How can you not be easily deceived when you go to buy flowers? take a look at the selection skills.

The following are some commonly used tips for buying flowers in a flower market or flower shop. Online shopping is purely based on your own vision, as well as luck. Flower friends who often buy flowers should have deep experience, and of course there are those who have been cheated without knowing it.

Of course, the editor is talking about potted plants, not the bouquets used to give his girlfriend flowers. If you want to buy potted plants that are healthy and easy to feed, you need to pay more attention to them.

1. Plant bare root selection.

Many of the online shopping are bare roots, bare roots refer to those that are not covered with soil, and the rose bought by flower friends is like this, but it is recommended that beginners buy roses wrapped with soil balls to survive better, such as jasmine, gardenia, Milan and so on. If they are naked roots, they are easy to wither, that is, they cannot serve the basin.

If you look at the naked root, you can know whether the root system is aging or not. if it is too young, it is not easy to live.

As for the soil ball, it depends on whether the soil ball is close to the root system. If it is loose, the boss has just wrapped it and do not buy it. If the root system is black and withered, don't buy it.

2. Get to know plants

In fact, I would like to identify a variety of plant software, although usually can check their own plant books understanding, if you see a plant you like, but do not know, then can only ask the editor! Of course, flower friend.

Another way is to ask the boss the name of the plant, and then look up the information on the Internet, some can not find the name at all, that is, the boss himself does not know, make up a name.

3. Identify plants

A flower friend asked, "I don't know these plants at all, and I want to pretend to know them. What should I do?"

Students ah, I will teach you a method, you can use Baidu picture recognition, Taobao baby with the same style recognition or Google picture recognition.

These are generally not rumors, if you all understand, how can the editor happily install x, Baidu picture recognition is very simple, web pages or app can (such as the following picture). Note: the recognition rate is not very high, it all depends on how well your picture is taken.

Some treasure with the baby identification is also very easy to use, although I do not buy things, but can be used to be flowers and plants! Go to the florist to take a picture, take a better shot, and you can identify what kind of flowers are common. As for Google picture recognition, it is also very powerful, the accuracy of recognition is very high, other people's technology is very powerful! (below is a leaf recognition app, which can distinguish common green leaves, but not weeds.)

Complain, now many plant recognition software limitations are very great, if there is a flower friend to develop a model, that is also excellent. (it is best to identify those that are powerful and easy to communicate.)

4. look at the condition of the basin soil.

Some vendors like inferior, especially those roadside flower vendors, strong mobility, you buy today, tomorrow will not see, he can also care about your plant is good or not!

So carefully see whether the plant pot soil is new, do not buy new (just planted, difficult to live).

Of course, you can use your hands to feel whether the rhizome is stable or not. If you can shake it easily, the root system is not growing well. Note that this method is only used for woody plants. If it is herbaceous or succulent, you can only look at it carefully.

5. Whether the plant is fake or not

Flower friends often buy back some peonies (pictured below), which look colorful and very good-looking. if you buy peonies grafted with toothpicks, they will be in good condition for a month and can be detected by careful observation.

If you are buying expensive plants or flowers, you'd better ask some old flower friends if they are fake.

What I fear most is the kind of plants that use dyed plants instead of precious ones. For example, some orchids, rainbow roses or blue witches will smell like paint when dyed carefully.

(the dyed blue witch will smell like paint.)

6. Colored plants

There are some plants that do not blossom originally, but they bloom like flowers, such as the following "golden branches and jade leaves". Do you think they are flowers? In fact, it is the medicine brocade, the drug, of course, is not a pure color, other such as "blue demon" rose also use white rose fake.

(medicine brocade)

7. Look at the roots of plants

Potted plants if the root system is full, it is also difficult to maintain, buy a pot to grow very luxuriant, grow very strong, but before long, the leaves clatter off, leaves become yellow, withered, this is why?

Because there are too many roots in the pot, there is no nutrition in the basin, and the drainage and air permeability are not good, so it can not grow naturally. The method of judgment can be seen by lifting the potted plant a little bit.

Some potted plants are particularly beautiful, just like bonsai. If the plants have obvious strangulation marks, don't rush to buy them. They may be shaped by vendors tied up with copper wire and iron wire. These potted plants are naturally beautiful for the time being, but they are not conducive to long-term growth. It is more difficult to maintain.

9. How to distinguish between sick flowers

Some plants carry diseases and insects, which need to be carefully observed to see if there are disease spots in the plants.

(African Violet)

If you buy flowers in spring, pay attention to see if the plants have signs of frostbite. If a little frostbite is not properly treated, it will rot.

10. Greenhouse flowers should be bought carefully.

(geranium)

In addition, pay attention to if the flowering season of plants, if they are not flowering in this season, but can still buy flowering, then generally greenhouse flowers, bought for a long time, it is easy to have problems, if the environment is not good, it is easy to hang up.

11. Plants are interspersed with fake flowers

Do you think fools will do this when you buy potted plants and fake flowers?

(saffron)

The most embarrassing thing I have ever heard is that a flower friend said that he bought a pot of green apple with beautiful flowers on it. I was confused at that time. Will the green turnip blossom? It turned out to be fake flowers, but also decorated flawlessly? There is no one left with the handicraft!

Some plants do not bloom or do not look so good-looking, so check carefully to see if the flowers are grafted.