The incredible popularity of the geranium is easy to explain by its unpretentiousness in care, the duration of flowering and the rich color. Due to the observance of elementary rules, you can enjoy the fabulous bloom of home beauty from the early spring days to the deep winter.
An important role in the care of the plant is feeding. For example, fertilizing a culture with ordinary iodine stimulates abundant flowering. How to prepare fertilizer with iodine to feed the geranium, and properly water it? Answers further.
When and why to feed the plant?
A healthy geranium, subject to a comfortable temperature and regular feeding with nutritional complexes, blooms frequently and abundantly. If you do not fulfill any of these conditions - the flower may not bloom for years.
Lack of nutrients makes the flower weak, vulnerable, he stops making buds. The house favorite starts to hurt. This is reflected in its appearance - the leaves will become pale and sluggish, and will grow more slowly. In a running situation, the leaves can dry and fall off. If appropriate measures are not taken in time, then a bare trunk will remain from the beloved flower.
Reference! Fertilizer is recommended in the spring every 2 weeks, and in the summer and autumn - once a month.
In order to prevent burns on the roots before feeding, be sure to water the soil.
If geranium has been in the sun for a long time, it is better not to feed it. Strong heat - stress for indoor plants. Move the flower for at least an hour in a shady place. A little rested darling should then be watered and only after that should fertilizer be applied.
What do they use for this?
The choice of fertilizer for geranium must be approached wisely. The flower does not like organic.
For flowering indoor plants used mineral fertilizers, such as nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. It is desirable to add them in equal proportions, but by the beginning of flowering the dosage of potassium should be increased, and the nitrogen concentration should be reduced.
To achieve lush, abundant flowering, you can use regular iodine. The elements contained in iodine, strengthen the root system. The main thing is to comply with the measure.
You can use ready-made mineral complexes. This is convenient when separate fertilization is not possible.
Hydrogen peroxide and iodine solution for flowering
Why water geranium, using iodine and hydrogen peroxide? This is necessary to eliminate such ailments as bacteria, root rot, slower growth of the culture.
Recipe: Thoroughly mix a liter of distilled water, 0.6 ml of iodine and 1 ml of hydrogen peroxide.
Before watering it is necessary to get rid of the damaged areas on the leaflets. and gnaw a little ground.
Why use iodine solution?
A solution of normal iodine has a beneficial effect on the flowering of geraniums - it stimulates it, helps (especially in spring and autumn) to develop the plant, accelerates the formation of ovaries.
This is an affordable tool used as a dressing room flowers, has great advantages. Iodine promotes better uptake of nitrogen by the plant. As a result, the green mass is actively growing, and the immunity of the flower to various diseases is strengthened.
Geranium often affects various types of fungi, the most popular of which are powdery mildew and late blight. Iodine is an excellent antiseptic and helps get rid of harmful microorganisms.
The main fungal diseases and eggs of various parasites accumulate in the soil. Iodine solutions not only have a beneficial effect on the culture itself, but also help to disinfect the soil, combating various infections.
In addition to pharmaceutical alcohol composition for fertilizer, You can purchase ready-made feeding "Bioyodis". As part of the eco substrate - useful flora in the form of fungi endophytes, vermicompost and trace elements, including iodine. Under the rules of dilution of the drug in the right proportions with water - an overdose is impossible.
Risks and possible consequences
The most important rule - the observance of the dosage and watering of the folk solution only after moistening the ground. Violation of these rules is fraught with burns of the roots or even death of a flower.
How to make fertilizer?
Medical iodine is used as a plant fertilizer. - alcohol solution of iodine 5%. The recipe for preparing the solution is simple - add one drop of iodine to a liter of water and mix thoroughly. Water is desirable to use separated or rainwater.
Cannot be used for irrigation geranium iodine in its pure form. For very weakened flowers, you can increase the concentration of iodine to 3 drops.
Watering
Here's how to properly water the flower:
- Prepare the solution.
- Pour the soil with plain water.
- About an hour after the water is absorbed into the soil, gradually pour in a solution of iodine.
Pour the solution with iodine as close as possible to the side wall of the pot. On average, one flower pot requires 50 ml of solution.
Frequent feeding with iodine can damage the root system. Such irrigation is desirable to produce no more than once a month. if something went wrong ...
Iodine dressing often falls on the foliage of the plant. If you do not pay attention to it and do not take action - the leaves will wither and wither.
Overabundance of iodine can adversely affect the room beauty - lead to its violent bloom and the appearance of yellow color of buds and leaves.
Even beginning flower growers can achieve abundant and beautiful geranium flowering. It is important not to forget about plant nutrition. Such valuable trace element as iodine is an excellent activator of the vital processes of indoor plants. But it is worth remembering that the flower requires not only watering with a solution with iodine, but also fertilizing with mineral fertilizers.
