Growing Brugmansia
A magnificent flowering huge bush that does not require special care is a Brugmansia. The desire to get this flower in your area will haunt you constantly. How to grow it and save it in winter, we will tell in this article.
Content
- General information
- Growing Brugmansia in a pot
- Moving to fresh air
- Stepson
- Bloom video
- Return to a warm apartment
- Cuttings
- Winter growth conditions
- Outdoor flower cultivation video
- Flower storage in winter
- Types of Brugmansia, selection of photos video
General information
A delicate plant from Argentina, in places of natural habitat, healers and sorcerers drink its juice when they seek to overcome the disease or want to cause damage to their enemies.
There is a version that when a person drinks the juice of Brugmansia, after a while he begins to see the spirits of the jungle and rivers, if you put a few freshly picked leaves under his head, he will dream colored dreams. And if you insist the leaves in a large cup of water, then the person who drank the infusion becomes susceptible to hypnotic suggestion.
In the natural habitats of Brugmansia, this flower is called a plant of power.
For us, Brugmansia is an amazingly beautiful plant called angel trumpets or a bell. Huge bell-shaped flowers look down, this is a very large plant, when grown in open ground, it can reach a height of up to 5 meters. Brugmansia can be grown as a potted plant, as well as an open ground plant.
Growing Brugmansia in a pot
In the spring you acquired a stalk of Brugmansia. Cuttings are of two types: rooted stem cuttings and root rooted apical cuttings. Brugmansia loves greasy, fertilized soil, so plant the cuttings in the best soil.
landing
As they say, it is impossible to overfeed Brugmansia, all feeding is only good for her. At the same time, the acidity of the soil does not matter much, it is good for adding a small amount of dry chicken droppings to the soil mixture.
If you decide to grow Brugmansia in a pot, then as Brugmansia grows, you will have to carry out several transshipments, without destroying the earthen coma, in larger containers, adding fresh soil and adding another portion of chicken droppings.
watering
Many believe that this plant does not need drainage, but for prevention, still, make a few holes for drainage and lay a small layer of expanded clay on the bottom of the pot. Brugmansia water chowder, with its large leaves, evaporates a huge amount of water, in the dry air of an apartment, it needs a lot of water. Therefore, try to increase the humidity, especially during the heating season.
top dressing
In May, start feeding brogmansia with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers, this stimulates flowering, and feed it once a month with universal floral fertilizer.
backlight
Indoors, Brugmansia may suffer from a lack of light, for illumination use 2-3 energy-saving light bulbs of 40 watts each, and this is quite enough even for flowering plants.
Moving to fresh air
In the summer, if you live in a private house, a pot with a flower of Brugmansia, be sure to take it out into the open air. Choose a place for a flower in the sun, permissible slight shading, it is better to tuck the flowerpot or cover it from direct sunlight, do not forget to constantly water the flower.
Due to the huge size of the bush, it is not possible to bring a brugmansia to the cottage or in the car, it is possible to arrange a brugmansia on the balcony.
To prevent the pot from tipping over, be sure to fix the pot.
Stepson
Well-groomed, rapidly growing Brugmansia, is prone to the formation of stepsons (like tomato stepsons are formed in the bosom between the trunk and the leaf), stepsons must be removed in order to accelerate the start of flowering of Brugmansia.
At the end of summer, your stalk reaches a height of 1.5 meters, he will soon want to bloom. Flowering will begin after bifurcation of the trunk begins in the apical bud.
Protect Brugmansia from stress, if the appearance of a fork is delayed, feed the plant with infusion of manure, increase mineral fertilizing and timely watering.
Bloom
Finally your Brugmansia has bloomed. Huge fragrant bells of flowers adorn your beauty. But the main flowering is yet to come, now Brugmansia has entered a time of true maturity. The ends of the branches of the blooming Brugmansia - this is the apical flowering stalk. When this cuttings are separated, it will bloom, despite the fact that its size is much smaller than the size of an adult plant.
Return to the warm apartment
With the onset of cold weather, your Brugmansia must be placed in a warm apartment, since this southern flower does not withstand even a short-term drop in temperature below +4 degrees.
It is very good if you can put your brugmansia into the apartment without cropping, but often this is not possible, since it is a huge tree that takes up a lot of space.
Cuttings
What to do? Do not despair, boldly cut off the upper fork at your brugmansia. At home, under the backlight, they are rooted in a regular jar of water and you will have small brugmansia, preserving the ability to bloom.
But if your Brugmansia has not bloomed this season, you cannot trim it in this way. This rule applies only to flowering plants.
Winter growth conditions
In winter, brumansia is watered less often and almost does not fertilize, the backlight should be at least 12 hours a day. In the spring, start feeding brugmansia, as you grow, transfer from pot to pot and after a couple of months your brugmansia will bloom again.
Outdoor flower cultivation
The second way to grow plants in open ground. In summer, a plant planted in the soil, necessarily requires good soil, abundant watering, good nutrition. As a result, by autumn, the plant blooms, reaching enormous size.
Flower storage in winter
It is necessary to take care of the wintering of the plant. A winter garden is a good condition for wintering, where there is enough light and the temperature corresponding to the winter regime.
Brugmansia digs out of the ground if the bush is very large, has several trunks, it is good to divide this bush with a shovel into several, in accordance with the number of trunks, parts. Each bush is placed in a large pot and is brought into the room.
In winter, very rarely watered, top dressing is almost stopped. Closer to spring, they begin to feed and water more often. At the end of frost, planted in the ground. Sometimes an adult plant is stored in the basement, but this can be tolerated, the main thing is not to bring the earthen lump to complete dryness, but watering should be moderate.
In general, Brugmansia, the flower is very tenacious, we must really try to dry it, h
so that he does not suffer wintering. Good luck, do not be afraid to breed Brugmansia.
Types of Brugmansia, selection of photos
