Graceful anthuriums with heart-shaped flowers are a wonderful decoration for a home or office interior. From these plants, you can create colorful bouquets, fortunately, the colors of modern hybrids range from snow-white to almost black. If you want to preserve and reproduce this splendor, create a small garden at home. Features of different species allow you to breed anthurium by division, cuttings, or using seeds.
It is necessary
- - charcoal;
- - small and medium-sized flower pots;
- - glass jars;
- - potassium permanganate;
- - aquarium or polyethylene;
- - stands for pots;
- - sphagnum moss;
- - sand;
- - knife;
- - peat;
- - pine bark;
- - brush (puff);
- - thermometer.
Instructions
Step 1
Study the characteristics of the home anthurium species in order to choose the best way to reproduce it. If the plant has a horizontal rhizome, then it can be removed from the ground and divided into segments about 10 cm long.
Step 2
Powder fresh cuts of rhizomes with crushed charcoal, which can be activated. After that, the anthurium will need to cut off all the leaves.
Step 3
Place the cut root pieces (delenka) in small flower pots filled with fresh, damp sphagnum or sand. Set up a small greenhouse. To do this, place the pots on inverted trays or other supports and place them in wide-necked glass jars or in a small, empty aquarium.
Step 4
Pour water into the bottom of the containers. Do not let the impromptu greenhouse dry out until new leaves wake up on the parcels and begin to bloom. From this point on, it is necessary to transplant the anthurium into larger containers with soil of the same composition in which the mother plant grew.
Step 5
Anthurium with a short vertical stem is recommended to propagate by cuttings. Shoots with a height of about 10 cm from the base of the mother plant are used as planting material. The cuttings should be cut with a very sharp knife along an oblique line, and the cuts should be sprinkled with charcoal.
Step 6
Young shoots can be looked after according to the pattern of a delenk, maintaining an optimal temperature of +25 degrees in the room. Keep the moss or sand moist, and do not forget to spray the cuttings themselves. After rooting, transplant young anthuriums to a permanent place.
Step 7
It makes sense to propagate anthurium by seeds when trying to breed new varieties or wanting to get many young flowers. This method of growing a houseplant is much more troublesome, it will require a lot of time from the grower. First you need to pollinate adult flowers with a brush or puff.
Step 8
When the berries that have set are ripe (that is, they begin to fall off the cob without effort on your part), harvest. Remove the seeds and rinse to loosen mucus. To prevent mold from appearing on the seed, hold it for a couple of hours in a very weak solution of potassium permanganate.
Step 9
Fill large containers with steamed moss and peat (1: 1). You can sprinkle a 3mm layer of chopped pine bark on top. Another substrate option: peat, sand, leafy earth (1: 0, 5: 2) and some charcoal. While the seeds are fresh, they must be immediately placed on the substrate and sprinkled a little.
Step 10
Water the planting and place in a home greenhouse, such as an empty aquarium or plastic wrap. After a couple of months, the sprouts that have appeared are recommended to be transplanted into the same substrate, keeping a distance of about 3 cm between the plants.
Step 11
Take care of the sown anthurium, otherwise the flowers may never come up. Do not forget that they need a lot of reflected light (not direct rays of the sun!), They tolerate temperatures from 25 to 28 degrees well without sudden fluctuations. The substrate must be kept moist, and the sprouts that have appeared must be sprayed with soft water. If you managed to sow anthurium correctly, then after a year the flowers can be moved to a new place of residence in separate pots.
