Culture methods and matters needing attention of green apple and bamboo taro

Green apple bamboo taro is a typical ornamental plant with beautiful and generous plant type. it is a kind of plant which is more suitable to be placed in the room to improve indoor quality and fengshui. So how to cultivate green apple bamboo taro in order to grow healthily?

Culture method of Green Apple and Bamboo Taro

Reproduction: can be combined with changing pots to split, pay attention to make each split with more leaves and strong roots, new plant planting should not be too deep, all the roots can be buried in the soil, otherwise the growth of new buds will be affected. New plants should control soil moisture, but can often spray water to the leaves to increase air humidity. Wait for new roots to grow before fully watering.

Moisture: like moist, avoid drought, dry air can easily lead to scorched leaf edge and poor growth. During the growing season, in addition to watering once a day, foliar and environmental spraying should also be strengthened to keep the air relative humidity above 85% to 90%. When the cold winter comes, in addition to paying attention to heat preservation, watering should also be strictly controlled. at this time, when the basin soil is too wet, it is easy to cause root rot, and keep the basin soil slightly dry, even if the leaves wither, the plant will pull out new leaves again after the return of air in spring. When the new leaves begin to germinate, they should not be watered too much. With the increase of new leaves, the amount of water should be increased gradually, which is beneficial to the robust growth of the plant.

Fertilizer: the fertilization of green apple and bamboo taro can follow the principle of frequent application of thin fertilizer, thin liquid fertilizer once a week, but the temperature is too high or too low should not be fertilized, so as not to cause rotten roots. When potted plants are displayed at home or in public places, 0.2% urea and 0.1% potassium dihydrogen phosphate can be poured or sprayed. After entering summer, when the temperature is higher than 32 ℃, fertilizer should be stopped. In late autumn and early winter, if the temperature in the greenhouse is lower than 18 ℃, all forms of topdressing should be stopped.

Lighting: green apple bamboo taro from late spring and early autumn should pay attention to shading, light is too strong, but also cause pale leaves, green apple bamboo taro leaves delicate, too strong light will burn leaves, but also can not shade for a long time, lack of light green apple bamboo taro leaves will become no luster, so the amount of light is very important, at the same time, we should also pay attention to ventilation.

Temperature: like warm and peaceful environment, not resistant to extreme heat, fear of high temperature, and poor cold resistance, the suitable temperature for its growth is 18 ℃ to 30 ℃. When the ambient temperature exceeds 25 ℃ in late spring and early summer, it is necessary to create a cool, ventilated, moist and semi-overcast environment by setting up a shed to shade and spraying water. In winter, the ambient temperature is required to be no less than 10 ℃. When the temperature in the greenhouse is lower than 5 ℃, the aboveground parts will suffer serious freezing damage. In general, when the ambient temperature drops to 10 ℃ at the end of autumn, it should be moved into the sunny part of the shed in time.

Diseases and insect pests: the common diseases of green apple bamboo taro are leaf spot and scab, which can be sprayed with 0.5 ∶ 0.5 ∶ 100 Bordeaux solution or 50% carbendazim wettable powder, once every 10 days, 2 to 3 times continuously, and a good control effect can be obtained. Under high temperature and dry conditions, the leaves will appear a large number of small yellow spots due to the harm of red spiders, which seriously reduce its ornamental value, and can be sprayed with 2000 times of 25% Baileba wettable powder. Sometimes the harm of scale insects occurs.

Matters needing attention in the Culture of Green Apple and Bamboo Taro

Green apple bamboo taro should make the basin soil slightly dry in winter, in order to facilitate the winter, usually watering should not be too waterlogged, otherwise there may be rotten roots or root diseases; if the plant is too shaded, the silver-gray stripes on the edge of green apple bamboo taro leaves will be darkened, affecting the ornamental effect. When fertilizing, we should pay attention to the ratio of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, do not apply nitrogen fertilizer alone, otherwise it will affect the color of leaves.

The ventilation of green apple and bamboo taro needs to be carried out when the external temperature is above 16 ℃, which can be blown directly on the plant, but the ventilation rate should be reduced or not ventilated in case of strong wind to prevent the leaves from being damaged.

Green apple bamboo taro can not only be matched with various styles of living rooms, but also can use its emerald green leaves to maintain eyesight for people. In addition, it can also play a certain ability to protect against radiation. It is a plant suitable for display next to TV and computer.