How to care for a room chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemums of numerous modern varieties can amaze by the richness of the coloring of flowers and the abundance of flowering, the beautiful structure of chamomile or double flowers. Breeders continue to bring out all new types of chrysanthemums with beautiful decorative qualities.

When nature is ready for winter, chrysanthemums start to please us with bright colors of inflorescences. Do not be surprised that many flower growers buy flowers indoor chrysanthemums in order to grow them at home. We will tell you how to take care of the room chrysanthemum in order to achieve the best results.

Chrysanthemums simply reproduce by cuttings, remarkably blossom and grow on the windowsills of fans of these plants. In comparison with exotic flowers, room chrysanthemums are rather unpretentious in content.

Breeders brought out a lot of fairly resistant species of chrysanthemum, which are suitable for permanent growing in pots. Rooted cuttings of similar varieties planted in containers, if you follow the rules how to care for the indoor chrysanthemum, bloom quickly enough - no later than 12 weeks.

First cut the cuttings in a small pot one at a time. As the plant develops, it will be necessary to transplant to a larger pot.

The grown up bushes can be planted together in several pieces in one container. In this case, you should use large pots, choosing the size depending on the size and number of plants. It is required to provide to all plants in the pot a sufficient and equal area of root nutrition. Therefore, the bushes, as a rule, are planted along a circle, at an equal distance.

Flowering chrysanthemums of different varieties look very impressive in one pot!

In industrial floriculture, chemical preparations are used to inhibit the growth of cuttings while preserving the decorative properties of the variety. Thanks to the use of these substances, the tall chrysanthemum species form a low, actively flowering bush with stronger shoots and very decorative foliage in the pot.

That the bush was beautiful and magnificent, it is necessary to know how to look after a room chrysanthemum. It is required, as the plant grows, to pinch it for the appearance of lateral shoots, where buds will begin to be laid.

For chrysanthemums with small flowers usually make 2-3 pinches, thus forming some sufficiently strong twigs.

Indian large-flowered chrysanthemums with the help of the formation of a single stem and a series of pinches can be grown as a stamping tree (certainly with support).

The indoor chrysanthemum flower is a culture of a short day, which prefers cool content. This must certainly be taken into account when deciding how to care for indoor chrysanthemums. They like the fact that in autumn the temperature is seriously reduced, and the light day is decreasing. Chrysanthemums begin to bloom at the very moment when the day becomes no more than 8 hours duration.

A cool and bright window is the best place for growing a chrysanthemum at home.

After the flowering is completed, the room chrysanthemum must be cut and put on wintering in a rather cold place (about +3 degrees).

In March, the plant should be transplanted into a new substrate.

The shoots that grow in chrysanthemums must be cut several times to form a good bush.

It is not uncommon for flower growers to cut the chrysanthemum a little during its growth, and eventually get a bare long plant with very poor flowering.

After the termination of frosts in the spring the pot with a chrysanthemum, overwintered in the room, can be taken out to the garden or to the balcony until flowering or until the autumn cold.

Before learning how to care for a chrysanthemum, you need to prepare for its development a loose and fertile substrate (a mixture of soddy land, weakly decomposed peat, humus in equal volumes).

The prepared substrate, where the flower will be transplanted, can be pre-poured with boiling water and slightly dried until flowability.