Datura indian and caring for it

Datura Indian or datura blooms with very beautiful large phonographs and has a very pleasant fragrance. It belongs to the nightshade family, just like tomatoes, bell peppers, potatoes, eggplants. This plant has a branched stem up to half a meter in height. There are varieties with white and light lilac flowers. Datura Indian is a hallucinogen because it contains alkaloids. It is better not to put flowers in the bedroom or nursery, if you stay in the same room for a long time with them, you may get a headache or other signs of poisoning. The plant is also dangerous for pets.

Datura is grown in seedlings, sowing seeds in early March. Before sowing, they need stratification, so they are kept in the refrigerator for about a week. Seedlings are planted in open ground at about the same time as tomatoes. Datura Indian blooms around the beginning of July. Its luxurious flowers are very short-lived, they wither in just a couple of days. But this is compensated by the appearance of new gramophones, so that flowering continues until late autumn. This thermophilic perennial cannot survive winters in the middle lane.

It can be sown again every year, like ordinary annuals, or it can be dug up with the ground, placed in a flower pot and stored all winter at a temperature of 15-17 degrees in a bright room. In this case, it should be moistened as the soil dries out. By winter, the Indian dope will shed its leaves, and in the spring it will give new shoots. Several of them can be cut and rooted.