How to grow potted cherry blossoms?

Cherry blossom is the general name of several plants of the genus Rosaceae. It is an important ornamental tree species in early spring. It is often used in gardens and is very suitable for planting, but it can also be potted. The main varieties suitable for potted cherry blossoms are rising sun, bean cherry, Yujin, imperial clothing yellow and so on. Let's take a look at how potted cherry blossoms are raised.

Basin soil allocation

Potted cherry blossoms should first prepare the soil, generally using self-made rotten leaf soil, the specific method is to collect leaves and acid soil, chicken dung, charcoal powder and microbial retting. The self-made rotten leaf soil has good drainage and ventilation, which is suitable for the growth of potted cherry blossoms.

Reasonable pruning

The pruning of potted cherry blossoms should pay special attention to properly pruning the branches that are too dense before and after flowering, and cut off the inner bore branches, withered branches, thin and weak branches, disease and insect branches. In the whole growing period, the sprouting branches and overgrown branches should be cut off at any time so as not to consume nutrients. Preservatives must be applied after pruning to prevent the wound from rotting because the cherry blossom wound heals slowly. The newly potted cherry blossom branches should be truncated to promote more new branches and differentiate more flower buds.

Rational watering

Cherry blossoms avoid stagnant water, according to different seasons and the size of cherry seedlings for reasonable watering, according to the principle of dry and wet, the soil can not be too wet or stagnant water, otherwise it will cause rotten roots, light leaves fall off, affect flowering, heavy, the whole plant dies.

Timely fertilization

The pot fertilization of cherry blossoms should be sufficient to ensure the nutrients needed for its growth and development, so that the plants have luxuriant leaves and bright flowers, liquid fertilizer that generally matures once a week, mainly nitrogen fertilizer in the early stage, promote vegetative growth, and pay attention to the application of phosphate fertilizer in the later stage. prevent excessive vegetative growth and affect flower bud differentiation. From May to June, combined with foliar spraying of 0.1-0.2% potassium dihydrogen phosphate, base fertilizer was applied before and after flowering. To lay the foundation for the next year's flowering.

Pest control

Cherry blossoms mainly have two kinds of diseases: glue flow and root rot, which should be treated and improved in time, water and fertilizer management should be strengthened, and reasonable pruning should be done. During the growth of cherry blossoms, aphids, red spiders and shell insects will occur in a year, generally spraying 3-4 times, the first in the early flowering, the second in the late flowering, and the third from July to August. It is necessary to observe carefully and prevent in time in order to achieve better results.