How to care for gloxinia?

Room gloxinia is a beautiful flower with dark green leaves and velvety flowers, which can be white, pink, purple, red. As you know, gloxinia is a tuber perennial, and also a somewhat capricious flower. Therefore, before deciding to have this plant on your windowsill, find out how to properly care for gloxinia.

How to care for the colors of gloxinia?

Gloxinia likes bright, but diffuse light, she likes on the south or west window. However, be prepared, first, to shade the plant from the bright rays of the sun, which are destructive to it, and secondly, to provide additional illumination . The fact is that the light day of gloxinia takes 12-14 hours. And no drafts!

To water gloxinium it is necessary so that not to wet neither its leaves, nor flowers. This can be done both in a traditional way, and in a pallet, with standing water a degree or two warmer than room temperature. To understand that it is time to water gloxinium is very simple - the top layer of the soil mixture in the pot must dry up.

Loves this flower and high humidity, but spray it, like other houseplants, it is impossible that water droplets do not fall on the ground part of gloxinia. Maintaining the humidity at the proper level is easiest, by placing around the pot a container of water.

How to care for gloxinia in autumn and winter?

The rest period of the plant begins around October. In order for this to happen smoothly, the frequency of irrigation is gradually reduced from the end of August. It is also possible to feed gloxinium with a fertilizer that does not contain nitrogen.

In October, cut off the entire ground part of the plant, leaving a stem above the tuber about 1 cm long, and remove gloxinium in a dark cool (no more than 10 ° C) place for wintering.

In February, the tubers should be taken out of the pot and transferred together with a clod of earth to a new, more spacious container. The tuber is at the same time buried only half.