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Calanthe (lat. Calanthe) Is a flowering orchid belonging to the Orchid family.
Description
Kalanta is a flowering plant, the genus of which has about one hundred and fifty species of orchids. All calantes are usually divided into two independent groups: deciduous or evergreen. Spectacular deciduous varieties are endowed with rather large conical pseudobulbs, and evergreen specimens cannot boast of the presence of pseudobulbs.
Where grows
Under natural conditions, Calanta is most often found in the Australian, African, Madagascar, Asian and South American tropics.
Usage
Most often, kalanta is grown indoors or in greenhouse conditions, as well as in winter gardens.
Growing and caring
The best place for placing calantes will be the east or west windows. And in the event that the summer turned out to be especially hot, it can be taken out into the garden, however, in this case it is important to provide it with proper shading from the midday sun - despite the fact that the calante is characterized by photophilousness, it is is extremely negative. The land in which it is planned to plant the calanta should ideally contain bark, sand, sphagnum and peat.
The air humidity in the room containing the calant should not fall below sixty percent. In general, the higher its humidity, the better this beauty will feel. Systematic spraying will not interfere with calante.
As for the most optimal temperature regime, during the summer period, daytime temperatures should be in the range from twenty-three to twenty-eight degrees, and at night the thermometer should not drop below seventeen degrees. In winter, daytime temperatures can range from sixteen to eighteen degrees, and nighttime temperatures can range from fourteen to eighteen degrees.
Summer watering of kalents should be abundant enough, and as soon as a beautiful plant enters a dormant period, starting to shed leaves and completely losing roots, watering completely stops - they can be resumed only after the roots of young shoots start growing again. Ideally, the kalanta is watered with rainwater or well-settled water.
Calante and top dressing are necessary - they are given twice a month in any seasons, with the exception of winter and autumn.
Deciduous varieties should be replanted annually, as soon as flowering is complete. All daughter pseudobulbs are carefully separated from the mother ones, after which all roots are cut off from them (only small tips are allowed, the length of which does not exceed two to three centimeters), and these pseudobulbs are immediately planted in the prepared soil. In one pot, you can safely plant from two to four well-ripened pseudobulbs. As for the transplanting of calantes, in which the leaves last for more than one season, and their roots do not die off annually, then it is carried out once every two or three years.
During the flowering of calante, in no case should you try to change its location. Do not spray it during this period. And in order to extend the flowering period to the maximum, it is necessary to promptly eliminate those flowers that have already faded.
Evergreen calantes, whose leaves are capable of living for more than one season, reproduce by dividing the bushes, and deciduous calantes reproduce by means of old pseudobulbs, which are carefully separated and immediately planted in new containers.
Sometimes aphids can attack kalanta, and this fact, too, should never be discounted!
