The chrysanthemum plant looks like a shrub with a fairly branched stem on which small, separate leaves grow. The structure of chrysanthemum flowers distinguishes it, at the same time referring to large-flowered and small-flowered species. If we are talking about indoor chrysanthemum, then it will be a small-flowered plant. Having a diverse color, it happens with yellow, white, pinkish and even red flowers. The chrysanthemum counts over two hundred varieties. It belongs to the asters family, and it gained the most popularity among residents of Asian countries. Although this thermophilic plant was born in India, some of its species are quite frost-resistant and can bloom even until late autumn.
How to grow chrysanthemums
Chrysanthemums are considered flowers growing on open ground, but the work of professionals, with the help of special solutions that slow down the growth of a flower, today it can also be grown in pots. Thus, we can have compact, long and plentifully blooming chrysanthemums at home today. Growing garden chrysanthemums implies the ability to get a plant that reaches a height of twenty to seventy centimeters.
Breeding chrysanthemums in room and balcony conditions, as a rule, are content with low-growing small-flowered varieties. These include Golden Gloria (has yellow flowers ), Gustav Grunwald and the look of Old Gold (has red-bronze flowers).
If you want chrysanthemums to decorate your home, growing them in a home environment will require a room with cool and fresh air. As a rule, such a place can be either a balcony or a loggia. Here, seedlings can develop before the start of frost. If the chrysanthemum is in the process of flowering, then it can be placed on the windowsill - near the sunny window, in a well-ventilated and cool room with a temperature regime from thirteen to fifteen degrees. At temperatures above twenty-five degrees, the growth process of the chrysanthemum will occur rather poorly, and the buds will quickly open and will soon wither.
Growing chrysanthemums from seeds does not require special efforts. It is necessary to sow the seeds in May, deepening them into the soil holes, three to four seeds with a distance of twenty-five centimeters from each other. Flowering will begin with the beginning of August. If you do not want to wait until August, you need to sow in March, then flowering will occur in June. To do this, you will need a heated room. Dive into the pots occurs when the seedlings grow. Then in early June they can be planted in the ground.
If you don’t have yet, but want to have chrysanthemums, growing them will require the presence of prepared land with impurities of turf and humus (taken in equal parts), and you also need to add twenty percent of sand with rotten manure. A good addition is the addition of bird droppings to the ground.
If you want your chrysanthemums to bloom in late autumn, you need to water them abundantly and spray the leaves with water. This must be done at least twice a week. If the chrysanthemum lacks moisture, leaf falling may occur. For greater branching, you can pinch the top of the plant. In this case, the growth of side shoots will be much better.
If you think that it is necessary to transplant chrysanthemums, growing them involves this too. As soon as you notice that the size of the pot in which your chrysanthemum grows does not match its size, you can transplant the plant into a larger pot. After that, after ten to fifteen days, it is necessary to fertilize the chrysanthemum with liquid fertilizers.
If you want to get large flowers, then you need to form your chrysanthemums. Growing in order to increase the size of flowers allows the following method. First you need to pluck the first bud, and after a while you will see the appearance of several shoots on the side. Depending on how many flowers you want to have, the same number of shoots will need to be left. Of course, this should be done as your bush grows.