Mellic pear Pepino: description, features of cultivation and care. Growing Pepino on Gardening Groats and Balcony Seed Method of Reproduction

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Mellic pear, or Pepino, is ancient plantwho came to us from Peru. At the time of Alexander III, Pepino fruits were exhibited at agricultural exhibitions. The culture grew in all palace oranges until 2017. Then they forgot about Pepino, but since the 1980s he began to grow on amateur sites.

Description Pepino.

Melco pear is evergreen shrub Parenin family. Leaves, like pepper or potatoes; Flowers do not differ from potato; A bush first grows slowly like eggplant; It is necessary to care for tomatoes. Only fruit is unique. Depending on the variety, it can be round, cylindrical, heart-shaped, elongated-oval. Skin yellow or orange with purple stripes.

Flowers a melon pear

On the cut Pepino looks like a melon: there are thick fleshy walls (4-5 cm) and a seed camera. Seeds inside very little or no at all. The pulp on the consistency resembles a pear, in surplus fruits it is juicy and melting in the mouth. The taste is also sweet dessert, and simple vegetable, resembling pumpkin, cucumber or zucchini. The aroma is always melon, it is bright or weak.

Almost all Pepino have a rounded shape, narrowing to the versa, painted in different shades of yellow with dark stripes, on the cut look like a melon or pumpkin

Pepino varies with cuttings. They can be discharged online in fans breeders or collectors' collectors. Seeds are sold in ordinary gardeners. If there are no them in your city, then order online, for example, in the store "Gavrish". This company, by the way, brought two varieties of Pepino, zoned for all regions of the Russian Federation: Ramses and Consuelo.

Video: How Consuelo and Ramses grow

Grow a melon pear in a greenhouse, open soil and on the windowsill. Pepino from seeds often do not repeat parental properties. From one bag, you can raise plants that differ in the form of leaves, the size and taste of fruits.

Melonic pears

In total, there are 25 varieties of Pepino in the world. Officially, in Russia there are only two (from "Gavrish") adapted to the climate of the middle strip and even Siberia. In Ukraine and in southern regions Grow 2-3 more.

1. Consuelo without formation is growing with a spreaded bush with a height of more than 1.5 m. Maturation occurs 120 days after disembarking or cutting. The fruits of the heart-shaped shape with a stupid vertex, orange with longitudinal lilac stripes. The flesh is light yellow, taste nice: Sweet with a strong melon aroma. Pepino weight - 420-580

   Pepino Consuelo gives heart-shaped orange fruits

2. Ramses bush looks like Consuelo. Ripening time - 110 days after transplanting seedlings to the garden. Fruit cone shaped with a sharp top, orange. The light yellow pulp taste is sweet, the aroma of a melon, but very weak. Fruit weight - 400-480

   Pepino Ramses conical fruits, tapering to the vertex

3. Gold is also a stronger Pepino. The fruits are yellow with purple strokes, the shape resemble a melon. The mass of each 350-450, and when rationing and step-down - up to 1-1.2 kg. Taste Gold belongs to vegetable varieties. The pulp is well combined in salads with bow, but sometimes sweet copies grow up.

   Gold differs from the rest of the varieties lighter painting and vegetable taste

4. Valencia - dessert variety Pepino. The fruits were elongated, weighing 400 g, inside contain sweet and moderately fragrant flesh. In full ripeness, the skin and flesh have a saturated yellow-orange color.

   The immature fruits of Valencia look like pepper pods

5. The favorite is a variety of amateur selection, with gardens from Ukraine by crossing the Peruvian Pepino with Valencia. Fruits rounded conical shape and yellow color. They are sweeter than Valencia, juicy, with a pleasant melon aroma.

   From above the fruit of the favorite, from below - Valencia

Sowing Pepino Seeds

The seeds of this plant are small, like eggplants, germinate for a long time - about 30 days. Some gardeners managed to get seedlings and after 7 days. The germination is not always high, for example, Ramses - 50%, and Consuelo - 70-80%.

Go to sowing in November-December.

Further care for Pepino, as for tomatoes: Water and once every 10-14 days feed with complex mixtures, for example, a deluxe fertile. If necessary, transplant more to the container. Pepino in the repentance is very unpretentious, they grow slowly, do not stretch. If bloom began on the windowsill, in the mornings sharply shake up bushes for better pollination.

