How to care for violets: the basic rules of care for the senpolia at home.

Violets love for their beautiful flowering. The flowers can be admired for a long time, they admire the looks of women, add colors to the interior.

The tips of the flowers can have a wavy structure, the flowers can be very small in size. They are often used for decorating showcases, instead of flowers, they are presented for celebrations.
Rare white color, mostly often in the flower shop you can see senpolia with lilac flowers.
There are common varieties of violets, but there are varietal, they are more demanding in care.

Basic rules of care.

Let’s consider in more detail the basic rules of care for violets. Where are they best placed, how to irrigate, what kind of lighting, the humidity of the air suits them, is it worth their feeding?

Lighting.

They do not like direct sunlight, but they need bright light.
On the windowsills of violets it is necessary to darken curtains or a sun-protective film. In the cold season it is better to put flowers under a lamp.

Location.

– a window sill on the balcony;
– A window sill in the kitchen;

In the room to plant plants is not worth it, because there will be a lack of light, hence, it will not bloom.

Watering.

Water should be settled, and only then it should be watered.
Rain water, water from a well or melted snow will do. All flowers like warm water.

Different varieties of watering violets.

Upper watering.
Water poured into a pharmacy pear or watering can with a thin nose and gently poured rosette.

Watering in the pallet.
This method is suitable for a pot that has holes and stands in a pot or pallet. Water is poured into the pan.

Wick watering.
The plant is planted in a pot with holes. On the bottom put a piece of cotton fabric or a rope, the earth is poured from above. The pot is inserted into a jar or a container with water. Water comes to the flower through the wick.

Air humidity.

Violets love the humidity of the air. To do this, you can take a container with water and put next to the violets, you can also put a decorative fountain.

Do not spray the plant from the spray gun. More precisely, you can, but only the leaves, but this is very difficult. Therefore, it is better to use the methods described above.

Top dressing.

The variety will grow better, pick up the foliage and flowers will appear faster if you feed the flowers with mineral fertilizers.

You can not fertilize violets with eggshells, banana peel, tea or coffee remnants – this all leads to the formation of small gnats in the house, which will be difficult to remove.

On sale there are mineral fertilizers in the form of sticks, powder or liquid fertilizers. They are not very expensive, they are diluted in water.

The stick is advised to be buried in the ground, but it is best to dissolve it in water. For example, feeding in powder costs from 6 rubles per bag, which can be divided into several applications.

Transfer.

Violet can grow in one pot for a long time. There are varieties that grow foliage and rush upwards, in which case the pot is replaced when the violet does not look aesthetically pleasing, too much foliage and flowers, and the pot is small in size.

Earth.

For violets any land is suitable, but it is best to land from your own garden plot. It is best to make the earth air. For this, we cut ordinary foam into pieces and mix it with the ground.

On the pages of many magazines, you can see that in the ground for flowers you can add sand – it does not fit the violets. Sand retains moisture, and in violets, excess moisture leads to the death of the plant.
Periodically it is worth loosening the soil. For this, a stick for shish kebab is suitable.
After the time the earth in the pot becomes a little smaller and it is worth adding on top of the new land.

Pot.

Flower pot for violets should be small in size, because shenpolia blooms only in a tight pot. It can be without holes, but then you do not need to water a lot and fill the plant.
If the plant needs to be transplanted, and the house does not have a pot, then an ordinary plastic cup, a container of yogurt or dessert, is suitable.

For a young plant, a pot up to 6 cm in diameter will do.

Old dried flowers and leaves should be removed from the plant. Cut them with scissors, secateurs, or just tear them away. The lower edge of the leaves should be removed, and then the flowering of the plant will be faster.
If you have varietal violets or to forget the color of a future violet stick a stick from ice cream, spatula and write a marker grade. Or we glue a piece of paper with a name to a glass.

Reproduction.

Violets can be propagated in many ways. Let’s consider all variants.

Option 1.

Break off or carefully cut the violet leaf and insert it into a glass with water. After a while on the tip of the leaf you can see the roots. Can be transplanted to the ground.

Option 2.

A broken leaf can be planted directly into the ground. After a while, a lot of small leaves appear on the spot next to the leaf. When they grow up a little a large leaf can be cut off so that it does not absorb most of the water and the water spreads through other sheets. This sheet can again be planted in the ground and wait for rooting.

Option 3.

A leaf of violets can be planted in a peat tablet. And this method gives 100% rooting of the leaf, because the sheet gets all the necessary elements.

Option 4.

Fragments of the sheet. The sheet is cut into segments and inserted into an earthen lump. After a while, new fragments appear in the fragments.

This method does not always give results, because often the sheet just withers.

The leaves can be planted in the florarium. Florarium – a glass container to create a composition.

Some species of violets during the transplantation slowly form a root system and are difficult to plant into the ground. When watering, such a violet, as it runs away from the pot, rises above the ground. To prevent this from happening, you can take the wire, wrap it with tape, satin ribbon, make an arc and press the violet sheets in some places to the ground.

After planting the leaf in the ground you need to make a mini hothouse, because the violet is a warm plant. Put the container in a normal transparent bag and tie it up, put it in a large plastic container or cover it with a transparent lid, for example, you can use a lid from an ordinary cake.
In warm conditions a root system will develop for a short period of time, and new leaves will quickly form on the finished leaf with a root.

