Care for Kalanchoe: simple recommendations and small secrets

How to care for calangean at home? What to do so that the plants bloom again and again? Features of watering, lighting and feeding during flowering and rest

Kalanchoe is a popular guest of our windowsides, because it carries not only decorative, but also the healing function: cleanses air and has a wide range of applications in traditional medicine. This is a compact perennial, with fleshy juicy leaves, like all plants from the Tolstanka family.

Care for Kalanchoe at home

The plant applies to the number, unpretentious. Loves light window sills, well feels at 16-25 degrees in the summer and at 14-16 – during the period of peace (from October to February). It is usually blooming in spring-summer, but you can stimulate blossom and winter, ensuring a lot of light and a temperature of about 15 degrees.

Depending on the variety, flowers are of a wide variety of shades: from greenish-yellow, to red and purple. Different types and varieties look completely different, many of them belong to decorative species, such as Kalanchoe Becherskoe, Blossfeld, Felt and other species. And some, not so beautiful, are appreciated in traditional medicine – this is Calanete Degremon and Cherish.

When leaving, the flowering calangean should provide him with good lighting, but avoided the midday straight rays of the sun. Best place plants on the eastern and western windowsill. Then, after flowering, about two months you need to keep the flower in the shade, but not in absolute darkness. Do not listen to recommendations to keep the flower under the bed, so he will die.

Observe the temperature regime that is written above. Such a peculiarity of Calanete’s care after flowering will allow the plant to relax and gain strength, and you can admire the flowering «pet» more than once a year.

Plant landing is carried out in neutral or weakly acidic soil. It will be suitable for a mixture of 4 parts of the turf, 2 – deciduous and one – overworked peat and sand. Committed good drainage!

Watering in the summer is abundant, but not too frequent (it is necessary to give a drying ground between the irrigation, so as not to rot the roots), and in the fall and winter is significantly reduced. Check if the plant needs in moisture, you can feed the leaf: Calanechoe -Succulent, accumulates moisture in the leaves and stems, so that when it is lack of leaves, the leaves become less dense and elastic.

Watering should be pasted with water temperature. Signs of excessive watering: root rotting, yellowing and dropping leaves, lack of flowering. Signs of lack of moisture: Skipping of leaves.

Trimming is made after flowering: long shoots are pinching or cut off (they can be rooted) so that the krona is neat and compact. Sometimes a radical trimming (about it below). 

Feeding – from 1 time per week during rapid growth and flowering up to 1 time per month during rest. Fertilizers for cacti.

Features of the care of decorative calangean

Among the most popular decorative varieties are distinguished:

• Kalanchoe Blossfeld – with rounded or egg-shaped leaves and bright colors (yellow, red, lilac and others.);
• Kalandis – an improved variant of the previous variety, is distinguished by abundant, beautiful and long flowering;
• Bejar – with interesting wedge-shaped or triangular toothed leaves and small colors collected in umbrellas;
• felt («Feline ears») – with densely sinking silver leaves, along the edges of brownish;
• Mangin – with picturesque orange-red bell colors on long legs;
• tubular – color – with narrow spotted leaves and inflorescences of red flowers and tubes;
• Marble – with grayish-green leaves covered «Marble» specks and white flowers.

There are many other varieties, and each of them has its advantages.

Care for calangean, decorative varieties, has its own nuances. All beautiful-waving types of this plant need good lighting (but not in «straight» The sun) is about 8-12 hours a day during flowering (and this period can last until six months).

Also at this time they need to be abundantly, but it is easily watered, as described above. And at the end of flowering, trimming the extended shoots and remove plants in the shadow on vacation.

A frequent question that is asked for flowers: why some varieties Kalanchoe flower only once, and then – even throw away? For example, beauty kalandiv. But the fact is that for re-flowering, the plant needs to relax, gain strength, and often – to update completely. How does this happen?

The secret of Calando Calandian’s care – radical trimming. At the end of flowering, the plant should trim almost under the root and put in a poorly illuminated place for the whole period of rest.

Water rarely, feed too. At this time, the plant will form new beautiful leaves and laid flower kidneys, which later will delight you with abundant bloom. And it will not be necessary to throw it away!

Many flowers lovers advise artificially reduce the day for decorative varieties of calangean to stimulate them to the next blossom. For example, when careing the Kalanchoe Blossfeld is recommended a month before the intended flowering every day for 8 hours to keep it in the light – on the eastern (Western) window sill, and then put the box until the morning.

That before landing and care for calangean medicinal varieties (peristryy, degrembon), then there are no cardinal differences from decorative species. Is it not necessary to be very wise with lighting and stimulating flowering.

In this article, we do not stop in detail on the medicinal properties and the use of calangean, but still it is worth mentioning that this plant is one of the most respected «Green doctors».

Its properties are multifaceted: from anti-inflammatory to immunomodulatory, and application – from the treatment of a cold to gynecology. But be attentive: most recipes refers to Calanechoe Perisites, and not Dewonon, which is not yet fully investigated.

We wish you enjoy the cultivation of this useful, beautiful and such a diverse plant!