How to sow fragrant snowballs

Fragrant snowball, also known as small white flowers, flowers in full bloom, looks like a white ocean. Breeding fragrant snowballs requires a certain amount of patience and carefulness in order to make it beautiful. Fragrant snowball creeping growth is very fast, often through cutting or sowing way to reproduce, fragrant snowball sowing reproduction and what points for attention?

How to sow fragrant snowballs

1. Time of sowing

Because fragrant snowballs are afraid of heat in the growing period, and the most suitable temperature for sowing is 15 ℃-20 ℃, autumn sowing is usually carried out after the middle and last ten days of September.

2. Preparation for sowing

The matrix can use nutritious soil or river sand, peat soil, etc., before sowing to disinfect the substrate, the best way is to put it into the pot to stir-fry hot, to inhibit the production of diseases and insect pests.

To accelerate the germination of the seeds, soak the seeds in warm hot water for 12-24 hours until the seeds absorb water and expand.

3. The steps of sowing

For small seeds that are difficult to pick up with hands or other tools, wet one end of the toothpick with water, put one seed on the surface of the matrix, and then cover the matrix, about 1 cm thick, slightly suppressed.

Then put the seeded flowerpot into the water, the depth of the water is 1-2-2-3 of the height of the flowerpot, let the water soak up slowly. Fragrant snowballs germinate at an appropriate temperature of 20 ℃, usually emerge in 5-10 days, and can be planted in pots when 3-4 true leaves are planted.

4. Management after sowing

After sowing in autumn, if you encounter a cold wave and low temperature, you can wrap the flowerpot with plastic film, which is conducive to heat preservation and moisturization.

After the seedlings are unearthed, uncover the film in time, and let the seedlings be exposed to the sun before 09:30 in the morning or after 03:30 in the afternoon, otherwise the seedlings will grow very weakly.

After most of the seeds come out, they need proper seedlings, and the diseased and unhealthy seedlings should be pulled out so that the remaining seedlings have a certain amount of space between each other. When most of the seedlings have three or more leaves, they can be transplanted into the pot.

Propagation method of fragrant snowball

The propagation method of fragrant snowball can be propagated by seeds or cuttings, but it is generally propagated with seeds. In the north, it is mostly sown in spring and sowed in March in the greenhouse. Fragrant snowball seeds germinate faster and emerge neatly than ordinary flower seeds, and the optimum temperature for germination is 20 ℃. They emerge in about 5 days, plant in pots when they have 3-4 true leaves, and blossom in June.

When it is hot in summer, it grows poorly and blossoms rarely. At this time, it is necessary to cut off the flowers that have already opened, strengthen the management of fertilizer and water, and bloom again in autumn. Most of the plants in North China and South China are sown in autumn, overwintering in cold bed protected areas, potting or planting in March of the following year, and flowering in April.

What are the maintenance tips of Xiang Snowball?

1. Temperature

Xiangxueqiu is not very strict on winter temperature, as long as it can survive the winter safely without frost, it dies when the temperature is more than 30 ℃ in late spring and early summer, and the most suitable growth temperature is 15-25 ℃. In late autumn, winter and early spring, because the temperature is not very high, it is necessary to give it direct sunlight to facilitate its photosynthesis and the formation of flower buds, flowering and fruiting. If you encounter hot weather in summer, you need to shield it from about 50% of the sun.

2. Fertilizer and water

Like other grass flowers, Xiangxueqiu has more requirements for fertilizer and water, but it is most afraid of random fertilization, concentrated fertilizer and partial application of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, and it is required to follow the frequent application of light fertilizer, less and more times, complete nutrition and inter-dry wet, dry thoroughly, not dry and watered. The two principles of fertilization (water) should be watered thoroughly, and leaves and flowers should be kept dry at night after fertilization.

3. Pick the heart

Xiang Snowball usually picks the heart twice before flowering to promote the germination of more flowering branches. One to two weeks after potting, or when the seedling is 6-10 cm tall and has more than six leaves, remove the top tip and retain the lower 3-4 leaves to promote branching. After the first coring for 3-5 weeks, or when the lateral branch grows to 6-8 cm long, the second coring is performed, that is, the top tip of the lateral branch is removed and the 4 leaves under the lateral branch are retained.

Brief introduction of Xiang Snow Ball

1. Alias

Fragrant snowball is also called courtyard mustard, small white flower and jade butterfly ball.

2. Place of origin

The origin is along the Mediterranean coast. China's Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Xinjiang and other provincial parks and flower beds are cultivated for viewing.

3. Morphological characteristics.

Leaf blade striate or lanceolate, narrowing at both ends, entire. Inflorescences corymbose, fruiting extremely elongated, petals lavender or white, oblong.

1 seed per locule, hanging from the top of the locule, oblong, about 1.5 mm long, reddish brown, glued in case of water

Sticky matter. The flowering period is from March to April in greenhouse and from June to July in open field.

Cutting is a common way of plant reproduction, and the survival rate is also very high, but it is not difficult to sow and reproduce fragrant snowballs. I hope it will be helpful to you. If you want to grow your own fragrant snowballs, you still have to take good care of them.