Delicate violets delight the look all year round, either in flowerpots on window sills, or in flowerbeds near the house. Vittroka's violet is a flower bed plant, but in pots on the terraces it also looks gorgeous. How to grow her and care for this beauty, you can learn from our article.
Viola, Wittrock violet, pansies ...
It's all about her, about Wittrock's violet from the violet family. Annual plants come in the most stunning colors: purple, white, pink, chocolate, saturated blue. Ruby red or dark brown, the flowers with a yellow and white eye are gorgeous!
Large-flowered varieties of flowers often have a blue-violet, red or yellow color with a dark eye. They bloom in spring.
Small-flowered varieties bloom from summer to autumn, have a bright palette, but they do not have a dark eye. If you plant several varieties, you can admire the abundance of colors throughout all the warm days!
Seed flower
It is much easier to plant plants with cuttings and processes, but in order to grow a plant from seeds, you need to try. There are two options for germinating seeds. There is nothing complicated, but you need to complete each stage on time, and Vittrock's violet will thank you with its colorful flowering. Cultivation can be carried out in greenhouses and greenhouses, on glazed balconies.
- Sowing is carried out in greenhouses around the beginning of March, the temperature should not be lower than 20 ° C. When the seedlings emerge, it must be moved to a sunny place, but the temperature must be reduced to 10-15 degrees.
- You can sow seeds in July, leaving a free space between them. A plant sown in summer will only bloom the following year.
- You can plant the culture with young shoots in May half a centimeter in depth. It is necessary to select cuttings with three nodes for transplantation.
The easiest way is to plant the finished seedlings.
During the warmer months, you can admire how Wittrock's violet blooms under your windows. Growing from seeds requires more attention and care.
Proper care and lush flowering
In favorable conditions, Wittrock violet blooms more intensively. The plant loves watering, but there should be no stagnation of water, you need to plant the crop in places where there is a lot of light or partial shade. In dimly lit places, flowers become smaller.
Vittroka violet will be better to bloom if it is fed with mineral fertilizers. You cannot fertilize these plants with manure.
If spots or blackness appear on the leaf, and rot is noticed near the root, this indicates a disease of the plant, which may be caused by excessive watering. In this case, the diseased specimens must be removed, and their neighbors sprayed with a solution of copper oxychloride. When powdery mildew appears on the leaves, a solution of soda and soap can be made in equal proportions.
So the violet blooms for a long time
Unusually and brightly looking blooming violet Wittroka. Photos taken using modern digital technology, fully convey the beauty of the flower. And so that this beauty lasts as long as possible, it is necessary to pluck faded flowers in time. After seed ripening, the ribs of the capsules turn white, and the plants stop growing, and flowering stops with flowering.
In addition to external beauty, Wittrock's violet also has medicinal properties, a description of the medicinal properties can be found in the relevant literature.
The violet grows quickly enough, reaching 25 centimeters. During flowering, the plant grows a little, and the release of new flowers can last several months. Flowering time is reduced at high temperatures. If the plants are too densely planted, then Vittroka Violet gives less color. The flowering periods of plants are stretched from early spring to late autumn.
Choosing a variety for planting
If there is no desire to grow violets from seed, you can buy ready-made shoots, it is better to do this in the spring and opt for compact plants, if the specimen is too stretched up, it is better to ignore it.
When choosing varieties, you can be guided only by your sense of taste, they do not differ in terms of care, their main and most important difference is the color and size of the flower!
Crops with large and small flowers can be planted nearby, Wittrock violets from different varieties also get along well together.
Familiarity with the varieties
When planting plants, you can rely on your desires, but it is advisable to take into account how Wittrock's violet blooms.
The timing of flowering in different varieties may vary. If you know these features, you can plant your site so that the flowers on it were from early spring to autumn. It is incredibly difficult to describe all varieties, because together with hybrids there are a lot of them. If the plants differ only in the color of the flowers, they are combined in variety cultivars.
Giant flowers
The flower size is as large as possible, varieties are represented in various shades, they tolerate changes in weather conditions.
- Their diameter can reach 11 cm. Super Majestic Giants F1 grows on low bushes, blooms all season, tolerates temperature extremes and heat well. It can be of different colors.
- One of the new Magnum F1 series with early flowering.
Large-flowered violet
- Dynamite, which changes color when it is cold, it becomes brighter; when the weather is hot, it brightens.
- Ultima F1 blooms almost to frost.
- Ultima Radiance Crown F1 - a flower of the correct form, bright, without spots, grows on dwarf bushes.
- The long-playing Imperial variety is represented by 12 varieties of different colors.
Wittrock's Middleflower Violet
- 20 varieties from Spring Time F1. The color is thrown out early and for a long time, the plant is compact, winter-hardy.
- A fast-growing, lush green variety of Trimardo. Flower of the classical form. The most common varieties: Cardinal, Adonis, Lord Beaconsfield, Morenkenig, Super Beaconsfield.
- It tolerates winter well, blooms early and plentifully Schweizer Riesen. Popular varieties of this sortoseriya: Firnenshnee, Orange Marie, Firenngold, Flamme, Bergvaht, Abendglut.
- Crystal Bowl is a dwarf variety variety in which there are 12 varieties. With a uniform color and numerous buds. Culture with small dark green leaves. Violet is suitable for open areas, tolerates heat well.
- Vittroka violet varieties Maxim F1 tolerates cold and heat well. The beginning of flowering is early and long. In the cultivar series 12 varieties, the names reflect the color (Maxim Rose, Maxim Orange, etc.)
- 15 varieties include the variety Forgener F1. The plant tolerates wintering well.
Violets with small flowers
- Hemalis - flowering begins early, the bushes are small. Variety series includes such popular varieties as Jupiter, Mars, Geolis, Himmelskenigin, Nordpole.
- Sortoseriya Universal F1 includes 10 varieties. They differ in early magnificent blossoming.
- Variety Flamenco F1 is not by accident that bears such a name. Red-orange flowers with a yellow, blurry hatching middle certainly remind the dresses of the dancers of this incendiary dance.
Here is such a multifaceted Wittrock violet. There are also many other varieties, not so popular, but from this no less beautiful.
Choosing the right place
When choosing a place for planting a crop, it is advisable to know how it reacts to heat, sunlight, damp, and so on. Vittroka's violet is unpretentious, grows both in open ground, and in flowerpots and pots. If you plant a lot of violets in one place, they will become a bright spot against the rest of the vegetation.
Flowers do not tolerate even temporary drought, so watering should be as necessary so that the earth does not dry out. Once every two weeks, it is advisable to feed the plant with fertilizers.
Caring for plants actually takes a lot of time. So that the plants are healthy and constantly blooming, they need to be monitored. It is necessary to clean dried flowers and leaves, water and spray from insects. Only in this case, you can count on the pomp in the greenhouse.
There are times when a plant is injured, because often animals like to rest in such front gardens, they knock out entire sections in their favorite places. If the stems are not broken, then the bush will rise, if the shoots become dry or turn yellow, then you can remove them from the flower bed to make room for new shoots.