Ground seedling Pepino

Disembarkation and care

Pepino land in a greenhouse or open ground for the same time as tomatoes. Place according to the scheme - 50x50 cm. This culture forms a wound at a temperature not higher than +27 ° C and not lower than +18 ° C. The first fruits are tied in May-June, the second wave falls at the end of August - September. Place of landing depends on the region:

• IN middle lane And Siberia is preferably growing in a greenhouse or in the open soil, at the most sunny plots.
• In the southern regions, where the temperature drops below +30 ° C only by the end of summer or in the fall, Pepino is grown in the open ground, under the opening shadow of trees.

If a melon pear does not have enough light and heat, then its fruits will grow fresh, like a zucchini or cucumber.

Video: Pepino in the south of Ukraine

Pepino care:

• Be sure to tie the stems.
• Form in the open ground in 1 stem, in the greenhouse - in 2-3. Pieces are poorly closed, use the secateur to not damage the stalks.
• Feed once a week complex fertilizers For tomatoes, eggplants and peppers. Optimal n-P-K ratio - 5-10-10 or 0.5-1-1, that is, nitrogen should be half less than potassium and phosphorus.
• If you see that summer is already coming to an end, and there are still many barriers and colors on the bushes that will not have time to turn into edible fruits, then remove them. Leave only the largest Pepino in the clusters.
• Protect from pests: Colorado beetle, floss, ticks, whiteflies.
• Water, not allowing the dryness and stagnation of water, loose and mulch the ground.

It was noted that Consuelo more fruit tows in the spring, and Ramses - both in spring and autumn. The most sweet fruits are fruit from spring pollination.

Harvesting, destination Pepino

Zovazi, formed in the spring and early summer, mature on the bushes to July-August, and the second autumn harvest In the middle lane no longer get. You can collect bulk fruits and just started to be stained. They will divert at home, like tomatoes. Treat the crop of melon pear is careful, the flesh of ripe fruits is presented and in places of damage will spoil.

From Pepino make salads and desserts, jam, jams, compotes are boiled. Safety varieties are added to soups, sauces, meat and fish dishes. Packs of pulp can be marrying, drying, frozen.

Video: Pepino tasts the child

Shining Pepino and saving bushes for next year

For most of Russia, Pepino Fruits do not form seeds. To save planting material Until next year, the bushes fall into the fall of half, dig up with the root, transplanted into the vest or shops and hold in the cellar or basement. The land during storage should occasionally moisten to the roots not dried. At the end of February, the plants contribute to the house, put on a sunny window, water and feed. With the onset of heat, a melon pear move to the garden.

When young shoots will grow on old bushes, excess cut and root. Cuttings Pepino actively give roots even in a glass with water. You can tear the steps and in August with a bush growing on a garden, and in the spring - with seedlings of seeds, which begins to branch up on the windowsill. It is noted that steppes from the top of the bush are more impervious than from the bottom. Pepino grown in the room round year Without a rest period, if there is an opportunity to heal 14-16 hours a day.

Video: Sensing Pepino

What is Pepino - such a question asks, probably, every person when he hears this name. In this article, let's talk about this interesting and also find out the basic principles of landing and care for Pepino on

Pepino - what is this plant

Pepino, better known as a melon pear, - From the family of the Polenic, originally from South America. A great interest in this plant appeared in the 80s of the last century. Today there are 25 varieties Pepino. For our climate, Ramses and Consuelo varieties are derived. Fruit Pepino, or a melon pear looks like a melon or pumpkin, has pretty tasty fruits. Pepino taste reminds a melon with sourness, which the vitamin C contains gives

Did you know? The first mention about Pepino was back in 1553.

Features of growing, conditions for melon pear

Pepino, or a melon pear - very capricious plant, Growing and care for which at home is painstaking work. Pepino is grown from seeds and stalling. Very important in its cultivation is circumcision of unnecessary twigs, if not to do this, then the plant almost does not give fruits. Repeat this procedure is necessary weekly. Plant Pepino (or a melon pear) loves light, the same power supply is suitable for it, which you use when growing eggplants.

Did you know? Pepino consists of 92% of water, which makes it so juicy.

How to choose a place for growing, lighting

For Pepino, it is necessary to choose a well-lit, ventilated place with a low level of humidity, as the plant is seriously tolerated harsh moisture drops. Optimal temperature For the plant during the day, it is about 22 ° C, the temperature above 30 ° C may be adversely affected by Pepino, the night temperature should not be below 18 ° C - the color may fall.

