Caring for a perennial plant with juicy velvety leaves and equally velvety bell-shaped flowers, it must be admitted, is not at all easy.
However, experienced gardeners know one trick that helps to cope with the capricious gloxinia and make it bloom with a lush cap.
According to them, the first thing to do when the flower awakens is to cut or break off excess shoots.
You only need to leave one of them, the maximum number is two shoots.
In the same case, if you decide to leave all the sprouts, you will end up admiring a lush green mass.
Flowering in this situation will be sporadic - here and there you will only be able to see 1-2 buds.
You should start the procedure immediately after the pot has been removed from storage.
If the gloxinias were stored according to all the rules, the soil in the pots will be dried out, which means that the risk of fungal microflora spreading through fresh cuts is reduced to zero.
As a precaution, some plant growers treat the cut sites with brilliant green.
Watering can be done a day after you get rid of the extra shoots.
