Gloxinia: planting a tuber. How to plant a globox with a tuber? How to grow gloxinium from a tuber?

Gloxinia is very popular with flower lovers, since it does not require special care and pleases the eyes with unusually beautiful inflorescences. However, newcomers who decided to have on their windowsill this decorative miracle, probably wonder about how gloxinium multiplies. Planting a tuber, cuttings and seeds - all these ways you can get a beautiful plant.

The decoration of any room is flowers. Gloxinia, the planting of which requires special attention, will by right occupy an honorable place on the windowsill. In the botanical reference books there is another name for this plant - the syningia is beautiful. His name was given to a representative of the flora for a very beautiful view: green leaves, covered with villi, and flowers in the form of large bells of bright red, blue, pink and purple hue.

Quite simple leaving gives chance to inexperienced growers to have in a room this beauty. We will tell in detail how to grow gloxinium from a tuber.

Features of choice

Appearance and size are the main criteria when buying. Tubers should be free of rot and mold. Elastic, to the touch dense, up to 5 cm in diameter - that's the most suitable for disembarkation into the soil. In the upper part of the tub is a depression, there are kidneys. They look like small bumps. It happens that the nodules for sale have already sprouted, and then the kidneys look like shaggy little sprouts.

Time to plant

To tighten with the landing is not necessary. This can be done immediately after the rest period, at the awakening stage, until the sprout grew large. If you miss the time, the shoots will stretch and turn pale because of a lack of chlorophyll. The time of the appearance of the kidneys depends on the conditions of tubers in winter. Gloksinia wakes up in February and March. Sometimes a flower can wake up in May. If by that time the tubers did not come out of hibernation, they could be "awakened". This is necessary in the case when the flower was in a pot all winter. Set in a warm place, with good lighting and watered ground, syningia will give its sprouts. It is important not to fill the tubers with water, otherwise they can rot.

Preparation for planting

Keep children gloxinia in winter in shavings and sawdust. Often the tubers are covered with old, dried roots. Therefore before landing it is necessary to clear them as much as possible - to cut off cautiously or to cut off all threads of roots with manicure scissors, leaving the largest ones. The tuber should be as bare as possible. And from the biggest roots will grow new.

It is necessary to determine where the tuber is from the bottom, and where the top is, so as not to drop it upside down. In the place of future shoots there is a small depression. On the opposite side of the tuber is a bulge, and it needs to be buried in the soil. It should be ensured that the seedling does not have rotten stains, rot, and various damages. If any, you need to carefully cut them, and these places are sprinkled with charcoal. As an option, it is appropriate to treat the cut with fungicide and powder "Kornevin", previously mixed them. After such treatment, the tubers should be dried for about 24 hours. These operations will allow reanimating damaged seedlings.

Restoration of a dried tuber

There are drugs that help stimulate the immune system of plants. Also they are able to eliminate the stress of flowers and to start growing their root system. It is necessary to prepare a solution from the preparation "Epin" or "Zircon" in this way: add 10 drops of the agent in 200 ml of boiled and unstable water. In the resulting solution you need to soak for a day tubers. After such processing, flowers can be safely planted in the soil.

Another way to revitalize the gloxinia children is appropriate. Vermiculite (layered mineral), often used in floriculture, should be moistened with water. In it, put the tuber entirely, if there are no germs yet. If the shoots appeared, you need to carefully prikopat, but so that the sprout remained on the surface. Do not fill the mineral with water abundantly, it is enough that the vermiculite is moistened, otherwise the tubers can rot. Enough couple of days for the seedlings to restore their elasticity, having absorbed water from the stones, saturated with useful substances. Using these techniques, you can avoid the risk that gloxinia will die - the planting of the tuber will fail. Now let's talk about the requirements for soil.

Oh, those flowers! Gloxinia: planting and care

To grow a healthy plant, the soil must be made light, loose, water-permeable and well-saturated with air. And it should be based on peat. Such a primer will reliably protect the flower from excess water and decay. You can buy ready-made soil or make it yourself. The substrate consists of peat, sand and leaf land (proportion 2: 1: 2). Before planting gloksiniy tuber, zemlesmes must be burned in a dry frying pan or baking in the oven. If there is a desire and opportunity, you can water the soil with the preparation "Maxim", making a solution at the rate of 2 ml per 1 liter of water. After treatment, allow the soil to dry.

Choice of pot

The root system of the plant is formed so that the roots grow not in depth, but in breadth. Therefore, when choosing a container for flower cultivation, one should pay attention to broad and shallow pots. It is in them will grow properly gloxinia. Planting a tuber in such a container is the key to successful breeding. Capacities are selected depending on the size of the seedling: the larger the tuber, the larger the pot. But here you need to know the measure, otherwise in a huge pot the leaf system will develop as much as possible.

