Zamioculcas (lat. Zamiocúlcas) or as it is called by the people "Dollar palm" - ornamental plant, whose birthplace is Africa.
Zamioculkas is popular with flower growers because of its unpretentiousness.
With good care and comfortable living conditions can reach an impressive size. The flower is a lush bush with beautiful dark green glossy leaves and rightfully serves as an ornament to any room.
Zamiocúlcas can be purchased at almost any flower shop. Its price in today's times is rather big, so the flower can be grown at home on your own.
Zamiokulkas reproduces easily - cuttings, mature leaves and even leaves. If there are flower growers with experience in your environment, who grow this plant, they will be happy to share planting material with you.
Things are easy - to plant a flower correctly so that it takes root well and does not die. The article is about how to plant a dollar tree.
How to plant Zamioculcas?
Scion (handle)
How to plant a dollar tree from a scion? This is not a very complicated process.
To get shoots usually take adult sheet.
Zamiokulkas (young leaves are not suitable, as they lack the nutrients necessary for the development of a new plant), cut into pieces with 2-3 leaves on each, this breeding method is also called grafting.
Your shoots are ready. Then sections are necessarily dried for 2-3 hours and powdered. activated carbon.
IMPORTANT! Do not rush to immediately land a process in the ground, it can rot.
Then prepare the primer. For planting shoots fit normal soil for succulentsmixed with sand, slightly moistened. Approximate planting depth by 1/3 from the base, the ground tightly pressed to the appendix.
The container with the transplanted stem is placed in a warm place; the air temperature should not be less than 22 degrees.
Need good lighting, but not direct sunlight. The first watering should be done after the soil has completely dried by spraying with well-settled water.
For faster rooting of the cuttings, you can cover the glass jar, create a kind of mini-greenhouse, from time to time the ground must be aired, lifting the jar. After 1 - 2 months tubers are formed with roots, and then within six months - young leaves.
Adult sheet
This is the easiest way to plant. Adult sheet should be placed in the water, wait appearance of roots, dry a little, then land in the ground (soil is taken for succulents, as well as when planted with a cutting).
Sheet is placed in the soil approximately by 1/3 from its magnitude.
Drainage must be placed on the bottom of the pot, preferably expanded clay, the soil is mixed with sand in proportion 1:3(1 part of sand and 2 parts of soil). Learn more about how to choose and cultivate the soil for planting, find out here.
Watering is done after the topsoil has dried by spraying with settled water.
Adult leaf without roots
How to plant Zamioculkas without roots? The adult leaf is cut off, the lower leaves are removed from the stem, the base of the leaf is dried 2-3 hours, the sheet cut is sprinkled with activated carbon.
IMPORTANT! In the case of planting planting material without roots, sections are necessarily sprinkled with activated carbon in order to disinfect the plant.
Planting material is ready. Further, the procedure is repeated as in the first case, when the leaf was planted with an already formed root.
The shoot is placed in the ground (ground for succulents mixed with sand) on 1/3 from base, the soil is tightly pressed to the base of the sheet.
Next, the pot with the planted leaf is placed in a warm place, without drafts. Watering is done after the soil has completely dried by spraying with settled water.
In the case of planting Zamiokulkas with an adult leaf, the process of the emergence of tubers with roots (except for the variant with a root already grown in water) is longer than in the case of planting with branches (cuttings). Nodules appear through 2-3 monthsnew shoots over 6 months.
Leaves
The answer to the question of how to plant Zamioculcas with leaflets is presented below: Zamiocúlcas You can sit down not only with an adult leaf, but also with leaflets.
The leaves are cut off diagonally from the leaf of the plant, dry the base, sprinkle with slices of activated carbon.
Planting material is ready. The leaves are planted in disposable cups or in a container for growing seedlings.
If the leaves are planted in the ground, mixed with sand, at the bottom of the tank is placed drainage.
If the landing is made in the sand-peat mixture, drainage is not needed. The leaves are immersed in the ground for about 1/3, at an angle to each other and tightly pressed the ground to the base.
Leaves can be placed under a glass jar to create a greenhouse effect, from time to time the jar should lift and air the ground, so as not to create excessive moisture, which does not like the dollar tree.
Capacity with leaves placed in a warm place. no drafts. Watering is done after the soil has completely dried by spraying.
A month later, at the base of the leaves, small nodules with roots are formed. After another 2 weeks, the leaves can be transplanted into the pot can be planted several pieces at onceThis will allow to grow a more lush plant.
The appearance of new leaves should be expected only in a year. The smaller the planting material size of Zamioculkas, the more time is needed for the appearance of new leaves.
Care, maintenance and landing of Zamioculkas is a simple process.
The main thing - follow all necessary conditions. It must also be remembered that the plant is toxic and all procedures for planting and transplanting need to wear gloves.
