Culture methods of Pepper Grass

Pepper grass, the scientific name Douban green, also known as watercress, belongs to a kind of tufted herbal medicine. Very suitable for small potted plants, many people will raise a pot at home, used to prevent radiation, to formaldehyde. How should pepper grass be raised? What are the main points to pay attention to?

Pepper grass likes a warm, humid and semi-shady environment, which is more resistant to drought, high temperature and cold, and has higher requirements for air humidity. It is generally born on wet stones or dead trees. It is native to Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, southern Gansu and southern Xizang, and is also distributed in America, Oceania, Africa and tropical and subtropical Asia.

Douban green is very suitable as a small potted plant, has a certain purification effect on formaldehyde, xylene and other harmful substances to the human body, and is the best anti-radiation plant. Its variety is also very varied, the common cultivation varieties are watermelon pepper grass, wrinkled pepper grass, round leaf pepper grass, Qin leaf pepper grass and other series varieties.

In the cultivation of pepper grass, the details that should be paid attention to are mainly light temperature and watering, which can be raised very well as long as a little attention is paid to it. Here is a brief introduction.

1. The suitable growth temperature of pepper grass is 20: 30 ℃, and the overwintering temperature should be kept above 10 ℃, otherwise the plant will stop growing, and the lowest temperature should not be lower than 5 ℃, otherwise it is easy to freeze.

two。 Because pepper grass likes shade, we should pay attention to shading in spring, summer and autumn. In winter, we can put it in a sunny place and receive scattered light.

The growing period from 3.5 to September should be watered, and the leaves should be sprayed or drenched when the weather is hot, so as to maintain high air humidity and clear leaf patterns and emerald green leaf color. Watering should be reduced in winter to avoid stagnant water causing rotten roots.

4. Pepper grass does not have high requirements for fertilizer and soil, so you can apply fertilizer once a month until overwintering. Loose, fertile and well drained soil is the best soil, which can be prepared by mixing river sand, mud fabric and rotten leaf soil.

The above is the pepper grass in the breeding process need to pay attention to, the vitality of flowers and plants are very strong, but also very fragile, in breeding, we must be patient and careful.