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Eucomis is very decorative and easy pěstovatelná plant - bulb with attractive flowers and typical plume leaves on top of floral stems. Therefore, it is also popularly called chocholatice. Arrived to us from distant Africa where it grows in large colonies. It can be grown as potted plants or the wild garden. When growing in a container, onions soot in the month of February, to free the bed in mid-April to a depth of 15 cm, so we plant in the flowering season has not rebutted. Over the summer, requires abundant watering and time begins to deploy on a regular flower fertilization. After flowering should start to reduce watering and autumn (October) after removing the onion from the country, should be maintained chocholatice completely dry (and dark). Conversely, in late winter (February) should be re-planted bulbs, start watering carefully after opening to allow observation and gradually increase watering.

Eucomis umístníme the garden to bed for polostinné habitat permeable land, a well-stocked with nutrients. When growing in the container we select a relatively wide container, the bottom create good drainage and umístníme again into a gentle shade, late afternoon sun is ideal. overwintering outdoors is only possible in very good conditions, which provide a large blanket against freezing. Therefore, we recommend plants for the winter to remove.

Multiplying onions, separating the side when transplanting. The small bulbs bloom in 2-3 years. Seed propagation is slow, poorly germinating seeds and the first flowers appear until after 4 years from sowing. I can say from personal experience, I tried sowing and the first sprouts appeared after three months. Seeds for germination requires high humidity and temperatures around 23 ° C. This is in housing conditions can be difficult to ensure.

From my own experience I can say that Eucomis grown in earthen vessel. That is quite broad, since the bulbs are large root system. Polostinném Habitat at the place where the sun until afternoon, roughly 17 hours. Winter in the room where the temperature drops to 8 ° C. Hibernate-free dressing in a container in which it grows during the summer. In the month of February begins to slowly come out, the first dressing is carried out in the middle of March, or after waking up and sprouting plants. Eucomis flooded before we could be uhnití onions, so it takes patience, because onions are sometimes waking up very late. Parent onion bulbs will create a subsidiary, so that over time you have a wonderful bunch of several květenstvími.

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