IPOMEYA BATAT - a wishful plant with beautiful inflorescences, which not only plays the role of decoration of the site, but also applies for practical purposes, for example, is used in food.
Plant Description
The natural wrestling medium is the tropics. This culture is capable of creating magnificent Lians, densely littered with bright inflorescences. The genus of the plant includes more than 40 thousand species, many of which came across the gardens of Russia.
Today, the bastard is grown as a room plant, she also landslides gardens and gardens. Liana Ipomey can create dense shady canopies above the arbors, they beautifully sear the fences, sweat and walls of buildings. Color range of buds is quite wide and is represented by white, blue, blue, lilac, purple, purple shades.
The plant blooms in the middle of the summer and continues to delight with its Mottroke before the start of frosts. Since the birthplace of culture is considered tropics, then the place in the garden for it should be selected by the appropriate: well-lit, warm, unproduced drafts. Ipomea can bloom and in a small shadension, but the shade of its buds will not be so bright, and there will be less inflorescences.
The peculiarity of the plant is that it does not bloom under the bright sun. Buds are revealed in the morning, and with the transition of the Sun in the zenith they are twisted with tubes. If the day is cloudy, then inflorescences can be opened until the evening.
Varieties of Ipromey Batat
Of the variety of species of this culture, no more than 25 of its varieties are grown in our country. We would like to describe those that are used in landscape design most often:
- Ipomeya Cairo. Her homeland is considered to be the countries of Asia, as well as Australia. The length of the shoots of this variety reaches 5 m, bloom abundant, the shade of buds is blue. During the bootonization period, the lianas are covered with inflorescences very thick, creating the visibility of a solid carpet from gentle petals.
- Ipomea purple - a uncomer, which has a pubescent stem. Its branches grow 8 m in length. Foliage smooth, oval form. The buds of this species are painted in various shades. Among them, you can meet blue, gentle pink, red, purple and even white tones. There are also terry varieties of sipomesy purple. The birthplace plants are the tropics of America.
- Ipomeya Neil - Liana, whose shoots reaches 3 m in length. Its flowers are painted in red, blue, pink, lilac shades, and the diameter of buds is about 10 cm. The flowering period lasts from July to October.
- The tricolor Ipomeya came to us from American tropics. Refers to many years of species, but in our country is divorced as an annual. The length of his shoots is 4-5 m. The branches are covered with large heart-shaped leaves, the diameter of the buds reaches 8-10 cm. At the beginning of flowering, buds are painted in a blue shade, but during the battle they become pinkish. The period of bootonization lasts from June to the start of frost.
- Ipomay ivyovoid has shoots of 2-3 m in length. Its large foliage is similar to the leaves of ivy, because of which the type of culture and deserves its name. The flower of this variety of Ipomey Batat grows up to 5 cm in diameter, most often has a blue shade with white edging, but some varieties are painted in red, pink or burgundy.
- Ipomay Lunno-flowing also came to us from the tropics of America. Its stems grow 3 m in length, they are covered with a large heart-shaped foliage and large white bootons, the diameter of which reaches 10 cm. The period of flowering falls on July-October.
Sowing Seeds Ipomey Batat
The most frequent way of reproduction of IPOMEY Batat is considered seeding seeds to seedlings. The germination of the sowing material at the IPOMEY is not bad and amounts to about 4 years. The grains are accepted in the second decade of May, but before that they need to be signed or soaked in warm water for 24 hours. If the seeds are not swollen during the day, their outer shell is pierced with a needle and plunge on warm water again.
The choice of soil for the cultivation of the ipomey depends on the specific variety. For example, African varieties like a soil intended for succulent plants in which fine-phoned ceramzite is added. American varieties need another soil, they are sown in a mixture of leaf humus, peat, vermiculite and coke fiber.
Prepare the land, it is distributed on small separate containers in which seeds are 2-3 pieces. The cups put in a warm place and are covered with film or glass, creating greenhouse conditions. From time to time, the soil watered, not allowing her to disperse. The seedlings also need to be tired, lifting the glass and removing the collected condensate. The temperature for growing sprouts should be maintained at 18-20 ° C. After about 12 days, the sprouts break over the ground surface.
Landing seedlings Ipomey Batat
Young piglery transplanted in open soil in the first days of summer, when you can not be afraid of sudden frosts. By choosing a place on the flower bed, small pits digging in the ground at a distance of 20 cm from each other. Over flowerumba make a framework that will serve as a support for future lianam. Such a frame can be made of metal, wooden rods or stretched fishing line.
In some cases, the landing of the Ipomey Batat is carried out immediately into open soil, without growing seedlings in glasses. This procedure is carried out at the end of May, be sure to choose a well-lit and unprodunded area for the plant. The soil prepare the weakness, culture also provide good drainage.
CARE FOR IPOMEY BATAT
The rules of care for this plant do not represent anything complicated and are as follows:
- Ipomee need to provide regular moderate watering. Culture does not like water stagnation, but also not worth overwhelming the soil. In the first half of the season, from May to August, watering should be more abundant and frequent. Since September, the plant can be moistened after the death of the Earth.
- During active growth, IPOME is fettered by fertilizers. For this purpose, an ammonium salter is used for this, integrated mineral formulations are used for the second feeding. Consider the fact that nitrogen fertilizers during the bootonization should not be much, otherwise the plant will form a large amount of green mass, and the quality of flowering will suffer from it.
- Periodically, weak, sick, dead shoots are removed from the bushes. Pruning is produced in September before resting period. In the spring, Ipomeya is also cut off, giving it a beautiful neat look and thinning.
IPOMEYA BATATE is subject to certain diseases. Mushroom lesions are considered the most frequent cases, some viral diseases, as well as a physiological disease - white swelling.
Mushrooms are most often transmitted through the soil, in the risk group are those cultures that suffer from excessive moisture. Sometimes to eliminate the problem, it is enough to cut off the affected area and treat the wound to fungicide. Some fungal diseases, for example, root or soft rot, this method is not treated. In such cases, the affected plant should be pulled out and disposed.
Viral diseases are also not treatable. Sick copies are recommended to burn, so as not to suffer healthy plants. White swelling occurs in the case when the culture is grown in the greenhouse and suffers from excessive humidity in a complex with low air temperature. The disease is manifested in the occurrence of white blisters on the foliage, which lead to the death of leaves. You can warn this problem by complying with all the necessary requirements of agrotechnology.
IPOMEYA BATATE is attacked by a web tick and aphids. The aphids are removed from the plants with the help of a soap solution, and the ticks are getting rid of cold water. If the problem is very running, it is better to apply insecticides.
Since in our country, culture is grown mainly as an annual, then providing it with wintering is not necessary. The plant after flowering is simply cut, remove the root, and the soil is drunk. Next year, seed seed re-on. It is worth noting that the IPOMEY is perfectly multiplied by self-sowing, so it can germinate on the same flowerbe even without your participation.
Using Ipomey Batat in Landscape Design
Since the IPOMEA is represented by a variety of varieties that have a variety of shades, the types of culture can be combined with each other, creating excellent compositions.
Ipomoy looks great in combination with petunia, portulak, lobularity and chlorophytum. It can be planted near cereal crops, for example, a pavement or barley.
Vegetable varieties of ipomey have a well-developed rhizome, which is used in food. Decorative varieties also have tubers, but smaller in size.
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