How to raise air pineapple?

Air pineapple is the only plant on earth that is completely born in the air. It can grow luxuriantly without soil, and can bloom bright flowers with many varieties and different shapes. It can not only enjoy leaves, but also watch flowers. It has the advantages of good decorative effect and strong adaptability, and has high ornamental value. Let's take a look at how to grow air pineapple.

Growth habits of air pineapple

The biggest difference between the air pineapple and the general plant is that it has no root system, and the water and nutrients needed are completely absorbed by the foliar stomata. If planted in soil or water, they cannot survive. The flowers and leaves are very special, and the leaves evolve into special forms. Including water storage tissue, leaf scaly, leaf number reduction, root degradation, etc., it is highly adaptable to stress and can withstand drought, light, wind, shade, heat and cold. No pots, no soil, no mosquito breeding, is a plant attached to tree trunks, stone walls and even cacti.

Propagation methods of air pineapple

1. Sowing and reproduction: sowing and reproduction need to obtain seeds, artificial pollination of air pineapple to obtain seeds, the sowing season of seeds is after March every year, from January to November, the most ideal is spring sowing and autumn sowing. To successfully produce seedlings, you must put the seeds in a humid but not stagnant environment, suitable temperature (higher than 20 degrees Celsius), and then let the seeds have good scattered light, stuffy. Generally put for 5-6 days, you will see the seeds turn green, which means that the seeds germinated.

2. Ramet propagation: ramet propagation is the method chosen by most players, because the air pineapple will only blossom once in its life. After flowering, it will have no terminal bud advantage. Instead, it will turn nutrition into cell division and into lateral buds. The growth of lateral buds is very fast (depending on the state of the mother plant), but in any case, it takes a lot of time to sow. In general, if the lateral buds of ramets are properly maintained, they can also blossom in the same year.

Culture method of air pineapple

1. Temperature management: the optimum temperature for the growth of air pineapple is 15 ℃ ~ 25 ℃, and the general growth temperature is 5 ℃ ~ 40 ℃. If the temperature is higher than 25 ℃, the ventilation should be strengthened and the relative humidity should be increased so as not to cause growth stagnation due to too much heat. The air pineapple can withstand the low temperature of about 5 ℃ in winter, and some varieties can withstand the low temperature of 0 ℃, but most varieties will be frostbitten when the temperature is less than 5 ℃, and the plants will die if the plant is lower than 0 ℃.

2, appropriate watering: air pineapple can be sprayed with a spray can 2-3 times a week, dry season should be sprayed once a day, spray water to the leaf surface can be completely wet and pay attention to the center of the leaf not to accumulate water, if too much water spray, the plant can be inverted to transfer excess water flow.

3. Light control: the varieties with gray leaves, more white scales and thicker hard need stronger light, while the varieties with greener leaves, fewer scales and softer scales are more tolerant to shade. When growing indoors, it should be placed in a place with bright light, if the light is not enough, it will cause the plant to grow thin.

4. Rational fertilization: in the artificial cultivation environment, Huabao or potassium dihydrogen phosphate plus urea and water can be sprayed 1000 times, once a week, or the plant can be immersed in 3000-5000 times fertilizer solution for 1-2 hours, and fertilization can be stopped in winter and flowering.

5, disease prevention and control: sunburn often occurs in an environment with sufficient light, due to improper operation, water spray on the leaf surface is not air-dried in time, water droplets play the role of convex lens to burn the leaf surface under water droplets, but it will not spread. Usually maintenance should pay attention to ventilation.

Points for attention of air pineapple

1. Protect the rhizome: air pineapple with root is the best, it is convenient to attach bark or sunken wood to plant, but it needs to be cut when imported, so that air pineapple sold generally are rootless. Before the root grows, we should pay more attention to the adhesion, do not hinder the root growth.

2. no soil: except for a very small number of air pineapples that grow on the ground, most of them cannot be planted with soil. The same kind of air pineapples can be planted together and placed in hanging baskets or porous plastic basins to make special hanging basket plants. If you plant different kinds of air pineapple, it is best not to put it on the same attachment or container, because the growth habits, moisture and light are different, not all can grow normally.

3. Container selection: air pineapples do not need any containers, as long as they are hung with wire, but it should be noted that all pineapple plants cannot tolerate aluminum and copper, so they cannot be planted in containers of copper wire or aluminum alloy. These metals will slowly poison the air pineapple, remember to pay attention.

4. Winter temperature: strictly speaking, it is not necessary to keep the air pineapple above 5 degrees in winter. If the light is good during the day, it will not be a problem.

5. Air circulation: never plant it in a jar. Air pineapples need a lot of air flow. If the weather is too dry, just soak the plants in water for an hour or so, and then get rid of the water on the leaves. Also, when the leaves are wet, do not bask in the sun, the leaves will be damaged, all air pineapples are more resistant to drought, there will be no problem without water for a few days.

6. humidity control: most air pineapples do not have as high requirements for air humidity as expected, and even in the producing area, the air humidity is not high when there is light during the day, but at night due to the temperature difference caused by cooling, water vapor condenses on the plant to form water, which is then absorbed by the leaves. Silver leaf varieties are more resistant to drought than others, please reduce the watering frequency to avoid decay.

7. Strong resistance: the resistance of air pineapple is extremely strong, and the resistance can reach its peak when it looks slightly dry, but the resistance of tender plants is very low, and it is easy to get sick and rot as soon as the wind blows. So in planting, let the plant dry a little better, so that it can maintain a healthy state.