How to maintain flowers during summer dormancy

Perhaps we often hear that succulent plants have dormant periods, but in fact, many plants have dormant periods, and there are many flowers during dormant periods in summer. Daffodils, cyclamen, golden bells, tulips, crabapple, geraniums and so on are all dormant flowers in summer. If you want to make flowers go through dormancy safely, you need to do a good job in this period of relatively special maintenance methods.

Cyclamen

1. Put the dormant plant in a cool and ventilated place to avoid strong light and Rain Water, otherwise it is easy to cause rotten roots and even lead to the death of the whole plant.

2. Watering should be strictly controlled. At this time, the watering is too much, the pot soil is too wet, and the roots are easy to rot. Watering too little, it is easy to make the root shrink, and it is appropriate to keep the basin soil slightly moist.

3, stop fertilization, dormancy period because the physiological activity is very weak, do not need fertilizer, so can not apply any fertilizer. Otherwise, it is easy to cause rotten roots, rotten balls, and even the death of the whole plant. In addition, for cyclamen, tulips and other bulb flowers, the bulbs can also be dug up after summer dormancy and stored in a cool, ventilated and dry place.

How to maintain dormant flowers in summer

Potted taro with flowers and leaves

Summer dormancy flowers are: four seasons begonia, inverted hanging golden bell, daffodils, cyclamen, big rock tree, arrow lotus, freesia, tulips, gentleman orchids, geraniums, taro and so on. Maintenance requirements:

① controls watering. Do not water more during the dormant period, keep the basin soil moist, and often spray water to the ground around branches and leaves and flowerpots to form a moist and cool microclimate.

② is suitable for the environment. Move the flowerpot to a cool and ventilated place for maintenance.

③ stopped fertilizing.

How to maintain dormant flowers in summer

The summer weather is hot, some flowers enter dormancy state in order to spend too bad environment, such as begonia, gentleman orchid, geranium and so on, the leaves remain green after dormancy, which is called evergreen dormancy; daffodils, hyacinth, cyclamen, tulips and other flowers fall light after dormancy, which is called deciduous dormancy. Therefore, in the summer maintenance and management, we must master the physiological habits of these flowers and plants and manage them carefully in order to make these flowers sleep smoothly and safely through the summer.

Specifically pay attention to the following points--

First, reduce the light, ventilation and cool.

After the beginning of summer, dormant flowers should be placed in a cool and ventilated place to avoid direct sunlight, and shade canopies can be built if possible. When the temperature is high, water is often sprayed around the plant and on the ground to lower the temperature and increase humidity.

Second, timely watering, control the amount of water.

Summer dormant flowers do not have high requirements for water, so the amount of water should be strictly controlled. Because the root activity of flowers is weak when they are dormant or semi-dormant, if the watering is too much and the basin soil is too wet, it is easy to cause root rot; if the watering is too little, it is easy to make the plant root atrophy, so it is appropriate to keep the potted soil slightly moist.

Third, avoid rain and prevent stagnant water.

As the dormant period of summer flowers is in the rainy season, if the plant is drenched by rain or stagnant water in the basin after rain, it is very easy to cause the root or ball of the plant to rot and cause fallen leaves. Therefore, the pot plant should be placed in a place where it can take shelter from the rain.

Fourth, reduce nutrients and stop fertilizing.

During the period of summer dormancy, because the physiological activity of the plant weakens and consumes little nutrients, it does not need to apply any fertilizer, otherwise it is easy to cause rotten roots or balls, and even the death of the whole plant.

In addition, after the tubers or bulbs of cyclamen, hyacinth, tulips, freesia and other bulbs are dormant, their bulbs can be dug out, withered leaves and soil removed and stored in ventilated, cool and dry places (lilies and so on are buried in river sand). When the weather turns cool and the temperature gradually drops, this kind of summer dormant flowers will soon begin to grow.