Maranta: caring for a "praying" plant at home...

Maranta: caring for a"praying"plant at home
Large, colorful leaves with an unusual pattern of spots and veins - according to these signs it is allowed to find out the tropical plant of the arrowroot. A native of tropical marshes of America, she freely adapted to domestic conditions. To be due to care the plant is always pretty amused by the gardener's eye.
Image of the plant Maranta refers to herbaceous perennials. The native land of this plant is the swampy tropics of America. The name is associated with the name of the scientist B. Maranta.
In wild nature, the arrowroot is a small plant, which is about 20 cm high, with straight or creeping shoots. Leaves, depending on the species, lanceolate, rounded or oblong.
For spotting the background of the leaves of the arrowhead, clear spots and veins are clearly visible
Often, the mutant is confused with a kalatei relative. All these plants eat trivial differences. Kalatea is higher (60 cm before 1 m), with long, delicate leaves. They, in reward through the leaves of the arrowroot, are placed for the petioles two-rowly. In addition, the flowers of the arrowrock are unsightly, and the flowers of the kalatei are spectacular and caloritic.
The leaves of the arrowroot are so unusual and beautiful that this plant is planted specifically because of their decorativeness. The plant is undemanding in care and perfectly adapts in the conditions of the home or cabinet, in open and closed florariums.
Exception of the arrowroot - if the plant feels well, then it has leaves horizontally, but to be unfavorable criteria (mainly to be lacking illumination), the leaves are folded and elevated vertically. Izza this plant was dubbed"praying grass".
Future Maranty
Three-color (tricolor). This plant with dark green leaves, bordered on the edge of the more pale color. In accordance with the center there are light-green divorces. Streaks of dark red to the edge become darker. The three-colored arrowroot is a real undemanding and common visibility of this plant.
White-cheeked (Fascinator). The leaves are rounded, reaching a length of 15 cm. Features: for dark green leaves in accordance with the center is a silvery place. Together with the tricolor is undemanding.
Two-color Maranta. Sufficiently liquid visibility with dark green leaves, according to which scattered bright specks.
Marantha reed. This plant can achieve a height of 1 m. The leaves are rounded, elongated, have an ignorant color.
Varieties for the photo
Below-white has a different name - Fascinator Three-colored arrowroot is a real common sight for the sake of domestic feeding
Cane can grow up before 1 m
Two-colored arrowroot meets infrequently
List: conditions for the sake of the arrowroot in different seasons
Season Explanation Temperature Humidity Весна — летоConfused aristocracy. Excellent development in the penumbra, for the eastern and western window sills. Summer and spring should be protected through direct sunlight. A superfluous solar explanation changes the color of the leaves. The air temperature is 22-25 о С, the soil temperature is 18 о С. Daily spraying with the introduction of standing water. 1 once a week - a shower (cover the ground in a pot and place the plant near a spray of water). Place for a pallet with a moist pebble. Autumn-Winter 17-19 o C (must not go below 10 o C). It must protect through temperature extremes and drafts. Moderate humidity.
Video: kind of care because of a memorandum
Education from the plant consists of competent watering, timely feeding, proper formation of the bush and combating diseases and pests.
Watering
Gardeners note the enormous need of plants in the water. All here proudly perform the measure. In summer warm weather it will be necessary to water the arrowhead once 1 in 2 days, making sure that the soil in the pot was all moistened (but not too wet!). Water should take room temperature, soft,
In the resting interval, watering is minimized before 1 time per week - in cold conditions, the soil should be allowed to dry for 1-2 cm.
Top dressing
For the sake of top dressing special compounds are used for the sake of decorative-deciduous house colors (for example, Pokon, Agricola). During the time of growth - in summer and in spring - the fertilizer should be fertilized 2 times per month. Fertilizers are prepared in a weak concentration - 2 times less than indicated in the annotation.
