How to raise red sandalwood bonsai

Red sandalwood commonly known as lobular sandalwood, its growth rate is slow, 5 years only one year round, to more than 800 years to become wood, hardness for the first wood, known as "imperial wood", can not be compared with ordinary wood. So how to raise red sandalwood bonsai?

1. Lighting management

Many potted plants we like to put in the room or in front of the desk, there is no direct sunlight, for Xiyang plants, just like people who can not eat, will slowly "starve" to death. Red sandalwood potted plants should be placed on a sunny balcony to ensure that the potted plants have enough sunlight.

Second, timely watering

Red sandalwood is a tropical plant, which has a high demand for water and is not resistant to drought, so it should be watered every two or three days. Watering is also skillful, not just a basin of water. Watering can not be carried out at noon when the sun is the most poisonous, this can easily lead to high-temperature moisture evaporation of plants, more times will lead to plant withering and death. When watering, you should water thoroughly, not just wet the soil surface.

III. Rational fertilization

The parasitic root nodule of red sandalwood itself has the effect of nitrogen fixation, so there is no need to apply fertilizer frequently. Drop the plant nutrient solution into the water for one or two months and pour it on the soil. Pot fertilization should not forget to bury the nutrient soil in the soil, especially when the plant growth has been stable, the root system goes deep into the soil, a large area of moving soil will hurt the plant root system, and burying a large amount of nutrient soil may burn the root because the soil is too fertile, resulting in plant root damage.

Fourth, fixed placement

Red sandalwood bonsai itself also has the ability to adapt to the environment, when red sandalwood bonsai accustomed to an environment, do not often move it, so as not to increase the growth burden of red sandalwood.

V. Pest control

Red sandalwood bonsai seedlings and young trees are easy to get anthracnose and nevoid disease (leaves turn black after discoloration), which can be controlled with 100 Bordeaux solution or 1000-fold solution of carbendazim, and trichlorfon can be used to control leaf-eating pests such as golden flower insects and beetles.

The understanding and use of red sandalwood in ancient China began at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Cui Bao's Notes on Ancient and Modern Times in the Jin Dynasty were recorded as "red sandalwood, out of Funan, purple, also known as red sandalwood."