Content:
- Mexican guest or who is Nolin?
- Where and how to place the "elephant leg"
- We water, but do not overflow
Are you going to give a valet to a close person or buy it in your own collection? A great idea, because caring for a valet at home will not cause trouble. This plant with a bright exotic appearance is able to decorate any interior without demanding excessive attention. However, as for any living being, for nolines there are certain rules of content. If you observe them, the plant will please the owner with a healthy appearance: the trunk of the original bottle-shaped form and lush greenery on the vertex.
Mexican guest or who is Nolin?
When buying a new exotic plant, you need to know where it came from and how it grows in your homeland. Most decorative flowers and palms have "wild" brethren, growing in nature. To ensure optimal conditions for a "domesticated" pet, you should recreate the semblance of its habitat. Then he will feel great!
In nature, Nolin grows in the mountain desert. Based on this, the conditions that she was accustomed to were formed. This:
- lack of moisture;
- spontaneous temperature changes;
- a thin layer of soil.
Features of growth directly determine the appearance of the plant. Nolin has a barrel widening downwards, in shape resembling a bottle. It is in the lower broad part that moisture accumulates in the desert. Because of this peculiar form of the trunk, nylin is often called a bottle tree.
Other its names are also explained by the appearance. The barrel of unusual shape, covered with wrinkled bark, is compared with the elephant's leg and is called a tree - the elephant's leg. And because of the lush green crown, the plant has a name - a horse's tail. And the most beautiful and mysterious name of the Mexican beauty - bokarneya. It is conditioned by the systematics: the fusion of two genera of the same family.
Thus, knowing how and where a bakarney grows, one can draw a conclusion about the principles according to which the care of this plant should be organized:
- a rare watering;
- dry air;
- a lot of light;
- draft intolerance;
- no spraying;
- wide pot of medium depth;
- air permeable and water-permeable primer;
- good drainage.
More details on the listed principles of how care should be organized, in which the bokarney will feel comfortable at home, we'll talk below.
Tip: the basic conditions that provide for the care of a bokarney is good lighting and watering as the soil dries up.
Where and how to place the "elephant leg"
It is believed that bokarneya - a tree for the lazy. Take care of him at least. Indeed, organizing care at home, you can forget about watering and fertilizing, moistening the air and spraying. But first it is necessary to place competently a valine, to pick up a convenient pot and a correct ground.
Due to the demand for abundant lighting, the bokarney will feel good on the window sill facing south or southwest. However, during the ventilation of the room, when a draft is formed, it is better to cover the plant or temporarily rearrange it. Many home flowers do not tolerate dry air, which is formed in the winter when the heating is switched on. However, Nolin to this is not so demanding and may well be on the windowsill with a radiator located below. Due to the fact that the tree easily tolerates temperature changes, you can take it out on a balcony or in the garden( if it's a country house) "for a walk".Only it is necessary to save it from drafts and rain.
For the cultivation of Nolin at home, the pot must be approximately the same size in height and width. Because of the thin layer of soil in nature, Nolin has become accustomed to keep on it with the help of roots that fly through the earthen cubs in breadth, and not deep into them. And in a deep pot it will be difficult to make and roots can sour. A flat pot will not work either. When growing at home to hold a powerful trunk and a lush crown, the tree has to be rooted not only in breadth, but also penetrate a little deeper.
Speaking about the ground, you can use the purchased, collected with all the features of wood, or cook it yourself at home. In the second variant, the following should be considered.
The soil in which the noline will grow should:
- flow water;
- to flow air;
- be fertile;
- be heavy;
- contain sand( about a third of the total soil volume).
So prepared soil will help ensure proper care of the plant at home, will not allow moisture to linger at the roots and protect them from waterlogging, which can cause rotting. The signal that the roots are waterlogged and begin to die will be the yellowing of the leaves and their fall. Also, to maintain a comfortable state of the roots, put a high layer of drainage on the bottom of the pot. You can buy it in a specialized store or use claydite.
Watering, but not overflowing
Nolin calmly refers to lean irrigation. You can forget about this procedure. On the contrary, if you too closely surround the bottle with a care and water it along with other indoor plants, you can ruin it. In other words, care for the bokarney should be based on its needs.
Nolina requires the following watering scheme:
- The plant is watered when the soil is dry, not only its surface, but also the inside;
- In winter, "elephant leg" watered once a month;
- In summer they follow the rule of "two phalanges".To do this, the finger is immersed in the ground to the depth of two phalanges. If it is dry, then the bokarnee requires watering.
You do not need to spray the leaves, but the trunk can not be sprayed. You can only gently wipe the leaves with a damp cloth to remove from them a layer of dust that can interfere with photosynthesis. For this bokarneya will be grateful.
As such, no feeding of norine is required. But if you really want, then you can feed it in spring and summer, at a time when the plant is growing. At the same time, half doses of fertilizer are taken and it is introduced once every 3-4 weeks. Knowledgeable plant growers say that by feeding you can induce nolin to flowering. Although in most cases it is impossible for domestic plants. But in nature during flowering the "elephant leg" is covered with tassels of small white flowers, like a lush cap, and represents an amazing sight.
Home care for Nolino - it's not tricky. The main thing right after the purchase is to provide it with a convenient pot with properly selected soil and do not forget the basic rules, according to which one should take care of it. Then the nolina will have a beautiful trunk shape and a lush green crown.
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