Fuchsias are amazing plants of the most elaborate forms and color combinations. They gained the greatest popularity at flower growers of America, Europe and Asia. The beautiful flower of Fuchsia, the care and propagation of which is quite simple, blooms colorfully and luxuriantly, decorating both ordinary residential buildings and strict office premises. It has been known for more than 300 years, and well-known breeders are constantly trying to develop new varieties. Fuchsia in the form of growth is bush and ampelous. They are grown in floorpots and hanging baskets. You can form these flowers in the form of a bush and even as a standard tree. Often they are grown on loggias, balconies and in the open ground.
Fuchsia soil
The soil used for this flower should be necessarily loose, nutritious. You can use special soil intended for indoor plants, but with the obligatory addition of perlite, sand, vermiculite, humus. It would be nice to add coconut fiber and coal to it.
Feeding Fuchsia
It is advisable to feed the plant well from the end of May. Suitable fertilizer, produced specifically for flowering plants, is suitable. It is possible to use fertilizers, which include potassium and phosphorus. Fuchsia reacts to fertilizer with an abundance of inflorescences and foliage.
This plant is fed during budding, intensive growth, flowering, as well as before the cold winter period. It is advisable to do this with a frequency of 1 time for 10 days. In this case, you can alternate different fertilizing - either organic or mineral. Of organic fuchsia, it is especially fond of mullein. The smell will disappear as soon as the cake is absorbed into the ground.
Lighting
Usually prefers diffused light fuchsia. Care and reproduction of this plant require a place where there is no bright sun, otherwise the flowers lose turgor and become smaller from hot rays. Small fuchsias are preferably illuminated with some kind of artificial lighting until they get a little stronger.
Fuchsia propagation
When propagating fuchsia, only cuttings are used. For this, the apical parts of young shoots up to 15 cm in length are taken. For rooting, only settled water is needed. It was noticed by florists that a slightly long process of rooting in fuchsia will proceed faster in a container of frosted dark glass.
You can even carry it out in a peat-humus tablet. When performing this method, it is necessary to soak a peat tablet in boiling water, and when it has already "grown", make a recess with a pencil to 1.3 cm and insert a handle with 3-4 internodes there.
Fuchsia: winter care
Fuchsia winter at + 10 ° C in some kind of bright room (this can be an unheated greenhouse or an uninsulated loggia). In autumn, flowers are cut off dramatically, while cutting off elongated and weak shoots and reducing watering to once a month. In order for the earth and roots not to be supercooled, you can insulate the flowerpots with polystyrene foam or put in a box with small sawdust.
In recent years, varieties of such fuchsias have appeared that even small cold can not survive without consequences. These are some fuchsia hybrids wintering on the street in special areas with a very mild climate. Such fuchsia, the care and reproduction of which is slightly different from usual, is planted on land in late spring or in June. But no later, because fuchsia will not be able to have time to harden before the onset of cold weather and develop fully.
The root system is buried in the soil by 12-20 cm. This is done so that in case of shoot death, the roots and root neck remain alive. This method allows the plant to recover successfully in the spring. But these plants bloom only in August.
Fuchsia: Care and Breeding in the Summer
+ 27 ° C for fuchsia is a critical upper limit of vegetation. At temperatures above plants, inflorescences are dumped, and sometimes even die. To prevent this from happening, you need to bring the flowerpot deep into the room, wrap it in light paper or material. You can simply transplant it into a more voluminous (ceramic) pot of light color. Around the pot should be laid out ice.
Subject to these rules of care, fuchsias will bloom in lush color and delight you with their beauty.