Care, reproduction and cultivation of stupiferous peperomia at home and in the garden

Peperomia stupidis is a very unpretentious and hardy indoor flower. It multiplies easily, quickly growing into a beautiful powerful bush. Peperomia blunt is found on many window sills, sometimes it even happens that the owner of the house does not suspect with whom he is adjacent. In this article we will tell you how to grow and propagate stupid peperomia at home, what temperature it needs, how to water and light, how to cut it, what soil and pot to plant and how to feed it, and how to find a place for it in the garden.

Growing at home

Temperature

The optimum temperature throughout the year is 18 - 25 ° C. In extreme heat, with additional moisture, it can withstand up to 28 ° C.

Important! temperature reduction to 10 ° C is unacceptable, especially at high humidity. Sudden changes in temperature affect the development and growth of the flower.

Watering

The flower loves water, watering should be plentiful, 1 time in 6 - 7 days. In summer, watering increases. With the onset of autumn, with a reduced temperature regime, watering is reduced.

The substrate should be slightly moist. Water for irrigation should use a clean, soft, room temperature.

In the summer months, it is imperative to spray the bush daily., allowing you to refresh and moisten the dry air of the room.

Shine

At home, the flower requires protection from direct sunlight. It is not recommended to install pots on the southern windows. Dense leaves can get severe burns. Lighting should be bright, but diffused, distant.

The best flower location is west. In spring and summer, you can shade the windows with transparent tulle. In winter, on the contrary, artificial light should be added with special lamps for several hours a day. From a lack of light, the stems are pulled out, the leaves are thinning, the bush is losing its splendor and decorativeness.

Pruning

Peperomia blunt requires regular pruning. Stems with proper care at home quickly grow. As soon as the shoot reaches 20 - 25 cm, pruning is required.

Pruning procedure:

1. The overgrown stems are shortened, leaving an shoot 4-5 cm from the root.
2. On each hemp should leave 3 lower leaves.
3. Young shoots should be pinched for better tillering.
4. Peduncles are removed to form a dense crown.
5. When transplanting, the shoots and root shoots damaged and infected by the infection are cut off.

Important! Florists recommend removing the peduncle during its formation so that the flower does not waste energy on flowering.

Long peduncles deform the bush, stems are stunted, leaves are smaller.

Priming

For planting, you can purchase a ready-made universal soil mixture for decorative and deciduous plants. Buying it in specialized stores is not a problem. But often the composition of store soil is less nutritious and heavy, which will negatively affect the full development of the root system.

Florists recommend mixing the substrate on their own. Thus, a loose, neutral, well-drained mixture is obtained that is not susceptible to rapid caking.

The necessary proportions and composition of the soil mixture:

• Humus - 2 hours
• Peat - 1 hour
• Rotted manure - 1 h.
• Coarse sand - 1 hour.
• Drainage layer.

Expanded clay, pebbles, sand can be used as drainage. The drainage layer in the pot should be at least 5 - 6 cm. With a planned transplant, the substrate should be changed.

Top dressing

Ready-made mineral complex fertilizers for indoor plants are used. Feeding Mode:

• Spring - Summer - 1 time in 10 - 14 days.
• Autumn winter - 1 time in 24 - 28 days.

It is better to use liquid fertilizers.

According to the instructions, top dressing is dissolved in water, the flower is fertilized through watering. After planting, it is recommended to feed with the drug "Ross" - to support the root system and stimulate shoot growth. The composition includes phosphorus, potassium, nitrogen.

After trimming the shoots and before wintering, it is better to use the Agricola top dressing, which includes potassium, phosphorus, and other trace elements. You can alternate mineral fertilizers with organic additives ("Stimulus").

Transfer

The first three years, the flower is transplanted every year. It is enough to transplant adult flowers 1 time in 3 years. The reason for the transplant is a small pot, the roots grow, crawl into the drainage holes, the flower slowly grows. The procedure is carried out in early spring.

Transplantation scheme:

1. The substrate in the old pot is well soaked.
2. The entire bush is extracted.
3. The root is cleaned of dry and rotten roots.
4. Places of cuts are processed by crushed charcoal.
5. A layer of drainage, 4-5 cm, is poured into a new container with drainage holes at the bottom.
6. The bush is placed in a pot, fixed.
7. Empty space is filled with soil.
8. The transplanted flower is watered well.

Reference! The base of the stem does not penetrate, remains above the surface of the substrate.

Pot

The root system is small, so pots for planting are spacious, wide enough, but not deep. The new pot should be 1.5 - 2 cm larger in diameter of the previous one. At the bottom, drainage holes must be made. You can use plastic and ceramic pots. For young plants it is recommended to use small small pots, in a large capacity the seedling begins to hurt.

Wintering

The flower is not winter-hardy, gusts of cold wind affect the condition of the leaves. If in summer the pots were taken out to the garden or to the balcony, with the onset of cold weather they must be brought into the house. In late autumn, the flower enters a state of rest.

