Fuchsia is one of the amazingly flowering plants of the Cyprus family . In the wild, it grows in the vast territories of South and Central America, and this flower came to Europe only in the 18th century. Now more than a hundred different varieties of fuchsia are bred, differing from each other in the size and terry of the inflorescences, the height of the bushes, the color and size of the leaves. As a rule, decorative fuchsia grown at home can be easily recognized by its beautiful flowers with bent petals, long stamens and an elongated cup, with small opposite red or green leaves. The flowers of the plant can be either monochromatic - white, red, pink, or multicolor - for example, with a red cup and a lilac corolla. At the end of summer, fruits having a spherical shape appear on fuchsia.
In this article we will talk about how such a beautiful indoor flower - fuchsia is grown at home. Caring for it is not burdensome: this plant is quite unpretentious, easily propagated and impresses with its unusually beautiful flowering. The plant is often used to give the interior of a residential or office space original and yakrich accents.
Fuchsia: home care
This is a lowly flower that grows beautifully in the most ordinary garden land. Great for its cultivation and a mixture of turf and leaf soil, as well as sand. A pot with a plant in the autumn-winter period is installed on the windowsills of the western or north-western windows. In the summer, fuchsia can be taken out to the balcony for fresh air. The main thing is to prevent direct sunlight from entering the plant. Fuchsia prefers diffused light. As for climatic conditions, the optimum temperature is considered to be in the range +16 ... + 22 ° C. Excessive heat can cause serious damage to the flower, and cold helps the plant to go to rest. In winter, the room temperature is reduced to +10 ° C or fuchsia is put on a loggia or insulated balcony.
Fuchsia. Home care: watering and top dressing
This beautiful plant needs warm season (spring-autumn) in plentiful and regular watering. Moistening mode is set depending on how long the topsoil in the pot dries up . In the cold season, watering is reduced. Moisturize the soil with exclusively settled soft water. If the plant does not have enough moisture, it drops buds and leaves, if the moisture is excessive, brown spots appear on the leaves. Fuchsia responds well to bathing in the shower and spraying. As for fertilizers, it is fed in spring and summer with fertilizers for flowering plants. The main thing is not to overdo it with nitrogen fertilizers, which can activate excessive leaf growth.
Fuchsia. Home Care: Trimming
One of the important points in the proper cultivation of fuchsia is its timely pruning. Without this procedure, your plant is unlikely to look attractive. As a rule, during the winter, fuchsia grows strongly and shoots wilt, and the leaves become smaller. Therefore, long bare branches are removed, after which the plant begins to actively cluster. If desired, fuchsia can be given a different shape: to make a bush in the form of a tree, with a straight stem and a "hat" of leaves and flowers on top. In order to create such a form, lateral shoots are regularly removed from a young plant, and the trunk is gradually strengthened and porked. After the trees grow to the desired length, pinch the central shoot. You can also form a cone, trellis or ball from such a wonderful plant as fuchsia. Caring for this beautiful flower at home will not be difficult and even beginner gardeners will be able to do it. The main thing is to create the necessary climatic conditions, to water and loosen the soil, to fertilize and to trim the excess processes.
Beautiful indoor plants: fuchsia. Care and reproduction
At home, the propagation of fuchsia is carried out mainly vegetatively. In the spring, during the pruning period, biomaterial suitable enough for rooting appears. Twigs are cut about 10 cm long and placed in water. After a while, the cuttings will give roots, and they can be planted in separate containers with a loose nutrient substrate.