How to grow potted palms?

Palm, also known as Tang palm, patchwork palm, palm tree, etc., are evergreen trees of Palm family Palm, tall and straight and beautiful, with southern scenery, strong adaptability, resistance to a variety of toxic gases, and can be planted, clustered or planted in pieces. Potted or barrel plants are also often used for indoor or pre-building decoration and layout of meeting places. Let's take a look at how potted palms are raised.

Growth habits of palm trees

Palm like warm and humid climate, extremely cold-resistant, more shade-resistant, the finished product is extremely drought-resistant, but can not withstand too large temperature difference between day and night. Palm is the most widely distributed species with the highest latitude in China. Like warm and humid climate, like light. Extremely cold-resistant, slightly shade-resistant. Suitable for good drainage, moist and fertile neutral, calcareous or slightly acidic soil, resistant to light salt and alkali, but also resistant to drought and moisture. Strong ability to resist air pollution. The wind is easy to fall and the growth is slow.

Propagation methods of Palm trees

Palm is commonly used to sow and reproduce. When the seeds are ripe in November, the fruit branches are cut off, the seeds are taken out, soaked in plant ash for 3 days, and the wax of the seed epidermis is rubbed. It can be sowed in winter or in spring. If sowing in spring, the seeds can be cooled for 1-2 days, dry, mixed with wet sand and sown in the following spring. After the bed surface is leveled, the ditch strip sows, the ditch distance is 20 cm, the covering soil is 2 cm, the straw is covered, and the sunshade net is built, the sowing rate is 15 kg per mu. In the future, the dry and wet degree of the soil in the nursery was watered in time, and the soil in the nursery was often kept in a semi-moisture state. The seedlings emerged two months later, and the seeding seedlings were transferred to another bed two years later. When transplanting, the leaves were cut off, and the leaves were cut off.

How to grow potted palms?

1. Soil: it is best to choose sandy loam with good drainage when palm trees are planted in pots. although the requirement for soil is not high, the soil with slight acid or alkali can grow very well.

2. Watering: Palm trees like a humid environment, so watering is very important, but do not overwater, especially do not have stagnant water, otherwise it will easily lead to rotten palm roots.

3. Temperature: Palms are cold-resistant and can grow well at a temperature of about 10 ℃.

4. Lighting: Palm trees do not have strict requirements for light, they can not only grow well in the whole day, but also grow well in shady rooms.

5. Diseases and insect pests: the common diseases and insect pests of palm trees are Paecilomyces, longicorn beetles, shell insects and so on, which should be found in time and treated by palm peeling.