This flower has many names - "Wan wet", "Ogonek", "Asterisk". Indoor balm is an immaculate home plant for beginning florists and people who are not accustomed to careful care of the flora. He is unpretentious, does not need a lot of effort, his bright cheerful flowers can decorate the interior year-round.
Flower room balsam - varieties
The stems of the bush are juicy, branched, their height varies from 15 to 50 cm in different species. Leaves - green, reddish or bronze, fleshy, wavy on the edge. At high humidity, dew drops protrude at their ends, for which the flower balsam room is called "Vanka wet". Corollas "light" bright, placed in the sinuses of the leaves, there are white, pink, purple, orange, red buds, as well as with stripes or specks. Selective science made it possible to obtain many varieties that differ in tone, height and diameter of the flower, coloring of the foliage.
Houseplant - Waller's balsam
It is perennial, it is easily cultivated in a closed dwelling. The most popular kind of "Vanka Wet" - indoor plants balsamic Waller (Waller). They have a spherical shape with a height of 15-20 cm, their juicy thick stems are heavily pushed - they are erect or dangling depending on the series. Single large flowers are placed on the ends of branches. A variety of colors - uniform or bicolour with contrasting cores - eyes in the center, with edgings, even with the silvered surface of the petal, are derived.
Indoor balsam - terry
Such varieties have very beautiful corollas of any color, except for pure yellow and blue. Terry flower room balsam has an unusual form of corolla with multiple petals, located in several layers. They are similar in structure to roses, but less than their diameter. Terry flowers look more magnificent in comparison with simple flat halo. Such hybrids are in many varieties of "light" - for example, in the garden or in many series of Waller.
New Guinea Balsam
The difference of this variety from the others consists in a powerful stalk, fleshy flowers, the plant has a neat bush, but it is more grown than the sort of Waller. The leaves of the New Guinean room balsam are large, short-petioled, with a jagged edge, elongated, up to 10 cm long and 5 cm wide. The plates have pronounced veins, their color varies from green-burgundy to emerald, sometimes they have a reddish core.
Flowers large, five-petalled, 5-8 cm in diameter, single or collected in small groups. For a New Guinea balsam, home care requires an elementary. This unpretentious and persistent culture, with proper care, pleases with a long lush flowering all year round. It has a different coloration - pink, white, salmon, red, raspberry.
Brazilian balsam - indoor plants
This flower has many names - diplaposition, Mandevilla, Bolivian rose, Chilean jasmine. In fact, this one plant is compact (in length up to one and a half meters) evergreen liana with a glossy bright green foliage. It abundantly blooms with aromatic coronals 10-15 cm in diameter with five petals of regular shape. Their color depends on the type of variety, white, pink, cherry red is popular. Semi-double species are often encountered.
The flower of the room Brazilian balsam is planted in small pots, which are equipped with high supports, along which the liana will actively branch through the ascending stems. All attempts to grow a plant as hanging are not crowned with success. Its vegetation occurs from April to September, then the liana falls into a period of stagnation because of the shortening of the daylight hours.
Indoor balm - care
This exotic culture grows well and gives in abundance flowers in any bright place of the house, it needs to be shaded from the sun's rays. "Wet Wanka" - unpretentious indoor flower, care for it is to keep in a small pot, providing abundant watering and good light (and can be artificial). The optimum temperature for the plant is 16-22 ° C. The bush signals of improper care by dropping the leaves. Under suitable conditions, the indoor balsam blooms from spring to frost. In winter, after some rest, he also pleases with bright buds.
Soil for indoor balsam
For a full flowering plant needs a small pot (by the size of the root system) and a small amount of substrate. Room balsams are unpretentious to the ground, they perfectly grow in any loose mixture, moderately nutritious. But if it is oversaturated with minerals, ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate , this will lead to a rapid growth of greenery and a slight bloom. Sometimes buds may not appear.
A weakly acid mixture is suitable for planting: two parts of turf, leaf land, humus, sand and one peat. Flower balsam with room care needs to be fed from early spring to autumn. It is carried out with the help of fertilizers for flowering crops every two weeks. The result of the feeding will be abundant, luscious greens and flowers. From the end of August to February, the number of fertilizer cycles is reduced to one per month. Every year, plants are transplanted into fresh soil, so that they do not lose their decorativeness. In a new land, the bush is not fed for three weeks.
