Water lilies are the sleeping beauty of flowers. It looks like a lotus flower, and there are many kinds. Many owners who like to raise flowers want to raise them at home. Today, we will learn about the skills and methods of raising water lilies. Like friends come to see it quickly, I hope in your future farming to help.

Hydroponic water lily illustration 1

The cultivation method of potted water lily:

Generally speaking, we have two choices, one is to use potted plants directly, and the other is to plant large pots in small pots. We can choose different methods according to different conditions.

Potted water lily We start with how to buy water lily, generally we buy water lily is to buy roots, although there are seeds, but it is recommended that flower friends are best to buy roots, because water lily roots are the main way of reproduction, water lily seeds are not easy to get, a lot of fake, in addition to planting water lily generally in April or so, other seasons intend to plant flower friends, it is best to wait patiently until spring.

The following pot, planting water lily is best to be a wide mouth pot, the bigger the pot mouth, the better, because this helps to receive light, if the pot is relatively small, then you can directly use potted plants, if it is the same pot as the big vat, this situation is best to use the method of large pot cover small pot to plant, with small potted water lily, and then fixed, so that in the big pot, such benefits are clean water, and easy to change water, fertilization is relatively simple.

Water Lily Illustration 2

Then we say soil, some flower friends are very thoughtful, to dig river mud, in fact, garden soil on the line, put down to yellow, a long time will turn black. The mud below should be at least 10 cm above, and the water depth (distance from mud to water surface) should be 10-15 cm, or deeper.

Water lily is a fertile plant, very sensitive to fertilizer deficiency. It is best to give a certain amount of base fertilizer when planting. If the new leaves of water lily grow smaller and smaller, the buds stop growing and finally rot, which indicates the lack of fertilizer. You can stuff the sesame paste residue into the bottom of the flower pot with water lily as topdressing.

Finally, the breeding environment, the most important thing is sufficient sunshine, only in this way can more flowers bloom, otherwise only green leaves all year round, the kind of balcony must face south and not covered above, otherwise there are few flowers. Also pay attention to the circulation of air, in order to strengthen the assimilation of water lily, small series is the earliest pottery jar, a year is also 5-6 flowers, later changed to the present large water surface a year dozens of flowers are no problem, flowering full two or three months.

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