Gloriosa (Gloriosa) - a flowering plant with curly shoots from the Liliaceae family. In the wild, the length of the liana can be 2 m. Home specimens grow at an average rate, the height of the shoots for many years reaches a little more than a meter.
The plant blooms from mid-summer to mid-autumn. It has unusual scalloped flowers with petals bent back. The birthplace of gloriosa is tropical regions of Africa. It is found in the natural environment in India. In Australia, gloriosa is so common that it is considered a malicious weed that suppresses useful plants.
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| Average growth rate. Leaves grow over the season. | |
| It blooms from mid-summer to mid-autumn. | |
| The plant is easy to grow. Suitable for a beginner. | |
| Perennial. The rest period in the winter. |
The beneficial properties of gloriosa
Gloriosa is a poisonous plant. In the aerial part and the root of the flower contains the alkaloid colchicine, the minimum dose of which is only 0.006 g - can cause fatal poisoning. But homeopaths and pharmacologists benefit from toxic substances.
Colchicine, which affects the kidneys and adversely affects vision, in the right dose and in combination with the right components, inhibits cell division, reduces the production of uric acid. Properly used substance helps to cope with the symptoms of gout, it is used to prevent amyloidosis.
Gloriosa: home care. Briefly
Tropical plant take root indoors with difficulty. To help acclimatize at home, they create a favorable environment for gloriosa:
| Temperature mode | In winter - no higher than + 15 ° C, in summer - from + 20 ° C. |
| Air humidity | Increased, from 65%. |
| Lighting | Broken bright; west or east windows. |
| Watering | In winter, do not water; watered abundantly in summer, sparse and scarce in autumn |
| Gloriosa soil | Universal floral; prepared from equal volumes of leafy land, turf land, peat. |
| Fertilizer and fertilizer | During flowering, every 15 days, diluted with water with mineral fertilizer. |
| Gloriosa transplant | Young tubers are planted annually in spring. |
| Breeding | Seeds and tubers. |
| Growing Features | Transplanting a liana, immediately establish a support on which it will crawl. If you install the structure later, you can damage the tubers, and the stems can break. In winter, the plant needs peace. |
Gloriosa care at home. In detail
If you take care of the plant and properly care for it, you are lucky to see its original flowering.
Flowering gloriosa
The flowering of domestic gloriosa is unusual and expressive. Single drooping flowers form on long (up to 0.2 m) peduncles. The diameter of the flowers can reach up to 15 cm. Petals often have a two-tone color (it can change during flowering) and scalloped surface.
In some species, the petals are bent up. On the shoot, up to seven flowers are formed simultaneously, which bloom in turn. Flowering falls in the summer. After it, a fruit is formed - a box with seeds.
Temperature mode
A tropical plant needs warmth. To well develop gloriosa, home care is prescribed to control the temperature regime. The flower is kept in summer at a temperature of + 23 - 25 ° C. With the onset of autumn, it is gradually being reduced.
By winter, the mercury column should drop to + 14 ° C. Do not allow a sharp change in temperature: the plant may die.
If a flower is brought out to the balcony for the summer, they make sure that the gloriosa is protected from the wind.
Spraying
Gloriosa at home must be kept at high (55 - 70%) humidity. If it is dry at home, the plant may not bloom. Humidity is raised in many ways. Spraying is possible if gloriosa does not bloom. During flowering, include humidifiers; An open container of water is placed next to the pot. A flowerpot with a flower set on a pallet with wet pebbles.
Lighting
Gloriosa grows well and blooms brightly under bright diffused lighting. Therefore, a container with a flower is installed on the east or west window. A window facing north does not fit: there is not only a little light, but also dark. On the south window, on the contrary, it is very light.
Intense lighting can cause leaf burns.
Gloriosa Watering
There is always a lot of questions about watering a plant at home. Gloriosa is considered moisture-loving, but waterlogging is extremely dangerous for it. It can withstand a short drought, but if the soil is 1/3 dried, it’s time to water it. Therefore, it must be remembered that watering gloriosa needs moderate and timely. In the summer, when the plant is actively developing and flowering, it is watered more often and more abundantly than at other times.
It gets colder in autumn, less water is needed. In winter, when the plant is resting, it is not disturbed. For irrigation, they always take lukewarm, settled water. Watering is best in the evening or early in the morning: this way the moisture will be better preserved.
Gloriosa pot
The capacity is chosen taking into account the characteristics of the plant and its dimensions. When buying a pot for gloriosa, one must remember that in a spacious container the plant will not bloom. Young nodules, separated from the mother tuber, are planted in pots whose diameter does not exceed 150 mm.
Next, the width of the pot is selected taking into account the size of the tubers; height - taking into account the size of the planting material and the height of the drainage layer.
Priming
Gloriosa needs a breathable nutrient substrate with a neutral degree of acidity. Soil preparation can be done at home and make a mixture of equal parts of sod land, peat and leaf land.
In the store you can buy universal primer for flowers. In any of the substrates of the house, vermiculite, brick chips, foam balls are added to give greater friability.
Fertilizer and fertilizer
During the flowering period of gloriosa, fertilizing and fertilizing are necessary to prolong the process, increase the number of buds and give them greater brightness. The procedure is carried out every 15 days after evening watering (then the plant is shaded for a day).
Apply universal mineral fertilizers, in large quantities containing phosphorus and potassium (fertilizers must be diluted with water 2 times). In autumn and winter, feeding is not carried out.
Transfer
Gloriosa is transplanted every spring. A thick layer of drainage and part of the substrate are poured into the bottom of the pot. Young tubers are fragile. They are separated from the mother plant and carefully, not dividing into parts, are planted in a horizontal position.
