Huoshaohua likes the soil with deep soil layer and fertility, and the neutral or slightly acid soil with good drainage performance is better, which can bear barren soil, and a certain amount of base fertilizer is required for planting.
Flaming flowers like light and warm growing environment. The suitable temperature for growth is between 23 ℃ - 30 ℃ and about 0 ℃ in winter. In general, flaming flowers are cultivated in China. In South China, they can be planted in the open. In other areas, they need to be potted in winter and moved into the room for maintenance. Flaming flowers like a sunny growing environment. They can grow well only when there is enough light, but they can also stand half shade.
The demand for water and fertilizer is not high, so we need to pay attention to supplement water in time during the growth period, especially in high temperature and drought. Fertilization needs to be carried out according to the fertility of the soil. During the growth period, appropriate supplementary fertilizer is needed, mainly thin fertilizer application. It needs to be applied 3-5 times a year, and more nitrogen fertilizer can be applied. In autumn, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer should be applied.
The commonly used methods for propagation of flaming flowers are cutting, sowing or layering, which can be carried out in spring.
The common disease of flaming flowers is bacterial wilt, which occurs mainly in the rainy spring and suffers a lot. The main pests are aphids, night moths, yellow moths, foot moths, tigers and beetles. These pests will more or less cause harm to the fire flowers and need to be controlled in time.
Flaming flower is a kind of plant which can be pruned frequently to keep the plant type of flaming flower.
