What is Wollich's clerodendrum and how to properly care for it at home

Clodendrum Wallich is a decorative flowering plant for which natural lighting and top dressing is important.

People call such a variety a bride’s veil or veil. The birthplace of the plant is India.

Wallich variety differs from other varieties in its exotic appearance. Flowers are snow-white, grow in whole clusters, like a snow-white veil.

The rest of the culture is unpretentious, so even a beginner can take up its cultivation.

Botanical Description and History

Clerodendrum - a perennial that is presented in the form of a spreading bush, belongs to the Verbenov family. Under natural conditions, the plant grows in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Clerodendrum Wallich received this name in honor of the botanist and physician Nathaniel Wallich. He was the manager of the botanical garden.

Reference! The culture belongs to deciduous, it has branched shoots, the length of which is 4 m. The stems are covered with smooth skin of olive-green color. They have simple dark green leaves. They are heart-shaped, and its length is 12-20 cm.

Panicle inflorescences are formed on the tops of shoots and in leaf sinuses. They consist of small but beautiful flowers. Inflorescences grow on a long peduncle, due to which they resemble bouquets.

Other names

Florists have come up with many other interesting names for the plant, among which:

• Valichi
• tree of fate;
• innocent love;
• veil of the bride.

Photo

Below you can see a photo of the plant.

Landing Features

For landing events to be successful, you must adhere to the following recommendations:

1. Place drainage in the selected pot.
2. Fill it with the nutrient mixture purchased in the store.
3. Planting material sent to the ground, sprinkle it and tamp a little.
4. Immediately pour heat with settled water.
5. After planting, keep the plant in the same conditions as before. Otherwise, the flower can become very sick.

Soil requirements

A vitaminized, breathable substrate is suitable for planting. You can buy it in a store and combine it with compost or Biohumus. If you prepare the soil composition with your own hands, then add fine-grained sea sand and purchased perlite to the soil.

Lighting and location

Lighting is still important for Clerodendrum Wallich. For 12-14 hours, he needs bright diffused light. Set the flower on a window east or west. Shade it at noon.

Important! If you grow a plant on the north window, you will have to provide him with additional lighting using a phytolamp.

Home Care

Let's look at how to properly care for the plant Valrocci clerodendron at home.

Temperature mode

This tropical plant is grown from April to November at a temperature of +20 to + 25 ° C.

Ventilate the room or expose the flower to open air during extreme heat.protecting it from a draft. In winter, provide him with a cool content of + 15 ° C.

Humidity in the room should be increased. So every night to spray the culture with soft, settled water, and in winter place it away from heating appliances.

Watering

A houseplant needs moderate but regular watering. In summer and spring, make sure that the soil dries by half, no more. During dormancy, watering should be performed according to the following scheme: the cooler the room, the less often the bush should be irrigated.

Top dressing

Feed fertilizer for Wollich's clerodendrum from March at the end of flowering. Hold similar events once a month. To do this, add a solution of complex mineral fertilizer to the soil, which is intended for flowering crops. In autumn and winter, fertilizing is not necessary.

Bloom

The plant blooms from June to September. In early spring, white bracts form on the bare shoots. From them appear raspberry corollas, the diameter of which is up to 2.5 cm. During flowering, the bush is covered with panicles, which consist of purple leaves.

Substrate Replacement

When growing plants, it is necessary to periodically change the old substrate to a new one. In addition, an overgrown bush needs a more spacious container. But to transplant only at the beginning of the active growth of the culture, after trimming. For young plants, transplantation is performed annually, and for older plants 2-3 times a year.

To pick up soil for a bush slightly acidic and nutritious. To obtain it, combine the following components, taking them in equal amounts:

• sheet and clay soil;
• coarse sand;
• peat.

Before replanting, disinfect the new soil in the oven. Procedure:

1. Prepare a container 2 cm larger in diameter and in height of the previous one.
2. Fill it with drainage, the thickness of which is 3 cm.
3. Pass the bush from the old flowerpot to the new, so as not to injure the root system.
4. Add a new substrate, filling all the voids and water the bush.
5. If the plant needs support, then dig it during transplantation.

Common Diseases and Pests

Wollich's Clodendrum is rarely affected by parasite diseases, but if you violate the rules of care, the following problems are possible:

• Root rot. This is a disease in which the bush looks depressed and lethargic. The fight against the disease:
  1. Remove the plant from the tank and rinse the root system.
  2. Damaged items removed.
  3. After sprinkle the roots with crushed activated carbon.
  4. Transplant into a new substrate by adjusting watering.
• Chlorosis. With this ailment, the leaves begin to turn yellow. To fight, spray with settled and soft water.
• Aphid. In the presence of a parasite, the leaves curl inward. To defeat the pest, remove all affected leaves, rinse the rest with an insecticide (2 ml of Fitoverm per 10 l of water). After 2 weeks, repeat the procedure.
• Spider mite or whitefly. Plaque forms on the leaf plate, shoots and leaves are deformed. Spray the bush with an insecticide, and after 2 weeks repeat the treatment.

Breeding

The propagation process is carried out by the method of cuttings.. For rooting, use stems with 3-4 leaf nodes. Procedure:

1. Cut the cuttings from the lower stems. Root in water or in moist ground.
2. If the second option is chosen, then add peat and fine-grained river sand to the soil.
3. For the plant, create a temperature regime of 20-22 degrees. The capacity should be no more than 15 cm in diameter. Initially, it is possible to plant 2-3 cuttings in it.
4. From above, arrange a mini-greenhouse using a cut-off plastic bottle. It will retain moisture and allow it to grow. Take root faster.
5. If the lighting is natural, the rooting will be slow and weak. It may take 1.5 months. So pre-planting material treated with growth stimulants. For this, Zircon, Kornevin, Heteroauxin is used.

Possible problems

Why does not bloom

The reason for the development of the non-flowering problem is a violation of the rules for growing the bush. Flowering is absent due to improperly organized wintering, which should be cool. As soon as the flower fades, then reduce the amount of watering and prepare a cool room for it.

Attention! Irrigation should be conditional so that the plant does not dry out.

Leaves fall

If the leaves began to fall after flowering, then this is a natural process.. They will turn yellow and fall throughout the fall and winter. But in spring and summer, leaf fall should not be observed.

So you have to review the features of care and correct errors. Most often, it is enough to change the location of the bush.

If the leaves became very small, the stems began to stretch, then this phenomenon occurs due to a lack of nutrients. With a lack of lighting, the stems of the clerodendrum can also stretch.

The plant turns yellow

If there are yellowed leaves, the plant does not have enough moisture in the soil. To solve the problem is very simple - water the flower more often and plentifully so that there is liquid in the pan. If the cause of the development of yellow spots on the foliage is chlorosis, then the flower can be cured with iron-containing preparations.

Clerodendrum Wallich is an interesting and popular plant among flower growers. It looks very attractive during flowering and there are no special conditions for the content. If they are properly and regularly looked after, then the flower will never get sick and will always delight the owners with a spectacular decorative look.