Recommendations for growing calla lilies at home

Calla is a spectacular and very beautiful plant. That is why many people have a desire to grow a flower at home. He can decorate any room, regardless of its purpose. Growing calla lilies at home is a fairly simple process that allows an inexperienced grower to perform this action.

Content:

• Features of growing a plant
• Requirements for room calla lilies
• Pot and soil selection
• Transplant features
• Reproduction of flowers from bulbs
• Propagation using seeds
• Calla lily care after flowering

Features of growing a plant

When caring for calla lilies, certain rules must be followed:

• During transplants indoor flowers are strictly forbidden to heavily cover these plants with soil, otherwise it can lead to rotting.
• Occasionally, the top layer of soil in the calla pot is cleaned. In this case, it is replaced, for which a nutrient substrate is used.
• The flowering of one flower of this plant is carried out within a month.
• After planting an indoor flower, its germination is not observed for a long time, which is explained by the initial formation root system... That is why a person should not worry about the similarity of the plant.
• To evaporate excess moisture from the soil, only a porous pot should be used.
• Almost all types of indoor flowers do not tolerate the neighborhood in the same pot, which requires them to be planted singly.
• The tubers of this plant are characterized by easy damage, which requires care when digging them up.
• Cala is a living barometer, which is explained by the appearance of droplets on its leaves before the rain.

If you know in detail about all the features of callas and follow the rules exactly leaving behind them, it is as easy as possible to grow a full-fledged and exuberantly flowering plant.

Requirements for room calla lilies

In order to ensure the full growth and development of plants, it is necessary to grow it under the most favorable conditions.

Kala needs optimal:

1. Lighting
2. Temperature
3. Air humidity
4. Watering

Grow this potted plant is quite simple. But this plant is grown in warm climates, so it needs to provide an optimal indoor temperature. If the air temperature in the room does not exceed +8 degrees, then this may negatively affect its development. When growing calla lilies in winter, they are transferred to a room that is characterized by the presence of appropriate heating devices. It is best to grow this plant at temperatures from +20 to +25 degrees.

Kala is a rather demanding plant for lighting.

it is a rather thermophilic indoor flower. If you choose the right place for growing calla lilies, then this will be the key to success. In the presence of diffused sunlight or partial shade, sufficient conditions can be provided for growing calla lilies.This plant is characterized by the correct formation of flower stalks only if the daylight hours lasts for 12 hours. This is a very important condition for growing an indoor flower. After the houseplant has faded, it will need to provide 8 hours of daylight.

Kala is a moisture-loving plant. That is why it is necessary to produce regular watering indoor flower. If the feces bloom, then she needs to provide abundant watering... During the dormant period of the calla, it is provided with moderate watering. During the cultivation of this plant, it is necessary to ensure that the room has a high level of humidity.

Pot and soil selection

The pot in growing an indoor flower plays a rather important role. If you are growing Ethiopian calla lilies, then it is necessary to select a container that is characterized by large sizes. When using a small pot in this case, calla lilies will not bloom. If you contribute fertilizers into a container of small size, then you will achieve the growth of only the green part of the plant.

For planting one flower, a container is selected whose diameter is more than 20 centimeters.

When choosing a soil for growing a houseplant, it is necessary to give preference to porous structures. This allows you to remove excess moisture from the pot as efficiently as possible and provide the plant with normal respiration. In order for the plant to grow constantly, it is necessary to carry out the correct selection of the soil mixture. For this purpose, most often a special mixture is used, which includes garden soil, rotted manure, sand. In this case, it is necessary to provide an indicator of soil acidity.

With the correct selection of capacity and soil for calla lilies, its full-fledged bloom... Also, this process greatly facilitates the work of the grower in the process of growing calla lilies.

Transplant features

If the flower is damaged or too weak, then it transfer not produced. To ensure the most comfortable habituation of this plant to a new place, soil is used, which in its composition is very similar to natural.

Before transplanting this plant, its roots are washed.

In order to avoid damage to the flower, the procedure is carried out as carefully as possible, otherwise improper behavior with calla lilies will lead to its infection with various diseases.

A small amount of soil is poured into a new pot, on which the flower is placed. But that doesn't mean the end transplants... The roots of this plant are sprinkled with the substrate as carefully as possible. After that, it is produced watering calla lilies. This plant is quite demanding for abundant watering. It is also necessary to apply this procedure to the sprouts. These measures should be applied without overdoing it.

