In many residential and office premises, you can often find magnificent lianopodobnye plants. Most often, a flower such as cissus, otherwise called wild grape, is used for landscaping . Caring for it is not particularly difficult, therefore, many flower growers also strive to green their apartments and jobs with it. To do this is quite simple, since this beautiful vine in every respect has rapid growth. Thanks to him, cissus can easily wrap around the railing of stairs, and also create a “living” screen in a fairly short time. It will take no more than two years.
The splendor of cissus rhomboid
Among the subspecies of plants of the Vinogradovye family growing indoors, the rhombic cissus is most popular. Otherwise, it is called a birch or house grapes. Due to the unique capabilities that he shows with his development, it is easy to create from it a detached bush, a waterfall of flowering shoots, and a magnificent green screen.
But not only the decorative role is played by cissus in the room where it is grown. He also has such antiseptic properties, thanks to which he is able to perfectly purify the air from all kinds of pathogenic microbes, as well as ionize it.
What care will be optimal for the plant at home
Cissus rhombic care at home requires not as tiring as many other home plants. This evergreen vine is unpretentious enough, and if suitable conditions are created for it, it will delight for many years with an abundance of beautiful curly shoots with bright green carved foliage. When growing this flower, you should pay attention to the following:
- Lighting requirements. For better growth and development of wild grapes, it is necessary to place it on the south side. He, like other plants originating from the tropics, prefers though bright, but at the same time diffused light. But if necessary, cissus can adapt to growth in the shade.
- Humidity does not really matter, but the plant likes frequent spraying.
- Watering cissus requires abundant, because due to the large number of large foliage it evaporates a lot of moisture. But with the onset of cooling, it should be reduced to a minimum, since the growth of the liana significantly slows down. Water the flower at this time only for the purpose of not rooting the root system.
- The optimum temperature for good growth of this plant should be within 25 ° C, but drafts should be avoided, since their presence is fraught for people coming from the tropics by dumping foliage.
All the nuances of caring for this plant are quite simple to implement, so growing a house of such a subspecies of the Vinogradov family, like rhomboid cissus, will not require any additional knowledge or costs from the grower. Even feeding cissus is not problematic, because it is produced only in the spring-summer period. Moreover, for good growth, this flower is sufficient for the usual complex fertilizer used for other plants.
Conditions necessary for the propagation of cissus
In a plant such as rhomboid cissus, propagation under room conditions occurs by cuttings. For this, in the springtime, small apical processes are cut with a sharp knife and put them in water for rooting. After the formation of the root system, they are planted in a soil mixture suitable for this plant and a flowerpot with a newly planted flower is placed in the place where it is to grow.
Evergreen Creeper Disease
Cissus rhomboid disease can be of several types. They depend both on the microclimate in the apartment and the errors in caring for the plant, and on the defeat of the flower by parasites. Amateur gardeners, especially novices in this business, should know about these diseases in order to create optimal conditions for the development of lianas. Among the most common diseases of a plant such as cissus, care for which also involves protection against various diseases, the following can be distinguished:
- If the room has very warm and dry air, the tips of the leaves dry out at the flower.
- Excess moisture or the location of cissus in a rather cool place leads to a massive fall of foliage.
- Excessive light creates the conditions for the lightening of foliage. Instead of a juicy green color, it becomes faded.
- Fungal diseases that affect the plant mainly in winter can bring a great danger to this vine. It can also be affected by a spider mite.
If you learn to cope with these few diseases that rhomboid cissus is susceptible to, then the plant will not create any special problems for the florist. Proper care and the creation of favorable conditions for growth - that's all that this flower requires.
Some tips
If you are planning to grow this vine at home, you should pay attention to some subtleties and nuances that will favorably affect its growth and development.
- Winter temperatures, when the vines have a rest period, should not exceed 15 degrees.
- The room must be maintained at a constant humidity created by regular spraying.
- Once a month, a “bathing” day should be spent for the flower: after spraying, wipe the leaves with a damp cloth.
- For feeding, the same liquid fertilizer is used as for other indoor flowers.