How to raise Purple Leaf Bamboo

Purple leaf bamboo generally refers to purple leaf hanging bamboo plum, is an evergreen herbaceous foliage flowers, multiple times as potted culture. How do you raise it?

How to raise purple leaf bamboo?

1. breeding

Purple leaf bamboo can be propagated by cutting. First cut off some good branches, then trim the cut branches again, and select the five-centimeter-long terminal bud as a cutting and put it aside for later use. When planting, prepare a small stick in the pot soil socket, and then insert the cuttings from the middle to the surrounding, insert a hole to plant the cuttings of the pruned branches.

2. soil

Purple leaf bamboo grows well in fertile loose soil, so it is suitable to choose the mixture of moldy leaf soil, garden soil and river sand 40% and 20% respectively.

3. illumination

Purple leaf bamboo afraid of direct sunlight, need to be placed in the shade of maintenance, or give it shade 70%, placed indoors as far as possible in bright places.

4. temperature

The optimum temperature for growth is 18-30℃, avoid cold frost, overwinter temperature is above 10℃, temperature below 4℃ enters dormant state, temperature close to 0℃ will die due to frostbite.

5. water and fertilizer

Purple leaf bamboo does not dry do not water, water is poured through water can be. Fertilization should choose decomposed organic fertilizer or nutrient solution, February-March fertilization once can be. During this period, fertilization can be increased appropriately according to the growth of purple leaf bamboo.