Reproduction of flowers from bulbs

The most common cultivation of this plant is carried out using bulbs. For this:

• It is necessary to choose only high-quality sprouts, which are characterized by the presence of the strongest root system.
• They must initially be placed in a pot and covered with a small amount of earth.
• The soil layer should not exceed 5 centimeters.
• If the plant is planted in winter, then it needs to provide a temperature of 8-14 degrees.
• When transplanting calla lilies in the summer, an indoor or outdoor temperature of 22-25 degrees is provided.

In order to provide the plant with early flowering and saturation of the shade of the bedspread that surrounds the plant, it must be placed on a windowsill characterized by a large amount of light. At the same time, at night, a temperature of +16 degrees should be ensured. If this plant is planted in winter, then it is necessary to provide it with additional lighting to extend daylight hours to 10-11 hours.

After planting an indoor flower, he needs to provide appropriate care:

• Kalle needs to provide moderate and frequent watering... At the same time, they are guided by the moisture level of the earthen coma. It should always be moderately moist.
• This plant must be fed twice a month. For this purpose, the most commonly used liquid feeding in the form of water-soluble fertilizers for indoor flowers.

When growing calla lilies from bulbs in the summer, it is produced transfer... For this, an indoor flower is dug out of the pot, old offspring and leaves are removed from it. Next, you need to transplant this plant into a new pot.

Reproduction of Ethiopian calla lilies is carried out dividing the bush.

To carry out reproduction, it is necessary to separate its offspring as carefully as possible before transplanting an indoor flower. Its disembarkation is carried out in a separate pot. The transplant of this plant and its reproduction is carried out in the winter. When calla lilies reproduce by offspring or mother bushes, they are separated from the bush in the spring.

Reproduction of this plant in a variety of ways is a fairly simple procedure. To do this, it is necessary to correctly select the pot and material for transplantation.

Propagation using seeds

If you want to use the seed method of propagation of calla lilies, then you need to know that it differs in laboriousness:

• Before planting the seeds of this plant, they are soaked. For this purpose, cotton pads or paper napkins are most often used, between which the seeds of an indoor flower are placed.
• Further, the material is wetted with ordinary water. Seeds in this form, it is necessary to place it in a warm place for three days.
• After the seeds are pierced, it is necessary to plant them in a container. In this case, they must be sprinkled with a thin layer of soil.
• After the emergence of seedlings, the strongest of them are left in the pot, and the rest are pulled out in the simplest way.
• At the end of a month after the emergence of the sprouts, they are dissected and deposited in separate bowls.
• With a thickened planting, their cultivation can be carried out until the end of spring without thinning.

In May, calla lilies are planted in a permanent place. In this case, it is necessary to plant one plant in a pot. If it is too long, then a distance of 40 centimeters is maintained between individual indoor flowers. Care seedlings this plant is carried out in exactly the same way as with any other method of propagation.

The propagation of this plant by seeds is a fairly long, but not difficult process.

If you like to take care of indoor plants and you have enough patience, then you can easily use this method, especially since the feces have a high percentage of similarity.

Calla lily care after flowering

It is necessary to take care of calla lilies, which were planted from tubers and rhizomes, in different ways. If you have a rhizome Ethiopian calla, then you need to know that in the summer it begins a dormant period. At this time, there is a slowdown and cessation of growth. This plant begins to turn yellow. During this period, a decrease in watering of this plant is made. Callou must be taken out to the balcony or to another place with good lighting.

In early June, the indoor flower must be removed from the container, all yellowed leaves and offspring are removed from it.

Next is produced transfer of this plant in a pot, which is filled with new soil, characterized by the presence of a large amount of nutrients. Next, this plant is placed in a bright place and provided with abundant watering. Also during this period, feces need fertilization. It is such a cycle that a rhizome indoor flower has.

Tuberous calla lilies during the dormant period are characterized by gradual greening. During this period, yellowing and drying of the leaves is observed. A careful digging of garden tuberous calla lilies is also carried out at the end of September. This procedure must be carried out as carefully as possible so as not to damage the tubers. Next, you need to free the tubers from the soil and rinse under running water. They are kept for 14 days in order for the nutrients from the ground part of the plant to pass into the tubers. Next, the dead leaves are removed.

Caring for calla lilies during the rest period is a fairly simple procedure.

Despite this, it is mandatory. Otherwise, it may negatively affect the period flowering... Calla lilies are characterized by ease of care. That is why it is within the power of any florist. To do this, you just need to adhere to a few simple rules.

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