Family Culture method of Dragon Blood Tree

Soil

Dragon blood tree has strong adaptability and lax requirements on soil, but the slightly acidic soil with loose, fertile and good drainage is the best. It can be cultivated by mixed cultivation of loam soil with high humus content and river sand under pine and cypress forest, or mixed cultivation of rotten leaf soil and river sand. In the process of cultivation, the dragon blood tree needs to apply ferrous sulfate about once a month to ensure that the PH value of the soil is suitable, slightly acidic and suitable for its normal growth.

Water and fertilizer management

Watering: like high temperature and humidity, afraid of the hot sun, not every few days watering regulations, spring, summer and autumn three seasons of luxuriant growth need more watering, do not wait for soil dry watering, slightly wet in the basin soil watering.

Watering times can be reduced appropriately in winter. But the potted soil can not dry to ensure sufficient nutrients to promote spring flowering.

Fertilization: the breeding of dragon blood tree is mainly the topdressing of nutrient solution. If the number of cultivation is small, you can not specially prepare nutrient solution. The root system of the dragon blood tree is developed, the growth is robust, but fertilizing is not too frequent.

Temperature and light

Dragon blood trees not only like the warm, humid and sunny environment, but also can withstand shade. However, indoor cultivation, if placed in too shady environment for a long time, will also cause the leaves to fade. So it is best to put the flowerpot on the southeast windowsill to make it fully exposed to the sun.

If the fat dragon blood tree is cultivated on the balcony, when the summer sun is too strong, the flowerpot should be moved indoors, especially at noon, to properly shade, the general illuminance is 40-50%, so as not to burn the leaves in the scorching sun. The dragon blood tree likes to be warm and can not stand the cold.

Mode of reproduction

The propagation of dragon blood tree in the family generally adopts cutting propagation combined with pruning, which can be carried out from April to August every year, and can be carried out indoors all year round, but it is necessary to keep the temperature between 20-30 ℃ in order to grow new roots.

Family culture methods and matters needing attention of dragon blood tree

Family Culture method of Dragon Blood Tree

Soil

Dragon blood tree has strong adaptability and lax requirements on soil, but the slightly acidic soil with loose, fertile and good drainage is the best. It can be cultivated by mixed cultivation of loam soil with high humus content and river sand under pine and cypress forest, or mixed cultivation of rotten leaf soil and river sand. In the process of cultivation, the dragon blood tree needs to apply ferrous sulfate about once a month to ensure that the PH value of the soil is suitable, slightly acidic and suitable for its normal growth.

Water and fertilizer management

Watering: like high temperature and humidity, afraid of the hot sun, not every few days watering regulations, spring, summer and autumn three seasons of luxuriant growth need more watering, do not wait for soil dry watering, slightly wet in the basin soil watering.

Watering times can be reduced appropriately in winter. But the potted soil can not dry to ensure sufficient nutrients to promote spring flowering.

Fertilization: the breeding of dragon blood tree is mainly the topdressing of nutrient solution. If the number of cultivation is small, you can not specially prepare nutrient solution. The root system of the dragon blood tree is developed, the growth is robust, but fertilizing is not too frequent.

Temperature and light

Dragon blood trees not only like the warm, humid and sunny environment, but also can withstand shade. However, indoor cultivation, if placed in too shady environment for a long time, will also cause the leaves to fade. So it is best to put the flowerpot on the southeast windowsill to make it fully exposed to the sun.

If the fat dragon blood tree is cultivated on the balcony, when the summer sun is too strong, the flowerpot should be moved indoors, especially at noon, to properly shade, the general illuminance is 40-50%, so as not to burn the leaves in the scorching sun. The dragon blood tree likes to be warm and can not stand the cold.

Mode of reproduction

The propagation of dragon blood tree in the family generally adopts cutting propagation combined with pruning, which can be carried out from April to August every year, and can be carried out indoors all year round, but it is necessary to keep the temperature between 20-30 ℃ in order to grow new roots.