Planting is carried out so that the upper tuber fragment rises above the ground by 25 mm. Establish a support. Water the plant. They are waiting for the water to soak up and the soil to settle slightly. After that, add a little soil.
After planting, the plant is placed in the shade for 7 days. After 2 weeks, they begin to feed.
Pruning
Gloriosa does not need pruning. The procedure does not affect the branching of the plant, but it affects the flowering badly. Gloriosa flowers form at the tops of shoots. Cutting them, you have to wait a long time for flowering: it takes a long time for the plant to recover.
Rest period
Blossoming - so original and bright - tires of gloriosa. Therefore, a plant needs a period of rest, which it openly declares, dropping leaves. Debris shoots dry up. On the surviving tuberous root in the spring, young growth will appear again. You can leave a bare vine in a flowerpot in a shaded, dry place until the end of February, then transplant it into new soil.
The optimum temperature of the winter content will be + 15 degrees. The second option - after drying the vines, the tuber is removed from the soil. Having fallen asleep on all sides with sand or peat, stored in paper packaging at + 13 degrees. In early March, the tuber is planted in the substrate.
In this case, the seedlings will appear later than when planting a potted vine. The rest period of gloriosa observes from the second year of life. The young liana does not dry out for the winter, it is left in a pot in a cool place.
Backup
Gloriosa is a vine. A plant can develop properly and look beautiful, having a support. Nature, helping the flower, “decorated” the tips of its upper leaves with antennae. With their help, gloriosa clings to a support, protecting thin shoots and delicate flowers from fractures.
There are no antennae on the lower part of the shoots, therefore, a support is installed in the form of bamboo sticks, a ladder with narrow beams, a net or a tightly stretched rope, fishing line. Most importantly, the support should be thin so that the small antennae can catch on it.
The support is installed very carefully so as not to break the graceful shoots.
Gloriosa propagation
At home, gloriosa is propagated in two ways.
Growing Gloriosa from Seeds
The session is long, the result does not always coincide with expectations. Seeds have low germination; sprouts with difficulty develop. The day before planting, the seeds are soaked in a solution of growth stimulant. Planted in the ground, deepening by 0.5 mm. Cover with a film and germinate in a warm place at + 23 ° C. Air the seedlings daily; watered when the soil dries. It will take about a month to germinate. When 2 pairs of leaves form, a mature plant is transplanted.
Gloriosa propagation by tubers
The method of propagation of gloriosa by tubers is used more often: it is more effective. Small fragile tubers are carefully separated from the adult mother plant. They are planted in loose soil, directing the growth point up. Immediately establish a support, so as not to damage the tubers. Germinate with lower heating without watering. Watering begins when shoots appear. The grown plant is transplanted into a large container.
A plant obtained by the seed method will bloom in about two years. It does not preserve the varietal properties of the mother plant.
Diseases and Pests
If you take care of gloriosa in bad faith, it can develop diseases, and it will be easier for pests to infect a weak plant. Troubles are manifested in the form of various symptoms:
- Gloriosa bulbs rot - a consequence of waterlogging (they clean the tuber from damage, treat it with a fungicidal agent and sprinkle with coal powder; if this happens in winter, the tuber is stored; at other times, it is planted in the ground);
- leaves drooped and lost turgor - a sign of root rot from excess moisture;
- gloriosa does not bloom - lack of light, a spacious flowerpot, damage to the tuber if stored improperly (rearrange in a bright place; transplanted into a smaller flowerpot; try to sprinkle with coal powder or grease aloe juice, dry and plant);
- leaves turn pale - little light (rearrange in a brighter place);
- Gloriosa leaves darkened - from sharp temperature fluctuations, drafts (rearrange in a place protected from the wind);
- gloriosa is slowly growing - a sharp change in temperature;
- Gloriosa leaves turn yellow - from low humidity (sprayed if gloriosa does not bloom; placed on a pallet with wet pebbles);
- white plaque on the leaves - from irrigation with hard water (to defend water, sometimes add citric acid or lemon juice to it - 0.2 g or 3 drops per liter of settled water).
Often a weakened plant is affected by a spider mite, scale, aphids. Pests are washed off with a shower, the plant is treated with an insecticide.
Types of Gloriosa home with photos and names
In the natural environment there are different types of gloriosa. At home, one species and its varieties are mainly common.
Gloriosa is magnificent, or magnificent (Gloriosa superba)
Long (up to 200 cm) liana with thin shoots. Pale green leaves have a shiny surface. Their length reaches 100 mm, width - 30 mm. The tip is pointed. In the axils of the leaves, flowers are formed with long (up to 80 mm) scalloped petals with a peculiar color: on the outside they are salmon-colored with a pink tint. The inner side is scarlet from above, and golden below. It blooms all summer.
Popular varieties
The most common varieties of gloriosa luxurious are:
Gloriosa Luxurious Yellow (Gloriosa Lutea)
A short (up to 0.9 m) plant with bright lemon flowers.
Gloriosa Carsonii
A low plant with flowers of double coloring: violet - brown petals with golden bordering.
Gloriosa Luxurious Grena (Gloriosa Greenii)
The surface of the sheet plate is not scalloped, but absolutely smooth. Long (up to 85 mm) saturated yellow petals, wrapped outward, look like flashlights.
Gloriosa Rothschildiana
The height of the liana exceeds 200 cm. Large flowers on the edges are saturated - lemon, in the center - carmine-red.
Gloriosa Modesta (Gloriosa modesta)
Liana is medium in size (less than 200 cm). Leaf plates have a bright green color. Large drooping flowers are painted yellow with an orange tint. Their surface is glossy.
Exotic tropicana is capricious, she needs special care. Therefore, gloriosa is rare in apartments. If the flower is lucky with a caring and patient hostess, it will not remain in debt and will repay with bright unusual flowering.
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