Kuril tea, cultivation and care for which we describe in our article, is one of the plants that must be kept on its site. A beautiful, flower-strewn bush, decorating rock gardens and flower beds , is also incredibly useful. He came to us from the Far East, from the Kurils, from where the name came from.
Those gardeners who have chicken tea on the plots, cook with pleasure infusion from it, and note that "fatigue, as a hand removes" after its use. And with diseases of the stomach, it is recommended to drink it.
Because of these beneficial properties, and also because of the beauty, gardeners are interested in the plant of kuril tea, planting and caring for it.
Cultivation of Kuril tea
Reproduction and planting of Kuril tea can be done in several ways:
- Seed sowing.
- Vegetative way:
- division of the bush;
- stem stems;
- offsprings of the rhizome;
- layers.
The way how to multiply the chicken tea you naturally choose based on the possibilities. If you want to get an adult bush, as soon as possible, and there is an adult shrub of the kind you need, then you should use the second method.
Planting of Kuril tea with seeds occurs in spring in a light, abundantly watered soil. Seeds are only slightly sprinkled with soil. Shoots are dived, and are planted in deeper boxes.
In the third year, when they begin to bloom, plants can be transplanted to a permanent place.
But, firstly, it is a very long way, and secondly, the plants do not transfer properties from the mother's bush. So, if you want to breed some interesting variety, or a hybrid bush, then the cuttings of Kuril tea will help in this.
You do not know how to get a planting material from a bush of Kuril tea, how to grow cuttings, viable and healthy? It's very simple. It is necessary to divide the escape into parts. Make sure that there is a tip and a side bud on each cut.
Cuttings can be obtained even from the youngest bushes of Kuril tea.
Cuttings can be:
- herbaceous;
- green;
- lignified.
Kuril tea is propagated with green and lignified. You need to choose well-developed, viable shoots. Prepared shoots preferably planted for two days.
Root growth in cuttings is stimulated with special preparations - growth stimulants. They can be purchased at specialized stores. In the solution, glucose (40 g per 1 liter of solution) can be added.
Root cuttings in a light sandy-peat mixture with fertilizers.
The cuttings are deepened no more than 5 cm, leaving a distance not less than the length of the matchbox between them. And they create conditions for it: moderate humidity and spraying. Spray cuttings on hot days up to six times a day. You should also pritenyat still weak plants from the bright sun.
You noticed the beginning of the growth of cuttings of Kuril tea, how to grow them further?
Care of the Kurilian tea
Good moderate watering, top dressing. And when young seedlings grow to 35 cm, they can be transplanted to a permanent place. It is desirable that this period falls either in the spring or in the early autumn. But more preferably in the early spring.
Further bushes of Kuril tea are needed, like most plants: weed, loosen soil, mulch, water and fertilize.
Pruning Kuril tea is made to give the plant a neat appearance, and for abundant flowering. Shoots shortened by 5-6 cm.
Also pruning is carried out for the rejuvenation of plants and for preserving the decorativeness of the variety. This is done once in 6 years.
Plant on your site a kuril tea and a frost-resistant and unpretentious plant will not only blossom blossom, but will also become your home doctor.