The pleasant and recognizable aroma of flowers of this plant and the useful properties of essential oils are known from ancient times. But not only it became the reason of leaving and cultivation of myrtle as a houseplant. Spectacular shrubs, the ability to grow a seedling in bonsai technique or simply to form the original crown in an original way - all this you can safely translate into reality with a myrtle.
How to care for myrtle at home?
At home, only myrtle is grown. But all its usability on the title ends. A variety of varieties allows you to create really amazing compositions. But the plant myrtle needs careful care, because the beauty of its leaves and the brightness of flowering will please only under certain conditions.
- Do not rush to make a myrtle transplant after purchase, if the tree is planted in the ground. It is quite possible to wait until spring and pick up a new place. If there is only one peat, you will have to start working a week or two later, when the plant adapts to the conditions of your apartment.
- It can be safely said that, in general, care of myrtle is simple and it is just necessary to create several main conditions for it. First, he has a period of rest. If at normal times the room temperature should not exceed 24 ° C, then for winter it needs about 10 ° C. Otherwise, he will start to discard the foliage.
- If you decide to grow myrtle at home, you will have to be confused with irrigation, since the plant prefers only water. In the summer it is about once or twice a week, the land should be wet, but not wet. He loves a warm shower. What your tree does not exactly suffer, is the drying of the soil. So even in a period of rest, try not to forget about moderate watering.
- Care of the plant myrtle during reproduction will become a little more complicated. Propagate it with cuttings or seeds. When you find a little lignified stalk about 5 cm, you can safely take it and plant it in the soil. All the lower leaves are removed, stuck at about an angle of 45 degrees into a mixture of peat and sand. Next, cover with polyethylene to create a greenhouse effect and look forward to rooting.
When caring for an indoor plant myrtle is afraid of the appearance of aphids, scabies, spider mites and thrips. So in advance we stock up on necessary chemicals and other means of struggle. If the tree leaves began to fall, a little dry or yellow, and no flowering, it is likely the consequence of one and such
- the temperature in the room does not fit myrtle;
- you are wrongly watering the plant;
- light too lean or opposite there is direct sunlight;
- The plant simply does not fit the chosen location.
Once you reconsider the care of myrtle and find for it the perfect balance of light, water and temperature, the plant will enjoy beautiful foliage and fragrant flowers.
It will not be superfluous to note that myrtle belongs to indoor plants of family happiness .