Soil for landing

How to plant Pepino, breeding of a melon pear

Melon pear breed in two ways: from seeds and stalling.But still it is better with cuttings, because not every grade gives full seeds, and grown out of seeds Pepino later fruit.

Growing from seeds

The seeds of the melon pear ride not all, and even in special conditions It is about 50% of Ramses and 80% of Consuelo. Already in November or December, it is possible to germinate seeds - in a flat vessel with a dense cover, a ridden bottom of moisturized filter or toilet paper. Closed container must be constantly stored at a temperature not higher than 28 degrees. Seeds begin to slander a week later and up to a month after the room in the container.

When the seeds drop the peel, Pepino can dive into a pot either a tray with light soil, and also they need a constant backlight. A month later, the backlight is reduced to 16 hours and a month before 14 hours. And only in mid-February, you can go to natural light. Pepino land in the middle of April or early May, in order to avoid frosts. Seedlings are planted into a wet primer at a distance of about 50 cm from each other, sprinkling dry ground, to do it in the afternoon.

Nevertheless, to avoid frosts over the seedlings, the film is tightened, if the film has it possible when the temperature rises, one of the sides of the film can be opened for ventilation.

Shining

A monthly seedlings can already be chopped up with cuttings and rooted them, preferably in not contacted them. For better rooting, you need to take cuttings with 8 leaves. It is noted that pepino cuttings are rooted very well.

How to grow at the cottage, rules of care

It is necessary to care for a melon pear as well as for The most important in the care of Pepino are: Carrying the removal of steps, flavored and getting rid of watering as needed, feeding.

Features of watering plants

Watering a melon pear - moderate, In no case dismissed. To avoid posting and diseases, the greenhouse needs to be tired. To reduce the irrigation and preserving the substrate, the soil is needed by the heavy straw or - it also helps from weeds.

Soil care

Pepino loves light and fruitful soil with small acidity. It is better to plant a melon pear on the ground, where before that they grew the soil after cleaning the soil, we remove weeds, jump and fertilize which was well decomposed,

Garter

To tie and form a bush Pepino needed after a week - two after landing. The stalks are linked above as the plant grows, the fruits to the sleeper are not suggested - they can simply hang them.

Mowing melon pear

You need to feed a melon pear every month. For the first time fed two weeks after landing in the ground, the second time - after the first circumcision of steps, and then every two or three weeks. The plant reacts well to feeding from manure or contain a lot of nitrogen, so we observe the proportion: 1: 6 for manure, 1: 20 - litter.

Important! Unlightened bushes without circumcision under their weight lies on the ground and badly fruit.

Protection against pests and diseases

The mural pear is striking the same diseases and pests that therefore the prevention of diseases is the same. The main pests are

Evergreen shrub Pepino (or a melon pear) come from South America. It was not accidental culture. Her fruits in shape resemble a pear, and to taste similar to the melon. They are perfectly quenched thirst and refresh. Fruit can be equipped with raw, add to salads, dry, freeze, preserve, cook candied or jam.

Mellic pear Pepino.

Many gardeners are asked by Pepino - what kind of plant, which is becoming increasingly distributed in last years? Culture belongs to the family of grated, like or. The plant is a branched durable semi-restless shrub height up to 1.5 meters and a stalk thickness of 5-7 mm. It is perennial, grown in an open or closed soil.

Vints Pepino are collected in inflorescences, like potatoes. Fruits have cream, yellowish or orange colorThe pulp is covered with sovereign with gray strokes, seeds inside small. Fruit sour-sweet taste and very juicy, has a length of up to 17 cm and weight up to 750 grams. In the season from the bush, you can remove up to 7 kg of fruits, and when cultivated in pots - 5 kg. Fruit is nutritious and valuable - rich in carotene, iron, pectin, vitamins, iodine.

Varieties Pepino.

The melon pear has two special varieties that are grown on the territory of our state - Consuello and Ramses. They are known among the gardeners, since 2000, officially entered the State Registry as the most promising. Features of domestic species of a melon pear:

How to grow Pepino?

