Beautifully flowering slumberberger. Home care

With the advent of the New Year holidays, on the eve of Christmas, a green miracle blossoms on the window-sill - a forest cactus with bizarre flowers, named in Latin latinberger. Care at home for this indoor plant is not so burdensome, so the flower attracts the attention of many amateur growers. In the people, a smokerberger is called a Decembrist or a Christmas tree, because the period of its flowering is at Christmas. Although sometimes it departs from the rules and blooms in January, and even in February.

It is difficult to find a more unpretentious plant, rather than a slumberberger. Care at home for this semi-epiphytic flower lies in the correct choice of placement, preparation of the substrate, irrigation adjustment, air temperature and lighting. Decembrist likes easy soil, so you can buy ordinary soil and add vermiculite or coarse-grained sand, it also does not hurt to add a couple of activated carbon tablets or charcoal powder.

The pot is better to choose a wide, but not deep, as the flower has a superficial root system. At the bottom it is necessary to lay a decent layer of drainage, because the stagnation of water does not like the slumberberger. Care is meant regular with moderate watering. Fill the plant can not, because they begin to rot roots, to allow the drying of the soil is also not worth it, so you need to water when the top layer of the soil dries slightly.

Overabundance of light can lead to a slowdown in the growth of the Decembrist, it can be placed on the windowsill, but direct sunlight should not fall on the flower. The western and north-eastern windows are most loved by the locberberger. Care at home requires maintaining a certain air temperature. In the summer, the plant rests, and it begins a period of growth, so it can be carried to a balcony or garden, fresh air and diffused light will not prevent it. In spring and summer, it responds well to the feeding of the locberberger. The photo of these magnificent flowers is fascinating, but it is worth noting that the plants will not be attractive enough if once a month they do not pour complex mineral fertilizers.

In September, it is necessary to reduce watering, because the indoor flower ceases to grow. It is during this period that it begins to prepare for the flowering of the locberberger. Care at home requires the night temperature to decrease to + 17 ° C, because only under such conditions flower buds will be laid. Moderate regular watering resumes as soon as buds appear on the plant. You can also give fertilizing in the form of mineral fertilizers for beautifully flowering indoor flowers. Pot can not be twisted and rearranged during budding and flowering, compliance with this condition is very important.

After the flowering, the watering of the Decembrist is gradually reduced, the pot must be moved to a cool place. It should be noted that the bloomers also bloom at low temperatures around 15 ° C. Christmas can be attributed to long-living plants, it will delight plentiful flowering for three decades.