A little bit about the plant
Coniferous plants grown at home make indoor air healthier, increasing the ozone content and reducing pathogenic microflora. Successfully cultivated some types of cypress and cedar, araucaria, thuja, cryptomeria, indoor cypress. Caring for them in houses with central heating is difficult, but cultivation is possible.
Cypress (lat. Chamaecyparis) - monoecious evergreen coniferous tree of the cypress family. Outwardly, the shape of the cypress cones resembles cypress. The structure and structure of the needles are more like thuja. It differs in that its branches are flatter, and the cones are smaller. They ripen during the year and hold two seeds.
The crown of all cypress cypresses is cone-shaped, the crust of a dark gray or brown color is cracking, the trunk is straight. Branches drooping, cones scaly, spherical in shape. Wild cypress grow up to 70 m, while at the same time in decorative species, the dimensions are relatively small.
The most common species: Lavson cypress, blunt cypress, Nutkan cypress, pea cypress. They are distinguished by shape, color shades and structure of needles, frost resistance. For the Western European zone, the most unpretentious and resistant to moderate cold climates are the decorative species of the Cypress of Nutkan and pea. Their content is quite simple. A popular cultivar for growing at home is a large-fruited cypress macrocarpa Goldcrest, characterized by an elegant bell-shaped crown and erect stems, and a Kashmir cypress - a weeping form.
Cypress room. Plant care
Cypress, room care for which requires an elementary knowledge of its biological characteristics, due to its needles, is beneficial for the human nervous and respiratory systems. By intensively generating oxygen, it improves the indoor climate.
Cypress heat - loving photophilous plant, quite shade-tolerant. Fertile drained soil is suitable for him. In the dry period, the cypress needs watering.
Cypress, the care of which provides a cool wintering, must be kept in winter at temperatures from plus eight to ten degrees and high humidity. For this, the plant must be regularly sprayed or a pallet of wet pebbles should be installed. It is also necessary to protect it from drafts. Thus, in winter, these plants need to create a cool temperature regime and sparse watering. At the same time, the drying out of an earthen coma is unacceptable.
It is desirable to place the cypress on the eastern and northern windows, creating artificial shading for it in the summer. Cypress is well placed in group compositions, which serve as an excellent background for more colorful plants.
For the reproduction of cypress use lignified cuttings in the spring, seed propagation is also possible.
Indoor cypress, the care of which was carried out correctly, can reach 2 meters. You can adjust the growth by cropping. Cypress feeding is carried out with liquid fertilizers from May to August once a month. It is advisable to breed fertilizer using half the recommended concentration so as not to overfeed the cypress. Room care should provide uniform watering, without overdrying and waterlogging. At a very high temperature and low humidity, the plant sheds needles, the branches dry out and do not recover.
For a cypress tree, as well as for other conifers, it is important to keep an earthen lump at the roots so as not to destroy the symbionts necessary for the absorption of nutrients from the soil . The plant can be replanted every three years (in the spring), monitoring the integrity of the earthen coma at the root.