Three tricks to make the wizards spend the summer smoothly

Lotus palm, which is commonly known as mage and mountain rose, is a special group in the flesh of crassulaceae.

I say this because they have different dormancy habits from other Sedum, while other Sedum meats are almost non-dormant or have very little dormancy reaction in the family cultivation environment in China.

The dormancy of succulent plants has always been a thing that puzzles many flower lovers. Because most of the meat that has dormancy responses dormant on time in their place of origin every year, we associate their dormancy responses with dates to get to know them. If meat is dormant in summer and grows in winter, we call it the winter type. On the other hand, if the meat dormant in winter and grow in summer, we call it the summer type.

However, keep one thing in mind: this winter type and summer type are just names given to them relative to the climatic characteristics of their origin. This does not mean that meat can really figure out what is winter and what is summer.

It may be difficult for you to understand what I say. Let me give you an example. We all know that if people travel to Europe or America, they will have jet lag when they get off the plane. Why is there jet lag? Because it is daytime in Europe and the United States, and it happens to be dark in China. After we get to the other side of the world by plane, our body's biological rhythm is out of order, so we need a period of rest to adapt to the new time. This break is called jet lag.

But the question is, can our bodies really sense changes in the Earth's time zone? In order to understand this problem, someone did a special experiment. The subjects were required to live in a completely airtight windowless house for a week.

During the week, the subjects lived a "completely normal" daily life. I put the word perfectly normal in quotation marks because the subjects didn't know that the researchers had tampered with the clock the subjects used. They took advantage of this week's closed life to completely reverse the subjects' day and night.

At the end of the week, the subjects were dumbfounded as soon as they left the enclosed room because they thought it was night, but went out to find that it was day outside, and jet lag immediately appeared. The reaction is exactly the same as flying from China to the United States. And they didn't actually leave the test room.

I give this example to show that it is not the real time zone change that makes us jet lag, but the fact that our rhythm of getting up and sleeping has been broken.

It's the same with meat. They don't know how to read the calendar. It's the climate of their original place that affects their dormancy reaction.

So, what are the climatic factors that cause the mage's dormant reaction? Let's get a general idea of the climatic characteristics of the mage's hometown, the Canary Islands.

The Canary Islands are made up of seven different islands, roughly located in the northwest corner of the African continent, and the nearest island meets the continent only 90 kilometers.

Generally speaking, the Canary Islands has a mid-sea climate. When we were in junior high school, we learned that the climate of the middle sea is characterized by warm and rainy winters and hot and dry summers. In the Canary Islands, there was almost no rain throughout the summer (June, July and August). The annual lack of water in the summer has trained wizards living in the Canary Islands to develop an obvious summer dormancy response.

In fact, although the summer in the Canary Islands is hot and dry, it is totally incomparable to the summer in China. The cold Canary current around the Canary Islands makes it not much hotter in summer, with the minimum temperature rising to around 22 ℃ and the maximum temperature rising to about 30 ℃.

For other kinds of meat, the temperature of 22-30 ℃ is just right for growth. But for the mages of Lotus, they have predicted the coming of the dry season through the change of temperature, and they are ready to go through the dry season by dormant.

At this point, you should understand that the key factor leading to the dormancy reaction of the mages is the temperature. When the minimum temperature at night stays above 15 ℃ for a period of time, the mages begin to prepare for dormancy. If the minimum temperature at night remains at 20 ℃, the mages will go to sleep.

Of course, the above 15 ℃ and 20 ℃ are relatively general terms and can only be used as a reference value. The topography of the Canary Islands is complex and the temperature varies from island to island. And most of the mages we see now are hybrid varieties, and their habits will be different from those of wild species.

Some flower lovers feel that it will be very difficult to take care of the mage when he is dormant. They hope to turn on the air conditioner in summer and expect them to stay awake all summer and not to sleep.

It's a good wish, but I don't think it's necessary to do so.

First of all, most of the super beautiful mage pictures we see on the Internet every day are pictures of the mage's dormant state. During the growing season, the rosette is often green and loose, and the degree of beauty is greatly reduced.

I remember that there was a quantitative study on the dormancy period of lotus palms in a paper, and the conclusion was that the root carbon dioxide uptake of dormant lotus palms was 1/4 of that of non-dormant periods. In other words, we can simply assume that winters grow four times faster than wizards in summer.

On the other hand, mages grow the same in winter and summer. Their dormancy is not complete, but their growth rate slows down.

After laying the groundwork above, I can finally tell you three important tips for the mage to spend the summer.

First, do not take the initiative to cut off the water.

The mage decides whether or not to sleep by sensing the change of temperature, so don't take the initiative to cut off the mage's water in the summer. Watch the state of the mage to gradually reduce the amount of water. If you grow fast, you will water more, and if you grow slowly, water less. The minimum amount of water should not be less than 1/4 of the amount of water in winter. Because the wizards do not sleep completely, they continue to grow.

Second, do not deliberately prevent the mage from dormant.

The lowest temperature at night reached 15 ℃ and began to dormancy, and when it reached 20 ℃, dormancy began. This is definitely a very harsh condition. In China, even in Northeast China, if you want to control the minimum temperature at night below 20 ℃ in summer, it is estimated that only some cities in Northeast and Northwest China and Yunnan have this condition.

The practice of temporarily moving the mage into an air-conditioned room at night can easily cause the mage's physiological disorders and lead to various strange problems such as wilting and falling leaves. So if your city is the kind of city that is hot in summer, don't try to change the environment.

Third, understand the body language of the mage.

Whether the growth of the mage is exuberant or not and whether it needs to be watered or not can be seen by the appearance of the mage.

The mage in the picture above is a mage in a dormant state with excessive light. The rosette becomes smaller and the number of leaves becomes smaller, which means too much light. If the size of the rosette becomes very large, and the leaves are elongated, and the leaf spacing is also lengthened, it belongs to excessive shading. The lighting level should be adjusted according to the mage's shape.

Some mages compare rosettes when they are dormant, and all kinds of rose wizards and mountain roses belong to this category. Just because the mage's leaves are wrapped does not mean that the leaves can be soft. We can still pinch the mage's blade from the side to see how hard it is. If the leaves are soft, it means that the mage is short of water.

As we said earlier, the mage only needs about 1/4 of the water in the growing season when he is dormant. More water mages will not be blessed, which will lead to stagnant water and rotten roots, which may eventually lead to black rot and stem rot.

How should I water 1/4 of the water? The flowerpots of mages are generally deep and large. If we had watered 1 liter in 10 days, then the dormant period could have watered 125ml every 5 days, that is, 250ml in 10 days, which is exactly 1/4 of the water.

Do not take the initiative to cut off the water, do not deliberately prevent dormancy, and according to the actual state of the mage to provide them with personalized service, these are the three tips for the mage to spend the summer. Of course, for mountain roses, these three also work.