How to raise perfume lilies

Perfume lily is the queen of lilies, its petals do not have any impurities, there is a faint fragrance, very suitable for home breeding. So how to raise perfume lilies? Let's take a look at its breeding methods and matters needing attention.

Growth habit

Before breeding, we come to understand the growth habits, perfume lilies like warm and humid, sunny environment, more cold-resistant, afraid of high temperature and humidity, avoid waterlogging, it is appropriate to fertilize loose, well-drained soil.

Culture method

Propagation methods: bulb propagation, scale cutting, sowing propagation and tissue culture and so on.

Propagation time: the best planting time is from August to September, and pot planting is suitable from September to October.

Soil: like slightly acidic soil with loose fertility and good drainage, and avoid alkaline or viscous soil.

Temperature: the suitable temperature for growth is 15-25 degrees, above 30 degrees or below 10 degrees, poor growth or stop growth.

Lighting: different growth stages need different care, shading is needed in budding stage, shading is needed in summer when high temperature is needed, and lighting is needed in the early stage of flower development.

Watering: watering to keep the basin soil moist, should not be too wet or stagnant water, otherwise it is easy to cause root rot and death.

Fertilization: there is a great demand for nitrogen and potash fertilizer, and it should be applied once every ten days and half a month in the peak growing season. Remember to control the application of phosphate fertilizer. Too much phosphate fertilizer will cause the leaves to wither and yellow.

Matters needing attention

Pruning: in order to make the bulb grow more substantial and strong, the whole root of the perfume lily can be cut off after blooming to reduce nutrient consumption. if you want to keep the seed bulb, you should continue to fertilize and replenish the nutrition. the seed bulb can be dug out about a month later and replanted later.

Plant growth deviation: many friends will find that their perfume lilies grow more and more in the process of breeding, affecting the ornamental beauty, in fact, it is very easy to solve, we turn the pot once a week during its growth period, so that it will not grow too long.

How to keep perfume lilies? Through the above breeding methods and matters needing attention as well as the introduction of growth habits, I believe we also have a certain understanding, we hurry to try it.