Geranium has long taken its place of honor in the hearts of many gardeners. Her love because it is unpretentious in the care, grows quite quickly and almost year-round pleases with abundant, beautiful flowering.
To support the plant in a difficult period and to achieve even greater flowering, you should follow all the rules of the maintenance of unpretentious beauty of geranium.
Flowering features
The flowering period is a process of sexual reproduction of plants.consisting of several successive stages.
- The bud in the buds of the buds of flowers.
- The appearance of flowers, their pollination and fading.
- Seed formation. The most important stage, allowing geraniums to continue to exist.
How long is this period?
With proper care, the geranium flowering period lasts from early spring to mid-winter. Some plant members bloom well all year round.
A photo
Further on the photo you can see what a blooming geranium looks like.
Necessary home conditions for the formation of buds
To create a comfortable existence for the geranium, it is important to find suitable home conditions:
- Pot. Geranium loves small pots. In the spacious pots, it is gaining green and root mass.
- The soil. Geranium prefers fertile soil.
- Drainage. Do not allow stagnation of water, it can lead to rotting of the roots.
- Lighting. A place to grow a flower should be bright and warm. If geranium is located on the windowsill, it should be protected from direct sunlight. Under the hot sun, the plant will very quickly lose its decorative effect.
- Fertilizers. Lack of nutrients leads to wilting of the plant. May turn yellow and fall off the leaves. Potash and phosphate fertilizers are suitable as top dressing.
When using complex fertilizers should pay attention to the content of nitrogen. It should be a part of not more than 11 percent. Otherwise, geranium grows lush green and does not bloom. Feed preferably once a week.
Plant Care
Consider how to properly care for the geranium, to bloom all year round or in the country all summer, how to care for it to bloom better.
What needs to be done to make it bloom in spring?
In the spring of geranium transplantation is necessary. During this period, the geranium laid the necessary nutrients. Geranium is quite sensitive to this procedure, so it is enough to simply transfer it to a new pot of a slightly larger volume. In store soil, it is desirable to add magnesium sulfate and nitrogen.
If the soil mixture is prepared independently, then it is necessary to lay in it a full range of mineral fertilizers. For this fit granular fertilizer of prolonged action. They must be mixed with the ground during transplantation. Over time, they dissolve in the soil, giving the plant nutrients for a long time.
Geranium enough capricious to watering. It should not pereuvlazhnyat. It is preferable to dry than pour. An excess of moisture can lead to rotting of the roots, further death of the plant.
How to ensure that the buds were all year round?
It is possible to prolong the flowering period by trimming off flowering inflorescences. Proper pruning stimulates geraniums to active growth and future flowering. After the autumn pruning can be only 2-3 eyes. There is nothing wrong with that. Only surely after it is necessary to leave the geranium in a cool room until January.
The plant should rest. Already in January, geranium can be moved to a warm room. After the plant grows, it should be pinched.
What to do to bloom on the street or in the country all summer?
The most important condition for favorable flowering is the right choice of landing site. Geranium prefers sunny areas. For lush flowering of the whole summer should be a little plant pritenyat. The soil should be fertile and well drained. Geraniums do not suit loamy and clay soils at all.
For abundant and long flowering plants should be provided with regular watering. With insufficient soil moisture flowers will be small or not at all.
Be sure to remove the flowered inflorescences from the geranium. Their removal will provide maximum decorative effect all summer. No less important factor is cropping. It contributes to the emergence of lateral shoots. Before the onset of flowering, it is desirable to apply fertilizers to the soil, which contain a high content of phosphorus. This will help create a lush and thick bush.
For the formation of a large number of large inflorescences it is desirable to make potash fertilizers. It is necessary to feed once every two weeks during the formation of inflorescences and during their active growth.
How to make the plant richly and fluffy magnificently?
Sometimes under all conditions, geranium can still refuse to bloom. Making her do it can only be under threat of existence. There are several ways to make the plant bloom.
- Provide a cool winter without power and watering. Having sustained such conditions in winter, when transferring it to a warm room with the arrival of spring, geranium will surely bloom.
- Move the geranium in a room with sudden temperature changes. Suitable balcony or transfer to the garden. Do not allow frosting and drafts.
- It is worth trying to transfer the geranium to another place. It is quite possible that the conditions are simply not suitable for her.
Important! With the advent of the buds do not need to disturb the plant, at this time it is recommended not to change the position of the pot.
- Experienced gardeners recommend fertilizing geranium with magnesium sulphate. He is able to improve the decorative qualities of the plant. This dressing can prolong the flowering period, positively affect the growth of buds and the brightness of the leaves and flowers.
- You can apply iodine injections. They not only help accelerate growth, but prevent morbidity. Be sure to comply with the dosage. The recommended dose is 1 drop of iodine per 1 liter of water.
You can apply to one flower at a time no more than 50 ml of solution. Iodine injections should be administered after watering with plain water. Wet soil will prevent the roots from burning the solution.
Her one wonderful way is to extract ash. To do this, one spoon of wood ash must be placed in 1 liter of water and allowed to infuse, drain the excess liquid and apply for watering in diluted form.
Her one wonderful way is to extract ash. To do this, one spoon of wood ash must be placed in 1 liter of water and allowed to infuse, drain the excess liquid and apply for watering in diluted form.It should be understood that the use of these methods is possible only for healthy plants. From sick flowers do not need to achieve flowering. It must be immediately rescued from fungal or viral diseases, as well as pests.
Dampness and humidity can lead to fungal diseases, black or root rot. This disease is quite difficult to fight. Therefore, experienced gardeners advise beginners to immediately destroy the infected flowers so as not to get sick all the other flowers in the house. If you do not fear for neighboring flowers, you can try to cure geranium with fungicides.
The main pests that affect geranium can be attributed - whitefly, aphids, spider mites. You can destroy them by wiping with soapy water, alcohol or special means. against every single type of parasite.
During the flowering geranium can not:
- allow water to enter buds and inflorescences;
- treat the plant from pests.
In the video we learn how to make geranium bloom profusely and long:
Daily inspection and the provision of all necessary conditions for the existence of the plant - the key to lush and long flowering.
