How should bowl lotus (potted lotus) be planted? When will it blossom? What if it doesn't blossom?

Bowl lotus, also known as potted lotus, is a kind of lotus, which originated in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, and later introduced to all parts of the country. It is a kind of lotus that can be planted in bowls. It can usually be placed indoors, which can beautify the environment and purify the air. But how should bowl lotus be planted? When will it blossom? What if it doesn't blossom?

First, how to plant bowl lotus?

1. Soil selection

The choice of soil is particularly important when cultivating lotus bowls. This plant likes fertile soil with high organic matter content and can be cultivated with paddy mud or Donnie. In addition, the container of breeding bowl lotus had better choose porcelain basin and glaze basin, and all the drainage holes at the bottom of the basin should be blocked before breeding.

2. Choose the right variety

There are many different varieties of bowl lotus, usually can choose the most suitable for their own varieties, easy to bloom, flowering more varieties, the most popular, such as Xiamen bowl lotus and jade bowl and "spark", are the best choice for people to cultivate bowl lotus. In addition, when choosing bowl lotus, we must pay attention to the integrity of lotus root top bud, if there is damage, it is difficult to survive after planting.

3. Watering in time

Bowl lotus is a kind of aquatic plant. If you want it to grow quickly, you must not leave the water. Usually, when raising bowl lotus, you can put the water at home in the sun for one or two days, and then pour it into the flowerpot. In addition, after entering the summer, one should be watered every morning and evening, and then the leaves should be kept sufficient in the flowerpot. Only in this way can the lotus grow normally.

4. Adequate fertilization

Wanlian is a kind of fertilizer-loving plant, but usually when fertilizing, you should choose mature bean cake or oil dregs, phosphate and potassium fertilizer and nitrogen fertilizer should not be oversupplied, but after it enters the flowering stage, it can increase the supply of phosphate fertilizer and can be used once a week. It can promote the bowl lotus to blossom as soon as possible, and it will make its flowering period longer.

When does the bowl lotus blossom?

The flowering time of bowl lotus is usually in June, but the specific flowering time varies with different varieties, and the florescence of bowl lotus is not fixed, generally speaking, the flowering period is about 30 days.

Under the conditions of suitable temperature and light, it takes 50-60 days from sowing to flowering in spring and 60-80 days in autumn.

Third, what if the bowl lotus does not blossom?

1. Change the large culture basin

Reason: the growth of bowl lotus mainly depends on the root absorption of nutrients, if the space is too small, its roots can not open, it will affect the absorption of nutrients, resulting in no flowering.

Solution: replace it with a larger container. Be careful not to hurt its root when changing the container, otherwise it will also fail to blossom.

2. Increase nutrition

Reason: like most flowers, the flowering of bowl lotus also needs a lot of nutrition, if the nutrition is not enough, it will also cause the plant not to blossom.

Solution: regularly and quantitatively add nutrients to the plant, livestock manure can be properly applied to ensure the flowering needs of the plant.

3. Change the soil regularly

Reason: Wanlian does not like old-fashioned, do not change the soil for a long time will lead to the plant can not blossom, this is because of the lack of nutrition in the old soil, can not support its flowering.

Solution: what the lotus lotus dislikes most is the old-fashioned, which will inhibit the growth of the plant after more than a year, so change the soil every six months to a year. When changing the soil, an appropriate amount of base fertilizer can be added to ensure the growth and flowering of the plant.

4. Weeding in time

Reason: if there are weeds growing around the plant, it will compete with it for nutrients in the soil, and it will be difficult to blossom because it absorbs less nutrients.

Solution: when breeding, we should pay attention to the situation in the basin soil, and pick out the weeds in time.

Time: 2019-03-14 Click: