to avoid.
Leaf problems
Soft leaves with brown or black spots on them may indicate the following care errors:
- wrong watering regime;
- too high or too low temperature;
- sunburn;
- overdose of fertilizers and, as a consequence, the defeat of fungal diseases.
The damaged leaves are removed, the plant is removed from the soil, the roots are inspected, transplanted into a fresh substrate, removed from direct sunlight and watering is reduced. Top dressing is resumed only after the turgor of the remaining leaves is completely restored. If the roots have all become lethargic and brown or black, then rejuvenation of the rosette is recommended. The entire root part is cut with a sharp knife along the trunk and the rosette is re-rooted in the substrate.
Sick Saintpaulia
Pests
Violets can be affected by the most common pests of indoor plants: spiderweb and other types of mites, thrips, mealybugs, aphids, and scabies.If dry small brown spots are found on the leaves, treatment with specialized preparations should be carried out: fitoverm, actara, and the soil should be changed to fresh.
Diseases
Common diseases of Saintpaulias are root rot that appears after the flood, as well as vascular bacteriosis - a consequence of overheating of the outlet and sunburn. Only the restoration of proper agricultural technology will help against rot, or you will have to select healthy leaves and root them
With vascular bacteriosis, the plant dies very quickly, so it is so important not to overheat.
Signs of improper care
A healthy violet has very elastic leaves with a noticeable glossy sheen of the leaf plate between the bristles on its surface. Leaves grow on rather long petioles that do not interfere with each other. Flowers appear regularly in abundance. An excessively thickened dull rosette, shrinking flowers, lethargic and too dark or unusually light leaves indicate that the agricultural technique in this case is wrong.
Frosty cherries are a magnificent variety that hundreds of collectors fell in love with at first sight. It is not difficult to grow it; in its care, the plant requires the use of standard techniques common to all Uzambara violets. The main thing is not to overheat the flower in the sun and do not flood it with water during watering.
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Appearance description: leaves, flowers, etc.
"Frosty cherry" is a violet with large double flowers of about 4 cm. The color range is presented in both raspberry and pale pink shades. The petal has a color transition, from a rich cherry red in the center to a pale white strip along the edge.
An impressive characteristic of the grower is the ability of the flower to change color as the temperature in the environment changes. The flowers turn dark cherry at high temperatures and, as the temperature decreases, lightening occurs. And also, depending on the flowering time, lighting stability, saturation also changes.
The rosette of the plant has a standard shape and size, represented by simple pointed leaves. Long, up to 10 months, and abundant flowering makes the plant one of the favorites of gardeners. The number of peduncles can be increased with the help of special fertilizers. Biological rest is extremely useful. The appearance of darkening petals, as a rule, indicates the aging of the plant.
Violet "Winter cherry" has huge flowers, semi-double to the touch, with wavy edges. The petals in the center are dense cherry, almost black in color, as if frosty along the edge. This variety is also characterized by a change in color with a change in temperature.
History of the species
In the process of domestication of the violet, an incomplete mutation occurred in the cells of the flower. Most of the cells received the characteristics of the mother plant, and a smaller part - the characteristics of another species. Since then, in the process of reproduction, violets-chimeras appear.
Expert opinion
Pavlova Ekaterina Mikhailovna - agronomist, landscape designer
Participant of scientific conferences
Chimeric mutations still appear spontaneously. For example, the owner of a violet with pink petals, after rooting the cuttings, may have a plant with purple stripes in the middle of the petals. Contrary to the efforts of scientists, it is impossible to artificially obtain such mutations under laboratory conditions. They arise by themselves.
The fact is that tissues of different cellular composition fit tightly to each other, but do not mix.
It remains only to fix the arisen traits in a stable combination by selection. However, maintaining a stable color is not an easy and very painstaking business, since the mutation does not manifest itself in every daughter plant.