Exotic Pepino easily cultivate with seeds either cuttings. Although it is a long-term culture, rooted it into the ground accounts for every year, as is done with tomatoes either by pepper. The plant loves the sun and warmly, from landing seedlings to harvest passes 4-5 months. The optimal temperature for the harmonious development of Pepino, growing at home of such a fruit - 18-25 ° C. In the heat over 26 ° C, the fruits may not get involved.

Pepino - Cultivation of seeds

To take to May to receive adult seedlings Pepino from seeds at home, landing starts in November-December. The grains slightly sprinkle with loose soil. To save moisture, seedlings are covered with film. Shoots are glorified after 5-7 days. At this time, the spans need a constant lighting of the lamp. In the phase of 2-3 leaves, the seedlings plant into the cups, deepening to the seedlings and covering the film. Reduce up to 14 hours a day, closer to March it is completely stopped. By the time of the landing in open soil, the sprouts should reach 10 cm in height and form 8 leaves.

Reproduction Pepino Chenkah

Grow and multiply a melon pear the processes of the most reliable. To grow fruit every year yourself, you need to have a dairy bush. A selected healthy plant in the fall in the pigeon and enter the house. Soothes reduce it by a third, watering is reduced, contain a bush at a temperature of + 8 ° C. At the end of winter, the container is installed in the room with the conditions of + 16 ° C, increase watering.

To the question, when smearing Pepino, experienced gardeners Reply - in mid-February. From the overwhelming specimens, the top of the escape with 7 leaves is separated. The lower 2 is removed, the processes are placed in water, after 5-7 days, the roots are molded on them. Then the cuttings are planted in disposable cups With holes for removing water, care for them before the occurrence of landing time in the substrate.

Pepino - care

A mural pear is grown in a greenhouse, open ground either in pots of 5 liters. In a closed greenhouse, planting seedlings are produced in mid-April, this will allow to extend the growing vegetation and get an early harvest. In the closed room, grow a plant easier - there you can adjust the temperature. In the open soil, the sprouts of the melon pear are imprisoned later - in May, while the risk of night frosts becomes minimal. To the question of how to grow Pepino at home, summer residents advise to endure a tub with a bush on a balcony on warm days. Culture needs B. fresh air and sunlight.

How to plant Pepino?

Before planting the sprout, the substrate is better to be treated with a solution of manganese. Pepino - competent landing and care:

• rows are prepared with intervals between them 70 cm;
• fertilizer is made: Compost 4 kg / sq.m;
• seedlings are planted in a checker order so that between the bushes was a gap 50 cm;
• a seedling is moisturized and murdered with dry ground. At the same time, evaporation of moisture decreases, and the conditions for the suggestion of sprouts are improved;
• it is advisable to land at night.

Melon tree Pepino - soil

Bush melon pear feels perfectly in the soil with neutral acidity, well aerated. The soil should be without an excess of nitrogen, which causes strong height of the stem to the detriment of fertility. The best predecessors Pepino at the cottage - onions, cucumber, garlic. After harvesting the old harvest, the Earth pumped, cleared from weeds and the remains of the roots.

In the fall, manure and mineral potash-phosphoric fuses are introduced into it. In the spring, the soil frills again so that moisture remains in it. Melonic murals are held monthly. The primary feeder is made 10-14 days after disembarking, the second - after the fruits get down, then every two weeks. The plant reacts well to the fertilizer of dung (1: 7), or bird litter (1:20).

Pepino on the windowsill - watering

When solving cultivate Pepino at home, it is better to keep it on the southern windowsill, as it is very light-minded. Watering a melon pear in an open or closed room you need moderately - it does not endure the convergence and easily affects the root rot. Moisturize the soil every few days, it is not necessary to allow her drying - at the same time the small roots die away, and the plant throws off the foliage and maritime. Pipino is watered when the earthen comes in a depth of 1 cm. With a sharp drops of air moisture, the fruit can crack.

When Pepino Consuelo blooms?

I am glad to flow a melon pear after 70-85 days after the appearance of germs. The whines on Pepino resemble potato. Numerous flowers are collected in groups, up to 20 pieces each. Petals have white color and lilac stripes. The fruits are tied from the end of March to May. The plant is self-polished, but it is advisable during flowering it gently shake to form fruits. In June, after days become longer and the temperature rises, the ovary is no longer formed.

