True Cyclamen Seeds 7color selection Rare indoor bonsai flower seeds Potted Balcony Plant seeds for home garden 10pcs/bag
Description:
Cyclamen plants start showing up for sale around holiday time. With flowers in shades of pink, red, or white, you can find them blooming on shelves in garden centers and even grocery stores. Even the foliage is attractive, often having silver marbling on the top sides of the leaves. The entire plant, when in flower, reaches only about 8 inches high. Cyclamen make excellent houseplants, blooming for weeks and requiring very little care.
Cyclamen is a small but diverse genus of plants. Many species are hardy, generally in USDA Hardiness Zones 7 and above. But the one we are talking about here, Cyclamen persicum, is often seen for sale throughout the fall and winter, in less hardy zones, as a houseplant. C. persicum, aptly referred to as the Florist’s Cyclamen, has sweet-scented small (½ to 3/4 inch) flowers that are produced on long stems, held upright above the foliage. It is a tuberous perennial with heart-shaped leaves common to cyclamen.
cyclamen can be grown outside, but it is questionable whether it will survive if temps go below 50 degrees F. / 10 degrees C. It is a native of the Mediterranean and North Africa. When grown outside, expect Cyclamen persicum to bloom in late winter or early spring. Greenhouse cyclamen are usually forced into bloom sometime around the holiday season into late winter.
Water:
When leaves are present, the plant is actively growing. Water whenever the soil feels dry. Avoid getting water on the crown of the plant, which could cause it to rot.
As the flowers begin to fade, gradually allow the plant to dry out for 2-3 months. It's going into a dormant stage (see below) and any excess water will cause the tuber to rot.
New growth will probably start to appear around September. At this point, resume watering and feeding. Bring it back indoors before the cold weather. A good rule of thumb is to bring it inside while it's still comfortable with the windows open.
Humidity: High humidity, especially during winter, is crucial. Keep the cyclamen on a tray of water with a layer of pebbles or something else to form a shelf for the cyclamen pot to sit on. Do not let the cyclamen itself sit in the water.
Fertilizer: Feed with a low-nitrogen fertilizer every couple of weeks while in full leaf.
Light: Give cyclamen bright, indirect light in the winter. While your plant is dormant during the summer, keep it out of bright light.
Temperature: Cyclamen do not like extreme heat, but they are not frost hardy. Do not expose to temperatures below 50 degrees F. Avoid drafts as well as hot, dry air.
Dormancy Period
Cyclamen generally go dormant for the summer. They don’t like the lack of rain and excess heat, so they take a siesta. By April cyclamen start getting tired and the leaves will begin to yellow and die. Exactly when they go fully dormant depends on their growing conditions. If they are houseplants and the heat is kept high, they’ll peter out more quickly. On the other hand, some don’t ever appear to go fully dormant.
During the summer, dormant cyclamen can be kept indoors, in a cool, dark spot with good air circulation or outdoors, in a shady spot. If you put yours outdoors, be sure to turn the pot on its side to keep the rain out. If the soil gets too wet during dormancy, the tuber will rot. A little water isn’t going to do any harm, but you don’t want the soil to remain wet.
You can repot with fresh soil and a slightly larger pot while the plant is dormant.
Begin watering again in September. By then you’ll probably be seeing new growth starting.
Make sure you bring the pot back indoors before a frost.
There are many wonderful cyclamen hybrids available and since they stay in bloom for a long period, you can choose your plant while the blossoms are open and know exactly what you are getting.
Sowing cyclamen seeds
Technique of seed planting that I have found will grow larger more vigorous sprouts.
Soak seed overnight in cup of water, add a drop of dish soap..
Use a flat, tray, or pot with drainage holes at least 2 inches deep.
Mix in a little bone meal with a commercial seed starting mix. Fill the container.
Thoroughly moisten the soil mix.
Lightly press the seed on the surface of soil at least 1 inch apart.
Cover the seed in a layer 1/4 inch deep with clean sand,perlite or fine to medium grit.
Water lightly whenever the sand/grit becomes dry.
Sowing cyclamen from seed is surprisingly easy, but it's not a job for the impatient gardener: grown this way it can take a year or more before you are rewarded with beautiful blooms.
Before sowing, soak the cyclamen seeds in warm water for at least 12 hours, to soften the seed coat, then rinse. Sow seeds into pots of compost, spacing them evenly.
Sprinkle a layer of fine vermiculite or compost over the seeds until the surface is covered completely.
Water, then cover with
