How to grow potted coloreds

Colorful leaf grass colorful, a wide variety, easy to breed, can do small flower furnishings, placed on the windowsill and dwarf appreciation. In addition to small foliage flower furnishings, it can also be equipped with pattern flower beds, and can also be used as leaves for flower baskets and bouquets. Colored leaf grass is a very good-looking perennial foliage plant, its leaves bright adaptability, adapt to the temperature between 20-30 degrees, a short low temperature of about 5 degrees does not affect the normal growth.

How to plant potted colored leaf grass? Let's take a look at the planting method of colourful leaf grass.

1. Cultivate seedlings

During this period, we can choose cutting, or we can choose seed propagation. I suggest choosing cutting, because cutting has a quick effect, it can take root in about ten days, and then you can enter the growth period. We choose strong plants to choose sturdy stems, cut into segments of about 10-12 cm, with a slope at the bottom and 2-4 leaf buds in the middle. Then check the sponge first, and spray water with a small pumping slurry at the bottom. It can also be cut directly in seedling plates and flowerpots. Choose the equipment according to your own situation.

2. Configure the matrix

Colourful leaf grass likes fertile, loose, well-drained soil. Choose nutritious pastoral soil with mature organic fertilizer, or mix evenly with peat soil plus fermented organic fertilizer, perlite and vermiculite. The basin soil can be prepared with garden soil, rotten leaf soil and river sand at 5:3:2, and a small amount of organic fertilizer or bone powder is added to the bottom of the basin as base fertilizer.

3. Transplant into pot

It is better to plant colored leaf grass in a small pot, generally with an inner diameter of 10 cm on the seedling. After 20 to 30 days of maintenance, the plant height of up to 15 cm can be placed and watched. Indoor placement should choose the south window with strong diffuse light to keep the basin soil dry and wet moderately, the air fresh and the environment clean. When loading the pot, choose a round flowerpot with a diameter of about 20 and a height of about 18, with a vent at the bottom, install the prepared substrate, then pour water thoroughly, control the excess water, and move the long-rooted cuttings to the flowerpot. Just put it in a sunny place.

4. Maintenance and management

The other time is the maintenance and management, the colored leaf grass can change the color according to the intensity of the sun and the amount of moisture, if you want to make the color more and more red, move it to a sunny place, and if you want to make the color lighter, you can put it in a cool place. the rest is reasonable pruning according to the size of the basin, which has achieved aesthetics.

(1) coring: no matter which breeding method is adopted, in order to obtain plump and beautiful colored leaf grass shape, it is necessary to constantly pick the heart in the growth process to promote branching, control plant height or avoid fruiting. In production, coring can also be used to control the colored leaf grass into a unified height. If there is a special purpose and there is no need to harvest seeds, it can be removed at the initial stage of flower ear formation to avoid loose plant type after heading and reduce the ornamental effect.

(2) Water spraying: colored leaf grass pot flowers, like all grass flowers, because of the limited soil in the basin, it is necessary to replenish water in time, otherwise it is easy to wilt, and often spray water to the leaves to maintain a certain air humidity. Especially the outdoor flower arrangement on holidays, because there is no water pipe in some places, and the water pipe is large, the water pipe can not be reached, so the garden department of our city often uses the high-pressure water gun of water truck to spray water, which can play the dual role of watering and spraying. During the hot season, pot flowers placed outdoors need to be sprayed twice a day, preferably before 10:00 and after 4 p.m. General evaporation is not the wife, such as during the National Day, when the weather is cool, you can spray water once a day. The amount of water should be watered through the basin soil without stagnant water, which can meet the water demand of colourful leaf grass for a day.

(3) weeding: sufficient water and light are easy to breed weeds in the colored leaf grass basin, especially in the parts with less leaves and more exposed soil, which give the weeds a suitable growth environment. Need to be found and cleared in time, weeds with deeper roots need to be pulled out, do not bring out or expose the roots of colourful leafy grass, affecting its normal growth.

(4) Prevention and control of diseases and insect pests: leaf spot disease is easy to occur in the growing period, which can be sprayed with 500 times of 50% methyl topiramate wettable powder. Vulnerable pests are shell insects, red spiders and whitefly, which can be sprayed with 1000 times omethoate EC when they occur.

Time: 2019-05-24 Click: