Kufai, landing and care

Kufa is an unusual evergreen plant from the tropics and subtropics of South America with an interesting form of tubular shape flowers. From the Greek "Kyphos" - "bending" or "curve", the Kufai received its name through the appearance of seeds that have the shape of curved discs. Kufa is a small semi-stabbed to 50 cm high, covered with a variety of elongated flowers, resembling a cigarette. That is why the koufie in the people is called a "cigarette tree" or "cigarette". Every year, an interest in the original plant is only increasing, today the flowering room can be found both on the household plots, where it is usually grown in containers and in the room pots on the windowsill. Coffee flowering is a real decoration of flowerbeds, loggia or balcony.

Kufa, description

Kufa is a low well branching lush fan shape shrub with dense, reprehensive shoots. Coffee leaves are small, lanceal, are located on short cutters, rich green. Special charm plant give narrow flowers of tubular shape, similar to a cigarette with a smoldering end. Such an original flower shape is explained by the fact that at home the plant pollute small birds with a curved long beak - hummingbird. Flowers Kufai lush and long, from spring through autumn, decorated with household plots and window sills of houses and offices. It is believed that the blooming Kufa is a symbol of mutual understanding between people and sets them on a friendly, peaceful way. Therefore, the flower can often be found in the intercom or desktops, living rooms.

Kufa, species

America has more than 200 species of plants. There are both annual shrubs and those who please our lush flowering for several years. There is a huge number of subspecies, but only a few varieties of this plant are popular in our region:

• Kufai isssopaliste.
  A well-branched shrub, which achieves a height of no more than 50 cm. Kush lush, with numerous short-sized leaves of dark green. Length sheet - up to 2.5 cm, width - 0.4 cm. Flowers - tubular, small. Lush flowering continues all summer period. There are white, pink flowers, gentle-lilac colors. This type of sauce prefers heat, but also tolerates rain and wind weather. Breeding cuttings.

• Kufa Fire-red gel.
  The brightest and attractive variety of sauces. A branched semi-staple reaches a height of up to 40 cm, shoots - straight or a bit curved shape. The leaves are opposite, have an oblong shape, painted in dark green. Leafle Length - up to 6 cm, width - about 2 cm. Flowers - Fire-red Tubular shape with a small bend at the end painted in a dark purple color. It grows in a container for decorating balconies, terraces, loggias or as a room flower. Kufa gel is also successfully growing in the outdoor ground in the flower bed, used to decorate the border. It looks great in the suspended chest, where several bushes are planted for decorativeness. Very thermo-loving, easily multiplied with seeds and shilling method.

• Kufa Lancetovoid.
  An annual, fast-growing shrub, reaching the height of up to 90 cm. Stems - a rapidly growing annual plant. The stalks are painted in a purple shade, slightly pubescent. The flowers of the tubular shape of dark purple color are collected in inflorescences, reach lengths up to 3 cm. Flowering time - from May to October. Breeds seeds.

• Kufai pale.
  Annual compact and elegant shrub, with dark lush foliage. Beautifully blooms with small numerous flowers of wine-red. It looks gorgeous in the suspended containers and in the vases in the flower bed, the flower of the Kufa is pale to the most frosts. Breeding with stalling.

• Kufa prostrate.
  A bush is low up to 40 cm, stems - branching, falling to the ground. Foliage thick, dark green. Flowers small lilac, purple or white flowers from the middle of summer. Multiplied with seeds, it is distinguished by the high germination of seeds.

Kufa: Growing at home

Beautiful-flowing Kufa deservedly occupies honorable places on the windowsill and is successfully grown in room conditions. Spectacular and original cigar flowers bloom abundantly and continuously, pleased with their magnificence for a long time. The main advantages of an exotic flower are rapid growth and easy reproduction by seeds or cuttings. Seeds of Cufies sprout pretty quickly and feel good. In addition, the beauty of Kufa is not demanding of care, so ideal for amateur flower, as well as those who love lush luxury plants with bright long blossoms.

Location of Cufia

Kufai prefers bright rooms, it can be placed on the eastern or western window. The plant spoke nicely to sunlight than the intensive light will be illumination, the more buds will be born on shoots. In a dark, poorly lit room or in the shade, the Kufa will not bloom, and the leaves will lose their saturated color. But still, from hitting the scorching sunlight, it needs to be protected and avoiding southern windows, or use the shading from the midday heat.
As a native of the tropics and subtropics, the exotic Kufa is growing successfully and richly flowers at high humidity, so the plant can be placed even in the kitchen or bathroom, where there is a light window.

