The spindle is an evergreen shrub of the birchwood family. Usually it is grown outdoors in the open. For domestic breeding, a Japanese or rooting spindle is suitable. It has very beautiful fruits in the form of four to five separate boxes of pink color. Inside such a box are seeds of white, red or black-brown color. The spindle is unpretentious in care, therefore its cultivation can approach even to beginning growers.
Houseplant spindle: home care
This plant is quite shade-tolerant, but it should be placed in a bright place, avoiding very bright sunlight. If he does not have enough light, the leaves may turn yellow.
The room where the spindle is located should be well ventilated. The optimal ambient temperature in the summer is 25 degrees. In an excessively hot room, the plant will feel bad. In winter, it is necessary to provide a temperature regime of 6-8 degrees, a maximum of 12 degrees. This indoor plant is highly frost-resistant and can withstand temperatures of minus 20 degrees. If in winter you place the spindle in a room with a temperature of more than twelve degrees, you will notice how its leaves fall off.
In spring and summer, the plant needs abundant watering as the top layer of the soil dries up. In autumn and winter, watered sparingly. Overmoist soil should not be. For irrigation use only the settled water.
If several times a week to additionally spray the leaves with water, then the plant will only benefit. However, the spindle is undemanding to the level of air humidity.
From March to September, once a month, it is necessary to fertilize a house plant.
Planting of spindle is carried out in slightly alkaline or neutral soil. Sand is added to the clay soil, and mineral fertilizers are used to improve fruit bearing.
During the growth of the plant, it is necessary to periodically cut off weak shoots from it. Also, with the help of pruning, it is possible to give the plant various forms: a ball, an ellipse, a cone. You can create a tree in the form of bonsai.
Care should be taken during the pruning of the plant, as the spindle is a poisonous indoor plant , the juice of which is capable of causing allergic reactions to the skin.
Berezkin: transplant
Young plants should be transplanted annually in spring, adults - every three to four years.
Spindle: reproduction
It can reproduce by layers, seeds and cuttings. If you grow a spindle tree at home, then reproduction with green cuttings is preferable, because in this case the plant grows faster.
At the beginning of summer it is necessary to cut cuttings of 4-6 cm long with one internode in young elastic shoots. Then they are put in a pot in which the following substrate is poured: the first layer is sand, the second is a mixture of humus, turf, leaf land and sand. Also for
If you properly care for the indoor plant spindle, it will please you with its dense crown of an interesting shape throughout the year.