Violet is one of the ancient species of plants that are successfully grown as a houseplant. These flowers are beautiful, moderately capricious, but with the right course, they can please a long time with beautiful flowering. The abundance of varieties and varieties makes you wonder which plant to choose. One of the most beautiful and unusual representatives of the stars is the violet Reigning Beauty.
Grade description
The variety was bred by J. Swift. Violet Reigning Beauty is a semi-double star of red-violet color with a light frill along the edge. The variety has a standard rosette with light green flat foliage. The socket is smooth, peduncles raised up and collected in a bouquet. Flowering is long, plentiful. Variety often gives sport.
Violet is interesting in that it can produce a variety of flowers during flowering. They vary in shape, color. Often the first flowering takes place without a pronounced change in the shade and shape of the edge of the petals. The second and subsequent flowering will show whether the violet Reigning Beauty is a sport or will it begin to bloom by variety. Although many flower growers say that each variety rosette received will bloom differently.
Growing conditions
Violet Reigning Beauty will be a real find for decorating a room. In order for the plant to please with a long and plentiful flowering, it is necessary to properly care for it.
To begin with, you should choose a place where the plant will be located. It should be bright, but without direct sunlight. They do not like their senpolis: burns form when sunlight enters the plant. The violet will feel most comfortable on the north, north-west and north-east windows. In other cases, you have to do shading so that the plant does not burn. Violet Reigning Beauty is often grown under artificial light.
In addition to choosing a place, for abundant flowering and proper development of the plant, it is necessary to carry out periodic dressing of the plant, as well as monitor the temperature in the room and the level of humidity.
Humidity and watering
Violet Reigning Beauty is a moisture sensitive plant. With excess water, the roots of the plant rot and it dies. To prevent this from happening, you need to monitor the watering.
Water should be warm. Do not fill the plant: watering is carried out as the soil dries. However, you can not dry it, since the plant will die immediately. Violets are capricious to watering: with excess water and lack of water, they immediately die.
There are several watering options that allow you to get a lush outlet:
- Pour water into the pan, and after half an hour remove excess.
- Submerge the pot of violet in water.
- Use the wick irrigation method . As seen in the photo, Reigning Beauty violet grows well when using wick irrigation technology.
- You can water the plant from above, but with this option, it is necessary that the water does not fall on the leaves and in the center of the outlet.
Violets should not be sprayed. Because of this, spots form on them. Although they like high humidity. To increase it, you can place a container of water near the plant.
Soil selection
Judging by the description, the violet Reigning Beauty can be planted not only in a special soil, but also to make it yourself. For this, turf, leaf and peat land are mixed. Perlite and vermiculite are used as a baking powder. You can use coarse river sand or sphagnum moss.
Pot selection
To get a beautiful, as in the photo, violet Reigning Beauty, you need to choose the right pot. It should not be large: in a large container, the plant will grow the root system and foliage to the detriment of flowering. Young plants are planted in small containers. For children often use disposable cups. Older plants are planted in pots with a diameter of up to ten centimeters.
The subtleties of growing
In order for the plant to bloom both in the description and in the photo, the Reigning Beauty violet must provide special conditions. Their root system is sensitive to cold. In cold weather, the plant stops developing and blooming. To avoid this, a pot of plants should be placed so that the roots are warm. Some gardeners resort to tricks, placing the pot in a plastic container, and then put it in a clay pot.
Not only colds, but also frequent transplants, lack of fertilizers, and light can reduce the abundance of flowering.
Top dressing
Violets should be fed throughout the year. For this, it is best to use liquid fertilizers such as Florist, Biohumus and other species intended for flowering plants. Dilute the compositions according to the instructions on the packaging. After top dressing, violets grow actively and delight with beautiful flower hats.
Breeding
The resulting children of violets through rooting by the leaf often go to sports, and also bloom in a variety of colors.
The rooting sheet is taken only from the second row of the plant. It should be medium in size. The leaf is cut at an angle of 45 degrees. Further, the propagation method depends on the grower:
- You can put a leaf on rooting in water. With this method, it should be borne in mind that plants often rot. To prevent this, a tablet of activated carbon should be dissolved in water.
- You can plant the cuttings immediately in the ground. With this method, planted cuttings are immediately placed in a greenhouse with good ventilation.
When propagating in water, the leaf is planted in the soil when the appearance of roots no more than a centimeter long. When propagating in the soil, they wait until the children grow up: as soon as they reach three or more centimeters, they can be immediately separated from the mother sheet and planted individually.
You can propagate plants by rooting daughter sockets. Reproduction by this method is best done in the spring. With the stepson method of reproduction, only those parts are taken where there are at least three large leaves. With a knife or other sharp object, carefully disconnect the outlet. It can be placed in water for rooting, or immediately planted in the ground. In the latter case, the plant is placed in a greenhouse.
The most experienced flower growers practice propagation by peduncles. So that they give roots, they must have leaflets. Peduncles are placed in water and wait for the roots to appear on them. This method is great for propagating Reigning Beauty, since only this method guarantees the exact preservation of the selected variety variety.