Eucharis - home care, why does not it bloom

Eucharis is a real home decoration. The flower is called the Amazonian lily for the incredibly beautiful delicate flowers and the pleasant aroma that they emit. The plant itself has large, oval, pointed, dark green leaf plates 20 cm wide and 40 cm long. The foliage on the plant lasts a long time. The newly emerged leaves can roll up into a tube, but then straighten out.

The flowers are large (up to 10 cm), snow-white, slightly lowered to the bottom. They are found on long (up to 60 cm) straight and leafless stems. Many people want to have such beauty at home. Often on the Internet there is a question about eucharis home care, why it does not bloom. This is a problem that worries many flower growers, both beginners and experienced indoor plant growers.

Amazon lily

Amazon lily at home: is it worth waiting for flowers

Eucharis can please with its flowering two or even three times a year. This is with proper care. If it does not meet all the requirements of exotic, home flowering can not wait at all.

The plant itself is unpretentious, if you follow the developed rules for keeping a flower. To begin with, a florist should find out how to properly plant eucharis in a pot, since there are nuances here. For example, it is very important to select a special soil for eucharis.

The frequency of flowering eucharis at home

What is the frequency of the appearance of flowers in the Amazonian lily (eucharis) is of interest not only to those who have recently acquired this magnificent color, but also to those who have already known this plant for a long time and are trying to look after it in anticipation of fragrant flowers, but cannot wait for what they want result.

Quite often, the mistakes made in caring for the plant do not give the wait for the flowering period. If you do not know the main requirements, this negatively affects the growth and development of the Amazon lily.

If alternate dying off and yellowing of leaves on the eucharis occurs, this can be attributed to a natural process. When gardeners begin to wonder why eucharis leaves turn yellow at the same time, it means that the plant has serious problems. The reason for this may be:

• excessive or weak watering. This makes the leaves and roots weak. Proper watering gives the leaves elasticity;
• low temperature (below 10 ° C) in the room. Most likely, this will lead to curling and wilting of the foliage;
• getting the leaves of sunburn. As a result, the foliage turns yellow.

But in these cases, there is a chance to revive the flower. The gardener needs:

1. Remove the flower from the pot and check for rot on the bulb.
2. Cut off the affected areas and treat the cuts with ash.
3. Dry the tubers and transplant them into a new pot.

When do the first buds appear? Most often, eucharis begins to delight flower growers with its beauty in spring and autumn. The emergence of white flowers, reminiscent of daffodils, is accompanied by a delicious scent. Sometimes flowering occurs around Christmas. During this time, other plants are dormant. However, Christmas days are rare for budding. Most often, the main flowering time is February-March. The event is marked by the appearance of a long peduncle with a bunch of luxurious blossoming flowers.

The opening of the buds occurs alternately. Each flower lasts for 7-10 days. The entire inflorescence entirely pleases home gardeners with its beauty for 20 days.

Unfortunately, eucharis bloom is not prolonged. When the flowers wilt, the plant needs a dormant period to gain strength to release new flowers.

The result of proper care

Reasons for the lack of flowering

Why eucharis does not bloom can be understood for a number of reasons. Sometimes he does not dissolve flowers, despite the fact that the gardener, in his own opinion, provided him with optimal conditions. The truth is that such a belief is wrong. This means that there are reasons that do not allow a flower to please its owner with the appearance of a peduncle. The most common sources of such a disaster are considered:

• improper fit. Young plants are planted in wide containers (pots). The diameter of such a pot should be several times the diameter of the onion. It is not right. Any experienced gardener will tell you that it is the tightness that creates the chance that the eucharis will bloom. Therefore, the pot for it should be selected small in size so that the root system is tightly collected in the ground;
• sudden changes in room temperature. The plant has a process of forming weak flower arrows. Rotting of the bulb is possible. In such conditions, there will be no flowering. Also, you cannot wait for eucharis flowers if you put it in a place where a draft will be felt. The owner runs the risk of stressing the plant;
• ignoring the resting phase. This plant takes about one and a half months. During this time, no top dressing is applied and is rarely watered. It is necessary to keep the flower in such a state when the soil in the eucharis pot becomes half dry. You can check this using moisture indicators, wooden sticks, or weighing a pot with soil. Dryness of the soil reduces the weight of the filled container;
• when the dormant period begins, the plant should definitely organize good lighting. Improper plant placement, when there is a lack of light, is considered another reason for the lack of flowering.

