Anthurium is a bright home flower from the Aroid family. Its decorativeness almost does not depend on the season, therefore, with proper care, it will delight owners even in cold and cloudy weather. The abundance of varieties also allows you to pick up a plant with beautiful leaves. They have different shapes, and also differ in the degree of gloss. Anthurium leaves are sensitive to the sun and, in natural conditions, turn after it. The tropics of Central and South America are considered the homeland of the plant.
The anthurium flower is always admirable. It has a magnificent flower shape and leaf color. In florists, you can often find blooming anthurium than decorative deciduous, which can also please with its beautiful ornaments on the leaves.
It is believed that the flower brings good luck and money, helps to overcome difficulties in life. According to popular beliefs, the plant is able to increase male strength, therefore anthurium is also called "male happiness". Let's take a closer look at how to properly care for a flower at home, the features of its content.
Anthurium care at home
Location and lighting
The flower does not like direct rays, preferring bright, but diffused light. Possessing sufficient shade tolerance, anthurium will be able to grow on a dark northern window, but the constant lack of light can adversely affect its growth and abundance of flowering. Windows of any other direction will be optimal. If there is a lack of natural light for year-round decorativeness, additional lighting can be used.
Temperature
The plant does well at room temperatures. Native to tropical latitudes, Anthurium prefers warmth. In summer, +25 degrees are optimal for him, and in winter - not colder than +16 degrees. You should not keep a flower pot near hot batteries. He will also not like cold drafts and sudden temperature changes.
Humidity level
Anthurium needs moist air, so it needs a humidifier. You can use spraying or install the container with the plant on a pallet with wet expanded clay. But the soil in the pot should be protected from excess moisture. When using a spray bottle, you do not need to direct it at the leaves, and even more so at the inflorescences - the water can leave plaque stains on them.
Watering mode
The plant needs a lot of moisture, but it is important to protect it from overflow. The excess water collected in the sump should be discarded regularly. Anthurium should be watered after the top layer of the soil has dried: overdrying the earthen coma will also not benefit the flower.
For anthurium, use only soft rain or settled, slightly warm water. Limestone can lead to yellowing of its leaves. The abundance of watering varies depending on external conditions.In the heat, the rate is increased, and in cool periods, it is reduced. In the summer, anthurium is watered every 2-3 days. In summer, it is advisable to spray the plant and make sure that dust does not accumulate on the leaves, it must be washed off. In winter, once a week will be enough.
It is better to cover the roots that appear on the surface with moss, which should be moistened when watering.
The soil
The ideal soil should be slightly acidic and combine lightness and nutritional value. Broken brick, cones or charcoal are often added to it. This makes the soil more breathable. Specialized formulations for aroid or orchids are also suitable.
Fertilization
Anthurium is fertilized twice a month, but only during the growth period: in spring and summer. To do this, you can use top dressing for orchids or aroids.
Transplant features
For healthy growth and abundant flowering, anthurium needs regular transplants. Young plants need to be replanted annually, adults - half as often. This is done to renew the composition of the soil.
The shape of the pot is selected depending on the purpose of growing the anthurium. A compact narrow container will promote flowering, and in a large and wide one, the plant will better form "children". During transplants, they are seated in separate pots.
Pruning
As the anthurium matures, its lower leaves begin to wither and expose the trunk. From above, the plant releases new foliage, but it becomes smaller, and over time, the flower still loses its external beauty. Rejuvenating the plant will help correct the situation: you need to cut and root its top.
Bloom
In order to make anthurium bloom, it is necessary to observe proper flower care at home. In addition, it is necessary to provide the plant with constant feeding and fertilizers.
- Watering is carried out only with settled, and preferably filtered water. It is important to prevent dust from accumulating on the surface of the water.
- You can add sphagnum moss to the surface of the ground. This will keep moisture in the pot during the summer.
- Anthurium is contraindicated in direct sunlight, so it is necessary to choose a shady place or shade the glass if the flower is located on the south window.
- In winter, the plant needs additional lighting. You can use a regular desk lamp for this.
- The flower cannot be often rearranged to another place, this negatively affects the growth and flowering of anthurium.
- During flowering, it is advisable to shade the plant and avoid direct sunlight.
- When the anthurium has bloomed, it is necessary to increase the degree of watering and periodically spray the leaves.
If, after all our tips for caring for the anthurium, it still has not bloomed, then we recommend reading a separate article: why does not anthurium bloom?
