How to grow bergamot planting methods and matters needing attention

Bergamot is relatively rare in our life, because bergamot belongs to tropical or subtropical plants and generally likes to grow in a sunny and warm and humid environment. The shape of bergamot is like the shape of a palm. It is deeply loved by everyone because of its unique shape and style. Let's go with the editor to learn the planting techniques of bergamot.

How to grow bergamot

Promote the vegetative growth of seedlings and make them grow up as soon as possible. When changing the basin in the spring of the second and third years, cake fertilizer, hoof slices and bone meal were applied as base fertilizer, and once at the same time.

Bergamot likes acidic soil, and the pH value should be kept at 5.3; the ratio of basin soil is 60% of humus soil, 30% of river sand, 10% of peat soil or furnace ash. Thin fertilizer and water can be applied every ten days and a half month. The water is big and the root is easy to rot, so we should try the method of moisture watering. The surface of the basin soil is not dry and not watered at a time, so it is the case all year round.

The most suitable humidity for bergamot is 70%, 90%. For this reason, you should spray water to the leaves 1-2 times a day in the dry season, or you can sprinkle water to the ground to increase air humidity. The suitable growing temperature of bergamot is 15-30 ℃. Move to a cool, ventilated and shady place in hot season, and keep out cold when the temperature is below 5 ℃.

It is not easy for bergamot to set fruit, so it is necessary to use various ways to promote it. Organic fertilizer should be applied in bud, before and after flowering, and thin organic liquid fertilizer should be applied once a week. Then thinning buds, abnormal buds, sick weak buds must be broken, can not leave too many buds, can only stay near the top of the branch growing the best two or three buds, can not ask to set too much fruit.

Bergamot is prone to yellow leaf disease and leaf shedding, which can be irrigated with 1% ferrous sulfate solution. If the rotten root should be turned over immediately, the plant should be removed from the basin to wash the root, get rid of the rotten root, and be planted in sterilized plain sandy soil for maintenance so as to gradually restore its vitality.

Planting methods and matters needing attention of bergamot

1. Planting methods:

1. Temperature and light

The best growth temperature of bergamot is about 22-24 ℃, as long as the temperature is above 5 ℃, it can survive the winter safely. It is best to ensure that the annual sunshine hours of bergamot is between 1200 and 1800 hours.

2. Watering conditions

The humidity of bergamot is generally 70% to 90%. The root system of bergamot is shallow and needs to be watered frequently. The high temperature period in summer is the prosperous growth period of bergamot, which requires a lot of water, so it should be watered sooner or later, and spray water is used to improve the humidity of the surrounding air. After the beginning of autumn, the amount of water gradually decreased. The temperature in late winter and early spring is relatively low, due to slow indoor evaporation, watering should not be too frequent, generally can be watered every three or five days to keep the basin soil moist. In the initial stage of bergamot blooming and fruiting, watering should not be too much to prevent a large number of flowers and fruits.

3. Fertilizer status

Spring is the time for bergamot to produce new shoots, and fertilization should be light at this time. It is best to apply nitrogen fertilizer thinly once a week combined with watering. The summer bergamot flower multiplication fruit stilbene, needs the fertilizer quantity to be big, the fat degree should be thickened. In early autumn, phosphorus, potassium and calcium compound fertilizer should be applied, which is beneficial to improve the fruit setting rate. After picking the fruit, we should apply phosphorus and potassium fertilizer in time to supplement nutrition to the plant in order to restore growth and lay a good foundation for flowering and fruiting in the second year.

4. Soil

Choose to grow in acid loam with loose and fertile soil and good drainage.

II. Points for attention

The main diseases and insect pests of bergamot are leaf moth, red spider, rust wall lice, scale insect, anthrax and so on. It is necessary to take "prevention first and comprehensive control". Once diseases and insect pests occur, corresponding measures should be taken in time to adjust daily maintenance measures and carry out chemical control.

Generally, the basin should be changed once in 2 ~ 3 years, which can be carried out in February-March or September-October, and new nutrient soil can be added at the same time. While changing the basin, you can also trim the bergamot appropriately. After changing the basin, put it in the semi-shade to maintain for a period of time, and then return to normal maintenance.

How to trim bergamot

Reasonable pruning contributes to the growth, development, flowering and fruiting of bergamot.

In principle, bergamot pruning should cut off overdense cross branches, overlap branches, and cut off diseased, weak and withered branches. Pruning is best combined with changing pots. The pruning of bergamot generally achieves the requirements of uniform branches, reasonable distribution, ventilation and light transmission.

How to propagate bergamot by grafting

Generally carried out in August and early September, for the selection of rootstocks, it is best to choose 4-5-year-old plants with strong growth, and the stem diameter can reach 2-3 cm. Cut off some of the branches under the branches at the base of the stem, keep only one, and then cut off some of the cortex downwards, and then choose the annual branches in spring and autumn as scions, with a length of about 5-7 cm, roughly the same thickness as the rootstock, also cut off the following part of the cortex, and then close the section of the rootstock with the scion section, and bind the middle with a plastic film, which can be healed in about a week. Then the rootstock above the interface can be cut off.

Bergamot has a strange shape, golden yellow, with high ornamental value and high medicinal value at the same time! Its roots, leaves, flowers and fruits can be used as medicine, it can be said that the whole body is covered with treasures! Friends you like, don't wait any longer, plant it quickly!