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4. Sprekelia
A dazzling fiery exot - this is how the amazing Sprekelia appears to everyone who sees it for the first time. This plant is very bright in color and combines grace with simplicity and purity of lines. Patterns, spots, variability of colors surprise her brothers. But for all its limited colors, spreckelia easily overshadows even the largest-colored stars.
Like the hippeastrum, the sprekelia belong to the Amaryllis family. They are evergreen bulbs, whose maximum height is limited to only 30-35 cm. From the dark, purple-streaked sprechelia bulbs with a highly elongated neck, flat narrow leaves up to 45 cm long develop, creating a surprisingly elegant backdrop for spectacular flowers.
Funnel-shaped, single flowers crowning bare peduncles conquer with an asymmetric corolla, with three graceful upper petals looking upwards and three lower petals growing together into a tube, which seem to embrace or cover long graceful stamens. The intense color of the sprekelia leaves and the dazzling red color of the flowers, accentuated by the red filaments and yellow anthers, create an unforgettable picture.
Sprekelias traditionally bloom in spring or early summer. But if desired, for a plant, you can shift the dormant period and achieve flowering in other periods.
This dazzling red plant with delicately curved petals requires very careful selection of conditions. Bright lighting, up to the sunniest places (this bulbous is not afraid of direct rays) allows you to achieve abundant flowering. Sprekelia does not like coolness, she needs to be provided with sufficiently hot conditions: during flowering, the air temperature should not fall below 23 degrees Celsius. During the dormant period, after flowering, the plant is kept at a temperature of 18 degrees. If desired, the sprekelia can be placed outdoors in summer.
This plant needs a loose, light soil mixture and high-quality drainage. Sprekelia loves a close planting (there should not be more than 3 cm of free soil up to the walls of the pot and between the bulbs), the bulbs are buried only halfway.
The undoubted advantage of this bulbous is insensitivity to dry air, good adaptability to room conditions. Sprekelia care is not difficult: during the active period of growth, watering is carried out abundantly, after flowering, it is gradually reduced to minimum moisture, when the leaves dry out, they are stopped. But you need to be careful and in no case soak the leaves and bulbs of the sprekelia during these procedures.
Sprekelia is fed only from the moment the peduncle appears until the end of summer, with a standard frequency of 1 every 2 weeks. After the leaves have dried, the sprekelia bulbs are dug up or left in the soil until March, keeping them dry and at a temperature of about 18 degrees. Planting in a new substrate stimulates the appearance of peduncles. Watering is resumed only after the tip of the shoot appears.
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