Culture method of Pansy tricolor

Pansy, also known as butterfly flower and cat face flower, is an annual or short-term perennial herb of the genus Corydalis. Its flowers bloom brightly, and most of them are mixed with three colors. The three colors are symmetrically distributed in the petals, like a cat's face. The flowers are swaying in the breeze, like butterflies dancing and loved by many people. The following editor will tell you about its breeding methods.

Growth habit

Understand the growth habits of the plant before breeding. Pansy is a common wild flower in Europe and the national flower of Iceland and Poland. So it is more cold-resistant, like cool, sufficient light environment, afraid of high temperature, avoid stagnant water, in addition, pansy is suitable for open-air cultivation, garden planting or flower bed layout, but not indoor culture.

Culture method

1. Lighting

Pansy tricolor has a strong demand for light, the stems and leaves grow thickly with sufficient light, and the flowering time will be earlier. If the light is not enough, the flowering will be delayed or less, and the flower color will be dim.

2. Temperature

The suitable temperature for growth is 15-25 degrees during the day and 3-5 degrees at night. If the temperature is higher than 30 degrees during the day, the flower buds will disappear and the flowers will bloom poorly. If maintained at 25 degrees for a long time, it will only blossom and not bear fruit. Even if the seeds bear fruit, the seeds will be stunted and cold-tolerant. The root system can withstand the low temperature of minus 1 degree, but below minus 5 degrees, the leaves will be frostbitten.

3. Soil

Like the neutral soil with loose fertility and good drainage, and avoid the soil with heavy stickiness.

4. Watering

In the seedling stage, it is better to be slightly dry, and the seedlings are weak in disease resistance and vulnerable to disease if they are too wet. In the peak growing season, it is necessary to keep the basin soil moist to provide water for growth, but it should not be too wet or stagnant, otherwise it will lead to poor plant growth or even rotting root death. The flowering period is too wet, the stems and leaves are easy to rot, the flowering period is shortened, and the fruiting rate is low.

5. Fertilization

Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer can be applied once a month during the growth period. Nitrogen fertilizer will cause root rot of tricolor pansy when the temperature is low.

6. Pruning

The growth of tricolor pansy can prick its heart, control its growth height, promote branching, make the plant type more satisfactory, prolong the flowering period, cut off the residual branches and flowers in time after blooming, so as to reduce the supply of nutrients and prepare for future flowering.

The above is about the introduction of tricolor pansy breeding methods, I hope it can help you, friends who like tricolor pansy might as well try it.