Want to know how to plant a globox tuber to make flowers large and bright? To do this, do not put a small seedling into a container that is not in size. Otherwise, there is a risk of flooding with excess water. The flower will develop a root and leaf system, and the bells themselves will be small. Tubers of large sizes can be placed in containers from 10 to 15 cm in diameter. Small enough and 8-9 cm.

Gloxinia: tuber propagation

If you follow the recommendations and advice of experienced craftsmen, then a magnificent gloxinia will grow, planting the tuber will be successful. The first thing at the bottom of the pot is laid drainage from expanded clay or foam. The height of the layer is -1-2 cm, this is sufficient for a small depth of the pot. Top is poured over the soil, which must be left uncombed, rather loose (so that gloxinium grows better). Planting a tuber is as follows: in the center of the earth you need to make a depression and place it there with a convex side to the ground, gently sprinkled with soil. It is necessary to do this in such a way that 1/3 of the tuber remains above the soil. The earth needs to be moistened.

To increase gloxinia, tuber planting should be carried out in a suitable microclimate. You need to create a greenhouse effect, for this, put a plastic bag on the pot and put the container in a warm lighted place. So the soil moisture will remain, and watering will not be required. The package should be removed every day for 20 minutes for airing the soil. When the first leaves appear, the package should be left only at night, and then, after a few days, and do not cover the pot with gloxinium.

Watering the future flower at first should be very cautious, literally by drop. Be sure to make sure that the water does not fall on the plant. In this simple way gloxinia from the tuber grows lush, already in the first year gives its beautiful flowers. With good and proper care there is a chance that soon on the windowsill there will be a large flower garden.

Some experienced growers believe that breeding a flower from a tuber is the least attractive method of reproduction, especially if the seedling is large and has to be cut in half. In this case, the places of the cut are sprinkled with the crushed activated carbon. But due to the fact that watering is done through the top, a high humidity is created. In this case, the cutting sites quickly rot, the children of the plant deteriorate, gloxinia does not germinate for a long time. For this reason, you can lose not only a part of the flower, but its entirety.

Other types of reproduction

In addition to the division of tubers, there are also ways of breeding synagogue beautiful: seeds or cuttings. Rooting by leaves can be made in the period of spring and until the fall. This can be done before, during and after flowering. And young leaves cut in the spring, take root faster and easier than those that were separated in the fall.

A special device is made before the procedure. A hole is cut in the lid or piece of cardboard. There carefully, so as not to damage the tender shoot, insert a leaf, and the cardboard / lid is placed on a glass with water. The liquid level should be up to the tip of the handle. As water evaporates, water becomes abundant. During the rooting period, 1 tablet of activated carbon is added to the liquid so that the germ rotting process does not start. Within a month at the end of the cuttings small roots appear, and a tuber is tied.

Often, the flower growers divide the edge of the cut along, so that the greatest possible division of the gloxinia tuber occurs. It is better to immediately plant the stalk into the ground, with the first signs of the appearance of rootlets. Before winter, the first embryos the size of a hazelnut are formed on it. Rooting by peduncles is made from the already blossoming plant. Carefully remove the buds and place the peduncles in the same construction as in the case of the leaf cut. The water level should reach the tip of the plant, so that 1 cm of it is immersed in the liquid. In a month, when the roots appear, the flower spike should be planted in the soil. After another 30 days, the appeared leaves will signal that nodules have already started. Young plants for the winter must be placed in a cool, but bright place, to rest the flower. Watering in the rest period should be reduced, otherwise the gloxinia flooded with water will die.

Flower Arrangement

The eastern side of the apartment is optimal. On the north - it's too dark and cold, and on the south - a lot of direct sun rays, and the plant can get burns. The western side is allowed.

Watering

Constantly abundant, but only in the soil. Do not allow water to enter the leaves and peduncles. It is better to put the pot on pebbles or wet peat so that the humidity is at a high level. The air around the gloxinia is sprayed periodically. And water it well with thawed water. It is necessary to take care of the drainage system, since the flower does not tolerate the stagnation of water as well as the over-dried soil.

A few tips

• Gloksinia is very fond of feeding. It is necessary to produce it when the young foliage fully develops. 60 minutes after irrigation, a mineral fertilizer solution should be introduced into the soil. The procedure must be performed every 10 days.
• To take care of the leaves of a plant is simple - it is necessary to wash dust with a soft brush or wash them with warm water, avoiding moisture penetration into the outlet.
• If it is not supposed to collect seeds, the faded flower stalks need to be removed. Thanks to this, the flowering period will be markedly prolonged.
• After full flowering, before the rest period, watering is reduced, and fertilizer is stopped altogether.

These simple tips and recommendations will help to understand how gloxinium multiplies, planting a tuber will not seem so complicated. A beautiful decorative plant as a token of gratitude will bloom with magnificent bells.