How to replant cyclamen without damaging it?
This flower, for all its delicacy, has become very popular among indoor plant lovers. But in order not to bring a fragile plant to a point with your care, you need to know how to water it correctly, feed it, and where to place it. And for starters, how to replant cyclamen without damaging its root system and enhancing vital energy.
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When is it time to replant cyclamen?
Cyclamen often called alpine violet from the Mediterranean. The petals of its flowers are compared to the wings of colorful moths gathered over the greenery. After all, it blooms with the most incredible colors and shades: soft scarlet, snow-white, purple, crimson, cherry, apricot and even lilac.
The sizes of flowers can be simply huge and generally tiny. A huge number of buds are knocked out with 15 flowers blooming at the same time.
All roots of the plant form a flattened ball with a diameter of more than 10 cm. The root system emerges from a single growth point. It is from its damage that most domestic cyclamens are lost. The plant is very sensitive to moisture. It needs systematic, moderate watering to prevent stagnant water from souring. However, overdrying is also extremely dangerous for it.
Watering a flower you need settled soft water on the edge of the container so that moisture does not get into the growth zone.Watering water on leaf blades and at the point of their germination is also contraindicated.
Cyclamen needs good lighting and ventilation in the room. He also likes cool temperatures - no higher than 15 degrees. Moreover, in such ascetic conditions, cyclamen blooms much longer. But he can’t stand drafts. The plant is especially sensitive to them after transplanting cyclamen. Leaves that have turned yellow after the flowers have withered should be plucked out with your fingers, and not with any devices such as a knife or tweezers. Obsolete leaves should be unscrewed, but as carefully as possible so as not to destroy the growth zone.
On a faded flowerpot, a tuber peeks out from under the ground completely naked. During this period, watering should be significantly limited, but not stopped completely. The best way to water during suspended animation is in a tray. During this time, the pot is placed in the shade. And only with the appearance of young shoots, which usually happens in the summer, but before budding, cyclamen can be replanted.
Also transplant is necessary in the case when the root crops grow so large that they do not fit in the pot, or when the depleted soil needs to be replaced. Under no circumstances should flowering cyclamen be replanted.
Cyclamen brought from the store is often also replanted. By pulling the plant out of the pot, you can determine the need for replanting.
If the entire substrate is overgrown with roots, then it’s time to move it to new soil. Indeed, in such conditions, cyclamen will not be able to receive the required amount of valuable substances from watering and fertilizing and will simply die.
If the time of transplantation is chosen correctly, this is already half the success of this delicate matter. Therefore, you should not just do a transplant when the time comes.
How to properly transplant cyclamen
A lot also depends on the correct way to transplant cyclamen. After all, in this case it is easiest not only to damage, but also to destroy the plant. Cyclamen needs nutritious crumbly soil. To prepare a soil mixture for it, you need to add to the leaf soil:
- peat
- river sand
- high-quality humus
The last three ingredients must be taken in equal parts, but so that their volume is equal to the amount of earth. Or you can simply purchase the appropriate mixture at a flower shop.
Any the soil must first be steamed, fry or disinfect in any other way to avoid fungal diseases. The transplanted cyclamen can be placed on a windowsill. During replanting, it is important to save a lump of earth at the root of the plant so that it can more easily take root in the new container.
Replanting is the right time to remove dead and rotten cyclamen roots. Some of the small roots should be plucked off during transplantation.
When replanting, you need to consider how low the root should be immersed in the ground. It is believed that a third of the tuber should be left above the ground. According to some gardeners, even half of the root crop should be visible, which will only improve flowering.
This norm is suitable for plants of any age. But when choosing a pot, you must take into account how old the cyclamen is. If its age is 1 year, then the diameter of the container for the flower should be a little more than 7 cm, and for a two-year-old it is already 14 cm. The pot for cyclamen should not be increased sharply so that the soil does not oxidize. The bottom of the container for planting cyclamen in it should be pierced so that it can be regulated moistening the flower. For the same purpose, drainage is made at the bottom of the pot.
The soil mixture is placed on top of the expanded clay on half the pot, but not compacted. The plant is removed from the container and planted in the prepared substrate. By supporting it in weight, you can straighten the roots and carefully fill the pot with soil.
Transplanted cyclamen It is watered, and after the water is absorbed, the earth is moistened again. After this, the cyclamen is placed in a softly lit, cool place. This could be a window on the north side.
Feeding can begin a month after transplantation. To do this, you can use concentrated liquid fertilizer mixtures. But you can’t fertilize cyclamen before the first sprouts appear, because this could cause it to die.
Many flower growers believe that there is no need to feed a transplanted flower at all for six months, because it can take everything it needs from fresh soil. The meaning of fertilizing cyclamen appears only when it draws out all the nutritional components of the soil.
It would seem that there is nothing tricky about how to transplant cyclamen. But the slightest mistake and the fragile flower will die. Therefore, you just need to be extremely scrupulous with it, and then it will reward your care with abundant flowering.
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Comments
I try to repot my cyclomen every two years. After transplantation, it grows faster and throws out new leaves. It also needs to be fluffed up and not placed in drafts, otherwise the cyclmen will die.
I learned a few tips for myself. Unfortunately, I cut the yellow leaves of my cyclamen with scissors, but had to pull them out, plus I often placed them near an open window, since I read that cyclamen loves cool air, but it turns out it cannot tolerate drafts.In general, my cyclomen died, but the living rhizomes did not rot or dry out. I read somewhere that if the roots are in good condition, but there are no leaves, then this means that the flower has retired and will soon grow again. Do you think this is true? Is there any hope that the flower will grow again?