Reproduction of anthurium
Usually for reproduction of the plant, shoots are used - "children" or division of the bush. The easiest way to do this is during spring transplants. But in working with anthurium, you need to be careful: the sap of the plant is poisonous and can cause irritation.
A large bush is divided with a sharp knife. To avoid the development of diseases, all the resulting sections are covered with crushed coal. Each part is planted in a separate pot. At first, such a plant will need moderate watering: in waterlogged soil, it will take root less well.
The second common breeding method is by rooting a part of the stem with a leaf and an aerial root. Such a stalk begins to grow very quickly in a new place.
The most difficult method is seed reproduction. To get planting material, the anthurium flower must be pollinated in the first days of its appearance. This can be done by rolling the cotton swab over the surface of the cob. If several anthuriums grow in a pot at once, you can try cross-pollination. The procedure is repeated up to 3 times over several days. After some time, berries should be tied on the cob. But the ripening of its fruits is not fast and can take a whole year.
Ripe seeds are cleaned of pulp, washed and kept a little in a solution of potassium permanganate.After that, they are immediately planted, lightly pressing them to the ground. Otherwise, they will quickly lose their germination. After planting, the soil with seeds is moistened from a sprayer, and then placed in an impromptu greenhouse. The sprouts may appear in a couple of weeks. When they form several true leaves, they are cut open, repeating the procedure after a couple of months. Grown up anthuriums with 5-6 true leaves can be planted in individual pots. Young plants begin to bloom only in the 3rd year of life.
Types of anthurium with photos and descriptions
Anthurium has a large number of different species - their number reaches several hundred. Among them, there are both the usual herbaceous flowers and lianas, epiphytes living on trees and lithophytes settling on stones.
It is not difficult to grow anthurium at home; for this, as a rule, its hybrid varieties are selected.
Anthurium Andre (Anthurium andreanum)
Anthurium Andre - the most common type, attractive for its unpretentiousness and flowering time: it lasts almost a whole year. Its bright flowers can be painted in different colors: red, white, pink, burgundy or purple. There are even black varieties. Although in the botanical sense, the catchy "petal" of anthurium is a cover of a real inflorescence, a cob. When its flowering period ends, it can begin to turn green.
Anthurium Scherzerianum
This type is also considered to be quite common. Its distinctive feature is a rounded bedspread. Scherzer's Anthurium can be red, orange, white, or even speckled. The ear itself can also be bright. It is distinguished by a slightly spun shape.
Anthurium Crystallinum
A large variety, more remarkable for its leaves. They have a rich dark green or even purple color and are shaped like a heart. The picture is complemented by light veins, which give the leaves a resemblance to patterned crystal items. The ear is purple in color.
Anthurium polyschistum
Unlike its counterparts, the multi-dissected anthurium is a liana. Its leaves are finger-dissected and resemble a small fan. The cover of the flower has a light green or cream shade.
Anthurium Magnificum
A rare large species with spectacular velvety foliage with white veins. Such a plant is more suitable for growing in a greenhouse.
very nice site. informative. especially for novice florists
Well done, I have now learned how to transplant anthurium.
Thank you! Now it's clear - my baby anthurium needs a greenhouse. It's cool at home. And what should it be? Tell me. If you can take a photo. Or a description. Fully closed or only on the sides, open the top
Please tell me! Anthurium appeared recently, has already faded. But it still stands in a pot with which I came into the house. can I replant it now or wait for spring? thank
Transfer it to a larger pot without disturbing the roots.
transplanted .. and the flower dies what to do
Tell me why I don't have flowers ????
Will grow roots and bloom.
Good afternoon, this flower does not bloom with me when I bought it, it bloomed,
And my winter bloomed all summer. Such was the short period of rest at the flower, and now the pot is small for him. And still it continues to bloom profusely and please the eye
The most important thing for anthuriums is the soil. I mix broken brick, moss, coal, bark with special nutritious soil, and anthuriums grow and bloom without any help.
with the beginning of spring, flowering began. I was planning a transplant because read that it is better to do it in spring. how to be wait until it blooms? and, if so, how long after flowering? tell me pliz))
I don't know why, but in the three years after the purchase, I have never seen him without flowers. Awesome "plastic" flower. At least two inflorescences constantly bloom. There were four in the summer. Very happy. From leaving, only watering !!!
A month after the purchase, the leaves began to turn black inside, and others turned yellow, what is it !?
And my leaf tips dry up, so the spathiphyllum died, stopped blooming
Overflowing, the roots rotted.
I have been blooming for a year without a break. Tell me, do I need to somehow give him a rest and how to do it?
Can you divide when the plant is blooming?