Key points for the maintenance of drunken butterfly flower

Drunken butterfly flower is also known as wind butterfly grass, spider flower, purple dragon beard, because when the drunken butterfly flower is in full bloom, the raceme forms a plump flower ball, and the florets are like dancing butterflies, so they are named. The drunken butterfly flower has no wild species in China and is often cultivated in major cities, so how to maintain the charming drunken butterfly flower?

Drunken butterfly flower

Drunken butterfly flower is native to tropical South America. It is warm, sunny, resistant to drought and heat, and suitable for growing in a ventilated and sunny place. Requires fertile soil, drainage of two sandy loam, not cold-resistant, seeds have self-sowing.

Drunken butterfly flowers reproduce with seeds. Spring sowing, sowing in open field seedbed from late March to mid-April. If it needs to blossom early, it can be sown in greenhouse between February and March. The seeds germinated slowly and germinated in about 15 days at 15-20 degrees. After sowing, covering soil and watering, the seed germination rate is high, and the emergence of seedlings is neat. It is easy to be harmed by aphids in the seedling stage, so it should be controlled in time. The seedlings can be planted with a height of about 15 cm. By gradually interplanting seedlings, the spacing of seedlings for colonization can reach 30 cm.

Drunken butterfly flower is a straight-root plant, the cultivation land should be ploughed deeply and applied organic base fertilizer. The distance between the transferred seedlings and planted plants is about 30 cm. Because there are few roots, it is difficult to recover after transplantation, so it should be carefully managed, watered and protected from wind and sun in time after planting and transplantation. After transplanting, the soil should be kept dry and wet properly, and the soil moisture should be preserved by ploughing in time. In addition to the application of base fertilizer at the time of transplanting, thin rotten cake fertilizer can be applied twice at flowering stage to promote flowering. The capsule will crack when it is ripe, so when the pericarp turns yellow, it should be harvested in batches. The ability of self-sowing and reproduction is strong, and the autogenous seedlings can be transplanted and cultivated.

Drunken butterfly flowers dance like butterflies, graceful and chic, suitable for large flower beds, flower borders and background materials. Potted plants can be watched indoors and cut flowers. And it is an excellent honey plant, and it can also be used as medicine.

Key points for the maintenance of drunken butterfly flower

Drunken butterfly flowers on the pot

Drunken butterfly flowers on the pot is not very difficult, first of all, we need to choose a suitable soil, the soil is good drainage, rich in humus sandy soil, of course, you can also add some rotten leaf soil. There are a number of basin soil methods to choose from, such as vegetable garden soil: slag ratio is 3VR 1, garden soil: medium coarse river sand: sawdust ratio is 4RU 1VR 2, peat + perlite + ceramsite ratio is 2RU 2VR 1, vegetable garden soil + slag = 3:1, etc.

Because the root system of drunken butterfly flower is more developed, it is common to choose larger and deeper flowerpots when choosing flowerpots, and the pot diameter is better between 20cm--30cm. When the seedlings of drunken butterfly flowers are on the pot, they can first put a layer of ceramsite at the bottom of the basin as a filter layer, sprinkle with some rotten organic fertilizer, and finally put on the matrix. After putting on the substrate, you can pot the seedlings, stretch the roots, do not stay away from fertilizer so as not to burn the roots, water them once after burying the soil, and put them in a hidden environment to slow the roots.

Drunken butterfly flowers pick hearts

Heart picking is also a very important part of maintenance. Before flowering, it is generally necessary to pick the heart twice to sprout more flowering branches. When the seedlings of the drunken butterfly flower grow to 10cm, if the leaves reach more than 6, the heart can be removed and the top tip can be removed, and the leaves can retain 4 leaves, so that it can be more branched.

After picking the heart, the drunken butterfly will continue to grow. After a month or so, the drunken butterfly can carry out the second pick, cut off the top tip of the side branch, retain about 4 leaves, and sprout new branches again, making it more branched.

After heart-picking, the plant shape of drunken butterfly will be more beautiful, and can increase the number of flowers. The remaining flowers need to be cut off in time after flowering.

The main morphological features of the cultivation and maintenance of the intoxicated butterfly flower in the courtyard: the petals of the drunken butterfly flower are light and elegant, and the raceme forms a luxuriant flower ball with a red and white color, especially its long clawed petals, the long stamens protruding beyond the Corolla, shaped like spiders and dragon whiskers, are quite interesting. Application: flower beds and flower borders can be arranged in summer and autumn, and dwarfing cultivation can also be carried out to watch them as potted plants. It can be planted under the forest or watched on the shady side of the building. It also has good resistance to sulfur dioxide and chlorine, is a very good anti-pollution flower, and can grow well in factories and mines with heavy pollution. The potted plant can be displayed on the desk in front of the window and the plant shape should be controlled. Habits: drunken butterfly flowers like sunny, dry, warm environment, but also resistant to semi-overcast. Temperature: the suitable temperature is 20: 32 ℃, not resistant to cold. Soil: except for poor growth in alkaline soil, it can grow in sandy soil and clayey soil, and grow best in slightly acidic sandy loam. Rotten leaf soil and vegetable garden soil can be used to cultivate soil, which requires loose soil and good drainage. When planting flower beds, the residual flowers should be picked in time so that they do not bear seeds in order to prolong the flowering period. Fertilization at flowering stage of potted drunken butterfly flower: 2 or 3 times thin compound liquid fertilizer should be applied during bud pregnancy, and it can blossom during Spring Festival. Humidity: like higher air humidity, air humidity is too low, will accelerate the withering of a single flower. Also afraid of rain, need to keep the leaves dry at night. The optimum relative humidity of the air is 65-75%. Temperature: heat-resistant, not frost-resistant. Light: like plenty of sunshine, slightly resistant to half shade. Fertilizer: follow the principle of "light fertilizer applied frequently, less and more times, complete nutrition", and keep leaves and flowers dry at night after fertilization. Diseases: often harmed by leaf spot and rust. Leaf spot is sprayed with 50% tolizine wettable powder, and rust can be controlled with 3000 times of 50% verapamil wettable powder.