For most flower growers, such a flower as violet is popular. This plant has about five hundred species, each of which is striking in its beauty. This flower, with proper care, will feel great on any windowsill.
This article will focus on the variety of violets "Le-Peach Radiance", a photo and description of which can be found below. In order for this plant to please the grower for many years, you need to know its main features and rules of care.
Violet "Peach glow". Description and photo
The flowers of the plant are salmon-pink in color, large in size, reminiscent of curly stars. This variety blooms early. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that when the plant is young, its flowers have a soft pink hue, and with age, the color becomes more saturated and the flowers darken. The fringe on the petals gives the violet a very elegant look. Photo violet "Peach glow" below.
Rosette blooms with a cap. The variety is unpretentious and long-lasting.
The stem of the violet is shortened with wide oval or round wavy leaves.
Rules of care
In order for the violet not to hurt and always please the eye, it must be properly looked after. It is also worth knowing when it is better to repot the violet in order to avoid its death and poor adhesion of the root system to the ground.
Temperature
In winter, plants often suffer from low temperatures, especially if they are located on the windowsill. Care must be taken to ensure that cold air does not fall on the flowers during ventilation. If the window sill is stone, in order to avoid hypothermia of the roots, a wooden stand is placed under the pot.
Humidity
Under natural conditions, violet grows in places with high levels of humidity, near waterfalls and streams. Therefore, 60-70% is the optimal air humidity for this plant. In apartments with central heating, the figures are often around 40%. Since optimal humidity is difficult to create throughout the room, it will only be necessary to increase it near the plant.
Many indoor flowers like to be sprayed with water, but this method is not suitable for violets. In this case, it will be appropriate to create something like a cloud of drops by spraying water from a spray bottle near the plant, but in no case on it.
Irrigation
The easiest way to use for watering settled in an open bowl intap water for 2-3 days. It is not advised to use magnetized water, since it gives good results only at first, but later it begins to negatively affect the plant.
Many flower growers avoid frequent watering. If you overdo it, the plants will begin to grow slowly, their flowers will become smaller, the leaves will acquire a yellowish tint. They will be more prone to all kinds of diseases than others.
If watering, on the contrary, is excessive, moisture will constantly stagnate in pallets, all soil capillaries will be filled with water, and air access to the roots will be stopped, the plant will suffocate and die. Often this happens due to transplanting a flower into a very large pot or into a container without normal drainage.
If you water a flower from above, the water will seep through the earthen ball and wash out some of the harmful s alts, and this is useful for any plant. Once a month, in winter, it is useful to water the plant with a weak solution of potassium permanganate. To do this, the pot must be placed on a glass jar and carefully poured with a solution (0.3-0.5 liters per plant). The liquid will drain into the jar through the drainage holes and allow the earthy coma to get rid of harmful impurities.
If the "Peach Glow" violet is watered near the roots, the water will be absorbed into the earthen ball, and it, in turn, will accumulate harmful s alts. Under such watering conditions, the plant will wither and may die.
Methods of reproduction
Peach Glow Violet, like the othersrepresentatives of this species reproduces in several ways: peduncle or leaves.
Reproduction by peduncle is used in order to preserve and pass on to offspring the fantasy color of the color.
So, in order to grow a violet in this way, it is necessary to break out a he althy and strong peduncle, which has the most beautiful flowers, then lay it on a hard surface and cut off the lower part with a sharp blade. In this case, you need to leave one centimeter to the stipules. Buds and flowers must also be completely removed, leaving only stumps 3-5 mm high.
The resulting tree is what will be used to grow a new flower. Sections must be well powdered with charcoal, which will have a disinfecting effect.
The success of the event will depend on watering. It must be minimal. With the right manipulations, after a while, small leaves will appear in the axils of the stipules - future rosettes. The timing of the appearance of small rosettes always varies. They can appear one and a half months after landing or much later.
For propagation by cuttings, he althy, well-formed leaves of medium size are used. In young plants, the lowest leaves are cut off. For older adults - from the second row from the bottom. Young leaves, which are located closer to the center of the outlet, take root faster, but may bring weakened offspring. And those leaves that are old or already starting to turn yellow will slowly form roots and most likely die,without even having time to form young plants.
For cuttings, the water should be clean and soft, it is best to use distilled or melted water. For rooting cut cuttings in water, it is best to use medicine jars, mustard. In a crystal dish, no variety gives roots.
Water is not changed during rooting, but only added as it evaporates. When the end of the petiole rots, it must be cut off and moved to another vessel with distilled water. You can also try to root it in sphagnum or earth.
Violet leaves that have previously been rooted in water and then planted in a box do not need to be covered with foil. The microclimate with high air humidity in the box creates a moist surface of the earth. A box with planted cuttings should be placed near a window or under a fluorescent lamp.
Transfer Rules
You also need to know that it is best to transplant violets in April-May, as this is the most favorable time. In winter, for example, a flower simply does not have enough sunlight, and in summer it can be destroyed by too bright sun.
Transplantation should be done only when the flowering period has passed. The exception is those cases when the flower has been invaded by pests or diseases. In this situation, it is best to transplant as soon as possible.
If all conditions are met, violet will be a wonderful decoration of any window sill for many years.
