Geraniums are very durable plants and easy to care. Bloom in spring, summer, and even during the warm autumn days. They are very popular flowering plants and decorate terraces, balconies, windows, porches and gardens.
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The optimum temperature for growing geranium are 10 to 27 degrees. At lower temperatures it is beginning to deteriorate. At 10 degrees, enter the resting phase and can survive for a long time, but do not grow and they bloom. At temperatures over 30 degrees, their growth also stops.
Watering geranium must be regular, but moderate. It is essential that the plants have enough moisture to the leaves would not wither. Too much moisture and excessive watering causes root rot and so the land should be evenly moist. A sufficient number of holes in the pot tightly regulates the removal of excess water. Preferably, grown in small pots to dry between watering land.
During the year, in the later afternoon hours, geraniums can be sprayed water. If the nights are cold, the measure of care is not recommended.
Geraniums often bloom and in the autumn, when the nights are pleasant. At the end of September should remove all the flowers, and fresh and introduced, in order to save up energy plant. Most of the leaves fall through the winter. Wilted leaves is best removed by hand. Slicing is worse variant, because they remain only a short twigs.
In late fall, before frost, geraniums should be shortened to about 20 centimeters, and introduced and damaged leaves and flowers removed. Geraniums are then left in a room with a temperature of 8 to 10 degrees. Warm and dark rooms are not suitable for wintering, because in them geraniums makes thin and pale shoots, leading to depletion of the plant. In winter, they need to be watered only occasionally, once in 15 days or a month, and no supplemental feeding them until March. They store water in the thick stems and their country should be slightly moist.
In early spring it is necessary to orez 20-30 percent geraniums. After pruning should be watered. After two to three weeks, if necessary, are transplanted to a new country. Gradually increase the amount of water for irrigation and begins with recharge.
Geraniums are planted in pre-prepared mix of the country. Well enough to show peat substrate coarse. Geraniums prefer plenty of air around the roots, and country should not be too tight. The country should not be neither too loose to not too long holding water. After the first 15 days of planting geraniums are watered with clean water and then begins with fertilization.
Geraniums strong and unusual colors of flowers should not be planted in full sunlight because the leaves can not faded, and flowering is reduced.
Fed up fertilizer for geraniums, fertilizer-based guano or fertilizer for flowering plants. During the growing season the supplemental watering geraniums should be performed 1-2 times a week solution for geraniums. Geraniums are, like other plants whose leaves have hairs must not be artificially fed by spraying over leaves.
Geraniums are propagated by taking cuttings of succulent plants, the best years. Cuttings are placed in a warm, sandy compost, but make sure that he is moderate and moist enough. Some species of geranium breeding and seed. It is necessary that the seed is fresh, because geraniums relatively quickly lose germination.
To have such beautiful and bushy growth is necessary geraniums occasionally abbreviated tops shoots. Passe flowers and flower stalks should be removed periodically to as long flourished.
No additional cropping geraniums, unless a branch is not started bulging. Pruned to postpone flowering.
It is not desirable to cultivate geraniums more than two years, it will be the third year the plant very, and so it is good to be replaced with new saplings.
If geraniums have adequate care beautiful terraces, balconies, windows, porches, gardens, its many beautiful flowers and interesting shapes of leaves in spring, summer and the beautiful autumn days.
