Scindapsus golden - home care

The decorative home flower, scindapsus, or devil ivy, is a fairly common houseplant. The exotic liana grows rapidly, is able to climb a fleecy support, braid wire structures. Surprises with a variety of colors and shapes of leaves. At the moment, more than 25 plant species have been bred.

Note! The milky juice of the stems and leaves is poisonous, getting on the skin, mucous membranes, it causes a chemical burn.

What does it look like, which family it belongs to

Scindapsus are a genus of tall evergreen lianas of the Aroid family that grows in the wild in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia. The leaves are dense, leathery in some species, they are light and dark in color. The spots are small, large in the form of strokes. The branches of indoor species reach 3 meters, in the wild they grow up to 10 meters.

Scindapsus Painted is often grown as an ampelous plant. Prized for its silvery brush strokes on large, asymmetrical, heart-shaped leaves.

The roots of the plant are of two types:

underground, which hold the plant in the soil, absorb nutrients from the ground;
air, which capture moisture and nitrogen from the air.

Briefly about the history of appearance

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According to legend, the vine began to be bred to scare away the devil, therefore the second name of the vine is devil ivy. Biologists from European countries immediately drew attention to the culture, which is unpretentious in care, and began to engage in the selection of new species. Scindapsus are often called epipremnums.

Note! Devil ivy is often confused with real ivy, called muzhegon. But keeping it at home with small children is dangerous for another reason. This is due to the poison contained in the greenery.

Homeland of plants

Spotted and Painted Scindapsus with ovoid variegated leaves are found in Malaysia and Indonesia;
Golden - in American selection;
Scindapsus Moonlight has leathery dark green leaves that grow at a short distance from each other. Homeland Malaysia;
Joy is a Dutch hybrid, not susceptible to disease;
Neon is another Dutch look, featuring light green greens with light strokes;
Marble Queen or "Marble Queen" - a hybrid of English botanists based on a plant brought from Thailand;
The new cultivar Scindapsus Godzilla from Japan has unusual, elongated, crinkled leaves; the cultivar is bred on the basis of a vine growing in Mali;
Troiba with dark elongated leaf plates is found on the islands of Java, Borneo.

Moonlight is a bit like a home ficus, only its stem is pliable, it takes any given shape

Features of home care

For normal growth in an apartment, in a winter garden, conditions close to tropical are created for the plant.

Temperature

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In the summer, the liana feels good if the air is warmer than + 19 ° С, but does not heat up above + 27 ° С. Recommended mode in winter: + 15… 19 ° С.

Lighting

Syndapsus grow in forests. The plant does not like direct sunlight, grows well on the east and west sides. In the southwest, southeast, the flower is shaded.

Note! From insufficient lighting, variegated varieties often lose their decorative colors, become monochromatic.

Watering

It is recommended to moisten the earthen lump as it dries, in the spring the volume of water is increased, in the winter it is reduced. For irrigation, use a filtered or settled water supply for three days.

Spraying

Vines growing near batteries, with the onset of the heating season, need regular spraying.

Important! Lianas love sprinkling, it is advisable for the plant to arrange a warm 3-minute shower at least once every three months.

Humidity

The plant is comfortable with a humidity of at least 50-60%. In summer, scindapsus lives well on an open loggia, balcony.

Priming

For cultivation, they acquire a universal soil for home flowers or make a soil mixture of turf and leaf (compost) soil in a ratio of 1: 3; for looseness, the soil is filled with dry peat, vermiculite or sand at the rate of: a glass of baking powder for 5 liters of the mixture.

Note! Vermiculite maintains soil moisture. When watering, it absorbs excess water, then gives it away.

Scindapsus Pictus is easy to recognize by its variegated colors, intricately curved branches. The bush turns out to be compact, decorative

Top dressing

Root feeding is recommended for syndapsus. Universal complexes for home flowers are applied to the soil dissolved with water for irrigation. Fertilizers are applied once a season, with the onset of spring.

Important! The minerals are poured with a small amount of hot water, dissolved well, and then diluted to the desired proportion.

Support

If you need to form a tall bush, a direct support is installed in the pot at a distance of 5 cm from the stem. The plant can be given any shape using flexible rods, thick wire. If desired, the vine is tied to carnations driven into the wall.

Scindapsus blooms or not

If the flower is properly cared for over the years, you can achieve flowering at home. A cob-shaped inflorescence appears. But more often the plant is used for decorative greenery.

Pruning

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Trimming is done with rubber gloves, goggles, gauze bandage. After work, the clothes are immediately sent to the wash.

Scindapsus Golden is in special demand among florists; when leaving at home, formative pruning is carried out annually. Sanitary pruning to remove damaged leaves and shoots is not limited in time. You can maintain the appearance of a flower at any time of the year.

Important! When drying, only the edges of the sheet plate can be cut off, the wounds will quickly heal.

Crown formation

In the spring, frail and unnecessary shoots are removed, long branches are shortened. Cut out up to 1/3 of the crown at a time.

Note! Old leafless branches are cut out, leaving a stump of 1–1.5 cm, it is broken out after drying.

High-quality planting material takes root well; aloe juice is used to stimulate growth. The leaves are pre-kept in the refrigerator for 5 days

How does it multiply

Wild scindapsus in nature reproduces by seeds and air layers growing to the ground. Indoor species are bred by cuttings and layering.

Important! Plants are grown from seeds only in nurseries, in special boxes. The sprouts are created by the climatic regime of the tropics.

Transfer

The vine is moved to a new pot when the old one becomes cramped. The container should be in height, 5 cm larger in diameter. Drainage is laid at the bottom, sprinkled with earth. The liana is transplanted by the transshipment method, without destroying the earthen coma. It is allowed to shorten it by 1/3 in order to increase the layer of fertile land. Dividing the bush during transplantation is allowed. The procedure is carried out at the very beginning of spring, when new leaf buds wake up.

Important! After transplanting, the plant is not fed for a year, an excess of fertilizer leads to root rot.

Cuttings

shoots with 3 leaves break off in early spring in the growth phase;
placed in a glass of water, add a few drops of a growth stimulant;
after the formation of a bunch of roots, they are rooted in a pot.

Taps

This plant reproduction is the simplest. The aerial roots of the scindapsus are pinned to the soil, then the rosettes are separated.

It is necessary to treat the flower at the first signs of damage in order to preserve the vine.

Possible growing problems

For vines, putrefactive diseases are characteristic. Fungi develop with a lack of drainage, frequent watering. Flowers are treated with fungicides. The safest is Fitosporin. If mold occurs at the root neck, take out the vine from the pot. Rinse the pot well, fill it with a new substrate. The roots are separated from the ground, washed in a solution of potassium permanganate, then transplanted.

Note! A diseased plant is placed away from healthy ones, because the spores of fungal diseases are carried through the air.

Pests

The wind brings insects, they can be brought in with bouquet or potted flowers from the store. Spider mites, scale insects, thrips are destroyed with intestinal acaricides Aphids are afraid of insecticides.