Asking the question, why does not bloom Pepino, you need to know that this culture is although thermal-loving, but needs a certain microclimate. Optimal conditions For the formation of launching 20-25 degrees. In the greenhouse, create them easier. When cared for a plant in the open soil problems more. Sultry summer at +30 ° C plant does not bloom or sterile whims are formed on it white colorwhich are just creepy. Fruits are tied only on buds with lilac stripes.

If the conditions are suitable, then the exota will delight juicy fruits in September. Since the appearance of flowers, 2,5-3 months passes to the crew of fruits. By this time, they become soft, acquire light yellow or cream painting, very noticeable lilac stripes appear on the skin on the skin. Ripe fruit is easily pressed with fingers, even more than a tomato. Fruits need to be removed from the plants on time - a little unworthy pear easily shakes in the refrigerator, where it can be stored for up to 2 months.

When to start packing Pepino?

Mandatory reception in the cultivation of Pepino Melon (melons) - stepsing and plants. Culture loves very much and forms many processes. Steying are removed if they reach the lengths of 3-5 cm. On the stem, you need to leave small penets (0.5-1 cm), which prevent the appearance of fresh processes in the sinuses of the same leaves. The bush is advised to paesing regularly - every week.

After the plants are planted, it is necessary to fix the supports on the garden (pipes, reinforcement, wooden peasants) with a height of up to 80 cm. As the stalks are rising to the trellis. An unfixed plant without steening under the action of one's own mass turns, steels on the ground, its branches are rooted and actually do not fron. The formation of the bush and the border and the possibility of culture is optimal to use radiant solar energy.

Pepino diseases

1. The main pests are the TLL, the whiteflink, the Colorado Bud. Of chemicals They are applied against them: insecticides (accomplishing, confident, phosby acid) for the destruction of white bumps and tri; Acaricides (carboofos) from the pawite ticks.
2. Agrow a melon pear and hands: springs spoils the "black leg" so that this does not occur, the substrate is pre-impregnated by manganese solution.
3. When the soil is converged, root rotes appear to get rid of the disease you have to disinfect the soil copper vitriol, replace the top layer of soil on fresh, decrease watering.
4. In the second half of the vegetation, the bush can hit the phytoofer. The fight against it is carried out with the help of breast or medicinal phytosporin - irrigated once a week.
5. The plant is subject to an elevated virus of bronze.: Pepino will dry the tips of the leaves, the affected plates are darked and twisted. The virus is not treated, the main method of curbing its reproduction is the removal of affected bushes.

There are no drugs for the fight against diseases and pests for Pepino, for this it applies the same means that help with the protection of tomatoes, eggplants and other grained. In order not to use chemistry, you can make an infusion of tobacco, yarrow, garlic, either onion husks and spray Pepino from the sprayer once a week. Before you send a mile copy to wintering, it also needs to irrigate protective solutions.

Pepino - New culture for our gardens: grows like a tomato; leaves like pepper; Flowers, like potatoes; Seeds look like eggplant seeds I phizalisa; to taste - Melon; Puffed, like a pear, with strawberry aroma. And all this - Pepino.

In the mountainous regions of Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador Beeee thousands of years grown this interesting culture. In the XVIII century Pepino, or as it is also called, a melon pear was brought to Europe, and in the XIX - to Russia. Taste of a melon pear I liked the king. Alexander IIIHe ordered it to spread it according to the greenhouses of Russia. One seed was worth a penny, and the rooted step of the whole one and a half rubles. To compare, we note that for the "treshka" at that time it was possible to buy a cow.

However, at the beginning of this century, the plant disappeared from Russia and European countries, perhaps because moderate belt It rarely gives seeds and is multiplied by only rooted steps, which could cause difficulties. And only in recent years in Israel and Holland began to grow a mural pear in protected and less frequently open soil.

A melon pear refers to the family of the Panlarovy and something similar to his "relatives", borrowing each of the little ones: the leaves - in pepper, flowers - in potatoes, seeds - Eggplant and Physalis, and on the power of the above-ground part and the roots of Pepino, perhaps Compared with eggplant.
The fruits of it first are green, the husky, becomes yellow orange with lilac longitudinal stripes. Strips appeared - it means that our "pear" ripened.

The fruits in biological ripeness are very gentle (spots appear on the blow, the pulp is loading). They are at the same time smell melons and strawberries. The flesh is very juicy, nice, according to the consistency reminds best varieties pears. Pepino, like a nutmeg melon, a thick flesh and a small seed camera, a little seed or not at all. The contents of the seed chamber, as opposed to melon, edible. The dense skin, which needs to be considered, allows for unripe fruits to digest in the refrigerator until the reloading fruit.

