How to grow Huoxue Dan planting methods and matters needing attention

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How to plant Huoxue Dan

Huoxue Dan likes the shady and humid environment and does not have high requirements for soil. Generally speaking, loose and fertile soil with good drainage is more suitable for growth. It prefers a warm and humid climate. The vitality is tenacious and does not need too much pruning.

Planting methods and matters needing attention of Huoxue Dan

1. Soil

Cultivation of Huoxue Dan, in fact, the requirements of the soil is not high, with good drainage, loose, fertile sandy soil is better, keep the soil moist, and add appropriate base fertilizer to make the soil fertile.

2. Light and temperature

Huoxue Dan likes the shady and wet growth environment, the light should be appropriate, during the maintenance period, give half a day or about 40% of the sun will grow exuberantly. Like to be warm, the suitable temperature for growth is 15 ℃-28 ℃, avoid high temperature, and the winter overwintering temperature should not be lower than 5 ℃.

3. Watering and fertilizing

Huoxue Dan likes moist soil and needs watering to keep it moist during maintenance. Fertilization not only needs to apply sufficient base fertilizer when planting, but also needs to be fertilized every one to two months, and topdressing in time after harvest in summer and autumn.

4. Reproduction

The reproduction of Huoxue Dan can be carried out from spring to autumn by means of sowing propagation, cutting propagation, and ramet propagation. Sowing can be self-sowing, but the growth is relatively slow, but the use of cutting propagation, the growth is relatively rapid.

5. Diseases and insect pests

Huoxue Dan disease is less, in its growth period, sometimes snails, slugs to eat stems and leaves, need to be killed in time to eliminate pests.

6. Pruning

In fact, the growth and reproduction of Huoxue Dan is very strong, there is no need for pruning, whether it is a hanging basin or a ground cover plant, its formation is natural.

Breeding methods of Huoxue Dan

1. Ramet

In the spring and autumn season, the branches with adventitious roots will be cut off and cultivated directly.

2. Cuttage

Cuttings are carried out every spring from March to April, when the temperature is above 15 ℃. The stolons are cut off as cuttings, each with three to four nodes, with a length of about 15cm to 20cm. Use the border for cutting, or make your own seedling bed for cutting, cut the cuttings on the prepared soil at a distance of about 10 centimeters from the plant, insert the cuttings into the soil for 2-3 sections, and then cover with a thin layer of soil and irrigate the right amount of water. It can take root and survive about 1 week after cutting.

The reproduction of Huoxue Dan can adopt sowing propagation and stolon cutting propagation. However, because its seeds are very small, it is not easy to collect, and the growth of seedlings is also very slow, so cutting propagation is often used.

What does Huoxue Dan look like?

Stems and leaves are square, thin and twisted, 10-20cm long, 1-2mm in diameter, yellowish green or purplish red, longitudinally angled and pubescent, with adventitious roots on nodes; brittle, easy to break, and often hollow in cross section. Leaves opposite, gray-green or green-brown, wrinkled, flattened and reniform or subcordate, 1-3cm long, 1.5-3cm wide, margin crenate, petiole slender, 4-7cm long. Cymes axillary, Corolla light blue or purple, 2-lipped, as long as 2cm. The smell of rub is fragrant and the taste is slightly bitter. It is better to have many leaves, green color and strong fragrance.

Huoxue Dan is a kind of plant that most people may not know, but it is of great significance to those who know them, so the cultivation of Huoxue Dan is also developing gradually. the technical means of planting are naturally increasing with the accumulation of planting experience.