Gerbera - flower care

About 70 kinds of colorful, beloved colors -this is gerbera. Care for her is much easier than it may seem. It belongs to the genus of perennial grasses of the family of Compositae (or astroids). Its flower-leaf is leafless, it can reach up to 60 cm in height. Flower baskets have a variety of colors, they are single, large, semi-double or simple (depending on the variety), diameter - up to 15 cm. The fruit of the flower is a seed. Room view - Gemerson's gerbera.

Care for gerberas requires certainrules. The flower is very photophilic, it can even carry a small amount of direct sun rays. It grows well at the eastern and western windows. In summer, you can take the plant to fresh air. To this level of illumination it needs to be gradually accustomed, in order to avoid a sunburn. Additional illumination with fluorescent lights is necessary in autumn and winter.

Since the gerbera is a heat-loving plant, the temperature of the air for it must be corresponding - not less than 20^aboutFROM. In the midst of flowering, it is important not to allow a large temperature difference (day-night), because it affects the inflorescence negatively. In winter, when the gerbera fades, it is better to move it to a room where the air temperature is not lower than 12^aboutFROM.

In the vegetative period, gerbera care requiresmaximum caring. You need to water with warm water, moderately. It must be ensured that the temperature of the water and substrate is not very different. Otherwise, the plant can get sick. Watering must be carried out only when the upper sphere of the substrate dries. Water should be used and soft. In no case, it is impossible that it enters the rosette of leaves, otherwise the plant will die. High air humidity is what a gerbera needs. Spraying is not recommended, you can only spray a fine dispersion around the plant. To increase the humidity, you can put the pot on a pallet with a fine damp pebble or expanded clay.

An interesting feature of the plant is the dependenceflowering from the duration of daylight. Gerbera starts to produce a flower during the active reduction of the day (from August to September). At this time, hunters for the original and exclusive (as well as simply beautiful) shots use it - gerbera flowers. Photos on their background, as well as photos of the flowers themselves - a real treasure. This is used by many photographers.

Gerber, care of which requires somequantity of fertilizers, - a flower rather unpretentious. Complex mineral compositions are needed in the period of active vegetation. It is also desirable to feed some magnesium sulphate. If the temperature is low, phosphorus is also added.

Propagate the gerbera by dividing the bush and seeds. The latter method is best used in the spring. Substrate is necessary nutritious and friable. The first picking takes place in the phase of two or three real leaves, and the second - in phase 5 leaves (in individual pots). A month after planting in different containers, the first top dressing with mineral complex fertilizers is carried out. Possible difficulties with this plant occur at such signs: loss of brightness of leaves, fungal diseases, pallor, waterlogging. But if the gerbera care gets caring and tremulous, then nothing like it will happen!