Violet, or Saintpaulia, as it is also called, is today the darling of many home gardeners. Lovers-collectors seek to grow a flower on their windowsill. There are a great many varieties of this plant. This article will focus on one of them - the violet Princess Cherry.
Description
Violet Princess Cherry is a bright beautiful variety. The author of the variety is S. Repkina.
Violet flowers are large, double, lush, rounded, fuchsia. At the edges of the petals is a white border. Flowering is very bright, voluminous, multi-layered. Strong peduncles, a bouquet in the form of a hat.
The foliage has a dark green color, the outlet is even and neat.
The nuances of growing
Some gardeners characterize the violet as an unpretentious plant, others fail to cope with caring for the capricious beauty. However, in order to enjoy beautiful flowering, a number of conditions should be observed during the growing process.
The highlight is sunlight, or rather, the location of the violets relative to it. Violet Princess Cherry (and all other varieties) loves the abundance of light, but is afraid of direct sunlight.
Thus, northeast and northwest windows are the most suitable places for growing violets.
In nature, violets choose places where shrubs can protect them from the bright sun, so you need to try to provide similar conditions indoors. Often, flower growers use glass racks and fluorescent lamps, in which case the violets receive the necessary light and look beautiful.
Landing place
When choosing containers for planting flowers, it should be borne in mind that specimens planted in pots of the same size, having a diameter and height of 10 cm look spectacular. Such a size is considered optimal. The violet pot can be made of any material, this is not significant. Both ceramics and plastic will do.
A smaller pot size will not allow the plant to grow successfully. However, there are instances that grow to large sizes, and then they need a larger container.
Soil selection
The soil for violets can be purchased at the store, but if there is a strong desire, then making the soil for them yourself is not such a difficult task.
To do this, put in the pot drainage, which occupies one third of the capacity. This is coal or expanded clay. Then pour soil consisting of turf, humus, sand and moss-sphagnum. You can also take soil from the forest. The most important thing is that it should provide good air exchange, that is, be loose.
Breeding
To propagate the violet Princess Cherry, you can use leaves, a ready-made rosette or peduncle. The stalk is placed in water for a couple of months, then, when the shoots appear, they are planted in the soil. You can plant the cuttings immediately in the ground, this method is even more preferable, the root system of such instances will be stronger.
Young violets are placed in pots with a diameter of 5-6 cm. After 3-4 months, you can plant in a larger container.
Secrets of gardeners
Experienced collectors of violets share these secrets when growing this flower:
- Care should be taken to water the plants. It should not be excessive, and water is taken at room temperature. It eliminates moisture on the leaves, watered in a pan. The excess is drained after 20 minutes.
- The ideal room temperature for growing is 22 degrees.
- To maintain vitality, violets need top dressing with liquid fertilizers applied under the root. But zealous with fertilizer is also not worth it.
- Violets live no more than two years, then their leaves are cut off and used for propagation.
- To give brightness to the flowers, the plants are watered with a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
All the trouble of growing violets will not be in vain. And the plant will delight its owner with an unusual and bright flowering.