Indoor Maple Abutilone: Home Care

Those who want to decorate their homes with a fast-growing ornamental flowering plant, you can start with a room maple. Involves simple care for abutilone. Indoor flowers and plants are mysterious, divine, beloved creatures. But one admiration is not enough for them. After all, we, as Saint-Exupery said, are responsible for all those who have tamed, and especially for those who depend on us. If you create comfortable conditions for flowers, they will please our souls with their beauty. For luxuriant flowering, almost year-round, room maple - abutilone is suitable. Care at home is easy for him - a plant unpretentious. But he also has peculiarities.

Abutilone: where does he come from?

In the Malviv family, which includes all known cotton, less famous hibiscus, okra, shtokroza, there is a genus called Kanatnik (in Latin Abutilon). More than 200 representatives of the genus are among the evergreen annual and perennial herbaceous, ornamental and ornamental flowering shrubs, and even small trees.

The habitats of species of this genus are the tropics and subtropics of South America, the Hawaiian Islands, India, Australia, China, and Africa. Why the "cable car"? Individual species are cultivated for the production of vegetable fibers for the manufacture of sacks of twine ropes and ropes. To this end, in China, the Theophrastus Cafe is cultivated as an agricultural crop. In the southern European regions of Russia, the same abutilone is a malignant weed of tilled crops. For the agricultural culture, he "did not come out on the rise".

In India, Abutilone is considered a medicinal plant and an aphrodisiac plant for men and women.

Varieties of indoor plants

For the decorativeness of cute flowers and luxurious wedge-shaped leaves, Russia's flower growers like abutilon - room maple. Care, reproduction of indoor plants are available even for beginners.

The most common varieties of abutilone are:

• Grape leaves with bluish-bluish flowers;
• Hybrid - a variety of varieties of different colors;
• Darwin - bright orange and red with darker veins;
• Thompson - erect trunk, salmon-pink terry flower buds, on the leaves - white krap;
• Megapotamsky - reaches one and a half meters, with yellow petals in a red cup and purple stamens - an excellent ampel plant of year-round flowering;
• Striped or spotted - short shoots, painted leaves and flowers on long pedicels, propagates only by cuttings;
• A kind of a suntansee - the best for a winter garden: reaches 4-meter height, flowers lilac in diameter up to 10 cm.

Care for abutilone at home is the same, regardless of the variety.

Selection in your hands

These fast-growing indoor flowers - abutilone - care at home for which it is possible to glory, are an excellent material for breeding - the creation of new varieties. Open access to the stamens and pistils of flowering plants at the same time promotes successful cross-breeding of different varieties. Seeds of future hybrids ripen in a month and a half. And a maximum of six months later you can see the flowering of new varieties, created with their own hands. Enthusiastic breeders for the period from February to November receive 2 generations of new hybrids - that's what early-ripening abutilone. Home care will not take long, if growing this flower will become a passion.

Requirements

Optimal humidity: abundant summer watering, in winter - moderate. It is necessary to maintain high humidity in the air - after all, it is a tropic, preferably periodic spraying. If the air is too dry, the plant will discard the leaves.

Temperature regime: in winter, low temperature is needed - up to 10-15 degrees. In the rest of the year - room temperature in the range of 20-25 degrees.

Light mode: a fan of southern windows, takes a short (2-3 hours a day) direct sunlight, but diffuse light is desirable.

Requirements for soil and top dressing: sandy high-humidified mixtures (equal parts of sand, turf, humus and hardwood) are preferable. The best fertilizer is mullein. Add fertilizer every day, in the winter, enough once a month.

Reproduction: cuttings (in spring and in September) and seeds, preferably fresh. Cuttings cut when pruning a plant with a sterile instrument. Formation of the root system first in water, then planting in loose nutrient-sandy soil. Survival is usually good.

Enemies need to know

Abutilone is often affected by aphids, whitefly, scutellum. With these parasites, plants are treated by spraying with soapy water, infusion of tobacco powder. You can put a flower on an open veranda (avoid drafts!), Cut watering. If there is no effect of a soap solution, use chemical means according to the instructions. The shield is removed with cotton buds. The plant spider mites are fond of the plant, which can be recognized by speckles on leaves and on cobwebs entangling abutilone. Care at home is reduced to spraying the plant with insecticides, moisture regulation - it needs to be increased.

Secrets of lush flowering

Features: rapid growth - up to 0.5 m per year, compulsory spring transplant. Take a new pot a little more than the previous one. To the plant blossom, he needs to bind the earthen root roots. The bushy crown should be cleared by pruning.

Hybrids need to remove long shoots - the bloom will last. Pinch the elongated abutilons. The plant is suitable for balconies. He is afraid of drafts, does not tolerate neighborhood with heating batteries, loves space, gets along with "small" neighbors, letting them "to the apartment" - below under their own crown.

It is possible to achieve year-round flowering of several plants, if to be an observant and caring host, who cherishes Abutylon. Care at home allows you to make love mutual. The handsome-flower attracts the glances of everyone entering the room and the passing windows. Abutilone looks so attractive.

Home care: growing from seeds

Seeds can be bought or waited from a flower. The main thing for their successful germination is a short shelf life, a maximum of a year. But at this time, not every seed will sprout, but only one of the two. Domestic seeds must be kept in the dark for a month. Before sowing in early spring, but you can do it in January, you need to hold them for a short time (3-4 hours) in a damp cloth. Prepare a humus-sand mixture. The soil must be moist and warm - at least 20 degrees. Enough lighting is needed. The depth of embedding is no more than 1 cm. You can cover the pot with glass to keep moisture and heat. Do not allow the soil to dry out - periodically sprinkle.

Shoots in the form of two leaves will appear at the end of the second week or the beginning of the third. They grow quickly and need a transplant 2-3 times before flowering on the 4th-5th month. To get your seeds, wait for flowering and on the third day, armed with a soft watercolor brush, remove the pollen from one flower and transfer it to another. Soon there will be a seed box. When it turns black (somewhere in a month) - open and see the seeds.