Matters needing attention in raising Dragon Blood Tree

How to get through the winter safely

Winter dormancy period to rest fertilization, control watering, generally placed indoors over the winter, can be watered every ten days and a half month, to maintain the basin soil slightly dry, so that it is safe to survive the winter.

If there is no sunlight for a long time, you can turn on the light at night and put the dragon blood tree under the 40-watt light to make up the light artificially to ensure the beauty of the leaves.

At night, the dragon blood tree should be placed within the curtains, and thick curtains should be used to block the cold air, or the flowerpots should be placed in the warm corner of the house to make it safe to survive the winter.

Common diseases and insect pests

Common disease of dragon blood tree: Alternaria black spot. It mainly harms the leaves of dragon blood tree.

Common pest of dragon blood tree: red spider. Red spider is really the most annoying pest in the world, not one of them!

What is the family culture method of Dragon Blood Tree?

Dragon blood tree, also known as: bleeding tree, blood-activating holy medicine, plant birthday. It is a valuable Yunnan red medicine-Draconis Draconis, also known as Qilin Draconis, which is as famous as Yunnan Baiyao, and it is also the main ingredient of the famous drug "Qili San". So, what is the family breeding method of Dragon Blood Tree?

Culture methods and matters needing attention of Dragon Blood Tree

1. Soil: Dragon blood tree has strong adaptability and lax requirements on soil, but the slightly acidic soil with loose, fertile and good drainage is the best. It can be cultivated with loam with high humus content and river sand under pine and cypress forest. it can also be cultivated with rotten leaf soil and river sand. In the process of cultivation, the dragon blood tree needs to apply ferrous sulfate about once a month to ensure that the PH value of the soil is suitable, slightly acidic and suitable for its normal growth.

2. Fertilizer and water treatment: Dragon blood tree likes the substrate with fat pine and good permeability, so it can be cultivated and treated by soilless cultivation. The matrix can be fully mixed with vermiculite, perlite and peat soil. This kind of matrix is permeable, clean, sterile and tasteless. Dragon blood tree and this substrate cultivated in high-grade containers, can not turn the basin for several years, do not change the soil, the plant root system is developed, the growth is robust. The fertilizer and water treatment of soilless cultivation is mainly the topdressing of nutrient solution. If the number of cultivation is small, you can not specially prepare nutrient solution.

3, temperature and light: Dragon blood tree not only likes the warm, humid and sunny environment, but also can withstand shade. However, indoor cultivation, if placed in too shady environment for a long time, will also cause the leaves to fade. So it is best to put the flowerpot on the southeast windowsill to make it fully exposed to the sun. If the fat dragon blood tree is cultivated on the balcony, when the summer sun is too strong, the flowerpot should be moved indoors, especially at noon, to properly shade, the general illuminance is 40-50%, so as not to burn the leaves in the scorching sun. The dragon blood tree likes to be warm and can not stand the cold.

4. Propagation: the family usually uses cutting propagation combined with pruning, which can be carried out every year from April to August, and can be carried out indoors all year round, but the temperature should be kept between 20-30 ℃ in order to grow new roots. It is best to break off the pile by hand, remove the lower 1x2-2pinch 3 leaves, and pour water directly into the clean river sand to avoid the strong light for a while; the whole plant should first remove the leaves after being cut short, and then cut and watered in the clean river sand, and then keep the air humidity at about 70%, and grow new roots in a month to become a new plant.

Note:

Dragon blood trees like warm, afraid of cold, like light and afraid of hot sun exposure, the most suitable to grow in a warm but not very hot environment. The three seasons of spring, summer and autumn are the exuberant season for the growth of dragon blood tree. during this period, growers must fully meet its water, nutrient, temperature and needs to make it grow healthily.

Winter dormancy period to rest fertilization, control watering, generally placed indoors over the winter, can be watered every ten days and a half month, to maintain the basin soil slightly dry, so that it is safe to survive the winter. If there is no sunlight for a long time, you can turn on the light at night and put the dragon blood tree under the 40-watt light to make up the light artificially to ensure the beauty of the leaves. At night, the dragon blood tree should be placed within the curtains, and thick curtains should be used to block the cold air, or the flowerpots should be placed in the warm corner of the house to make it safe to survive the winter.

