Pachistahis: photo and care at home
Photos with pahistahis often appear on the coversmagazines on floriculture. It is difficult to find a brighter and exotic flower. Spiked orange inflorescences, of which small white flowers look like feathers - it is unknown why they can rarely be found on our windowsills. And completely in vain, because the indoor flower of the pahistahis is more capricious than the usual violets or geraniums.
Kinds
In culture there are two kinds: yellow and red, they differ in color and in size.
Pachystahis red
Suitable only for greenhouses, since its heightcan reach two meters. Large enough with large broad leaves and bracts of a dark green color, from which in the course of time appear flowers with red coronals.
Pakhistathis yellow
Can grow up to a meter in height, but allowThis does not follow - the plant will bare the stem and it will lose decorativeness. To prevent this from happening, you need to pinch it during the entire period of growth (see video).
Care for room pachistahis
This plant primarily loves water, soIt is necessary to make sure that the soil does not dry out in the summer. The requirements for light are usual, Western and eastern windows are quite appropriate. In the summer, you can put a pot on the balcony, loggia, veranda. The critical temperature is +12 ° C.
Rapidly growing and gaining a rather largevegetative mass, which means that it will often have to be fertilized. However, to the composition of fertilizers, it is undemanding, any ready-made top dressing - mineral or organic - is suitable. It should be diluted half the norm and fed the plant every two weeks.
Reproduction at home
To reproduce the pahistahis by cuttings is quite simple. It is necessary to wait, when on some branches old flowers will wither, and new will not be dissolved yet. These twigs cut and cut from them cuttings with two pairs of leaves. The tips are dipped into any growth stimulant (Gerauxauxin and others) and planted in moist peat on the lower leaves, covered with a glass jar and put in a shaded place. If this is done in June, then in July the cuttings will already blossom - rooting takes place so quickly. Cuttings are best planted several times in one pot, then it quickly forms a pretty thick bush with a large number of spikelets.
The consequences of improper care
As a rule, pests and diseases are circumventedpahistahis side. Sometimes you can find complaints that the leaves are twisting or even falling off. The reason for this is in the overdrying of the soil, the flower requires abundant watering, which can only be reduced in the winter.
If on a plant someone has lodged: scabies, mealy mullet or aphids - no matter what, it will be enough to handle insecticide alone. Often it is possible to do without poison by simply washing the leaves and stalk with water and household soap.
