Care of Cyclamen - Alpine violet

Cyclamen is a plant of the family of the primulaceas, with cordate leaves and beautiful flowers is very popular within the winter bloom and that due to this time of the year so many plants are not in flower. Varieties of this issue include a wide range of flower colors ranging from white to the Scarlet red, pink, purple and salmon tones.

Scientific name: Cyclamen persicum
Common or vulgar name: Persian violet, cyclamen, violets of the Alps.
Height: 30-40 cm.
Although it is considered annual plant, can last for several years if kept in the right conditions. That is because it remains in dormant state during the warm season and returns to sprout with the lowering of temperatures. Flowers tend to decrease in size as it increases the age of the plant.
Care:
-Light: avoid to give you direct rays of the Sun, placing the plant in areas of shadow or meda shadow. Grown indoors, you need a daily dose of intense light.
-Temperatures: indoors, place the plant in a cool room, oriented towards the North and near a window, although avoiding direct sunlight.
-Humidity: keep it permanently in a room fresh and moist, by placing it on a plate of wet sand.
-Plantation: the Plantation is mid- to late summer, which it may well flourish in autumn or spring.
-Cyclamen flowers better if it is in a narrow pot.
-Water is very important to water from below.
-Check the good drainage of the ground or pot and that Earth is light, to facilitate aeration.
-Subscriber: add every 15 or 20 days liquid fertilizer to irrigation water during the period of growth and flowering, taking care not to exceed the nitrogen to avoid an excessive leaf development. Potassium is determinant on the quality of the bloom.
-Aerate the soil.
-When the plant finished blooming, remove leaves by pulling them so that the stem to detach from the tuber.
-Change of pot: is recommended, after bloom change their land, putting them a mixture of peat and fertilised soil so that it is spongy.
-Transplant it is advisable to apply long-lasting fertilizer mixed with the substrate.
Multiplication:
By seeds, but the operation requires a good practice.
For propagation well-developed "potatoes", divide is greater than 5 cm.
Commercial propagation is carried out exclusively by seeds, from mainly specialized houses.

Pest   
-TRIPS: Leaves take a reddish color and have bad appearance because of bites and the numerous black dots, which are the droppings of these insects. They fight with insecticide.
-WHITE FLY.
-MITES: The mite Steneotarsonemus palidus produce deformation of young leaves and buttons of flower, causing them to commit the bloom with its stings. Use acaricides.
-WEEVIL: The Otiorrhynchus rugosostriatus is an escarabajito that bites the leaves around the edges. Adults are dark brown or black and measure 7 long milimitros. Their larvae live in Earth gnawing on roots, as well as the root bulb.
-CRAWLER.