Flowers Kalanchoe - for luck!

Many believe that the Kalanchoe in the house is good luck. In addition, with a cold helps. This, however, does not limit the healing properties of the plant. It is wound healing, hemostatic, anti-inflammatory, prophylactically antifungal and helps many skin diseases. In cosmetology is widely used. Useful plant. Yes, and flowers Kalanchoe are very beautiful. If it does not blossom, the leaves are decorative: powerful, juicy, bright. Almost every house has some kind of Kalanchoe . He is unpretentious, no effort is required from the florist. Home Kalanchoe - the owner's pet regardless of growth: there are bushes thirty-centimeters, and sometimes, surprising health, representatives of the species in a meter and a half tall. Blooms several times a year for quite some time. Very nice and useful plant.

How to choose Kalanchoe flowers and tame them

When buying a future pet, choose a bush with flowers that have not yet blossomed, but with buds in which you can guess the color. What handsome people can be a Kalanchoe, a photo shows. With such appearance, there will be no special difficulties in the care. The pot should be tight, the soil in it is not suitable for any other plant, with a large admixture of sand. The temperature of the air is from fifteen degrees, although the Kalanchoe flowers like heat, but from heating devices it is necessary to push it as much as possible. The light can be bright and diffuse, but it is better to protect it from direct sunlight, not to keep it in the open sun, which burns it. When the Kalanchoe grows or blooms, watering and feeding are abundant, but not excessive. Humidity loves. But between the watering the soil should dry up, and once or twice a week is enough. Leaves wipe off dust with a damp soft cloth. When the heat can be sprayed. Any Kalanchoe flowers are succulents, which means they accumulate water in leaves and stems, independently adjusting the humidity level. That is, if you forget about watering - he will forgive. You can even go on vacation, leaving the plant unattended. You just need to water before leaving abundantly, put in a cool corner and quietly miss a month.

Fertilizers and transplantation

In preparation for flowering, you need to fertilize once a week, using a mixture for succulents and cacti. Wilted flowers in time to remove, then more will appear new. Transplant is recommended in the spring every year, but never with flowering, only after it. If the root system has not coped with the entire pot space, you can transplant in a year. Transfer to a larger pot should be combined with a clod of earth, so as not to damage the roots. The soil is better to buy one that is designed for cacti.

Reproduction

The flowers of the Kalanchoe multiply, and seeds, and cuttings. From February to April, you can sow seeds in the soil for succulents and cacti, even diluting it with sand. Until sprouts appear, future plants should be kept in a dark and warm place. Shoots transplanted into the smallest pots - six centimeters diameter. And for the cuttings, shoots that appear on peduncles with already wilted flowers are suitable. They are cut off in May or June and placed in a mixture of sand and peat. Pritenyayut and waiting for rooting. Kalanchoe is ill only from improper care: high soil moisture and lack of light. As soon as the conditions of the content change, the decorative properties also return.