How to raise bergamot bonsai

Bergamot, also known as five-finger mandarin, is generally about 1 meter high. It is evergreen all the year round, bluish yellow fruit color, intoxicating fragrance, now has become a valuable ornamental leaf potted flowers, is listed as a good product of interior decoration. Its fruit separates its carpels when it is ripe, forming slender, curved petals, shaped like fingers, hence the name bergamot. Its ornamental value is different from the general bonsai flowers. Pure white, fragrant, and a cluster of open, very lovable. To the fruit ripening period, its shape is like finger shape, clenched fist shape, fist finger shape, hand shape, hand shape, like human hands, lifelike.

The mature golden bergamot is golden in color, and can overflow fragrance from time to time, eliminate peculiar smell, purify indoor air and inhibit bacteria. Hang the fruit for a long time, for 3-4 months, or even longer, for long-term viewing of bergamot flowers. Then how to raise bergamot bonsai? The following is to introduce the maintenance methods of bergamot bonsai.

[watering]

This is the key to managing potted bergamot. Usually to keep the basin soil moist, need frequent watering. The high temperature in summer coincides with the prosperous growth period of bergamot, which requires a large amount of water. It is watered once a day in the morning and afternoon to the degree that the basin soil is not dry. In addition, it is necessary to spray water to increase the environmental humidity. After entering autumn, the amount of water can be gradually reduced. During the low temperature period in winter, you only need to keep the basin soil moist. Special attention should be paid to the fact that bergamot is in the early stage of flowering and fruiting, watering should not be too much, otherwise there will be a large number of falling flowers and fruits.

[fertilization]

Bergamot likes fertilizer, so it is necessary to apply sufficient base fertilizer when changing pots, apply thin alum fertilizer once every half month in growing season, stop application on cloudy and rainy days, stop fertilization after budding, wait for its young fruit to grow to the size of little finger, and after the fruit has been basically hung, apply phosphate-containing light fertilizer water every 7 to 10 days for 4 to 5 times in a row. If bergamot only grows leaves but does not blossom, it is excessive nitrogen fertilizer, should stop nitrogen fertilizer, and add more phosphorus fertilizer. If you only blossom without hanging fruit, it is a sign of lack of fertilizer.

[sparse flowers]

Although bergamot blossoms many times a year, most of the flowers blooming on spring shoots at the end of June are bisexual flowers, which are easy to bear fruit. Choose 1-2 stout short branches with moderate length, short branches and thick leaves, and the rest are thinned to promote them to grow into big fruits. During the flowering and fruiting period, attention should also be paid to erasing the new buds sprouting on the dry branches to prevent fruit drop.

Problems that should be paid attention to in the maintenance of bergamot bonsai in winter:

The main results are as follows: 1. In winter, the indoor humidity decreases and the air dries due to the hot air of the normally open air conditioner, which increases the transpiration rate of water in the plant, and the indoor air temperature is much higher than that of the planting medium, resulting in roots.

The growth activity of the part slows down, and the leaf water evaporates too fast, so there will be the phenomenon of falling leaves.

Maintenance method: keep bergamot bonsai away from air conditioning, spray water on bergamot leaves with a small spray can in the form of fog every day in leisure time, increase the humidity of the air near bergamot bonsai and slow down transpiration.

2. Control of watering quantity.

In winter, the growth rate of bergamot slows down, and the absorption of water decreases, so it is not easy to water too much. 500ml (mineral water bottle) is watered twice a week, about once every three days.

3. Light, put the bonsai in the light position as far as possible, if the weather is better during the day, you can put it in the open air and take it back at night.

When bergamot is in bloom, pay attention to thinning flowers and fruits:

If there are too many flowers, the flowering period consumes a lot of nutrients. Thinning should be carried out before the flowers bloom, leaving large bisexual buds in the middle and picking other thin buds.

The measures to be taken are:

1. Thinning flowers should remove the flowers in the lower part of the crown, retain the large flowers at the top of the fruiting mother branch and the larger bisexual flowers in the middle of the tidbits, and remove the thin small flowers and unisexual flowers.

2. Thinning of young fruit and fruit should be carried out in different stages. Sparse fruit to remove bad fruit, deformed fruit, retain good fruit, strong fruit.

Time: 2019-06-01 Click: