Husman’s legacy
Municipality – Popular Home Plant, Guest from South America. Following our advice, it is easy to learn how to grow and breed this flower at home
Collectors Home Plants With reverence and love relate to the find of the Spanish botany and the pharmacist A. Gusmana, which became a flower with an unusual and memorable name «Guzzania» or «Gusmania».
The birthplace of this plant is distant expanses of Central and South America. There, the flower growing in the usual conditions has a one-window color, although there are instances with transverse or longitudinal stripes, and its socket can reach a half-meter in diameter.
The leaves of the plant are very tight pressed against the stalk, due to which something like a bowl for collecting rainwater and dew is formed.
This giving moisture is very economically spent, which is necessary to support the colorful and quite a long period of flowering. The flower of the city of Huszani is very small and short-lived, whereas his bracts have a luxurious and brilliant color, attracting and pleasing to human eye for a long time.
Types of Husgia
The color of the color part of the plant can be in the range from the saturated and red and yellow-orange, to all shades of pink and red-brown.
Despite the fact that in nature there are more than 130 modifications of plants of this species, most likely, in your flower shop there will be only a few variations of Huszania, namely:
- Language, that is, possessing a very dense outlet consisting of green and wide foliage, about 45 cm long. Shorty and thick blooming surrounded by red or orange bracts. The most popular variety is Morzania Minor Rondo, which is more willing to grow into width, but not height, has brightly scarlet bracts and can form a half-meter socket;
- Nicaraguan linguistic, whose foliage is ejected up and all opened pale and unusually small scales. The bracter is usually sustained in red-brown or bright red tones, and after fondation, foliage is covered by longitudinal and reddish strokes;
- One-rope, which is characterized by a thick outlet consisting of a variety of yellow-green leaves. Its inflorescence consists of whiteflower colors collected in the spikelet, and the bracts of a sterile plant can be both white and bright red.
In what conditions need to contain Municipality
Care for guzzania, contained at home, has its own nuances. The fact is that this flower is not able to withstand drafts and sharp temperatures, so it should be in a closed room all year round.
If necessary, to air the room, the perennial needs to be protected from cold air flow. Place of permanent stay Pot must be provided with enough natural light without direct sunlight.
Full care for such «pet» It is to maintain constant ambient temperature. In the summer, this indicator can range from 20 to 30 degrees, whereas for the education of the inflorescence it should be reduced to 25 degrees. In winter, the temperature in the room where the flower is worth, should not exceed 18-20 degrees, while at +12 – +15 the risk of reloading the outlet appears.
Binding for Guzazania It provides for careful observance of watering mode, which uses extremely soft water. In winter, the flower watered moderately, whereas in the summer and in the spring he needs to provide a permanent influx of moisture. An ideal option will be rainwater.
It is worth remembering that an excessive zeal with watering can cause reasons, whereas during the spring and summer months the rosette plants must be full of fresh and fresh water. During intensive vegetation of green «Pet» It is necessary to periodically spray all the same rainwater, and the pot itself put on the pallet, laid out with moss or clay.
The feeding takes place a couple of times a month and provides for the use of low concentration mineral solutions.
How to propagate or plant a guy?
Due to the fact that this flower grows very slowly, the transplant of Huszani is often happening only after the young shoots separated from the dying outlet. Since the system of roots of this plant is extremely small, he will need a pot, reaching no more than 15 cm. In diameter. Children of certain species of Huszyany can even be grown in baskets or pieces of moss attached to the crust.
In order to care for the flower, it became even easier, and at the same time the risk of oveurgement of the soil was reduced, in the bottom, the pot is worth making a thick drainage layer and a hole for removing water excess. Transplant Cannonia can be mixed in a mixture that consists of peat or leaf land, with the addition of sand, humus, crushed bark and moss of sfagnum.
If nearby did not find all the necessary ingredients, boldly use the store soil for orchids. Solving the problem of how to transplant the graceless children of the Moscow State University consists of placing them in a small pot with the desired earthy mixture, and ensure their usual conditions of content.
The reproduction of Guzzania occurs by seeding seeds or branch of the roasting processes that appear around the dieting outlet.
Probable difficulties
Unpretentiousness and beauty, exotic and uniqueness – this is what the flower of Huszyany is different, to know about the existence of which every home-grown. But, like any plant, this green pet has its own enemies. Most often it is necessary to fight a spider tick, milder cherver, shield and other pests.
But often it is precisely the flowerguards themselves to blame for the fact that Huszyany at home begins to demonstrate the dried tips of the leaves with the brown or pale brown spots appearing on them.
The causes of such phenomena may be several, namely:
- use of rigid water for irrigation and spraying;
- moisture deficit in the outlet;
- Very dry air in the room;
- Sun rays direct.
Novice flower flowers are bothering the question of how to care for a flower, if the Husmania gets on his eyes and dies. There may be two options for the development of events: either the flower deviates after flowering, or it is simply moored, and water stood in the pallet.
Love your plant, take care of him and then the magnificent Huszania will delight his lush and unusual blossom!
