If you buy bare-root succulent plants online in autumn, you should pay attention to these six places that will soon serve the pot.

The cool autumn is coming, and the good season for succulent plants begins. At this time, meat friends have been holding back for a summer, and now they are finally free to buy. And online shopping because of a wide range of varieties and cheap reasons, online shopping bare root succulent plants have become the main source for many meat lovers to fill balconies. So, what problems do you need to pay attention to when online shopping bare-root plants come back to pot? The little exquisite life will study with you.

1. Root trimming

Unlike the succulent plants in the local flower market or greenhouse, most of the succulent plants purchased online will be stripped of the soil before delivery, that is, bare root delivery. In the journey of more than half of China, meat not only has no access to soil and water, but also the journey is bumpy, and many roots of meat will naturally be damaged or dried up, so the first thing to do after online shopping is to trim the roots of succulent plants.

Root pruning has two main functions: it is convenient to send new roots, and it is convenient to put on the basin. So how to fix it? The main thing is to clean up some dead roots, dead roots, diseased roots and some over-fine capillaries, and also clean up some dead leaves at the bottom of the meat. If you want to trim the roots carefully, you can use scissors. It is also possible to remove those roots that can be cut off directly with your hands.

2. Root washing

After pruning the roots, the next step is to wash the roots. The main purpose of root washing is to wash away potential bacteria and eggs, because you don't know if there are bacteria or eggs in the seller's growing environment before you get the meat. The method of root washing is to rinse the soil impurities of succulent plant roots with clean water, and then soak them in carbendazim dilution for 1-2 minutes.

3. Dry the root

After washing the roots, the succulent plants need to be put in a ventilated, dry, scattered light environment to dry the roots until the wound heals and shrinks. Lest the wound will be put on the basin before it heals, and the wound will come into direct contact with the bacteria in the basin soil and cause rotten roots. Here is a formula for the time of root drying, that is, if the cross-sectional diameter of the wound is several millimeters, it will take several days to dry the root. For example, if the thickest root cut off after root trimming is 3 mm in diameter, the meat needs to be dried for 3 days.

4. Matching soil

In fact, there is no unified formula for the pot soil of succulent plants. The distribution of soil may be different in different regions, different people, different varieties and even different growth stages of the same variety. Small exquisite life can only tell you the most basic: peat soil rooting speed is very fast, but after a period of maintenance, the root system will be very fragile; while particles such as coarse sand will be difficult to root, but the root system will become strong after a period of maintenance. Therefore, if novice friends do not have experience in soil matching, you might as well try the most basic soil ratio of 1 peat + 1 coarse sand. Then the mixed soil can be mixed with Huasheng and carbendazim to prevent diseases and insect pests.

5. Upper basin

Finally, when it comes to the basin, it is generally recommended to "dry cultivation of fluvo-aquic soil", that is, the micro-tide of the soil on the basin. In the process of potting, first use tiles to cover the drainage hole at the bottom of the flowerpot, which is a layer of large particles, and then load the soil to and from the flowerpot for the first time according to the root length of the succulent plant, and then stroke a tapered mound in the center to put the root system of the succulent plant evenly on the mound and then continue to load the soil, so that the succulent plant can be better fixed and there will be more rooting space in the future.

6. Serving basin

After loading the soil into the basin, the first watering is carried out every 24 hours, mainly to prevent the root system from scratching some small wounds to see water infection. The method of watering is to water 2 times along the edge of the basin, which can induce the roots of succulent plants to stretch in all directions. Place it in a ventilated and scattered light environment after watering. When the leaves of succulent plants become soft and then return to fullness, it means that the basin is over. After that, normal maintenance can be carried out.

In fact, the maintenance of succulent plants is not very difficult, as long as we put our heart into it, the meat will repay us with its most beautiful posture.

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