One of the most popular indoor plants in the world is the violet Jan Minuet. She is the personification of the arrival of spring, delighting with her delicate, elegant flowers, full of beauty and perfection. Their smell can not only have a wonderful effect on the human body, but also improve mood by tuning in an optimistic mood.
Appearance
The dark green leaves of the violet are slightly wavy, with serrated edges. The main feature of the plant is terry flowers resembling stars. Their color is usually soft pink, with an expressive raspberry border, the width of which can be different. The diameter of the flower is on average 7 cm, on one high and strong peduncle in a round bunch of them contains up to 3 pieces. Unlike other types of violets, these flowers have brighter color transitions on large and wavy petals. About nine months they delight the eye and fill the whole house with amazing aroma. Violets of this variety are perfectly combined with blue and dark red varieties.
Care Features
Although Jan Minuet is a very delicate subspecies, caring for this flower is not difficult, even for a beginner. It does not require too bright lighting and too spacious a pot, as for some other varieties. Soil requirements are minimal.
Temperature mode
Given the climatic conditions existing in the historical homeland of violets, the required temperature for their successful cultivation should be from 20 to 24 ° C. The lower mark is suitable for adult specimens covered with large flowers. For young plants that are under development, the temperature should be slightly higher.
Violet Jan Minuet, grown on a window sill, needs to provide heat in winter. It is important to ensure that cold air does not get on the plant, especially when airing the room. Use of a special support for a flower pot with a flower will help to avoid supercooling of roots from the surface of a stone window sill.
Humidity
This kind of violets in natural conditions grows mainly along the banks of rivers and streams, where the air is saturated with moisture. The moisture content for this plant should not be lower than 60%. In apartments with central heating, it is necessary to increase it in order to create a favorable microclimate for violets. This can be done in various ways:
- Place the flower pot in a flat vessel, like a metal pan, into which to pour water. Evaporating, it will increase the humidity in the air surrounding the plant.
- Using a spray gun you can spray water near the plant. Due to the fact that Jan-Minuet (violet, the description of which is given here) has too strong pubescence, spraying of leaves and flowers is not recommended.
Watering
For the successful cultivation of this crop, it is required to provide regular watering to prevent the drying of an earthen coma. You can do this in two ways - top or bottom (from the pallet). In the first case, water is poured near the edge of the pot so as not to erode the surface of the soil and not moisten the young tender leaves of the plant. For convenience, it is better to use a watering can with a long narrow nose. Watered until water begins to come out through the drainage holes in the pot. After about half an hour, it is drained from the pan to prevent the possibility of rotting of the roots.
When watering from below, water is poured into a pan, from where it is gradually absorbed by the plant. This method has a significant minus - in an earthen coma, harmful salts accumulate over time, from which the flower can wither.
For irrigation, ordinary tap water is used, which was settled in an open bowl for two days.
How correctly watering is carried out, violet Jan-Minuet can tell with its appearance. Elastic, saturated color leaflets indicate sufficient moisture. If they become soft, hanging from the edge of the pot, then the soil is dry and the plant needs urgent help. The pot must be half put in warm water for half an hour and put in the shade, covered with plastic wrap. After about a day, the plant is fully restored.
Top dressing
Once every two weeks, the plant is fed with mineral fertilizers. One of the most famous is "Immunocytophyte". It acts as a stimulant of defense reactions and plant development. Effectively increases the resistance of violets to diseases such as late blight, powdery mildew, blackleg, altenariosis, gray and white rot, and others that are affected by the Jan Menuet violet variety. In addition, "Immunocytophyte" significantly accelerates the development of plants.
Breeding
Violet Jan-Minuet can propagate in various ways - a leaf, cuttings, peduncle or stepson. The most popular is the first method. They reproduce in the spring and summer. On a healthy, mature plant, choose a suitable leaf from the second or third row of the outlet. It should be brightly colored and without any stains and damage. In old leaves, root formation is slow, they often die before young plants form. Young ones take root faster, but their offspring may be weakened. Cut the leaf at an angle of 45 °, leaving a stump up to 5 mm (it must be immediately treated with crushed activated carbon). Rooting is best done in water so that you can observe the appearance of roots. It can be taken from the water supply, but it must be clean and soft. Senpolia Jan Minuet is very sensitive to water hardness. If necessary, it is softened in every possible way.
A 1 cm leaf is immersed in a glass of water in which a tablet of activated carbon is previously dissolved, and placed in a warm place away from sunlight. When roots are formed with a length of at least 1 cm, the leaflet can be transplanted into the soil.
In order for these plants to transform the whole house with their beauty, violets must be grown with proper and competent care, which even a beginner grower can afford.