What kind of plant is plain sailing? When will it split?

What plant is smooth sailing? In fact, smooth sailing refers to the white palm we often say, we call it smooth sailing mainly because white palm has a white bract like a sail, it can also filter indoor exhaust gas experts, dealing with ammonia, acetone, benzene and formaldehyde have certain effects, the early 20th century began to be applied to potted plant viewing. So smooth sailing, when do you split?

Smooth sailing can be propagated by dividing plants and sowing seeds. Healthy plants can be divided once every two years or so, usually in spring or after autumn. It is easy to divide plants. Generally speaking, it can be divided around May of each year. Of course, other months can also be used, but it is best to avoid the cold or hot season.

Plant division method:

First lift the whole plant from the pot (cut off water 2 days in advance, so that the pot soil is not sticky), carefully remove the pot soil, in order to be safe, if it does not affect the split plant, you can try to keep some soil planted on the root, so as to avoid wilting after re-potting.

Cut the rhizome from the base of the plant cluster, each cluster has at least one leaf, after planting, put enough water and then put it in the shade to recover, do not put it in the sun, do not fertilize. What needs to be noted here is that it should be cut with a stem, and then coated with charcoal ash on the wound to prevent decay. After its root system returns to normal, it enters normal management.

Tips:

Smooth maintenance must pay attention to good temperature and soil management, smooth sailing likes high temperature, especially afraid of cold, the most suitable growth temperature is 20-28℃, once it is put indoors in winter, it can withstand the lowest temperature of 10 degrees, so in winter time should pay attention to, so relatively speaking, the northern breeding conditions are too poor, smooth sailing long-term placed in low temperature, will cause root rot, leaves fall off or scorched yellow, serious and even lead to death.

Plain potted soil requirements loose, drainage and good ventilation, can not be used heavy clay soil, generally available decaying soil, peat soil mixed with a small amount of pearlite prepared into a matrix, planting with a small amount of organic fertilizer as base fertilizer.