Temperature regime of Cufia

Comfortable temperature for the villas in the spring-summer period should be moderate, in the range of 22-25 degrees, and in winter - from 12 to 18. At lower temperatures, Kufa may die. Also, the plant must be protected from drafts.

Watering by Kufi

Kufa is demanding of watering, especially during flowering. Water flowering shrub 2-3 times a week with water temperature. The soil must be so impregnated with moisture, the whole earthen kom pot should always be a little wet. It is necessary to monitor the state of the upper layer of the soil and not to dry out. However, the stagnation of moisture plant does not tolerate, so it is important to provide him with a good drainage. In the autumn-winter period, watering is reduced and becomes more moderate. Kufa loves water treatments: cool shower or spraying.

Landing and feeding

For rapid growth and development of the Cofai, it is necessary to properly prepare the ground for landing. The soil should be nutritious and fertile. For landing, you can use universal weakness soil or prepare soil from:
parts of sheet soil, humid, peat and turf soil and half river sand
Organic fertilizers or complex mineral compositions for flowering plants are used as feeding. During flowering, once every 1-2 weeks, it is recommended to water and spray a plant with a solution of mineral fertilizer at the rate of 20 grams per bucket of water.

Couffing Couffes

Kufa grows very quickly, and, in a short period of time, her shoots reach their limit height. To the bush look well and luxuriously need a regular corrective trimming to form a neat compact crown. It is also recommended that the tops of the elongated escapes are pumped by the strong branchiness of the studies of the investigate allowing the original geometric shapes of the crown in the form of a bowl or pyramid. Crucifying the wigs of fire red is to remove excessively stretched stalks.

Coffee transplantation

For sauces grown from seeds, an annual transplant in the spring in a new, greater pot. The size and diameter of the new pot must be greater than the previous 2-3 cm. When the bush reaches the size of a pot of 25 cm, the transplant can be done less often - once every 2-3 years. Replanting the plant is necessary in fertile soil with the addition of mineral fertilizers at the rate of:

• half of the leaf sterilized soil;
• quarter neutral peat;
• quarter of river pure sand;
• 40 grams of complex mineral fertilizer for blooming on a bucket of soil.

It is very important to ensure good drainage, so the ceramzite, broken brick or foam, is placed on the bottom of the container or pot.

Do you need a change of sauces after shopping?

Kufa is easily grown out of seeds, but if you bought a young plant in a flower shop, it is sure to change the transplant in another pot. In most cases, the root system implemented in the instance store is protected by a special protective bag. Such a fabric bag protects the roots from injury and helps it easily separate it from the Earth Koma. It must be carefully removed so that it does not lead to the reinforcement of the root flower system and did not interfere with the plant nutrition. When transplanting the villas, the transshipment method is not used, the roots must be cleaned as thoroughly from the substrate, which was used for transportation.

Landing of sauces in open ground

Kufai is a thermal-loving plant, therefore it is successfully grown in the southern regions in the open ground as an annual plant. Spectacular terry coffee bushes with lush flowering during the entire spring-summer season are pleased with their eyes and amazed with their originality. Kufa looks sophisticated in suspended porridge on verandas, loggias or balconies. Also great it looks in compositions with other blooming shrubs on flowerbed or as a border decoration. As a rule, Kufa in the open ground is grown as an annual. Often it is used as an element of landscape design and plant in large containers, vases and pots.

Kufa prefers bright areas of the garden with natural shading during a midday heat. The right landing place is the key to the success of active growth and lush flowering of sauces. If the flower grows in your pot at home, then it can be taken to the garden to the summer, on the terrace, find a bright area of \u200b\u200bthe garden for him, where there are no drafts. In October, with the onset of significant cooling, Kufa is transferred to the house to the previous place. To give the shrub of an attractive appearance, dried foliage and faded flowers should be removed.

If you decide to transfer a room from a room pot into open ground, the plant should be preloaded and prepared for landing in new conditions. The transplant to the ground is carried out into the fertile soil only after the end of spring frosts, in May. It is not recommended to choose to plant those in the garden where water will accumulate, Kufa does not tolerate the stagnation of moisture and may die from the overaction of the humidity in the ground.
When landing seedlings, if the plant was grown out of seeds, the village transplant from the container at the end of May, not deeply blurting into the soil. After landing in a special care, a young plant does not need enough regular watering, feeding during flowering and removal of weeds.

