Is it easy to grow ivy? what are the planting skills?

Ivy, as its name implies, is an evergreen plant, so many friends will use it as an indoor ornamental plant to add new green to the home. But is it easy to grow ivy? What planting skills do you have? This article intends to make a brief introduction, so that friends who like ivy can be common to its green.

Ivy, perennial evergreen climbing shrub of the genus Araliaceae, having gray-brown or black-brown stems, smooth, alternate leaves; petiole absent; stipules scaly. With beautiful leaves and evergreen all the year round, ivy is often used for vertical greening in various parts of the south. More planted in the rockery, wall root, let its natural attachment vertical or cover growth, play the effect of decorating and beautifying the environment. When potted, mainly to small and medium-sized potted plants, a variety of shapes can be carried out and furnished indoors. It can also be used to cover the wall of the indoor garden and make the indoor garden landscape more natural and beautiful.

Ivy cultivation management is simple and extensive, but to make ivy evergreen, we also need to master the relevant planting skills:

1. The temperature should be suitable.

Ivy likes warmth, and the suitable temperature for growth is 20 ℃-25 ℃. It is afraid of heat and is not resistant to cold. Therefore, when placed in indoor maintenance, we should pay attention to ventilation and cooling in summer, and the room temperature in winter should be kept above IO-C, and the lowest should not be less than 5 ℃.

2. Moderate lighting

Ivy is light-loving and shade-tolerant. Under semi-light conditions, the internodes are shorter, the leaf shape is the same, and the leaf color is bright, so it is appropriate to culture in a bright indoor light. If you can put outdoor shade for a period of time in spring and autumn, so that you can see more sunshine in the morning and evening, then the vitality will be exuberant and the leaves will be green. However, we should pay attention to prevent the direct light, otherwise it is easy to cause sunburn.

3. Watering should be moderate.

Watering in the growing season should be dry and wet, and the basin soil should not be too wet, otherwise it is easy to cause rotten roots and fallen leaves. The room temperature is low in winter, especially to control watering and keep the basin soil slightly wet. The northern winter climate is dry, it is best to spray Duchuan once a week with water close to room temperature, in order to maintain air humidity, the plant appears alive, the leaf color is green and shiny.

4. Fertilization should be reasonable.

In order to cultivate ivy in the family, the basin soil should be composed of Sichuan rotten leaves or charcoal soil mixed with river sand and a small amount of bone powder, and thin pancake fertilizer and water should be applied once every 2-3 weeks in the growing season. Do not apply fertilizer in summer and winter. Do not apply nitrogen fertilizer when fertilizing, otherwise, the patterns and patches on the leaves of mosaic varieties will fade to green. The ratio of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium should be 1% and 1%. During the peak growing season, the leaves are sprayed with 0.2% potassium dihydrogen phosphate once or twice, which will make the leaves look more beautiful. However, attention should be paid to avoid contaminating the leaves when applying liquid fertilizer, so as not to cause the leaves to scorch.

Plants also have human nature, as long as we take good care of them, plants will repay us in their best form. Therefore, friends who like ivy might as well learn more about the habits and planting skills of ivy so as to make them evergreen.