The medium that plants can breathe-perlite is essential for non-rotting roots.

At the beginning of learning to grow flowers, everyone's first reaction was to dig some soil outside and plant the flowers directly, but as soon as they were watered and the weather was hot, they found that the plants wilted day by day. When they pulled it up and looked at it, they often felt heartache to see a pile of rotten roots, dripping water, and the soil was so sticky that water could be wrung out.

This is often caused by two reasons:

1, too much watering, their own plants need the soil almost dry to continue to water, so that plants can breathe, will not retting rotten, after all, not all plants like to soak in water as lotus water lilies.

2, not too much watering, but even if the soil does not dry for a long time, the soil is still watered half a month later, and the soil is still heavy and heavy like soaking water even when it rains in the open air.

In two cases like this, the first is to control the hand, and you must judge the frequency of watering according to evaporation; the second is to improve your soil as soon as possible.

If you don't want to change all the soil or buy your own soil, perlite is recommended.

We often see white and light particles in the expensive nutritious soil sold in the flower market, which is perlite.

Perlite is a kind of acid lava from volcanic eruption. it is a glassy rock formed by sharp cooling. it is named perlite because of its perlite fracture structure.

Its quality is slightly heavier than foam, but it is more environmentally friendly and does not cause pollution. Many flower lovers who have been growing flowers for a long time are already familiar with it, but it is still a very unfamiliar medium for many beginners.

Perlite is chosen for these reasons:

1. Low price

Once you want to raise the flowers well and don't worry, many people just dig the soil outside casually, but not all the soil in all places is loose and breathable, and some flower friends are online shopping nutritious soil, and a good bag of nutritious soil is often more expensive than flowers. It is not necessarily loose and breathable, and if you need a large piece of land, it is not realistic to buy all the soil online. In general, perlite is sold in fireproof material stores, a large sack is generally more than ten yuan, and a treasure is only ten yuan a bag.

Such a large bag to mix soil can also be used by the balcony people for a long time. The proportion can generally be 1/3 of the soil is perlite instead, if your soil is not too sticky, you can also relatively reduce the amount of use.

two。 Safety angle

Most of the basic family flowers are raised by the balcony, which takes into account the load-bearing problem of the balcony, long-term stagnant water and the use of sand to increase breathability, the load-bearing of the balcony is greatly increased, the overweight balcony is very dangerous, and there have been news reports that the overweight balcony fell. I'm afraid when I think about it. There are long-term stagnant water balcony is also easy to mosquito breeding, miscellaneous bacteria rampant, is also harmful to health.

For example, a balcony like this must take into account the problem of load bearing:

3. As a cutting medium

Many plants can be bred by asexual reproduction, that is, cutting methods, and not all branches can grow back into a new plant casually in the soil, especially in summer when the cutting branches often rot and blacken easily leading to cutting failure, but perlite is different. It does not have many miscellaneous bacteria that can easily lead to plant decay. It only needs to be watered thoroughly, the seedling box is planted with branches, and the bottom is moisturized without soaking the branches. Summer can improve the survival rate of cuttings.

Of course, loose soil media such as vermiculite and peat soil can also be used together, although there are these media, but plants can not carry you too diligently watering, you must take good care of your hands.

Finally, I hope your balcony will bloom as soon as possible.

Time: 2019-04-22 Click: