To multiply such a demanding plant as “male happiness” - anthurium can be done in several ways of varying complexity and duration.
features of growing at home
At home, a well-groomed anthurium can go through a full life cycle: grow, flourish and germinate. True, to get these seeds and grow a new generation of plants, you have to be patient.
First you need to successfully pollinate flower cob. The maturation of its pistils and stamens goes unevenly: first, starting from the bottom and spreading upward, there is a “wave” of pistil readiness, and after it, 3-4 weeks later, pollen stamens are released. Then flowers are pollinated with a soft brush or a cotton swab, and this procedure is repeated. repeatedly. Good results can be obtained by cross-pollination - the transfer of pollen from one plant to the inflorescence of the ear of another.
Anthurium fruits - berriescontaining from one to four seeds. Matures these seeds are inside the berries from eight months to a year.
When the berries are ripe, they are kneaded, the seeds are washed, finally removing the pulp, and then treated for 2 hours with a pale pink solution of potassium permanganate for 2 hours.
Germinate the seeds should be immediately: they quickly lose their germination.
You can lay them out, slightly pressing down, but not deep, on the wetted surface of the light soil mixture, sprinkled with calcined coarse sand or perlite on top, cover with polyethylene or glass and maintain the temperature 20-24 degrees.
Pre-germination is also used, for which it is particularly convenient to use glass Petri dishes. A moistened thin foam rubber or a layer of damp cotton wool is placed on the bottom of the cup, seeds are placed on it and covered with a lid. As a rule, at 20-24 degrees seeds germinate within one to two weeks; they are carefully planted in light soil (peat in half with sand).
Sowing goes on slow - only in one and a half-two months the first true leaf appears. Then the seedlings dive into a full earthy mixture for anthuriums, they support the constant high humidity of the air needed for these plants, sufficient soil moisture and temperature from 20 to 24 degrees.
As they grow, young anthuriums dive a few more times until they grow (at the stage of five to six leaves) to the first independent settlement in a 0.2-liter pot.
It will take quite a lot of time - up to two years - until the anthuriums that you grow from seeds flourish for the first time. About what to do to anthurium bloom, read here.
It should also be noted that in seed propagation, the flowers of new plants may differ markedly from those that adorn the parent specimens.
Vegetative reproduction
At the same time, much more simple, the method of reproduction is obtained anthuriums that preserve all the qualities of the parent plant. With all the work related to cutting you need to remember that his the juice is poisonous - and observe the necessary caution.
Bush division (stem offspring)
In a fairly wide pot, they willingly form lateral processes, “babies,” which, as a rule, have a sufficiently developed root system of their own.
With a spring transplant these offsprings are separated with a sharp instrument, the slices are powdered with charcoal powder and the separated processes are planted in new pots corresponding to their sizes. How to plant anthurium you will learn here.
If the root system of the "kids" is absent or poorly developed, they are rooted previously in wet sand or perlite.
Leaf with a stem
For such breeding choose leaf with a stem having aerial roots at the base.
These roots are wrapped in sphagnum, which is kept moist until aerial roots germinate through it.
Then the whole company - a stem with a leaf, a sphagnum winding and the resulting root system - is separated and planted in a separate container.
Rooting is more risky cut stalk with leaf in water. The main danger is the rotting of the cutting, so the water is taken soft, boiled and it is regularly changed. If (after about a month) the roots have formed, such a stalk is planted in an earthen mixture.
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It is best to root the apical part of the stem 12-15 cm long with two leaves.
It is cut with a sharp instrument and buried by about 5 cm - to the first sheet - in sand, perlite or vermiculite.
Usually during the month three-centimeter roots grow from such a cutting.
Then it is planted in a full-fledged earthen mixture and grown under conditions normal for anthuriums.
Cultivation at home of a well-developed and flourishing "male happiness" anthurium is already an achievement in itself. About home anthurium care, we talked about in this article, and about diseases and pests that can interfere with plant growth, read here.
Successful reproduction by cuttings and shoots will contribute to the treasury of success, and the Tropicans grown from seeds ripened on it will finally confirm: you understood his sultry soul and in your house anthurium feels exactly the same as in Latin American mountain forests.
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