Deuterocohnia

How to grow Deuterocohnia growing condition and care:

Well drained soil, better frost free and can survive light frost, prefer more than (15C 59F), let it dry between watering, better to use purified water or rain water, prefer to grow on rocks and humidity.

How to care:
Fertilizer once a year and fertilize the plant in spray and in cold winter better not to put fertilizers in autumn and winter

What is the best way to start growing?
Plant / Seeds / Vegetative Reproduction

Is it necessary to graft or use vegetative reproduction?
Yes if you want to choose the color

Difficulties or problems when growing:
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Planting season:
All year in tropic, in other climate spring

Pests and diseases:
Aphids

Pruning season:
All year in hardiness zone 11b+, spring to summer in hardiness zone 10a, spring to autumn hardiness zone 10b-11a

How to prune:
Dead leaves and plants

Size of the plant:
5-35 cm, 2-16 inches

Growth speed in optimal condition:
Slow growing

Water requirement:
Small amount of water to average amount of water with good drainage and the plant drought tolerant but need humidity

Light conditions in optimal condition for growing:
Full sun / Half shade / Full shade

Is it possible to grow indoor as houseplant?
Yes, mostly outside of the tropical it is easier to grow it as houseplants because it’s better to grow, no winds enough humidity and it’s easy to give the plant what it need, outside the soil in pot like in a nature that mostly its epiphyte

How to grow and care indoors
Choose location with enough light and even with little sun, need to be aware that the plant need to be far away from ventilators, heater and air conditions, possible to grow it in the bathroom, be aware to that because of the high humidity need to use less water.

Growing is also possible in a planter /flowerpot / containers:
Yes, because it’s easy to maintain in container or even on cork disconnect from the soil, if you choose to grow on cork or bark as need to keep with higher humidity and moist on the roots, better to cover it with a bark or something that will keep the moist in the roots

Blooming information

Bloom season:
Winter

General information about the flower
Cone shape flower grow in clusters on stems, color can be: green, yellow, orange or purple

How to grow Deuterocohnia from seeds

Sowing requirement:
Better to use fresh seeds, use peat moss (sphagnum soil), high humidity, light moist soil, 25-30C (77-86F) in the day and colder in the night, a lot of light

Saving and care seeds until sowing:
Dry and dark location

Sowing season:
End of spring to early autumn

How to plant:
Put the seeds in sphagnum soil and keep it moist

Planting spacing:
3*2cm (1.5*1 inch)

Depth of Sowing:
On the soil

Conditions for seeds germinate:
Moist soil with high humidity

Watering requires for Seeds:
Small amount of water (do not over water

Germination time:
1-2 month

Condition of seedling:
The same as fully mature plant and need to transplant them to location without algae

Scientific name:

Deuterocohnia

Alternative names: Abromeitiella