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Cultivation methods and precautions of fruit vines

Marie Schrader
2020-07-23 08:45:26
Fruit vine is a kind of popular ornamental flower in recent years. Its leaves are long and oily green, orange red bracts are scattered layer by layer, straight and beautiful, which is very suitable for decorating windowsills and balconies. So how should fruit vines be cultivated? Come and have a look.

Soil suitable for fruit vine

To cultivate fruit vines, loose and fertile soil with good drainage, humus rich rotten soil or peat soil can be used, and plant rotten leaves, bryophyte bark can be mixed into the garden soil to make proper basin soil for planting.

The growth temperature of the fruit vine

The suitable temperature for the growth of fruit vine is about 15-30 ℃, generally 21-27 ℃ in spring and summer, 16-21 ℃ in autumn and winter. If the temperature in winter is lower than 16 ℃, the plant will stop growing. It should be noted that the temperature of cultivation must not fall below 10 ℃, otherwise it is easy to frostbite the plant.

The light demand of fruit vine

Fruit vines like light, so they need to provide enough sunlight during the breeding process. If they don't get enough sunlight for a long time, fruit vines will grow more and more slowly, and flowering will be delayed later. But should notice, although should spend to illuminate time to request high, but it is to be afraid of strong light, when summer sunshine is strong, want to notice to block out light, do not put in the direct sunlight place insolate.

How to water the fruit vine

The water demand of fruit vine is very high, so it can't be short of water. The soil should be kept in a slightly wet state all the time. In the period of vigorous growth, it is necessary to often spray water on the leaves. In winter, reduce watering. To pay attention to the flower is very sensitive to water quality, the best use of low hardness water, do not directly use tap water

How to fertilize the fruit vine

In the growth period of fruit vine, it is necessary to apply light liquid fertilizer once every 15 days or so. There are some small scales on the leaf root of this flower plant to absorb nutrients and water, so liquid fertilizer can also be sprayed directly on it.

The flower of a vine

Change basin, change soil

When changing pots and soil for fruit vines, some basic fertilizer should be applied. Generally, 3cm thick basic fertilizer should be laid at the bottom of the pot before putting the soil in.

Disease and insect damage of fruit vine

The main disease of fruit vine is leaf spot. If encountering this disease, it can be treated by spraying Bordeaux fungicide solution. Sometimes the flower will suffer from scale insects, which are very harmful and should be eradicated in time. If you want to spray insecticides to kill insects, you need to do it when they are just hatched, otherwise the liquid medicine will not work easily after the formation of the beetle shell. Generally speaking, you can use alcohol to wipe the plants gently and repeatedly to get rid of insects. In this way, even the larvae that can't be seen by the naked eye can be completely wiped out. It's a relatively simple and safe way to get rid of insects.

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