For the sake of fertilizing, the arrowroot is allowed to extract special compounds for decorative-deciduous houseplants If the winter of the marant is placed in the conditions of the rest period (the room temperature is reduced and the watering is shortened), then the fertilizer is allowed to finish. If the plant should be fertilized 1 time per month. A narrow flower stalk produces a suitable colorant for which a small white, light pink or light yellow flower is blossoming. Because the flowers do not play a special decorative role and also weaken the plant, some gardeners prefer to answer flower stalks even before the flowers bloom. If the arrowroot does allow it to bloom, it then wilt loses its leaves and leaves for inaction, who continues for months.
The flowers of the arrowroot are not unreasonably decorative, like leaves
Flowering can begin already at first spring and last for months.
The rest period
The rest period continues from October to February. In this interval, the plant is not provided with a very high temperature (17 o C), a liquid watering order (1 once a week or less). The explanation should remain natural - there is no need to hide the arrowhead in the darkness.
Bush formation: pruning according to the rules
First of spring, if the plant comes out of a period of rest, the gardeners advise deceiving the pruning - to remove all leaves without any leaves. In the course of 1-1,5 months, the arrowroot restores due to a strong root system.
Then the remainder near the beginning of the arrowhead releases new, more volatile leaves
If the moranta releases abundantly long shoots, they are allowed to respond in order to obtain cuttings for the sake of reproduction. In addition, this will make the hive more clean.
List: diseases and pests of the arrowroot
Diseases and pestsSpider mite It looks like a small reddish spider. As a result of his activity, a narrow network appears between the leaves of the plant. Overestimated temperature and a dry day are beautiful conditions for the appearance of a tick.
Help the necessary humidity.
It's right to choose a substrate for the sake of the plant.
2-3 crushed garlic heads pour 1 liter of warm water,To the pharmaceutical tincture of dandelion add 30 g of crushed dandelion roots, pour 1 l of hot water. Insist for 2 hours, spray the plant for 3-5 days.
Finishing the plant with the products of Aktar (according to the annotation). Mealy worm Favorite habitat and damage area - leaf petioles.
Decorating the plant with a soapy substance (soap dispenser soak in water).
Decorating the plant with Actellic products (according to the annotation). Leaves turn yellow, fall, new grow small. Shoots wither. The roots are dead.
From time to time watered with acidified water (add 1 water fairly grains Limonov acid) . Process the products of Ferovit, Agricola (according to the annotation).
Like to find out the diseases and pests of the arrowroot: tips for the photo

Spider mites stretch the network between the leaves of the plant Transplant
Adult mariant is transplanted 1 once in 2-3 years in spring, young plants (before 3-4 years old) are allowed to take this function once a year.
Then you should immediately transfer the purchase to the arrow. Usually, plants are sold in the ground, who provides their transportation, but this soil is not suitable for the appropriate development of the arrowroot.
Because the root order of the plant is small, the pot will also come in handy (its diameter is 2-3 cm longer than the previous one). It is better to interfere with the election for plastic or glazed clay. Requires small stones for potter's day - stone or expanded clay.
Need small pebbles with a layer of about 1/3 of a pot
Earth can be built without the help of others, or you can buy a finished land for the sake of the Maranthous. The bottom should perfectly lower the atmosphere and water, exist loosely, lightly. For consistency will be useful:
leafy soil - 3 parts
impassive mullein - 1 share
dust - 1 share
ash - 0.3 parts. If there is not planned to multiply the arrowroot by dividing the bush, then it is transplanted, passing the land piece with roots. Before, like planting a flower in the new capacity, it is necessary to answer shoots, leaving for them a little 1 internode. As a result, the new plant will have numerous shoots, forming a curved beautiful bush. In the main moon after planting the plant does not need to be fertilized. It is permissible to cover the pot with a packet for the sake of water conservation and rapid rooting.
Marantou is transplanted by the landfill transfer method
The main methods of multiplying the arrowroot are bushing or cuttings.
By dividing
To change, pull out the plant and divide it into 2 or 3 parts.
The transplant is divided into two or three parts
For each the part should remain a speck of growth and roots.
Sprinkle the sections with crushed coal, allow to dry. Put the pot into a piece and tie it in to create a greenhouse effect (the temperature in that mini-greenhouse should exist over 20 o C). At times, ventilate and water.
At times the greenhouse needs to be opened for the sake of ventilation and watering
remove stems with leaves and take care of them, as usual.
