This plant can also be cut to make bonsai. Elegant, elegant, straight and beautiful.

Luohansong is a kind of common bonsai material, which can often be seen in home life, and it is also a very popular bonsai tree species. Moreover, Luo Hansong has a very auspicious giving in Chinese traditional culture, which often symbolizes longevity and wealth, while there has always been a folk saying that "Luo Hansong is free from poverty from generation to generation".

If you want to cultivate Siraitia grosvenorii, you don't have to go to the market to buy it. You can cultivate it by cutting. Flower friends who love bonsai might as well try the cuttage method and easily grow a lohan pine. Do you know that?

1. Cutting time

The cuttings of Pinus elliottii can be carried out in spring and autumn. Among them, the effect of planting in spring is better, and it is suitable to be carried out in the middle of April in the south, when Pinus elliottii has not yet sprouted, and it is its growing season after cutting, which is beneficial to the survival and growth of cuttings.

two。 Preparation before cutting

Cutting medium is also very important, sand and common garden soil mixed perlite can be used as cutting medium. It is most suitable to use 1ap2 river sand mixed with 1ap2 vegetable garden soil as cutting soil.

3. Insert selection

Selecting the healthy branches of Pinus elliottii whose length is about 10cm, the branches of Lignification and insect pests are not suitable for cutting. Some flower friends think that old branches are easier to survive than young ones. In fact, this is a misunderstanding. The survival rate of young branches in spring is higher than that of hard branches in 1-2 years.

4. Cuttage

Intercept the leaves of 1x4, two leaves, soak them in carbendazim or rooting solution, or put an aspirin in clean water and soak the cuttings in rooting solution for 24 hours. After cutting, pay attention to shade, put the cutting pot in a cool place to avoid sun exposure, spray water with a kettle to keep the leaves and soil moist.

5. Temperature and humidity control

When it is hot and hot in summer, it can spray water to cool down the pine, increase the air humidity, and the air humidity reaches more than 80%, which can promote the rooting and germination of the pine.

6. Fertilizer and water management

Such as cutting branches take root and sprout, you can add fertilizer, choose potassium dihydrogen phosphate or ordinary chemical fertilizer on the market, sprinkle a little on the soil, fertilize too much is easy to cause root burning phenomenon.

After the root length is fixed, the Luohan pine belt soil can be transplanted into a larger flowerpot, and the soil needs to be watered until it is watered through, maintain sufficient light, and the growth rate will be much faster than expected. After cutting, the branches of Siraitia grosvenorii turned into seedlings until they grew into a beautiful and dense pot plant of Luohansong.

Some key points of maintenance of Luo Hansong:

Family potted Luohansong should be kept in an outdoor ventilated place all the year round, not indoors for a long time, otherwise the leaves will fall off and die. Summer high temperature should not be exposed to the sun, should be placed in a semi-shady place for maintenance.

In the growing season, the moisture can be slightly more; in the hot summer, the basin soil should be watered in time, and the water content in autumn and winter can be reduced appropriately. In winter in East China, when the temperature drops to 5 ℃, you should enter the house to survive the winter, and control the amount of watering, and the basin soil should be dry.

In the daily maintenance of Luohansong, environment and watering are actually the two most important links. As the saying goes, "people move life, trees move death" frequently changing the environment is taboo to plants, so we had better choose the right position in advance.

Luohansong should be placed in a warm, humid and well-ventilated place in summer and higher than 5 ℃ in winter, but the temperature should not be too high so as not to affect its dormancy.

Luohansong likes moist soil, the growing season should be often watered, to keep the basin soil moist, but the basin can not be waterlogged. In summer, water is often sprayed to the leaves or the ground to keep the leaves bright.

▍ comprehensive editor: balcony flower diary hcrj520