How to rejuvenate a violet at home step by step
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Violets, or saintpaulias, are flowers that amaze with a variety of colors, shapes of inflorescences and leaves. If the flower began to grow strongly in the pot, methods of plant rejuvenation will help to preserve the favorite look. How to update, rejuvenate a violet, extend the life of indoor beauties, is described below in the article.
Why rejuvenate a violet
Aging is not only age related. Violet needs rejuvenation at home, when the soil is incorrectly selected. Alarms:
- whitish salt coating on the soil;
- compaction of the earth;
- the trunk begins to bare;
- the leaves have changed color due to the low acid content (the plant is experiencing nitrogen-phosphorus starvation).
You can give an adult Saintpaulia a second life, and it will bloom profusely again
How to rejuvenate a violet at home is described step by step below.
General information about the periods of development of violets grown at home
It is not difficult to highlight the main life cycles of Saintpaulias:
- rooting of planting material with the help of a cuttings, a fragment of a leaf that has grown from a seed of a shoot, or germination of roots in a stepson (a shoot formed in the axil of a leaf or at a stipule);
- the laying of flower buds, the formation of a peduncle, flowering;
- building up green mass;
- maturation - exposure of the lower part of the stem, critical growth of the rosette.
The old flower looks unpresentable, and the soil becomes scarce, salted, compacted
The period when the violet is considered old
Florists determine the stages of natural aging of a potted plant by the length of the bare stem:
- for the initial stage, the length is 2 cm;
- advanced stage - a trunk longer than 2.5 cm.
With the aging of young plants, you need to immediately take measures to save the species.
What will give the rejuvenation of the violet
Depending on the degree of aging of saintpaulias, rejuvenation methods are chosen that level age defects. The plant again grows green mass, new flower stalks are laid.
How to upgrade a long stem violet? Enough to dig deeper. A rosette is cut off from a flower that is too old, then rooted. As a result, a dense bush grows.
A step-by-step description of ways to rejuvenate violets
Depending on which method is chosen, the plant is subjected to a rejuvenation procedure. Pre-prepare boiled water (it needs to stand), soil. Use ready-made soil or independently mix turf soil, perlite, sand in equal parts.
Sprinkling soil for relatively young bushes
When the plant needs to be transplanted, the renewal of the bush begins by removing it from the pot.The plant is carefully laid on paper towels, the roots are examined. The brown ones are removed, leaving only the white ones. The slices are sprinkled with crushed coal.
Preparing plants for transplanting: you can see how an old violet differs from a young rosette
The root ball is immersed in a growth stimulant solution for 20-30 minutes, then transplanting into a new pot begins. A deepening is made in the ground, healthy roots are neatly laid. After planting, the lower and damaged leaves are removed.
Transplanting old violets with an elongated stem
Now how to transplant a violet with a long trunk. There are certain rules.
The plant begins to rejuvenate by cleaning the old stem. Many people ask whether it is necessary to pick off the lower leaves of violets? The answer is unequivocally yes, since they are large, they will take power from the outlet, and are practically not involved in photosynthesis.
How to rejuvenate a violet at home, the steps are step by step:
- Damaged, pale old leaves, peduncles, swollen flower buds are removed from the outlet.
- The plant is taken out of the pot.
- Placed in a new deeper one, 1.5–2.5 cm wider than the previous one.
- Sprinkle with earth until leaves.
- Moisten the substrate with boiled water.
New roots will grow on the surface of the stem over time.
This is how the plant looks after deepening the stem, in a month new flowers will appear on it
Rooting the top from an old violet
The simplest procedure is to root the apex. How to prune a violet correctly:
- First, remove the leaves, leaving no more than 8 in the upper part.
- Peduncles, buds are removed.
- With a blade or a sharp knife, they clean the stem from films, fragments of cuttings.
The cut of the socket must be left in the air for 40 minutes so that it dries up and tightens.
Here's how to prune a violet to bloom again in a couple of months.
There are two ways to root a rosette: the plant is placed in water, changing it every 3 days. After 45-50 days, a root bundle is formed.
The cut should barely touch the edge of the water
For rooting in the soil, a slightly moistened prepared soil is poured onto the drainage in the pot, a depression is made in the center in the shape of a stem hemp. The crown is deepened to the lower leaves. Water gently so as not to flood the growing point. They make a mini greenhouse to create tropical conditions. The violet is ventilated daily so that rot does not appear.
It will take from 3 weeks to a month for the renewed saintpaulia to take root in the soil.
Preparing cuttings from leaves
Updating by cuttings
How to rejuvenate Saintpaulia if it dies? In species plants, several healthy leaves must be preserved. Chimeras transmit varietal characteristics only through peduncle petioles.
It is necessary to prepare planting material. Rooting methods are indicated in the previous section.
From the peduncle, which is prepared for reproduction, only the central fork is left, stipules, flowers are removed
Care after renovation
The violet requires special care during the rooting period. At this moment, the plant's immunity weakens, the likelihood of being damaged by insects and infections is high.
Do you need to pick the leaves of the violets when they take root? Only if the records are damaged. The rest are needed for food.
Favorable conditions
The optimal period for rejuvenation is spring, early summer, while there is no extreme heat. Good results are obtained by rooting in greenhouse conditions. The optimum temperature range is within 22-27 ° C. The permissible decrease at night is up to 17 ° С.
Watering
Two watering methods have been developed for violets:
- upper, when water from a watering can is poured under the root;
- lower or wick, when water rises from the lower container along a cord that is pulled through the soil.
Additional Information. A loose knot is made on the wick cord in the area of the root system, which is wrapped around the roots of the flower, taking water.
Dangers to Avoid in Rejuvenation
Typical mistakes of florists:
- it is undesirable to renew the plant in the active flowering phase;
- rooting Saintpaulias cannot be fed with nitrogen fertilizers, since the growth of roots will stop, leaves will begin to form;
- violet does not like spraying. For foliar treatment, a solution of amino acids is used: preparations epin, "Ovyaz", HB-101. They activate metabolic processes.
Knowing how to renew a violet with a long stem, you can save your favorite flower, which has aged. After transplantation, the bush will come to life, again it will delight with flowering. After a couple of months, the withered plant will be difficult to recognize. His vitality will noticeably increase.
