The abundance of small corrugated, multi-colored stars, collected in neat bunches in small pots, has always attracted the attention of indoor flower lovers in a store or at a flower show.
This is a saintpaulia or uzambar violet - a colorful guest from distant Africa. Violets grow well in apartment conditions, but knowing the basic rules for caring for them is simply necessary. Plants are beautiful, but rather whimsical. With proper care, Saintpaulias bloom 10 months a year.
Many lovers of these plants often ask: "Why doesn't violet bloom?" It would seem that the care is wonderful, the leaves are large and dark green, but the buds have not been visible for several months. Indeed, violet is a capricious plant. The more you try for it, the more it does us in defiance. So what are these reasons? Perhaps we are doing something wrong for her successful cultivation?
7 main reasons why violets don't bloom
- Violets are very sensitive to soil composition. When planting a violet, you should know that the plant prefers a light, air- and water-permeable mixture. The best option - universal soilfor everyone
- Water the plant should be moderate but regular. Usually watered in a pan, but it can also be watered directly to the ground in a thin stream and away from the middle of the rosette of leaves. You can't pour water on the leaves, they don't like it.
- Humidity. If you have constantly dry air in your apartment and its humidity is below 30%, then do not be surprised why the violet does not bloom. Open windows more often, actively ventilating the air, thereby increasing humidity.
- Illumination. Violets like to grow and bloom on a north or west window, but not on a south window. Active direct sunlight can burn the delicate leaves of the plant and dry the buds. Diffused light also contributes to active and abundant flowering.
- The “residence” of the uzambar violet is in your house. Choose a small pot 7-9 cm in diameter for your princess. If the violet has an extensive "ownership", that is, a relatively large pot, then do not ask why the violet does not bloom. You have created for her all the conditions for intensive growth of leaves, but, alas, no buds.
- Fertilizers.
- Genetic predisposition. There are varieties of violets that produce a meager amount of buds, but look quite well-groomed. These are their natural features, genetic inclinations, to go against which it will not work in any way. That is, you cannot make them bloom profusely.
plants, but you can also purchase special soil for violets.
Violet lovers often claim that they regularly fertilize plants, but they do not want to please with their flowers. It would seem that very proper care and fertile land, but the lack of flowering indicates the presence of errors. Indeed, the more you "bake" about fertilizer, the worse it is for the plant. The abundance of nitrogen fertilizerscontributes to the intensive growth of green mass, where all the forces of the plant go, and the violet does not bloom. In order to fix this, you need to add phosphorus fertilizer to the top dressing, which is responsible for the formation of buds.
If you eliminate the above mistakes in the content of the uzambar violets, then your plants will thank you with colorful, abundant flowering. Proper agricultural practices help to maintain a he althy type of Saintpaulia and the absence of diseases.