You can rearrange the pots in a cooler room. The temperature of the contents is 15 - 17 ° C. The main thing is to provide full access to light. For this, it is necessary to illuminate the plant, providing daylight hours, at least 15 - 16 hours. Watering is reduced by 2 times. Top dressing stops until spring.

Plant photo

Here you can see how the plant looks:

Care after purchase

When buying a flower in a store, you should pay attention to the condition of the leaves - they should be dense and resilient, brightly colored. The base of the stems should be clean, with no signs of rot. After transportation, the flower should adapt for several days in the apartment. After 3 to 4 days after the purchase, it is necessary to transplant the flower into a permanent pot using a special substrate.

How to care in the open ground?

The thermophilic peperomia dupolevata in open ground can be grown only in tropical conditions, in temperate latitudes the flower does not grow. In the summer months, the plant can be taken out to the garden, put the pots in multi-tiered flower beds under the protection of the crowns of bushes and trees. In the apartment with the onset of established spring heat, the pots are taken out to fresh air, to a balcony or an open loggia.

The main condition is diffused lighting, a place quiet from drafts and gusts of wind. Watering as the soil dries. Pots can also be placed in hanging flowerpots.

Important! Overcooling of roots is unacceptable; the temperature of the soil should be the same with the temperature of the air. In the open air, the flower needs more frequent spraying to wash off the dust from the leaves. You can wipe the leaves with a damp cloth.

How does it breed?

1. Peperomia duplicate propagates at home with stem processes, leaves. You can split an adult bush. The procedure is best performed in the spring.
2. Seedlings are rooted in small special cups, then they are transplanted into small pots for growth.
3. Rooting cuttings can simply be in wet sand, you can use a mixture of: coarse sand, peat, sheet land in equal proportions. Drainage is required.

Seeds

To grow seedlings through sowing seeds at home is problematic. The seeds are small, it is necessary to correctly determine the time of their ripening, to have time to collect them in time, to dry under certain conditions. Immediately before sowing, the seeds should be soaked in a solution of manganese.

Seed Planting Scheme:

1. Drainage is poured into a wide container, then a layer of substrate.
2. Seeds are distributed on the surface.
3. Capacities are covered with film or glass.
4. The greenhouse is aired 2 p. in a day.
5. Air temperature - 24 ° C.
6. Regular humidification through fine irrigation of crops.
7. When leaflets appear, seedlings dive into separate boxes.
8. The distance between the shoots is 2 - 2.5 cm.
9. After 3 to 4 weeks, the seedlings are transferred to individual pots by transfer.

Leafy cuttings

After spring pruning, the stems are used for cuttings. Each stalk should have 2 leaves and nodules. You can cut stems in the fall. The process is not laborious, the plant takes root easily and takes root quickly. Before rooting, the stem should be treated with root.

The procedure for rooting cuttings:

• You can root in water at a temperature of 22 - 25 ° C.
• You can use containers with a wet substrate.
• To root the cuttings, a bright, warm place, regular hydration is required.
• After 3 weeks, when the roots appear, the cuttings are planted in separate small pots.

Reference! To maintain the necessary humidity, the seedlings are covered with a film for the first time, the greenhouse is regularly ventilated. According to the same pattern, the leaves of peperomia dupus root. Leaves for reproduction are selected dense, large, without damage.

Bush division

Only an adult, well-grown bush with many lateral shoots is divided. The time of division is the beginning of spring.

Division procedure:

1. The entire bush is carefully removed.
2. Dry and rotten roots are trimmed.
3. The bush is divided into 2 -3 parts.
4. Each should have healthy roots and stems with nodules and leaves.
5. Each part moves into separate pots.
6. At the bottom of the pot, a layer of drainage, voids are filled with the finished mixture.
7. Plants are watered regularly.
8. Pots should be removed to the shaded area.
9. Rooting time - up to 4 weeks.

Features of propagation in the garden

The method of division or cuttings is used. The procedure is carried out in April - May, when the soil warms up well. You can plant young seedlings next to the mother bush. After rooting, the seedlings are determined by transhipment to a permanent place.

A layer of gravel is poured into the landing shallow hole at the bottom for drainage.

Diseases and Pests

Disease	Signs	How to treat?
Fungus - brown spots on the leaves, rotting of the roots.	Crude substrate.	Reduce watering. In neglected condition, transplantation, soil replacement is required. Bushes are treated with fungicide.
Burns	Direct rays. Young flowers are especially affected.	Reposition pots in a place protected from the sun. Add spraying.
Spider mite	Dry air. Lack of moisture.	The web is washed with warm water. Add regular spraying. Bushes process actelikom.
Thrips	Improper care, dampness, lack of light.	Treatment of the bush with insecticides (phytoverm, inta-vira)
Mealybug	Excessive watering, stagnation of moisture.	Collect pests manually. The leaves are treated with an alcohol solution. In case of severe infection, treat the bushes with confidor, actar.
Shield	Subcooling, gulf of the soil.	Bugs should be collected. Wash leaves and stems with soapy water or treat with any insecticides.

Peperomia stupidis is not only a luxurious, rich flower, but also very useful. It enriches, cleans the air from pollution and toxins.

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