Cuttings
Cuttings are allowed to respond from May in September. It is the tops of shoots 10 cm long with 2-3 leaves and 2 internodes. The cut is forced to break through for 2 cm below the node.
insert into the water.
The roots will appear 5-6 weeks later.
Marantha finishes roots then 5-6 weeks of stay in water
Cuttings with roots can be planted in the ground, also, like and be multiplication by division, creating a mini-greenhouse.
Then the root of the cuttings can be planted in the ground
List: probable difficulties and their verdict ВопросПервопричинаПриговорMarantha does not grow Low water Adjust the order of watering and spraying The flower dries, the leaves are covered with brown spots Failure in fertilizers, poor watering, low air humidity, incorrect amount of land Feed, adjust the order of watering and spraying Листья тускнеютEnsure the plant has a penumbra Extremely abundant light Leaves dry for tips and turn yellow Missing air humidity, drafts Often spray, protect through drafts Wilt and rotting trunks and leaves Extremely abundant watering to be lowered temperature Rearrange the plant in a warmer room Twist, fall leaves td>Extremely impassive atmosphere Often spray
Gardener's comments
My arrowroot grows up against not so long ago, about 1.5 years, and I made sure that this flower is very unusual. Mostly, if the leaves pick up the evening. It is worth it for me for a table in close proximity through spatifiluma, chlorophytum and syngonium. All these flowers should be sprayed without stopping, which I do, therefore a well-known local climate was created and my flowers grow and blossom for satisfaction. And I forgot about the dry tips of the leaves from the arrowroot! Waiting
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For me, this is the only one of the few suitable houseplants for me, tk. my windows are in the shade of a tree. White snow aristocracy I see in winter only if there is no foliage. Consequently, most of the plants that I buy perish through lack of light. Marantha does not need the brightest light, and even in the reverse, the leaves are extremely bright, they lose their color saturation. And again, the arrowroot sucks water with crazy speed. If other my plants then watering the soil again are wet, then the maranta is already wasteland, i.e. the flower needs abundant and often watering. Marantha grows very fast with its leaves and is free to breed. Damiana
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Marantha is against me not so long ago, but I already found an abundance of pluses! It grows vividly, it is perfectly fertile (if to break a branch and put it in water, then for the 5th day it's quite a short spine). Undemanding, you just imagine, it grows over the cutting table for the kitchen between the stove and the sink! And she has enough light, although it is in two meters through the windows and evaporation through the stoves do not bother her. Through the memoranda it becomes quieter in the apartment, it's a byl ... And I thought it was a simple coincidence))) If I stand, prepare and come up with some thoughts in my head, through which I want to boil, then I calm down and think about the situation. Ostrovskaya
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This plant came to me in the most deplorable state. My daughter brought from the street something withered, said, which she felt sorry for him - it was alive again. They began to revive. For the sake of the beginning they removed from the pot (it was a transport container). Without watering, the roots were released through the soil. Of course, it is true, between the lump of dry roots were white alive. Small pebbles were poured into a small pot, later the soil that was in the house was planted there that which was left through the plants, poured, covered with a plant with a plastic bag and put this micro-glass for the window sill. Through a certain time, sprouts appeared, and again, after a while, leaflets began to unfold. Now it is of course that the saved plant is the arrowroot. She is very fond of a wet atmosphere and wet soil, does not tolerate a drought, drafts and direct sunlight. And the whole plant is very strong and grateful.
Elzbieta
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I think this houseplant is rather whimsical in care. Maranta does not tolerate sharp temperature changes. Somehow, because of the sudden change in temperature, one of my earrings almost perished. In summer I try to shade through extremely hot sun, does not tolerate overheating. My martens live in the penumbra, the brightest leaves lose their colorful colors, become pale. I pour water at room temperature, quite a lot. Precise spray the leaves. This is a very hygrophilous plant. kseniya2015
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Marantha, which is appreciated not because of flowers, but because of the decorative calorie leaves, perfectly adapts to home and office conditions. The plant is undemanding in care, but still throw itself for the self-will of fate will not allow - it asks protection through drafts and competent irrigation.