How to transport violets in the cold season?

Violets can be bought not only in the warm season, but also in bad weather. If the violet is bought in the store, then it must be packed in a newspaper or a package. Violets love warmth and do not like cold air. In an ordinary bag or bag, transporting flowers is uncomfortable, and there is a chance of breaking them.

If you buy a violet in the winter season or when it’s bad weather on the street, then it’s better to take a conventional box of home appliances or a small bucket with you. The violet is wrapped in a newspaper, a bag and inserted into the container that you took.

Many people move from city to city, in this case an excellent option – these are boxes of large sizes. On the side we cut holes to be handy. Gently put the flowers in the box, fix it on the scotch tape.

How to get rid of flower midges?

With improper care, namely, when the flowers are poured and improperly fertilized, you can see small midges, which first creep along the ground in a flower pot, and then fly.
With such gnats it is very difficult to fight and folk remedies do not help here.

What to do in such cases? Take the pot with the flower and take out the violet with a small spatula. We pour out all the earth into the bag and throw it away. The roots of the plant are washed underwater. In a new pot, pour new earth and insert the violet.

Also, the change of pot and earth is needed for the plant, if the violet was heavily infused with water.

How to decorate a violet?

If you want to present a violet as a gift, you have a business and you sell flowers, then it’s better to decorate a beautifully violet, because women pay attention to everything beautiful, to bright packaging.
We cut 2 kinds of packing paper. For example, purple felt fits perfectly to the violet violet. And transparent packaging with white patterns.

Put the pot on the purple felt. Tie around the thread or fix it on the scotch tape. Next, put on a transparent with a beautiful pattern. We fix on scotch tape. Around tie a satin ribbon and make a bow. The edges of the paper can be cut with a wave, scissors zig-zag or left as is.
If there were rectangular segments, then the edges will be the angle.

Another option for decorating violets is decor. On sale there are chopsticks for flowers with a decor, for example a butterfly, a heart, a figure of a man, an animal. They can also be made by hand at home. For the base, a plastic bottle is suitable. Marker draw a sketch, then paint with acrylic paints. We are waiting for the product to dry up. Borders can be circled by a marker, additionally glued with rhinestones and covered with varnish with sparkles on top. Cut and paste to skewers for shish kebab.

How to make money on violets?

To earn money on violets, you first need to read the care information and then buy it.
Consider the cost of violets and where can I buy them?

The cost.

The price for one small bush of blossoming violets is about 300 rubles. Price for Moscow and Moscow region.
At specialized forums, free classifieds sites, you can find leaflets or leaves with roots, as well as children cheaper.

Where to buy violets?

– Salon of flowers or flower tents;
– flower shows;

Periodically in all cities there are exhibitions of flowers. The entrance to them is paid, but you can see all the variety of colors and even buy yourself or as a gift.
There are pavilions where flowers are always sold.

If you are going to such an exhibition, then take a box in folded form or a small bucket in advance to place the violets there and bring them home.
– sites for free ads;
– specialized forums and groups in social networks;
– in the market, at subway crossings, at stops you can see grandmothers who sell home flowers.
– is free. There are special sites where people give away things for free, including flowers. You can ask to give violets for your birthday, and then you will not spend part of the family budget.

Can I make money on violets? Let’s try!

We buy several colors in the store with different shades of colors. At home, we breed flowers by any convenient option described above. We are sitting in jars, putting them in a sunny place or under a lamp.

People who cultivate professionally have special shelving and long lamps, so that violets delight in flowering.

After a while there are flowering violets, what to do next?

Take the camera and shoot. For beauty, we decorate a violet with beautiful packaging, put a butterfly on a stick or use a different decor. We decorate, put in a beautiful interior and in good light we shoot.

Do not need to add different filters to the photo. The buyer wants to see just such a violet, which he saw in the photo. Filters can change the color gamut.

We toss photos from the camera to the computer. We are looking for special forums, groups look at what value they sell similar violets and place photos. There are special applications for mobile phones. Under the photograph we make a competent description: price, color, grade (if a violet is sorted), variants of a meeting.

If you set the price a little lower than others, then the chance that it will pay attention to your violet and buy significantly increases.

Another option is looking for a shop, a tent, a market that will take flowers for sale. In advance, we negotiate prices, keep records in a special notebook. After the sale, the seller calls and informs you that you can come and get profit for the flower.

This system of cooperation is beneficial to many flower-growers, because they do not invest money in the purchase of flowers.

Signs associated with violet.

It is believed that violets enhance health, because their appearance is admirable, and therefore this is an excellent color treatment.

Still there is a belief that violets strengthen the material condition of a person and his health.
White violet is advised to have in the house not married women and a couple who can not have children. Having bought this plant, you need to look after them and after a while an unmarried lady will meet her mate, and a couple who has no children will acquire them in the near future.

Reds give confidence, prompt to action – this is the color of love, passion.

Violet fit creative people. Muse will always visit and inspire new ideas.

Blue – the color of peace and tranquility. For harmonious relationships in the family.

Violets look beautiful in the office, apartment, country house, shop window. It is a universal flower that any woman will enjoy.

For the garden site, you can buy gloxins, which are very similar to violets.

The site yellowhome.ru – is dedicated to decor, interior design and architecture. In the décor section there are many creative ideas for the home.

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Author: Mikhail Bond

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