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Cigar flower Cuphea ignea

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Water Cigar flowerTenere asciutto
As the cold weather arrives, in autumn, we can interrupt watering, and let the plants perish. Let's water abundantly, moistening the soil deeply with 2-3 glasses of water , but let's act only when the substratum is dry, leaving it dry even for 1-2 weeks before watering it.

Cultivation Cigar flower
The development is erect, they tend to grow both in height and in width, giving origin to a rounded shrub. Cigar flower Is an evergreen; during summer iIt assumes a orange colouring; the adult specimens are small in size and reach 60 cm high. These plants have a one or two year development.

Light Cigar flowerSole pieno
The Cigar flower should be preferably located in a place where it can have at least a few hours a day of direct solar light. These plants shouldn't be grown in the garden during the cold period; in autumn the plants usually perish, and should be eradicated from the ground.These plants are grown in apartment or in a temperated green house; they can be brought outdoors when the minimum temperatures are above 15° C.

Water Cigar flowerTenere asciutto
Let's water abundantly, moistening the soil deeply with 2-3 glasses of water , but let's act only when the substratum is dry, leaving it dry even for 1-2 weeks before watering it. As the cold weather arrives, in autumn, we can interrupt watering, and let the plants perish.

Pests Cigar flower
As the day-time temperatures rise at the beginning of the spring, it is agreeable to practice a preventive treatment, with a wide-range insecticide, which should be applied when there aren’t flowerings in the garden. Before the buds become too large, it is advisable to also treat them with a wide-range fungicide, to prevent the development of fungal diseases which spread easily when there is an elevated environmental moisture.

Mold Cigar flower
They prefer dissolved soils, with an optimal drainage.

Climate
peat
sand
Soil
Pumice
Bark
S. Organic
alpine
3
0
3
0
2
1
continental
2
0
3
0
2
1
mediterranean
1
0
3
0
2
1

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If desired, we can grow the The Cigar flower in a container. The indications given in this article are related to a medium size plant.

This page concerns the weather mediterranean it is possible to choose another climate area alpine continental

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