If you master these eight things in flower cultivation, you can grow more and more potted plants.

If you want to keep indoor plants healthy and green all the year round, you need to master some correct maintenance skills. Most of the potted plants at home are easy to take care of and have a good ability to adapt to the environment. Pay attention to these eight major matters in the process of conservation. Few flowers can be raised to death. Let's take a look.

1. How to reproduce

Most of the plants maintained indoors are very easy to reproduce, such as common green pineapple, orchid or ivy.

The above pot is the hanging orchid. I have propagated several pots next to it, and I can see that it grows some creeping branches. As long as these branches are cut off, inserted into the soil, put in a warm and shaded place, keep the basin soil slightly moist, and the temperature is kept at about 20 degrees. It will soon take root and sprout, and most other plants can cut off some branches and cut them to propagate in the soil.

2. Pay attention to changing the basin

If you're not sure if your potted plant needs transplanting, check to see if the root system at the bottom of the pot is growing, or hold up the flowerpot. If the root system grows less, don't change the pot yet.

Pot plants for indoor maintenance usually have to change pots once every 2 to 3 years, and choose to stabilize the temperature at about 18 degrees Celsius. Change pots in shade places. It is found that withered roots and rotten roots need to be cut off, re-added to the new soil, and then watered thoroughly, placed in a shaded and ventilated place, slowly potting.

3. Clean regularly

After the indoor plants are kept for a period of time, dust will gather on the leaves, which can be sprayed with clean water at room temperature. if there is fluff on the leaves of the plants, the dust can be swept away with a soft brush.

Regular cleaning of plant leaves and branches can make it better absorb sunlight and water, which is conducive to growth. Some friends' plants do not grow for several years, possibly because they are not cleaned regularly.

4. Pruning and pinching

If indoor plants want to look better and grow more branches, they should trim and pinch the top regularly. If you see a longer branch, you can pinch the top about 18 centimeters, so that it can promote branches and grow more lateral branches.

At the same time, if you see any diseased or withered branches in the plant, they should be cut off in time to avoid bacterial infection and avoid water in the incision after cutting.

Cut off branches that are about 9cm long and can be used for cutting and propagation, so that there will be more and more plants in your family.

5. Cut off diseased leaves and branches

If it is found that the plant flowers at home have withered, the residual flowers should be removed in time, so that nutrients can be retained and fungal diseases can be avoided.

Usually see that the plant has yellow leaves, diseased leaves and withered leaves should be cut off with sharp scissors, the cut can not touch the water.

6. pay attention to watering

Indoor plants will die, mostly because of overwatering. If you are not sure whether your plant needs watering, it is best to wait until the basin soil is completely dry, check whether the soil is dry, insert the dry stick into the soil for a few minutes, and finally pull it up to see how dry and wet the stick is.

Of course, the water needs of different indoor plants are also different, green pineapple and reticulate grass are more like water, watering frequency is more. On the other hand, drought-tolerant plants such as rich trees, aloe vera, tiger skin orchids and money trees do not need to be watered frequently, and more water is easy to die.

7. Appropriate fertilizer

Indoor maintenance of plants do not need regular fertilization, the demand for fertilizer is small, plants grow indoors, without more light, the growth will be relatively slow, usually in spring and summer season, fertilizer should be applied every 2 to 3 weeks.

After cooling in autumn, it is necessary to stop fertilization, the concentration of fertilization should be well controlled, the concentration is too high, not only can not promote plant growth, but also easy to cause fertilizer injury.

Fertilizer is best to choose some slow-release organic fertilizer, or commonly used liquid fertilizer.

8. Pest control

If indoor plants are not properly maintained, it is easy to be infected with diseases and insect pests, water is easy to rot roots, but also infected with fungal diseases, as long as timely water control, cutting off the diseased roots, pouring carbendazim or methyl thiophanate to prevent fungal infection.

If it is infected with pests, such as common powder scale insects or shell insects, you can directly use cotton swabs dipped in alcohol, apply to the pest area.

If it is an aphid, it can be washed away with a flood or sprayed with common pesticides.

In addition, it is necessary to deal with the diseased leaf diseased branches in the pot soil in time, do not let the fallen leaves remain in the flowerpot, cut off the diseased leaf diseased branches in time, separate the diseased plants from healthy plants, and avoid contagion with each other. To control aphids, we must remove indoor ants in time. Ants are the keepers of aphids, and they should be removed at the same time.