Zamioculcas is easy to grow to a decent size for anyone who wants to decorate their home representative of the African flora.
But do not try Express your love for him with excessive care in the form of frequent watering and abundant dressings.
In this article we will look at what kind of land is needed for a zamiokulkas or a “dollar tree.”
What soil to plant?
The habitual understanding of inexperienced florists about the quality of the soil in the case of growing zamiokulkas may cause the creation of conditions for its death, because this plant, due to the nature of the soil in natural conditions, feels good in not very nutritiousair permeable soil.
Loam, enriched with humus soil, reluctant to part with moisture, which can lead to the beginning of the process of decay of the rhizome.
The most comfortable root system Zamiokulkas in the mixture sod land and sandadded a good portion claydite, fine crushed stone or ordinary small stones from a dirt road.
Before planting, the soil obtained by self-mixing different soils and mixtures, you need sanitize using boiling water or roasting in the oven.
IMPORTANT! The zamiokulkas root system reacts negatively to a rough mechanical effect, so move the plant to a new pot carefully, using the transshipment method. If it is necessary to transplant a plant due to overflow and the beginning of root decay, the damaged underground parts are separated.
What land to plant a flower at home?
Three options:
- in the purchase (suitable soil for succulents, cacti);
- universal (subject to mandatory mixing with clean sand and perlite / expanded clay);
- in cooked by yourself.
Scheme of mixing soils and additives for soil preparation
The composition of the soil for Zamioculkas is represented by the mixture:
- 1 h. Turf land,
- 1 hour leaf,
- 1 h. Slightly acid peat,
- 1 h. Sand without clay fractions.
IMPORTANT!
Before filling the soil in a pot, 1/5 capacity is filled with a drainage component. This layer will provide additional air access to the plant's rhizome. Naturally, you must have drainage holes in the peas.
Primary soil treatment with chemicals
Chemicals are usually not treated with soil, and branches of a plant - if they discover that it is attacked by a spider mite, aphids, a shield.
With the first two types of pests fight tobacco extract and soap and tobacco solution with an admixture of denatured alcohol, respectively.
Nicotine sulfate spraying is used against aphids. To prepare such a solution, use a gram of the drug per liter of soapy water.
Particularly populated pests of plants are wiped with a cloth or swab dipped in disinfectant solution. A day after disinfection, the bush is washed under a warm shower or several times rub the leaves with a moistened cloth.
Plant nutrition can not be done if there is no suitable fertilizer available - Zamioculkas is sensitive to excess fertility and can fall ill due to overdose. The optimal amount of irrigation with the addition of trace elements - no more times a monthwhen the plant is actively developing.
Zamioculcas grows well with flower growers, rarely but abundantly watering it, periodically sprinkling clean water on particularly hot days, using soils with a high air permeability rate during transplantation.