Kufa: reproduction

Kufa is quite easy and quickly multiplied, for this, two ways are used: seeds and shilling.

Coffee reproduction seeds

Couffer seeds have a slightly curved disk form, up to 3 cm in diameter. Seed color - greenish-brown. Have a high germination, a week after landing, the first sprouts appear. Landing seeds is carried out early in spring.

1. Prepare for planting a container (container or pallet) with a nutritional fertile substrate.
2. Place the seeds are shallow in the ground, observing a small distance between the landings. If the seeds put too close to each other - they will stick. During their germination of seeds, adhesive is begged.
3. Do not be too sprinkling the seeds with soil, as they have increased sensitivity to light and will go faster if they are a little just indulge in the ground.
4. Cover the container with seeds dense darkened film or paper and place in a warm place for germination. The optimal segregation temperature is 18-22 degrees of heat.
5. After about a week, shoots will appear. When the first two-three-three leaves appear on spickers, the seedlings are peeing into separate containers or pots to a permanent place.
6. Diameter Pot for planting young plants should be at least 11 cm in diameter.
7. When planting seedlings to open soil, the distance between the bushes is 20-35 cm.

Reproduction of Cufia Chernykov

The method of breeding with cuttings is used quite often. The optimal time for planting with cuttings - spring, when the air temperature has already been warmed up to 18 degrees. For reproduction, it is not entirely weed-to-wear cuttings, which are cut off the top. The slice should be oblique, for this is used a sharp knife. Cutted cuttings must be placed in a glass with water. After about a week, the roots will appear - the cuttings are ready for landing into the container with the ground. To give a chip of decorativeness, it is recommended to plant 2-3 cuttings in a pot at the same time. When the first few leaves appear on the cuttings, the tip of the escape must be quenched.

Diseases and pests of sauces

Kufa is most often predisposed to fungal diseases and gray rot, striking the horse's horse system. The appearance of a fungal disease may be a consequence of excessive irrigation or stagnation of moisture in the ground. Bright signs of the disease are:

• the appearance on the leaves of the plant of dark gray spots;
• running shoots occurs;
• holding the root neck.

1. Fungicides are used to combat fungus and gray rot.
2. Puffy dew. Looks like a white bloom on the leaves and stems. The fungus appears in the cofion in the violation of the temperature regime, due to improper plant care. For the treatment of the disease are used -Funggicides.
3. Sometimes the plant can notice the appearance of yellow leaves - this is a clear sign of a lack of iron soil. In this case, you need to add this trace element to the diet of the shrub feeding.

Among the pests attacking the plant, you can allocate:

• Cobbled tick. On the leaves and branches you can see a white thin cob, which leaves a web tick. The reason for its appearance is very dry air in the room where Kufa is located. To get rid of the pest, use a soap solution of potash soap (20 grams of soap on 1 liter of water). Gently rush the leaves with a soft sponge, moistened in the soap solution. Insecticide spraying is also used to combat the paw-tick.

• Shield. On the leaves, brownish convexities are well noticeable - these penetriors. To get rid of the shield, use a soap solution of potash soap and manually consider insects from the leaves of the plant. If the mechanical way does not get rid of the flap apply to insecticides.
• Tripses. When infected with tryps, the leaves of the villas are deformed, the ends becomes joined. To combat pests, a mechanical method of washing a bush under a stream of cool water is applied, and then insecticides.

Soviets for the cultivation of sauces from experienced flowerflowers

1. In the open ground in our region, it is growing like annual. Therefore, at the end of the season, in the fall, the vegetative growth of the plant is suspended, and new buds no longer appear. If you want to keep the room, it needs to provide wintering in a cool room at a temperature not lower than 5 degrees, and in the spring to multiply the stalling of young shoots.
2. Room room for the winter is recommended to be taken out into the cool room, as far as possible from the radiators. Watering should be regular, but moderate. The soil in the pot must be a slightly wet.
   At the end of winter, you need to shorten the branches by a third, to stimulate the growth of new shoots.
3. If you find a pot on a draft, Kufa can reset the leaves.

Kufai is an exotic dusty shrub that attracts attention to bright unusual shapes with flowers. The plant grows remarkably in indoor conditions in pots, and in the summer cottage in the open ground or in containers. Observing the necessary rules for care for an exotic beauty, you can enjoy the unusually luxurious flowering of sauces on the window sill or in the garden for a long time.

Kufai, photo