How to raise the unicorn cactus

The unicorn cactus is a cactus shaped like a chicken crown or a flat fan, which can purify the air. It is very suitable for potted plants and is placed in the living room or office. How to raise the unicorn cactus?

1. Lighting requirements

Qilin palm happy light, after leaving the house in early May, first put under the shade shed for 7 to 10 days, and then put in a sunny place for maintenance. Lack of light can easily cause abnormal stems to grow and become columnar stems. Especially in the growing season to ensure adequate light, must not stay indoors for a long time to watch. Although dormant in winter, the plant also needs to carry out photosynthesis to maintain basic life activities, so it should also be placed in a sunny place, otherwise it will make the leaves yellow and fall off. Summer and autumn is the peak growing season for unicorn palms. It likes the sun, but avoids exposure. If it is cultivated outdoors, it can be shaded by bamboo curtains.

2. Moisture requirements

The palm of the unicorn is more drought-tolerant and is usually watered on the principle that it would rather be dry than wet. When the basin soil is dry and hard and white, knock on the basin wall to hear the crisp sound of pouring water. Watering in winter is less than usual. In rooms with room temperature of 15 ℃ to 18 ℃, permeable water can be watered every 10 days or so. Too much watering is not only prone to atavism, but also lead to root asphyxiation.

3. Fertilizer requirements

Qilin palm does not like fertilizer very much, and the principle of fertilizer supply is that it is better to have less than more, and to be light rather than strong. The basin soil can be mixed with rotten leaf soil, coal cinder and garden soil, and less crushed solid fertilizer can be used as base fertilizer. About 15% fully mature alum fertilizer is applied once a month during the growing season. When fertilizing, avoid raw fertilizer, thick fertilizer, otherwise it is easy to cause rotten roots and fallen leaves. The fertilizer can be stopped when dormant in winter, and then gradually return to the normal level of fertilizer supply when it begins to grow in the next spring.

4. Temperature requirement

The palm of a unicorn is not resistant to cold. Generally speaking, you should enter the room before Frosts Descent's first cold spell in the future. At the beginning, we should pay attention to indoor ventilation and let it gradually adapt to the indoor microclimate. Even if it is warm in winter, you can't move outside to bask in the sun. If the room temperature can be kept above 15 ℃ in winter, the leaves will not fall; if the leaves have fallen, as long as the temperature is above 7 ℃, they can survive the winter safely. The leaves can be spread again in May of the following spring.