TIDEUS = SYNNINGIA

Tidea – home care

I heard, that many gloxinia lovers (sinning) often call their plants with this flower shape Tydei, but I think, that the real Tydea has nothing to do with the sinningia.

And although in terms of decorativeness, the purple beauty is clearly inferior to gloxinia, yet her phonographs are lovely!

TIDEE NEEDS A REST

The flower stands on the east windowsill. When I open the window for airing, I move the pot to the back of the room, since the plant does not like cold drafts. It also does not tolerate direct sunlight..

true, from lack of light can be drawn. I feed it with liquid flower fertilizer twice a month (according to instructions). I always water with filtered boiled water and only in a pan.

Twice a year (in spring and autumn) I treat "Fitosporin" or "Topaz" for diseases and pests. After flowering, watering is gradually reduced, remove dead leaves and stems, and then I put the pot on the floor, for the plant to rest. After all, it often does not stop growing even in winter., gradually losing its attractiveness.

Tidea – Photo

BY AUTUMN WITH "UPDATE"

If the flower doesn't want to retire, means, will have to rejuvenate him soon.

To do this, in the summer, I prepare cuttings from a leaf.. First, I carefully twist the old leaf at the very base of the plant.. I cut off the top of it and root it in the wet sand under the jar. To maintain humidity, I periodically spray from a spray bottle. I add a little "Kornevin" to the water for irrigation.

After about a month, I transplant the rooted stalk into a pot in a soil mixture for gloxinia or violets - it is light, nutritious and slightly acidified. I definitely put the drainage.

© Author: Natalia KARKACHEVA. Krasnodar region. Photo by Irina OPASHNYUK

SPECIALIST COMMENT

According to modern taxonomy, you grow a tuber culture - Sinningia beautiful (Sinningia speciosa, syn. Gloxinia speciosa). And since she is purple, then most likely, — S. speciosa ‘Violacea’.

maybe, it is a good marketing ploy to highlight C hybrids. beautiful with a curved flower shape (corolla concave from above) into a separate Tidea group. After all, the modern, predominantly Dutch varieties are more compact, long and abundant flowering.

SYNNINGIA – LANDING AND CARE AT HOME , TIPS AND FEEDBACK

MINI SYNNINGIA SEEDS

MINI SYNNINGI PHOTOS

When the opportunity presented itself to grow mini from sinningia seeds, I was delighted - so I like their velvet bells. Lucky in that, that the ordered seeds came quickly, were home, fresh, which means, viable. I advise these crumbs to everyone, who has little space on the windowsills.

SPRING CARE

Sowed the seeds at once (in April), and after a couple of weeks I was already admiring the shoots. true, unfriendly, some still appeared during the month. Attacks as sprouts turned out to be one less, others more, then I had to dive at different times. Seedlings "minushek" love, when they are often transplanted, then they grow faster. Or you can at least move it to its place) in place in the same container, where were sown. I didn't dare to feed, because for such crumbs there was enough food in the soil, and overfeeding can harm them. Transplanted them 3 times, the last one - in cups for 100 r, in which the plants survived the winter. If you sow seeds in June, seedlings will develop no worse, and caring for them will be the same.

GENTLE FIRST FLOWERS

In February, she twisted the stems and shook off the strong nodules from the soil, grown in diameter by a centimeter and a little more. Plant-

la them in pots (d = 8 cm) into fresh ground, at first without powdering completely: left half on the surface, to make it easier to monitor the status. Slightly moistened the substrate around the edges (in the future, the main thing is not to fill) and briefly covered with transparent cups. In a couple of weeks, new shoots with larger leaves appeared. I put them under the backlight and in March I admired the flowering.

© Author: Lyudmila VESYOLKINA, Voronezh region. Photo by the author

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© Author: Ludmila ULEISKAYA. Cand. biol. Science. r. Yalta