Balcony planting pot this fruit is hot, sweet and sweet

Huahua likes to eat dragon fruit, especially the red dragon fruit, which is not only sweet and sweet, but also nutritious. The appearance of this red, some white, some red fruit, many people did not expect to look like a cactus plant, and the family can also grow.

To plant balcony dragon fruit, you should choose a larger basin, and the tile basin is better, and there should be several drainage holes at the bottom. You can't find such a basin, or you can use a wooden box, so the air permeability is better. Plastic or more closed containers are generally not recommended.

And before planting dragon fruit, be sure to soak it in clean water for a few hours and drain all the dirty gas out of the basin, so that it will not affect the growth of dragon fruit.

Soil

Suitable for dragon fruit soil is slightly acidic or neutral soil, and the soil should be relatively loose, breathable, you can use rotten leaf soil, coarse river sand, manure soil according to the proportion of 6:1:1 mixed.

Planting method

Planting dragon fruit usually uses the method of cutting propagation, cutting the branches directly into the soil, as long as the new branches grow, you can move the basin, the bottom of the basin should make water holes, and tiles should be used around the holes to block the holes, otherwise the sand is easy to leak.

In order to make the soil more draining and breathable, you can also spread a large layer of small stones, pour them into the culture soil, put the two seedlings on the mound, put the roots in the soil, then gently press the soil on the edge of the basin with your hands, pour water through it, and move to the balcony a week later.

Pitaya is a fruit that grows in the tropics. Watering must be well controlled and should not be watered too frequently. While keeping the soil moist, add organic nutrient solution to the water, which can be slightly diluted, generally mixed with water more than 500 times, to ensure fertility and make dragon fruit grow more vigorously.

Pruning

In the process of maintaining dragon fruit, we must pay attention to pruning, cutting off lateral branches, which can reduce nutritional loss, promote flower bud differentiation, and blossom and bear fruit earlier. As long as it is properly maintained, it will blossom from July to August. Dragon fruit in the flowering period to add enough fertilizer and water, half a month before flowering, to use phosphorus and potassium organic fertilizer.

The dragon fruit is a tropical fruit, which is easy to spend in summer, but it is necessary to move indoors to guard against the cold in winter. Do not apply fertilizer during the winter, but water it properly. After the weather gets warmer in spring, it can be moved to the outdoors. The old side branches should be cut off and generally pruned near the root. You can send out new lateral buds, or it will be difficult to blossom and bear fruit.