Lovers houseplants Epipremnum is one of the most popular plants.He is known for its simple, elegant, easy to care for.However, it should comply with certain features of plant growth.
Information on plant
Epipremnum golden (damn ivy, potos, epipremnum) belongs to the category of perennial vines growing in the tropics.It is home to Malaysia, Indonesia, South and Central America.In these countries, the plant called the lotus.Using adventitious roots, epipremnum firmly fixed on the moss tubes.Sometimes it can even mount on the wall, creating a green carpet.It will be a wonderful decoration for the office, terraces, balconies or rooms, as well as the garden.The plant is useful in that it absorbs unpleasant substances (benzene and formaldehyde) emitted by different household items such as carpets, furniture.Thus, the air is cleared.
Description Epipremnum
There are about 30 species of plants.Leaf Color ranges from bright green to dark green.They can be brilliant, colorful, thin with blond or yellow stripes, depending on the variety.Smell the plant has not.The flowers are very noticeable and represent one or more stamens.Viewed gift of nature, even bears fruit - berries.In one year epipremnum can reach a height of over a meter.
Types epipremnuma
most common types are Epipremnum Epipremnum painted and golden.The foliage of the first kind is covered with bluish-white spots with a white border, and its shape is irregular.It can reach 18 cm in length and 10 cm in width.Sometimes there are small white blossoms.The second type of plant is more unpretentious, golden coating on the leaf, as well as sizes from 6 to 12 cm in length and 6 to 8 cm in width.Epipremnum gold, of which there is a photo in the article, the most unpretentious care.It can grow to a height of two meters.Less all gardeners have found Siamese epipremnum characterized silvery spots on the leaves.
From Epipremnum golden varieties most commonly grown "Golden Queen", characterized in that on its leaves over yellow than green.Even using a hybrid "Marble Queen", which requires good lighting and temperature of 16 degrees.Its foliage is almost white.Also it found "Tricolor" - a combination of light cream, green and yellow colors of the leaves.
Features reproduction damn Ivy
Epipremnum gold or potos, as they call it in the people, multiplies in two ways.The first option is necessary in the spring (March-April), cut the stalk with leaves 15 to 20 cm. Place lesions treated with a growth factor of the root system and have escaped into the soil containing the sheet and turf ground, sand, peat.Seedling should be placed in a well-lit place, but not under the direct rays of the sun.The soil should always contain a sufficient amount of water.The favorable temperature for growth - from 20 to 24 degrees.
second method of breeding - layering.To this end, close to the parent plant a pot filled soils.Then, one or more branches Epipremnum fed in and is pressed against a ground pin.Since the plant contains aerial roots, it has over time strengthened in the new pot.Then cut the stems and add a bit of land.
Epipremnum gold: care
for plants suitable room with good natural or artificial lighting.It is desirable that it be disseminated.However, Boghos may well grow in the shade.Optimum temperature - from 18 to 20 degrees.In winter, it should not fall below 16 because Epipremnum gold can not stand the cold.Yet he does not like dry and hot air, so it should not be placed near heating appliances.The plant must be frequently sprayed and water (3 times per week), especially during the summer.Not to rotted roots, ensure good soil drainage.In winter, the moisture rate is reduced.Rub the leaves of lukewarm water that will give them a beautiful appearance and eliminate the unnecessary germs.
should regularly (1-2 times per month) from early spring to late autumn to make fertilizer from peat, sand, pine bark, turf and ground sheet.Sometimes, water the plants or herbal tea brewing.You can buy special fertilizer "for vines", which are sold in a flower shop.In winter feeding do no more than once a month.
transplant
Transplanted damn Ivy (Epipremnum gold) only when necessary: the growth, or if you want to have a large plant.Do this 2-3 times a year, in spring (March or April) in a larger container.During this procedure, it is necessary to very carefully handle the plant because it is easy to damage.Prepare for a new slightly acidic soil containing fertilizer.If epipremnum not transplanted, should be changed every year of the topsoil (5 cm depth).
How to choose the right plant
for cultivation should be taken stsindapus that has a lot of shoots and variegated foliage.All kinds of plants is necessary to check that there was no mold on the bottom of the stem.It is necessary that the edges of the leaves were dry and did not contain various fungal diseases.To do this, you should know types of diseases and how they can cope on their own.
signs of the disease and countering
Epipremnum gold may be susceptible to fungal diseases, as well as the effects of pathogenic bacteria and pests.
- brown spots on the leaves indicates sunburn.This means that it is urgently necessary to remove from direct sunlight.
- disappearance pattern on the leaves, which are just green, as well as their small size indicates insufficient light.
- appearance of black spots and dying foliage indicates supersaturation of soil water and root rot, or a lack of drainage.In this situation it is necessary to give the soil to dry out and water the plant less.
- brown and dry edging foliage indicates too dry air in the room.Then epipremnum must be frequently sprayed with an atomizer and put next to the battery container with water.If
- leaves gradually turn yellow and wither away, it is a normal process for the plant.But if this occurs too abundantly, so it lacks the nutrient or sun.
- sense measures should be exercised in terms of feeding, because an excess of certain substances, including nitrogen, provokes excessive elongation of stems and leaves at the disappearance pattern.
- dry edge foliage signal the excess salts.
plant may be affected spider mites, then it must be treated inflorescences special means against pests 1-3 times.Continue the procedure is necessary every 8-10 days.
recommendations
few tips may be useful to those who wish to grow Epipremnum gold at home:
- plant will curl, if you set them next to the backup, wrapped with moss;
- if you regularly pinch the tops of Potos, it will be good to grow;
- if cut off the tops of the plants in April, it will be more like a bush.
There is an opinion that to keep their housing ivy is impossible, as it brings bad luck.This plant is designed for the office.Believe it or not, everyone decides for themselves.However, home-grown epipremnum will be an excellent addition to any interior.
