Those who want to decorate their home with a fast-growing decorative flowering plant can start with indoor maple. Attracts simple care for abutilone. Indoor flowers and plants are mysterious, divine, beloved creatures. But admiration for them is not enough. After all, we, as Saint-Exupery said, are responsible for everyone we tamed, and especially for those who depend on us. If you create comfortable conditions for flowers, they will please our souls with their beauty. For lush flowering, almost year-round, indoor maple is suitable - abutilon. Home care is simple for him - the plant is unpretentious. But he also has features.
Abutilon: where is he from
In the
family of Malvaceae, which includes the well-known cotton, the lesser-known hibiscus, okra, and stockroza, there is a genus called Kanatnik (in Latin Abutilon). There are more than 200 representatives in the genus among the evergreen annual and perennial herbaceous, decorative leaf and decorative flowering shrubs, and even small trees.
The living conditions of species of this genus are the tropics and subtropics of South America, Hawaiian Islands, India, Australia, China, Africa. Why is the cable car? Certain species are cultivated to produce plant fiber for the manufacture of burlap sacks of twine ropes and ropes. To this end, in China, Theofrasta ropes is cultivated as a crop. In the southern European regions of Russia, this same abutilon is a malicious weed of row crops. For agricultural crops, he didn’t come out with growth here.
In India, abutilone is considered a medicinal and an aphrodisiac plant for men and women.
Varieties of indoor plants
Abutilon, an indoor maple, fell in love with the florists of Russia for the decorativeness of cute flowers and luxurious wedge-shaped leaves. Care, reproduction of indoor plants are available even to beginners.
The most common varieties of abutilone:
- grape-leaved with lilac-bluish flowers;
- hybrid - a variety of varieties of different colors;
- Darwin - bright orange and red with darker veins;
- Thompson - an upright trunk, salmon-pink terry inflorescences, on the leaves - white specks;
- megapotamsky - reaches one and a half meters, with yellow petals in a red cup and violet stamens - an excellent ampelous plant of year-round flowering;
- striped or spotted - short shoots, painted leaves and flowers on long pedicels, propagated only by cuttings;
- the type of suntense is the best for the winter garden: it reaches 4 meters in height, lilac flowers with a diameter of up to 10 cm.
Caring for abutilone at home is the same, regardless of variety.
Breeding at your fingertips
These fast-growing indoor flowers - abutilon - which at home can be cared for at home, are excellent material for selection - the creation of new varieties. Open access to stamens and pistils of simultaneously flowering plants contributes to the successful crossing of different varieties. Seeds of future hybrids ripen in a month and a half. And a maximum of six months later, you can see the flowering of new varieties created with your own hands. Enthusiastic breeders for the period from February to November receive 2 generations of new hybrids - this is an early ripe abutilon. Home care does not take long if growing this flower becomes a hobby.
Requirements
Optimum humidity: heavy summer watering, moderate in winter. It is necessary to maintain high humidity in the air - after all, it is a tropican, preferably periodic spraying. If the air is too dry, the plant will drop its leaves.
Temperature: in winter, a lower temperature is needed - up to 10-15 degrees. The rest of the year - room temperature in the range of 20-25 degrees.
Light mode: a fan of southern windows, tolerates a short-term (2-3 hours a day) direct stream of sunlight, but diffused light is desirable.
Requirements for soil and top dressing: sandy highly humified mixtures are preferred (equal parts of sand, turf, humus and deciduous land). The best fertilizer is mullein. Fertilizing should be done every ten days, in the winter enough once a month.
Reproduction: cuttings (spring and September) and seeds, preferably fresh. Cut the cuttings when pruning the plant with a sterile tool. The formation of the root system is first in water, then planting in loose nutrient-sandy soil. Survival is usually good.
You need to know the enemies
Abutilone is often affected by aphids, whiteflies, and scale insects. With these parasites, plants are treated by spraying with soapy water, infusion of tobacco powder. You can put a flower on an open veranda (avoid drafts!), Reduce watering. If there is no effect from the soap solution, use chemicals according to the instructions. The scabbard is removed with cotton buds. Spider mites love the plant, which can be recognized by the speckles on the leaves and the cobwebs entangling abutilon. Home care at the same time comes down to spraying the plant with insecticidal drugs, regulating humidity - it needs to be increased.
The secrets of lush flowering
Features: rapid growth - up to 0.5 m per year, mandatory spring transplant. Take a new pot a little more than the previous one. In order for the plant to bloom, it needs to be entangled with an earthen lump with roots. The bushy crown should be cleaned by trimming.
Hybrids need to remove long shoots - flowering will last. Pinch the tops of the elongated abutilons. The plant is suitable for balconies. He is afraid of drafts, does not tolerate neighborhood with heating batteries, likes space, gets along with "small" neighbors, letting them in "to the apartment" - below under his crown.
You can achieve year-round flowering of several plants, if you are an observant and caring host who cherishes abutilon. Home care allows you to make love mutual. The handsome flower attracts the eyes of everyone entering the room and passing by the windows. Abutilon looks so attractive.
Home Care: Seed Growing
Seeds can be bought or wait for the flower. The main thing for their successful germination is a short shelf life, a maximum of a year. But even with this period, not every seed will germinate, but only one of the two. Home seeds must be kept in the dark for a month. Before sowing in early spring, but you can do this in January, you need to hold them for a short time (3-4 hours) in a damp cloth. Prepare a humus-sand mixture. The soil should be moist and warm - at least 20 degrees. Sufficient lighting is needed. The embedment depth is not more than 1 cm. You can cover the pot with glass to preserve moisture and heat. Do not allow the soil to dry - periodically spray.
Two leaflets will appear at the end of the second week or the beginning of the third. They grow quickly and need a transplant 2-3 times before flowering at the 4-5th month. To get your seeds, wait for flowering and on the third day, armed with a soft watercolor brush, remove pollen from one flower and transfer to another. Soon a seed box will appear. When it turns black (about a month later) - open and see the seeds.