How to grow small potted plants with Chinese wolfberry

Chinese wolfberry is rich in nutrition and can be used to make tea and cook porridge. If the fruit is potted, it is still bright red at the end of autumn, beautiful and elegant. So, how do Chinese wolfberry grow small potted plants?

1. Culture environment

Chinese wolfberry like the sunny environment, indoor potted Chinese wolfberry, can choose a sunny place to maintain, Chinese wolfberry soil requirements are not high, with good drainage calcareous sandy soil is better, avoid clayey and stagnant soil.

2. How to water

Chinese wolfberry watering is appropriate to see dry watering, summer high-temperature dormancy period, plant growth stagnation, most of the leaves fall off, should be controlled watering, Chinese wolfberry drought-resistant and wet do not accumulate water.

3. Fertilization method

Usually, liquid fertilizer based on phosphorus and potassium fertilizer is applied about once a week, rotten base fertilizer is applied in winter, and nitrogen fertilizer is applied 2-3 times in full bloom. When turning the basin every year, sufficient base fertilizer should be applied, and phosphate and potassium fertilizers such as calcium superphosphate should be added as base fertilizer.

4. Bonsai making

Lycium barbarum bonsai modeling is mainly coarse tie, fine cut, tree trunk can be tied into a variety of forms, branches are tied into sheet shape, disk shape. The wire is used for climbing and loosening when the line is trapped. at this time, if the trunk is not fixed, you can climb again. Generally, it can be shaped by climbing for 1 year. Climbing and ligation is often carried out before sprouting or semi-Lignification of budding branches. Pruning is often used to keep the tree shape when forming. When the growth is exuberant, the long branches can be cut off at any time to ensure sufficient buckwheat production. Picking leaves in summer and early autumn, and applying sparse liquid fertilizer containing phosphorus and potassium several times to make flower buds and new leaves grow at the same time, flowering and fruiting accompanied by new leaves are beneficial to ornamental.

5. Methods of reproduction

The propagation of Lycium barbarum is mainly by cutting and ramet, and it is simple and easy. Cutting can be carried out in spring and autumn, choose overgrown strong branches or robust vegetative branches, cut into 12-15 cm long, the upper end is cut into a flat mouth, the base is Malta-shaped, and the general seedling rate can reach 80% more than 90%. The method of plant division usually peels off the root buds and transplants them in early spring, properly watering enough water, the seedling rate is very high, or sowing method can be used, banquet seedlings can blossom and bear fruit in 2 or 3 years.

6. Disease and pest control

The disease of Chinese wolfberry is prone to powdery mildew, which can be sprayed with 1500 times of topiramate, or 50% sulfur powder can be sprayed when the dew is not dry in the morning. Most of the pests are aphids, which can be sprayed with 1000 times of dimethoate.