The result of the disease

The most exciting topic about eucharis is diseases and pests. These factors are especially harmful to the plant.

Among the diseases are noted:

• gray rot. The causative agent is the fungus Botridis. The disease occurs on a plant when it stands in a room where there is high humidity and low temperature. In such conditions, the leaves of the flower begin to soften and darken at the edges. They become covered with gray mold and eventually die off. Carrying out prevention, gardeners remove the infected areas of the plant, treat flowers with compositions with copper, of which copper sulfate, foundationol, topsin-M are better known;
• stagonosporosis (red burn). Plants are exposed to such a disease if they are placed in conditions under which sharp temperature fluctuations and waterlogging act on them. Leaves, buds, bulbs are covered with oblong red spots. The leaves begin to wilt, the peduncles and buds are curved, they tilt down, the bulbs begin to rot. Under such conditions, eucharis perishes. You can avoid the disease by using high-quality bulbous material for planting. You can pickle the bulbs with a fungicide before planting them. The process takes half an hour. Then a two-day drying is required.

Of the pests on the plant, mushroom mosquitoes (sciarids) can often be found. These are small black flies that attack the roots of the plant. The reason for their appearance is waterlogging of the soil. The female mushroom gnat lays eggs on the roots, and the hatched larvae eat the root tissue, killing the flower.

Spilling of soil with the composition of the actara acts against pests. 0.8 g of solution is taken per liter of water.

In addition to mosquitoes, the following parasites can harm eucharis:

• spider mite. Its appearance is associated with a dry and warm indoor climate. Symptoms are weakening of the plant, yellowing of the leaves. If the tick has struck the flower quite strongly, treatment with acaricides is performed: tick-borne, phytoverm, acarin;
• amaryllis bug. Its habitat is bulb scales. A flower that has been attacked by such a pest dries up before our eyes. In addition, the symptoms can be noticed by the external shape of the leaves and peduncles. It changes, its original appearance is lost.

You can save a flower by spraying the plant and soil in a pot. Insecticidal preparations such as aktara, acarin, vertimek are used.

The appearance of pests

What to do if only leaves grow

If the home Amazonian lily does not bloom, but it only releases leaves, then attention is paid to adherence to the watering schedule. It is possible that the reason lies in the overflow and overfeeding of the plant. As a result, the independent eucharis does not enter the resting phase, the flower begins to actively grow foliage. With such activation during the dormant period, when flower buds should be laid in the bulb, flowering with a high degree of probability can not be counted on.

Some beginner growers believe that the lack of buds is the result of a small amount of leaves in the flower. This does not actually affect flowering, unless the plant has completely lost its foliage. Each bulb, according to the culture description, can have from three to four leaves.

The Amazon lily also does not bloom when it has no incentive to reproduce. In this case, flowering should be stimulated by arranging for the plant a little stress - the forced abandonment of the eucharis in the dormant period. This can be done as follows: reduce watering; move to where there is less light; lower the room temperature.

Foliage without flowers is the result of improper care

Experienced gardeners, thanks to their knowledge and special attitude to business, often manage to make the Amazon lily bloom during a period that may be unusual for this process. Room conditions allow you to achieve this, since watering is easily controlled, suitable lighting is installed, and the temperature is regulated.

The Amazon lily can be helped to release the arrow, to bloom. It is necessary to provide special conditions and organize forced rest for the flower. To do this, perform the following actions:

1. Place the flower where there is more shadow.
2. Lower the temperature to 15 ° C.
3. Reduce watering. It is produced when the earthen lump dries out enough. Water is poured over about two-thirds of the pot.
4. Stop feeding, regardless of their type.

After a month or two, the plant is provided with the usual conditions for it. As a rule, after strict adherence to all the above measures, flowers begin to appear again in the eucharis.

Effective flowering is the result of painstaking care

Eucharis does not need any special care. Even a novice florist can easily cope with this. Beautiful flowers will surely appear if you strictly adhere to all care requirements. It should be remembered that all conditions, including watering, feeding, lighting, are interrelated. None of these events can be ruled out. Only then can you count on a spectacular eucharis bloom every year.