The form of fruit is diverse: from ovoid to rounded-flat. Their mass depends on the varieties and conditions of cultivation. In the fruits, many sugars and vitamin C, pectin substances are even greater than in the Fizalis of the strawberry. Pepino is boiled fragrant jam with the addition of lemon juice. In a heated greenhouse, you can get about 6 kg of fruits from the plant.

How to grow Pepino

Pepino - the plant late, until the ripening of fruits passes: - from the shoots 130 150 days, and from the rooting of stepsing - 100-120. The germination of seeds for us is unusual low - 30%. You can sow them to seedlings in late January, but without showering can not do. Seizians are growing extremely slow, but they are not pulled out, like tomato.
Stepsing to multiply Pepino much more convenient and faster. They are easily rooted in peat-sand (1: 1) mixtures.
Plant heat and light-chapter. Agrotechnology seedlings and adult plants are the same as for tomatoes.

On the permanent place 90-120 daily seedlings (multiplied vegetative or seeds) are planted into the unheated film greenhouse (multiplicated vegetative or seeds) as other grain cultures.
One sq.m. placed 6 or 3 plants - depending on the selected method of formation. After placing 6 plants and forming them into one stem, get an earlier harvest, which is important for the districts with a short summer. You can plant 3 plants on sq.m and leave 1-2 step on them (formation in 2-3 stems), but it will delay fruiting.
Important! Pastening Pepino (like tomato) must, otherwise the fruits will be little.

Need a probe To the peg or to the grind, since the stems easily break under the weight of the fruit.
From flowering to ripening fruit approximately 75 days.
During flowering, it is necessary to ventilate (from the heat pepino dumps the buds), and in dry sunny weather - Light tapping stick in a hat for better pollination. In the cold night, flowers and buds fall.

Coloring flowers - indicator of favorable conditions. If the flowers are blue, lilac - the plant develops normally, and if something is wrong, the flowers whites.

The main pests Pepino in the greenhouse - the TLL and the web tick.

A description of two varieties transferred to state variety

Ramses
Received by selecting the varieties growing in Israel. Differs high drought resistance. Beautiful flowers, inflorescences. Large and fragrant. Stem ribbed, green, with purple strokes. The variety is late, large-fashioned. Fruits weighing 250-750 g, egg-shaped with a "nose". Rare pale-lilac strips, sometimes a thin mesh appear on the fruit at the end of ripening. As a rule, in large fruits there are seeds (15-100st.). The taste of fruits is good, rarely with a weak pepper flavor.

Consuelo
A leaving from South America. The main advantage is an excellent taste. It is more rare than Ramses, but also more complicated in culture: poorly tolerates drought, prone to root rot. To get the seeds of this variety in the middle band has not yet succeeded, so vegetative reproduction - The only way to preserve plants. The rootability of steps and the rate of rope of roots is significantly lower than Ramses. Consuelo delicate inhabited leaves, thin purple stems. Fruits weigh 70-100, sometimes up to 650
Bright lilac stripes appear long before ripening, ripened fruit - yellow. Overrexing, the fruits soften so much that they can be drunk through the straw as a cocktail. Fruits collected at the beginning of ripening (a little yellow with bright stripes, sometimes covered with a lilac blush), are able to digest. The form of fruits have from a rounded to an extended-cylindrical. Distinctive feature: Dull top of the fetus.

we grown Pepino in the Moscow region in glazed winter Teplice. Plants grown by sediate from rooted stepsi also grew well in the open ground at the south side of the house.

Of course, Pepino requires skill, diligence, but the plant is an unusual and wonderful taste. Try!

Growing Pepino as indoor culture

Pepino perennial And, like peppers, with good lighting (if the windows come to the south, south-west or southeast) can grow and fruit on the windowsill and balcony. Plant Falls, in winter he needed a rest period - about one and a half months in a cool place (4 ° above zero). Pots are kept in a dry room with minimal watering - only so that the roots do not swam.
In February, transfer to the room, begin to water, and when new shoots and steps will grow (there are a lot of them), such a plant can be used as a sump for cuttings.

N. Gidaspov, breeder,
According to the materials of the journal "Prizardo farming", 1999