Tetrastigma Vuana or indoor grapes - a spectacular climbing plant with large leaves. It is suitable for creating green screens, zoning room, as well as for a variety of ampelous compositions.
The undemanding and elegant liana quickly rises on support, does not require painstaking care, easily reproduces. Grapes are perfect for apartments and offices, and even people who have absolutely no skills in indoor floriculture can take care of them.
Appearance and features
Indoor grapes - a beautiful and unpretentious plant, very popular with beginners and experienced growers. Leaves at tetrastigma large, five-lobed, decorated with denticles at the edges. Noteworthy is their original two-tone color. Bottom leaves are reddish-brown, with a slight whitish bloom, and on top dark green, shiny. The flowers of the plant are very expressionless., besides in the conditions of a flat, tetrastigma blooms extremely rarely.
For the successful development of indoor grapes support required. Creepers are attached to it with antennae. As supports, you can use wooden, plastic or metal grating, strained vertically fishing line or rope. In a short period of time vines will braid the proposed surface, turning it into a real green wall.
NOTE to other members of the creeper family: the ideal plant for alpine slides
A photo
In the photo below you can appreciate the appearance of tetrastigma, as well as the shape of the flowers of this indoor grape:
Home care for tetrasigma
Let us consider in more detail how to care for indoor grapes.
Tetrastigma not too demanding to care. She puts up with the coolness in the room, not too nutritious soil, rare transplants. In order for room grapes to develop well, it requires 2 basic conditions: proper watering and sufficient humidity.
IMPORTANT! Place the plant better in a sufficiently lit place. The more light that falls on the leaves, the brighter they become. While burning sun rays are not beneficial to grapes.
In the hottest time of the day vines need to pritenyat. In winter, tetrastigme may require additional lighting.
Indoor grapes calmly brings coolnessbut does not like sudden changes in temperature. It should protect the plant from drafts, cold air flows from the vents in the winter.
Nuances of watering and moisturizing
Tetrastigma likes moist, but not flooded soil. Before watering, you need to make sure that the upper part of the earthen coma has dried out a bit.
You need to water the flower water at room temperature: rainy, otstoyannoy or boiled. It is advisable to pour it on the ground around the plant, not flooding the stem. Possible and watering through the pan.
In summer, the grapes require high humidity, but with the onset of winter cold watering should be reduced. It is desirable to simultaneously reduce the temperature in the room. Having survived the period of winter dormancy, in the spring the plant will intensively increase the deciduous mass.
Indoor grapes does not like dry air. The ideal option for him is to place the pot in a deep pan filled with wet pebbles. For successful plant development household humidifier required or regular spraying leaves from a spray bottle. Dust is removed with a damp cloth, if desired, the leaves can be polished with natural wax in a spray.
Plant transplant
The characteristics of indoor grapes include rapid growth. In dark rooms and small pots, powerful vines do not develop, the leaves shrink and lose their decorative effect. Young plants are transplanted annually.. When tetrastigma grows up, you can put it in a large pot or container, changing only the top layer of soil each year.
Top dressing is carried out 1 time in 2 weeks in a warm season..
Breeding
Like other ampelnye, grapes excellent propagated by cuttings. Propagate the parent plant is better in the spring, after the end of the dormant period.
Cut off a strong process with several leaves, place it in a container of water for rooting.
When the roots appear, the young plant can be moved to a pot with a nourishing, light substrate. Shoots take root quickly for successful development. need a bright diffused light. Take care of support for the young tetrastigma. Top dressing of new plants can be started in a few months.
Benefit and harm
The main advantage of tetrastigma is the rapid development and growth of green mass. Large leaves perfectly purify the air, therefore indoor grapes indispensable in office space. It is believed that it can reduce the harm from the radiation of office equipment: computers, printers, copiers. Thanks to tetrastigma air is purified, oxygenated.
INFORMATION! Harmful effects on the human body is not noticed.
Diseases and pests
In the dry air of the apartments, Tetrastigma Vuanyet lurks pests typical of most leaf-growing plants. These include felts, spider mites and shchitovka. Having noticed drooping sluggish leaves, brown spots or sticky scurf on the petioles, immediately begin the fight against parasites.
Affected leaves are washed with waterAll visible pests are cleaned with a cotton swab. Then the plant must be treated with a solution of insecticide. In the event of a deep defeat, the treatment must be performed twice.
Indoor grapes disease resistant. It is almost not affected by viruses, with respect to temperature and proper watering tetrastigme is not terrible gray mold and black leg.
How to achieve flowering?
In the greenhouses tetrastigma blooms, possibly getting seeds. In the conditions of an apartment or office to achieve flowering is problematic.
For its stimulation, very high humidity, stable temperature conditions (20-22 degrees), very bright light without direct sunlight are required.
Complex phosphorus-based fertilizers, which are applied to the soil 1 time in 2 weeks in liquid form, will help to induce flowering.
Tetrastigma Vouinier is an excellent flower for offices and spacious apartments. Planting it in cramped rooms is not worth it, in small pots without reinforced supports the flower will lose all its decorative effect. With careful care at home, indoor grapes will probably please you with flowering.
