In nature, this flower grows in South Africa, where it reaches a height of 80 cm. Higher representatives reach 150 cm - these are the descendants of the Ethiopian representative, having white flowers and a powerful rhizome. There are those who are not higher than half a meter.
Calla. Home care
At home callus is grown at a temperature of 20-23° C in summer and 10-15° C in winter. You need to water regularly, focusing on the drying of the top layer of the earth. On hot summer days, spraying is useful.
Substrate and top dressing
This flower is very picky about the soil. Feeding frequency - 1 time in 2 weeks. If the flower receives little sun, then it will need more nutrients. But you shouldn't get carried away with it either. So, the burnt tips of the leaves indicate an excess of nitrogen. The soil for callas contains peat, sand, humus, leaf and sod substrates in equal proportions, which makes it rich in minerals. In this case, the soil should remain acidic. To do this, you can add a little clay or rotten needles.
Lighting
Homemadecallas prefer bright places where there is a lot of scattered sunlight, while during flowering and growth they need at least 12 hours of exposure to the sun, and during the dormant period - up to 9 hours. For uniform growth, the flowers are turned the other side to the light several times during the week.
Calla: care at home. What needs to be done to make it bloom?
To stimulate the appearance of new flowers on the plant, it is watered once a week with a solution of boric acid and fertilized. All indoor representatives have active growth and flowering, mainly in winter and autumn. After the last peduncle fades, the rest phase begins, which takes the end of spring, all summer and part of autumn (depending on the variety). Usually the rest period lasts about 2 months. After the end of flowering, the plant should be cut off almost completely, leaving literally 10 centimeters. At this time, watering and top dressing are significantly reduced.
Calla: care at home. Transplant
The callas are transplanted not only to renew the soil, but also for sanitary purposes. Do not forget that under favorable conditions, children appear in the mother plant, which are removed during transplantation. They are planted as an independent plant. These works are carried out at the end of the dormant phase once every 2 years, and the places exposed after breaking off the children must be sprinkled with coal or ash, and can also be treated with a solution of potassium permanganate. When planting a plant, it is important not to confuse the top and bottom of the spine. On the top of the tuber there are sockets, of whichthen leaves and flowers will follow. In the lower part are "cams" - the embryos of the roots. In a pot, on the bottom of which a drainage about 5 cm thick is poured, and a nutrient substrate is placed on top (up to half), the tuber is placed with the rosette up and sprinkled with earth. After compacting the soil, the plant needs to be watered.
The maintenance of a flower in the garden is the same as at home, with the difference that at the end of summer it is dug up and planted in a pot. And in the spring, after the frosts have passed, calla lilies are planted back. Care at home is much more difficult than on the street. But the flowers that will appear are the gratitude that indoor plants express for your work. Calla, whose photo you can then proudly show to everyone, will delight you with its charming flowering for several months.
