Home gerbera - a very bright and life-affirming flower! There are few people who would not like a bouquet of gerberas, but if you grow such beauty on the windowsill, then the mood will always be on top. Now you can buy a pot of gerberas in almost every good flower shop, and the colors are so diverse that you can even pick flowers for the interior.
Home gerbera
Home gerbera, as a rule, is short and has, depending on the variety, from pink (intense pink) to bright orange color. Room gerbera is a beautiful "daisy" up to 15 cm in diameter, there are also so-called double varieties. Recently, more often in many countries, for the decoration of windows, they buy gerbera. The plant is with a very pronounced ability to reproduce itself. To date, there are about 80 species of gerberas. It looks very beautiful on balconies or loggias, due to bright and diverse colors. Room gerberas - one of the most successful solutions for the design of interiors. Very fond of this flower and designers, and florists. In the room conditions, the so-called Giemsona gerbera is most often grown.How to care for gerberas
The plant is not only very beautiful, but also quite unpretentious, so it is a pleasure to look after gerberas, it is only necessary to observe several rules. This plant came to us from South Africa, and hence the conditions for it should be appropriate:
- The light for the gerbera should be sufficiently bright, direct or diffuse. If you want the gerbera to bloom in the winter, highlight it with an artificial light source.
- The optimum temperature for gerbera in the flowering period is up to 24 ° C. In winter, when the flowering is over, the temperature should be no lower than 12-14 ° C.
- How often to water a gerbera? The most important rule: a room gerbera likes only warm water, at least 20 ° C. Requires a uniform and abundant watering throughout the year, frequent spraying is also welcome. Do not allow water to stagnate in the soil and in a deciduous rosette, this will provoke the appearance of powdery mildew and fungus.
- An important moment in the care of this flower is fertilizing . Home gerbera needs additional fertilizing 3-4 times a month, but only with weakly concentrated and mineral fertilizers. This promotes abundant flowering and good growth of the flower.
- To duplicate a room gerbera it is possible seeds, division of a bush (as a rule, so propagate valuable grades), a cuttings. It is best to divide the gerbera in spring and at the age of not less than 3-4 years, it is necessary to leave 3 points of growth. Rooting the "divisions" will be up to 11 months. If you decide to work with seedlings, it is better to do this also in the spring, using leafy soil with the addition of sand, humus and turf. From sowing to flowering, not less than 10-11 months will pass.
Even the most careful care of the flower does not guarantee that you will not run into diseases and pests. The surest way to protect yourself from such troubles is to conduct preventive treatment of the plant with solutions of trichodermine or foundation. If the use of chemistry is not for you, it is quite possible to cope with this problem with a conventional solution of potassium permanganate. It is not uncommon to treat the plant with preparations against ticks.