The title of Dragon Blood Tree

Dragon blood tree is known as: bleeding tree, blood-activating holy medicine, plant birthday.

The precious Yunnan red medicine, Draconis Draconis, also known as Qilin Draconis, is on a par with Yunnan Baiyao, and it is also the main ingredient of the famous medicine "Qili San". Li Shizhen is known as "promoting blood circulation" in the Compendium of Materia Medica, which has the good effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, reducing swelling and pain, and converging hemostasis. it can be taken internally and externally, and it is a specific drug for treating injuries caused by falls, activating blood circulation and stopping bleeding. Draconis Draconis is extracted from tequila evergreen trees and dragon blood trees as raw materials.

As a valuable traditional Chinese medicine, Draconis Draconis has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for at least 1500 years. But before 1972, Draconis Draconis was imported from Southeast Asia and Africa, and the price was very expensive. It consumes a lot of foreign exchange. In foreign countries, Draconis Draconis (DRAGON,S BLOOD) is often called Draconis Draconis. In Africa, Draconis Draconis has a history of more than two thousand years, but extracting Draconis Draconis with the fruit of Yellow Rattan of Palmaceae is only a modern thing, but the plant of Draconis Draconis was recorded in our country as early as a thousand years ago. Su Song wrote in Tang Materia Medica: "the original plant of Draconis Draconis is tall and lovely. Its lipids flow out of the wood, dripping like glue, long and firm, exhausted, red for blood, and collected for no time.

When it comes to domestic dragon blood trees and domestic Draconis Draconis, we have to start with a legendary figure, Professor Cai Xitao, a famous botanist and founder of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden. Cai Lao, originally from Dongyang, Zhejiang Province, was born in a doctor's family in 1911. He loved nature since childhood. When he was young, he was admitted to Beijing Jingsheng Biology Research Institute with excellent results. He studied botany with the famous botanist Mr. Hu Xianxian. In the early 1930s, Mr. Cai went deep into Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places to investigate plants and collect plant specimens. In order to enter Daliangshan, he made an alliance with the black Yitou people, and in order to get to southern Yunnan, regardless of the gas of miasma and the danger of bandits, he pulled the horse's tail through no man's land. Cai Lao likes plants and literature very much. When he was collecting plant specimens in Yunnan, he wrote novels such as "Puji-a Flower Girl", "climbing a ladder-the Diary of a Horse driver", "Baoliangshan people in Sichuan", etc., which were highly praised by Mr. Lu Xun. However, his profound literary attainments brought him an unfortunate disaster. In 1960, the word "dismissal" in the new historical drama "Hai Rui dismissal" written by Cai Lao's friend Wu Han was added according to Cai Lao's opinion. During the Cultural Revolution, "Hai Rui's dismissal" was criticized, and the word "dismissal" was the key point. Cai Lao was implicated and brutally persecuted. In the 1970s, when the United States invaded Vietnam, China, a "comrade plus brother", gave selfless assistance to Vietnam. Botanists all over the country, especially in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other provinces, were looking everywhere for special hemostatic drugs. Although they stepped on iron shoes, they were all in vain and found nothing. At that time, Lao Cai had just been "liberated" and resumed his work. With a broad mind and regardless of personal resentment, according to the memories of collecting specimens in his youth, Cai Lao led a group of young scientists and technicians to discover large tracts of dragon blood trees for the first time in 1972 on the limestone mountains of Menglian County, Simao District, Yunnan Province. From then on, domestic Draconis Draconis was born, and its curative effect was better than that of imported Draconis Draconis, which filled a gap in the medical history of our country. For this reason, after Mr. Cai died, half of his ashes were buried under the dragon blood tree he personally planted in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, and the other half were buried under the metasequoia tree planted by him at the Kunming Botanical Research Institute in Heilongtan, Kunming.