What and how often to water cyclamen for abundant flowering?

If you have recently purchased a cyclamen, it is worth learning how to properly grow, feed and water this flower so that it develops well and blooms profusely. Particular attention should be paid to hydration. Each plant has its own flowering and resting schedule - cyclamen is ready to delight you with lush inflorescences in winter. Be glad that a green pet will give you beauty in the cold season, and do your best to create the most favorable conditions for life and abundant development of a lush flower cap.

How to water cyclamen during the summer season?

Throughout the winter, the owners rejoiced at the bright flowering of cyclamen, dreamed that in the summer, with a long daylight hours and warm weather, the buds would develop twice as many. Warm days came, and the flower froze in development, the old flowers withered, and new ones are not tied. It seems to the flower grower that the plant wants to drink or eat, and he begins to intensively water it with a solution of fertilizers. As a result of such care, the flower loses its strength, withers, and begins to hurt.

The secret is that cyclamen lives according to its own regime: in winter it has a period of activity, and in summer it has a rest time. As soon as you notice that the flower has begun to produce fewer buds, sheds old leaves, reduce moisture. The plant cannot be left completely without water, it may die. Keep the soil slightly damp (excess liquid can rot the root). The frequency of watering depends on the temperature and humidity of the air in your apartment; on average, a plant needs 2 humidifications per month.

Be especially careful with specimens in which, as a result of improper care, the rhizome is covered with cracks. To prevent the appearance of rot, add 2 drops of "Fitosporin" to the water for irrigation. When watering, remember one important rule: excess moisture for cyclamen is destructive, it is better to give it a little water than to turn the potted soil into a swamp. Do not demand the impossible from a flower - all winter it has delighted you with bright flowering, now give it a rest before the next season.

If the air in the apartment is very dry, a decorative fountain or a pallet with wet pebbles and moss will help to humidify it at home. Cyclamen does not like drops on aerial parts, therefore, it is not necessary to spray it from a spray bottle. As a last resort, you can spray the air around the pot, but so that the fog does not fall on the flower. Do not forget that the plant is sleeping now, you do not need to offer it active nutrition or strong watering. Do not let the soil dry out, this will be enough.

How to water a flower in winter?

Watch the cyclamen at rest. When you notice that the bush has begun to release new leaves and buds, gradually increase the amount of water for watering and reduce the intervals between dampening. Do not abruptly change the mode of care, the plant can rot from the abundance of moisture. The frequency of watering depends on the age of the flower. Young bushes have weak roots, they need to be watered often, but not very abundantly. In a three-year cyclamen, a strong tuber is able to create good reserves of water and nutrients, it can be moistened less often, and the volume of water should be greater. You also need to consider the following conditions:

• room temperature;
• air humidity;
• lighting (the flower needs more water in the light than in the twilight).

For watering, you need to take soft, clean water at room temperature. It would be nice to use a key, thawed or rainwater. During the flowering period, watering can be combined with fertilizing with fertilizer for violets.The flower responds very well to watering with phytohormones. But do not overfeed your pet, otherwise it will release lush greenery to the detriment of flowering. Read the instructions, it should say how often to use and in what proportions to dilute the drug. Usually, feeding is recommended no more than once a month.

Water the cyclamen as soon as the topsoil dries. Drops of moisture have a detrimental effect on the leaves and flowers of the plant.

• It is most convenient to use a small watering can, with the spout of which you can gently moisten the soil along the walls of the pot. If you have not dried out the flower, moisture will quickly spread throughout the entire volume of the earthen coma. With this method, the tuber will also not be affected by moisture. After an hour, drain the liquid from the trays.
• You can water the cyclamen by immersing the pot in liquid. If tap water is used for this purpose, it must stand for at least a day. Fill a bowl and place a pot in it so that the liquid does not reach the edges of the container a little. When a wet shine appears on the surface of the soil, indicating that the water has soaked all the soil, you need to remove the flower and let the excess moisture escape through the drainage holes.

Advice

Do not put several pots in one basin and do not use the same water for several plants. Through the liquid, the infection from the diseased bush can spread to other flowers.

Throughout the winter, the cyclamen delighted you with bright inflorescences, and in May it became sad: the leaves turned yellow, the buds are not visible. It means that the flower is tired, it is time for him to rest. Place the pot in a cool place and switch to summer watering. Do not worry, in the warm season, many plants will delight you with lush inflorescences, and let the cyclamen rest. In the winter cold, he will again release numerous buds and decorate the room with an abundance of flowers. Don't disturb your pet, let the plant rest and gain strength before the new flowering season.

Errors of an inexperienced grower

Each flower develops according to its own schedule. If in the summer the cyclamen continues to actively release buds, reduce watering and feeding. Novice growers sometimes cut flower buds in the spring in order to force the flower into hibernation. This cannot be done, plants may die from improper care. Watch your green pets - they may start to decrease their activity not in spring, but in mid-summer.

Cracks on the tuber can appear in spring, when the flower intensively stores nutrients in the underground part before hibernation. Do not overfeed the plant as water trapped in the wounds can kill it. The rhizome can crack if the owners dried out the flower, and then began to water abundantly. Moisten the soil regularly so that there are no sudden changes from thirst to an abundance of water.

Watering and feeding

In the summer, the flower slept, and in the fall it woke up and really wants to eat. In a short time, he needs to grow the missing leaves, form buds and release flowers. This cannot be done without nutrients. The plant pulls food from the soil, and you must help it in this.

Cyclamen is grown for beauty indoors, no parts of it are eaten. You can safely feed the flower with chemicals, they will not harm health. Purchase fertilizer for violets or other indoor flowers at a flower shop. They work very well:

• "Kemira";
• "Flowers";
• "Ideal".

If you are a supporter of environmentally friendly technologies and do not want to apply chemistry even to plants that are not edible, you can use biological feed. Someone collects bird droppings, someone insists on cattle manure. You can simply collect food waste in a saucepan, fill it with water and let it brew. The liquid will absorb many beneficial compounds, and even a small addition to the irrigation water will help the houseplants get the nutrients they need.

To prevent indoor flowers from infecting infections and pests, you can use both chemicals and folk remedies. If you buy a protective chemical in a store, read the instructions carefully - is it acceptable for cyclamen? The product can be added to water for irrigation. If the flower is healthy, for prevention, the earth can be treated with infusion of onion peels, garlic or other medicinal herbs. When watering, add the remedy to the water and the soil will be disinfected.

Few indoor flowers delight the owners with abundant flowering in winter. If you want the house to always have flowering plants, put a cyclamen in the apartment. This flower will decorate your home in the winter cold. He does not require special care - water the basket according to the schedule your pet needs, and he will thank you with flowers in the winter cold. You will celebrate the New Year in a room decorated with bright flowers.