BLOOMING ANTHURIUM - EVERYTHING FROM A TO Z. PHOTOS AND VIDEOS.

These natives of the Latin American tropics and subtropics with heart-shaped leaves on long petioles effectively bloom in room culture - and, as it is believed, thereby ensure a healthy, happy and rich life for the surrounding men.

Genus name Anthurium - compound of Greek words "flower" and "tail". Indeed, in about nine hundred species of this genus, the flower itself is shaped like a tail — white or dark, or colored, straight, curved, or spirally twisted.

it spikelet inflorescence equipped with more or less wide sheet blanket variety of colors and shades - red, white, green, orange, purple.

Smells, exuded by flowering anthuriums, are no less changeable: from subtle to very strong, from fragrant to smelly — it all depends on which pollinating insects are more common where a particular anthurium species grows.

In the greenhouse and room culture most often grown beautifully blooming in white-pink-red tones Anthurium Andre and Anthurium Scherzer (including their numerous hybrid forms), as well as decorative leafy Crystal Anthurium with low-key flowers that have a delicate pleasant aroma.

Anthurium juice is poisonous. and work with them should be careful.

How to make Anthurium bloom?

Room anthuriums potentially able to bloom from February to Novemberthat is, almost all year round, stopping only during the coldest and darkest winter months; besides, their flowers are extraordinarily durable in cut and remain unchanged for up to four weeks.

For such a fabulous bloom, these plants need appropriate conditions, compliance with which requires considerable experience and knowledge.

The main problem is to find such balance of light, temperature, soil and humidity, which reminds anthuriums native highland rainforests and they, perhaps, agree to inhabit and multiply in your apartment.

Creating an appropriate microclimate includes security illumination - bright, but scattered; long enough throughout the year.

Temperature conditions

Summer temperature must be maintained at 20-25 degrees, winter - in the interval 16-18 degrees.

Soil temperature should not be lower than the air temperature, therefore anturiums are planted. in plastic containers. These containers should not be deep - but not too wide, otherwise the roots and children will be grown, not flowers.

Air and soil

Air saturated with water vapor, must be fresh - but without drafts.

Soil is wet - but not wet.

Top dressing needed - but fertilizer solutions should not be too concentrated.

Compliance with all these "ifs" and "but" - the main condition for the constantly blooming "male happiness".

And finally, your anthurium has blossomed - but it is too early to calm down. After a while, bright red bedspreads turn green, or a rich pink variety whitens, losing color. This is a normal phenomenon, so these plants will fade away - and outdated flowers need to be removed.

It also happens that you have acquired a luxurious variety with numerous large flowers - but at home it has somehow thinned, crushed and forms new inflorescences reluctantly.

This situation may arise due to the fact that in the commercial cultivation of anthuriums in greenhouses, gibberellins, phytohormones, which accelerate the growth and general development of all parts of the plant, are used to improve the presentation.

How to care for a flower bloom Male happiness?

Deprived of constant stimulation, the specimen gradually comes to its natural state and, if it is properly cared for, it will bloom again - albeit not so brightly and abundantly.
Is it possible to replant Anthurium during flowering?

Anthurium transplantation excluded during flowering

During this period you need feed plants: biweekly, complex mineral fertilizer. You can alternate between organic and mineral supplements, but in any case, the concentration of solutions should be weaker than the standard.

Anthuriums are species, enough difficult in room culture. Sometimes this plant is given a separate “flat” - a terrarium, in which, behind glass, they create for it a real tropical atmosphere, lighting up, adjusting the temperature, saturating the air with water vapor. Anthuriums are grown in hydroponic way.

However, these “Tropicans” can easily grow without special shelters and tricks.

True, there are interruptions in flowering: the red covers turned green, you removed the flowering - and new flowers do not form, although the plant is still far from the winter and the rest, judging by the appearance, the plant feels good.

Sometimes it does not bloom young specimen or transplanted anthurium grows, but does not bloom.

All of these problems have their reasons, which can be eliminated.

If you are waiting - do not wait for the flowering specimen grown from seeds, remember:

Anthurium blooms not earlier than one year and ten months, sometimes two years.

If you, as it should be, between the flowering, and not during it, transplanted the anthurium into a new, expanded container - it may turn out to be too wide and the flowering will not start until the container is full of roots and children. For flowering need a small pot. More information about planting and transplanting anthurium can be found here.

Why does Anthurium not bloom at home?
Check if all proper care conditions observed:

The soil - should be suitable for epiphytes - plants with air roots: loose, fibrous, moisture and breathable, perfectly drained, ideally - a special soil for orchids.
Watering - provides a constantly-wet, but not stagnant-damp condition of the soil. The water is soft, its surplus is immediately drained from the pallet.
Air humidity - significantly increased: wet sphagnum can be added to the frequent spraying on a pallet. Aerial roots also cover this moss.
Top dressing - twice a month, diluted with a solution of complex fertilizers.
Temperature - in the flowering season not lower than 22 degrees (stimulates the development of buds), in winter - from 16 to 18 degrees (stimulates the budding of buds).
Lighting - bright and scattered at the same time: a western or eastern window, dawn light with a short daylight.

If all these conditions exist, the anthurium is not too young, not busy growing the roots and the formation of children - and still does not bloom, you can try it further stimulate.

To this end, the plant is watered in spring with soft water with a temperature of 40-50 degrees.

Some once a week pour water heated to 60 degrees into the pan and leave it there until it cools down, after which it is drained. The atmosphere of warm steam helps anthurium finally awaken to a full-blooded life.

Proper care is necessary anthurium not only for flowering, but also to ensure that the plant is not subjected to all sorts of diseases and pests. We dealt with how to cope with such a scourge in a separate article.

Abundant, regular, exotic flowering of anthurium can be considered as successfully passed the exam for the title of diligent and skilled florist, and happiness, which at the same time should cover all domestic men, apparently can not be described.