The breeding methods and breeding points of succulent progeny balls are explained in detail!

Progeny ball is a short flat ball-shaped cactus, a kind of succulent, because the base of its sphere is very easy to divide the ball, often forming large mass plants, the following introduces the main points of the breeding method of succulent ball for your reference.

First, the growth habits of progeny balls.

The descendants have many cones, which come out from the middle and lower part of the bulb, funnel-shaped and bright red.

Children and grandchildren have a strong ball and strong ability to adapt. Sexual preference for ventilation, sunny environment, not resistant to direct light, requires well-drained calcareous soil.

Orange-red descendants of Bolivia, like warm, dry and sunny environment, not cold-resistant, avoid wet water, drought and semi-shade. The suitable temperature for growth is 20 to 25 degrees, and sufficient sunshine is required during the growing period.

Second, the reproduction method of progeny ball.

It is relatively easy for progeny ball reproduction to use sowing, dividing plants and cutting propagation.

1. Sowing seeds

The sphere blossoms from the base in spring and summer, opens during the day and closes toward twilight, which can last for several days. The berries should be harvested and washed off in time after ripening, and the black seeds should be dried and collected in the sun. Sowing can be carried out from late April to early May. When sowing, the weather is sunny, the temperature difference between day and night is big, not only seedling emergence is fast, but also seedling growth is faster.

Sowing soil can be taken from pure river sand, plain sand, pure rotten leaf soil and so on. Pure sand is easy to disinfect, but its water retention is poor, so it must be transplanted immediately after emergence. The soil should be strictly disinfected, and the soil can be equipped with a basin, and then steamed with a steamer for 1 hour.

The sowing basin should use a light purple sand basin or glaze basin, preferably not a wooden basin. The basin and the drainage of the basin bottom should be washed and dried before use. 3 days before sowing, soak the seeds in 0.3% copper sulfate solution or 1% formalin solution for 5 minutes, then soak them in clean water, and then sow the seeds after slightly expanding.

Families can also use medical alcohol for disinfection, but the disinfection time should be short. After soaking the seeds, the seeds must be taken out as soon as possible to let the alcohol volatilize. Then sow the seeds immediately. You can use fine sand to mix and sow, flatten the soil gently after sowing, cover it with glass after soaking, and place the basin in a warm and hidden place. after the seeds begin to emerge, you must control the light and move the seedling basin to a shaded room. The sowing seedlings can blossom after 1-2 years of culture.

2. Cuttage

When the ball is big enough, we can break off the exposed cub with hands or tools, put it in a cool place to dry, and dry it for a week after May.

Cutting soil, three portions of red jade soil, coarse sand and slag, plus some activated carbon or rice chaff ash. The flowerpot uses a shallow pot of 4Murray 5cm. The small hair root does not need a too deep flowerpot, which is convenient to observe the dry humidity of the potted soil. Lay the soil from coarse to fine to the surface, wet the soil slightly with a spray can, and then put the baby neatly on the surface.

Even if you spray water after seeing the basin soil dry, do not spray water directly on the ball for the cactus with fluffy sphere. Due to the good permeability of the soil, and the shallow basin, it is not suitable for stagnant water, it is easy to promote the young to take root, most of them will take root after half a month, and ensure that the new roots are healthy and strong (except for a few varieties that are extremely difficult to root).

Third, the main points of breeding children and grandchildren balls.

1. Variety selection

You can mainly choose Baoshan (monk king ball), green crown (Baoshan decoration), golden hairpin ball, orange-red descendant ball (moss ball), short thorn golden hairpin ball, Hongbaoshan and other varieties.

2. Daily maintenance

Pot ball soil can be made of equal portions of peat, rotten leaf soil, coarse sand, plus a small amount of calcareous material. It is easy to be harmed by red spiders in cultivation, and when it is serious, the spheroid epidermis will soon become ferruginous, so the cultivation site should be well ventilated.

Keep the basin soil dry in four seasons, pay attention to ventilation and proper shading in high temperature season, and keep the temperature above 5 ℃ in winter. Summer should be shaded. The growth period should be fully watered, be careful not to sprinkle water from the top, in order to prevent the ball top water caused by rot.

The sphere has tender skin, short and soft thorns, and is often eaten by slugs and snails, so attention should be paid to prevention and control. The root of the plant is thicker but less, the absorption of the root is not ideal under the pot condition, and the base of the stem is easy to atrophy and yellowing, so it is suitable to use seed ball grafting or cutting to replace the aging mother plant.