Caring for your gardenia won't lead to disappointment
Millions love indescribable beauty, but only a few will dare to take care of it. Caring for your gardenia is one of the most exciting and painstaking activities. By understanding the main features of the plant, you can minimize your efforts. Still, one cannot do without standard solutions.
In the interior, the luxurious bush looks great in pots or in ceramic trays.
It all starts with choosing a flower
When buying a crop, you should carefully consider its appearance. Yellowed or uneven leaves, as well as rusty spots on them, do not indicate a healthy specimen, but the presence of problems.
Often on store copies already present mealybug... If you don't notice it, you will have to fight with it for a long time, and not devote energy to caring for the gardenia. Therefore, it is better to select healthy and strong seedlings.
After changing climatic conditions (from shop to indoor), flowers most often dry up and fall off. This is a normal phenomenon, so there is no need to worry, because new ones will appear soon.
In conclusion, they try the soil, because it serves as the basis for the development of culture. In waterlogged soil, the root system begins to rot, and in dry soil, the fibrous processes simply dry out. The soil should be slightly wet and loose to the touch.
Painstaking care of the gardenia
Many believe that there are problematic plants. In fact, the problem lies in improper care of him. Having chosen a suitable flower for yourself, it must be transplanted. Pure peat is not suitable for the development of a jasmine culture. She feels great exclusively in an acidic environment. Therefore, some even sprinkle it with water with lemon or vinegar. An important requirement for her is the choice of location:
- an abundance of light;
- access to oxygen, preferably, put a pot near the window;
- cool climate (blooms at a temperature of 16-18 ° C, in this regard, it is kept on the balcony until late autumn).
For gardenia photos choose plastic pots. Ceramics are capable of absorbing and retaining moisture. In such containers, the earth appears dry, although it is wet. The gardener habitually begins to fill the flowerpot. As a result, the leaves darken.
It is recommended to harden the flower, then it tolerates wintering more easily. Keeping it near a battery is a bad idea. The culture becomes too capricious and can fade. In winter, watering is reduced to a minimum, as is top dressing. The interval is 10 days. It is worth remembering that drought is more desirable for her than overflow.
Yet close observation remains central to gardenia care. Indeed, often the plants themselves suggest what they lack, and what they are allergic to. Observing these simple recommendations, you can enjoy the wonderful flowering of indoor jasmine.