Flower room balsam - rules of watering
The plant prefers water in large quantities. He has succulent moisture-loving stems, with insufficient moisture, the flower loses its elasticity and resets the lower leaves. How to care for an indoor plant balsam - the rules of watering:
- water must be soft, permanent;
- if a white calcareous deposit appeared on top of the soil, then the ground became alkaline due to the use of hard water - it is necessary to replace part of the substrate;
- watering is carried out along the edge of the pot, avoiding liquid spills on the root neck of the room balsam;
- in summer the plant is moistened every other day, in winter - twice a week;
- the drying out of a land coma for such a plant is unacceptable;
- prolonged stagnation of water in the pan can not be allowed - it must be drained off;
- the soil should always be wet, not wet;
- balsam likes everyday spraying, especially if the temperature in the room is above 20 ° C;
- it is useful to loosen the soil to a depth of 1 cm, while it will be better to "breathe" the root system of the bush.
How to cut wet Vanka?
To the stems of the plant do not overgrow, their top is recommended to pinch. Pruning balsam is best done in the spring, then it will release lateral shoots and become a neat lush bush. How to care for "Vanka wet" - pinching:
- first cut the elongated branches, which are then used for reproduction;
- the top of the head and the ends of the flower stems to pinch the bush out compact and lush;
- the process must be performed in several stages, so as not to injure the balsam;
- During cutting, watering the "fire" increases, you can transplant it into fresh soil.
Wet Wanka - Diseases and Treatment
Room balsam is attacked by parasites, sometimes there are difficulties with improper care. "Vanka is wet" - a flower and its diseases:
- Whitefly and spider mites are the main pests of balsam. Their appearance is preceded by improper care: dryness, heat, lack of fresh air. Getting rid of parasites contributes to the normalization of the conditions of the flower. With multiple lesions, the bush is sprayed with insecticides;
- Bacteriosis is shown by black spots on the foliage. Need treatment with special preparations such as "Alirin";
- The cause of fungal diseases is excessive watering of balsam. Get rid of mold and fungus transplanting in a new container with fresh substrate and competent drainage , in the future you must carefully observe the watering regime;
- Gray rot on the surface of the soil. When it appears, the upper tier of the earth needs to be removed and replaced with a fresh one;
- Often the balm begins to turn yellow, twist and fall foliage. This is due to lack of heat, light, place in the pot. It is necessary to eliminate the shortcomings of care and transplant the plant into a large vase;
- Due to lack of light, the use of a too bulky pot, an overabundance of nitrogenous fertilizers, balsam may cease to bloom. It is necessary to reposition the vessel in a more illuminated place, transplant the plant into a suitable vase and use another feeding (with potassium and phosphorus).
How to breed wet Vanka?
Everyone who falls in love with balsam, once will want to start them in a little more. How to multiply balsam room:
- cuttings;
- seeds.
The plant in both cases is well received and during the season is already starting to blossom blossom. Cuttings successfully root roots in the water. Seeds multiply more laborious. They are formed after flowering and are placed in dry capsules, from a weak touch they scatter and scatter granules. Because of this, there was another name for room balsam - "touchy". A bush grown from grains blossoms after 3-4 months, and you can constantly have in the house flowering plants of all kinds of colors.
Indoor balsam - growing from seeds
Grains can be planted all year round. For example, if you plant them in January, then they will blossom in May. Balsamin - growing out of seeds and caring for seedlings:
- Before planting, the seeds are soaked in a solution of manganese for 10 minutes;
- sow them in the soil, prepared from a mixture of one part of perlite and two peat;
- balsam seeds are planted at a depth of 7 cm, after the ground is moistened and the vessel is covered with cellophane, so that the temperature regime is 20-25 ° C;
- seeds begin to rise 8-10 days after planting;
- During cultivation, the substrate should not be overmoistened, periodically the seedlings are ventilated;
- After the length of the shoots reaches 1.5-2 cm, they need to be picketed;
- To distribute seedlings on separate pots it is necessary, if at seedlings will appear though on one real leaflet.
Wet Vanka - propagation by cuttings
Often, indoor balsam is grown with the help of pieces of stems. This method is especially suitable for terry varieties, it allows one hundred percent to preserve all species characteristics. As the "Vanka wet" propagates by cuttings:
- in spring and summer, cut off at the tip of the tip 5-7 cm with two or three internodes, all the lower leaves can be removed;
- The stalk is put in water and waiting for the appearance of rootlets;
- The substrate for planting should be composed of one part of peat and two - perlite;
- the roots of the cuttings appear quickly, the shoots are planted in pots with soil, they can be covered with cellophane;
- After 2 weeks, the saplings take root, and after two or three months, the balm will begin to bloom.