Homemade jacaranda

The exotic Jacaranda plant can also grow on your windowsill in your apartment or house. Are you afraid to screw up with care, because the plant is unconventional for indoor? Now you don't have to worry, we will help you understand the simple rules of caring for an unusual plant, as well as tell you about the most famous types of Jacaranda.

Jacaranda tree: plant description

The Jacaranda plant belongs to the Bignonium family. It includes approximately fifty plant species. Sometimes you can find how jacaranda is called jaccaranda. It grows wild in South America.

The Jacaranda tree lives for many years, so it can be safely called perennial. It grows both as a tree and as a shrub. The leaves are feathery, the inflorescences resemble panicles in appearance, the flowers are blue or purple.

Jacaranda in the form of a tree is prized for its wood, while other species (including trees) are prized for their beautiful appearance. If you want to grow a plant at home, it is worth considering that you need to purchase a young jacaranda.

The Jacaranda plant is photophilous, therefore it is necessary to provide it with a sufficient amount of sunlight or artificial light. It is recommended to place the jacaranda on the windowsill near the largest window, preferably on the west or east side, as on the south side, direct sunlight can cause serious damage to the plant. True, experienced gardeners and summer residents recommend leaving the plant for several hours a day in direct sunlight, as this increases its resistance to their perception.

Jacaranda: home care

Try to graft the newly acquired Jacaranda to direct sunlight as smoothly as possible so as not to cause severe harm to it. With the wrong approach, the plant will get burns. In case of prolonged rainy or cloudy weather, it is also worth carefully grafting the plant to bright light so as not to injure. In order for the crown of the plant to be spreading in different directions, it is worth constantly changing the part of the plant that is in the light. In the absence of such actions, the plant will be strongly curved to one side.

Jacaranda is a plant that loves warmth. Make sure that the temperature in the room from March to October is at least twenty-two to twenty-four degrees. In the cold season, the temperature should be reduced to nineteen degrees, but not below fifteen degrees.

Watering your homemade Jacaranda should be regular and moderate. In order not to be mistaken with the watering time, you should touch the top layer of the soil, if it is dry - water it, if not - do not write off and wait. In the process of changing leaves, namely from December to March, watering should be reduced, but not completely dry out the soil. Remember that you can water only with gentle, clean, warm and settled water.

Make sure that the humidity level is above normal. Add expanded clay and water to a special tray of a flower pot. Use a spray bottle with warm and lukewarm water daily.

In the warm season, fertilize the soil twice every thirty days. Purchase a mineral complex fertilizer in advance. In the winter season and at the time of dropping the foliage, it is prohibited to use top dressing.

From December to March, the plant has the peculiarity of shedding leaves. This process cannot be influenced, since it is absolutely normal for Jacaranda. After it, the leaves will again begin to decorate the plant. Unfortunately, at a more adult age, the plant becomes less attractive than it was at a young age.

From March to May, the Jacaranda tree needs to remove damaged branches and cauterize the shoots. This is due to the fact that crown formation is a very important part of plant care. This improves the appearance of the jacaranda. Every year the foliage becomes less and less, as the plant has the ability to grow quickly.

Homemade Jacaranda transplant

Usually the plant is transplanted from March to May, but after increasing the roots so that it becomes cramped for them in the original container. If you decide to prepare a mixture for the soil with your own hands, you will need humus soil, turf soil, peat, sand (proportions one to two to one to one).

If you don't want to waste your energy and time, just purchase a potting soil mix from the market. It should include: peat, humus, leafy earth, sand, turf soil (proportions two to two to four to two to one). It is necessary to prepare drainage at the bottom of the container.

Reproduction of Jacaranda: seeds and cuttings

It is necessary to plant Jacaranda seeds from March to May. Put the seeds in damp gauze for a day, then place them in the soil a centimeter deep and moisten it. To hatch the first shoots after fourteen to twenty days, keep the temperature at around twenty-two to twenty-four degrees. When the first shoots appear, it is recommended to move the container to a place with sufficient sunlight or artificial light.

When the seedlings grow up, we dive them into personal containers up to seven centimeters wide. Purchase or make your own soil mixture, which should include peat, turf soil, humus earth, sand (proportions one to two to one to one). From the follow-up process of transplanting, keep in mind that the capacity must be increased (starting from a diameter of nine centimeters, then from eleven centimeters), as the plant also grows.

Jacaranda cuttings are usually propagated from late spring to mid-summer.

Various diseases and parasites of Jacaranda

The most widespread and common are: "scabbard", "spider mite".
Do not worry when the room Jacaranda tree begins to shed its leaves, this is an absolutely natural process. In the cold season, castings fall off, and in the warm season they appear.

Famous Jacaranda species: mimosoliferous and fluffy

• Jacaranda mimosoliferous, or "Jacaranda mimosifolia". Also known as Jacaranda ovalifolia. It can be found in the wild near the water in Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina. Prefers soddy soils. It grows very high in the wild, but in cultivated form only up to three meters in height. Jacaranda mimosoliferous table is not branched, grows straight. The leaves are not very close to each other, this allows for a more lush crown. The leaves are large, the petioles are medium in size, with the age of the tree, they look more and more down. The shape of the inflorescence can be compared to a mimosoliferous Jacaranda with a panicle, the flowers are medium-sized (five centimeters long, four centimeters wide), a shade of light blue with snow-white specks.
• Jacaranda fluffy, or "Jacaranda tomentosa". Also known as jasmine jacaranda or Jacaranda jasminoides. In the wild version, it is possible to meet fluffy Jacaranda in South America. Reaches up to fourteen meters up in the wild. The leaves are shaped like an egg, the shade of the inflorescences is purple. If you want to grow - buy young plants.

Homemade jacaranda: photo