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Billbergia tessmannii
Category: Orchids and Bromelievi
24 Jan : 13:34
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Certain types:
Billbergia amoena - with pink and green colors brahtei with blue edging
Billbergia nutans - with a strong floral stems and drooping yellowish-green color with blue kantche in bright pink outstanding brahtei
Billbergia venezuelana - brahtei with pink, white chashkoobrazni leaflets and greenish-yellow color
Billbergia x fantasio - hybrids with large gray-green upright leaves, dotted with cream. Flowering stem is erect, with brahtei bright pink and green colors with deep-blue rabche.
Care:
The room needs a strong diffuse light. Temperature: 20-25 ° C in summer, winter, 16-18 ° C. Spraying: plenty - just summer, but during the flowering not spray! (shortening the life of color). Like a high humidity environment.
Fertilizing: Spring, Summer - May to September - 2 weeks. Used for fertilizer or manure bromelii for indoor plants, the dose is 1 / 2 recommended by other plants.
Replanting: it is not necessary. The new plants are planted in garden soil mixed with peat and sand.
Propagation:
- Shoots when they reach a length of 13 - 15 centimeters - the finger - early summer;
- Seeds are placed in a moist mixture of peat, crushed sphagnum moss, perlite, or sand, with added carbon. Germinate at a constant humidity, light and temperature - 25-28 ° C.
Pests:
- Aphids - on top of the list. Damaged leaves turn yellow and die.
- Bromelieva mealy bug - on both sides of leaves. Damaged leaves turn yellow and die.
- Pamukliyka - the plant stops its growth, the leaves gleamed yellow and die. The presence and is a prerequisite for fungal diseases.
- Mite - on both sides of leaves. In damaged leaves appear cobwebs, leaves turn yellow and die.
Category: Orchids and Bromelievi
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