Potted medal flower is usually used in 12-15cm basin, and the basin soil can be a mixture of rotten leaf soil, manure and coarse sand. When the seedlings grow to 4-5 pieces, they can be potted.
The potted medal flower is cultivated in a flowerpot of 10-16cm, with a well drained medium, and the potted soil is kept dry. Water the potted soil every time after it is dry. The watering of medal flowers should be carried out in the morning to keep the leaves dry at night and prevent diseases. Too much water will produce excessive growth, too dry will early flowering, and in strong light is easy to burn the leaf surface.
Keep the soil moderately moist during growth.
Under the condition of sufficient light and suitable temperature, it can bloom continuously. If no seed is left, cut off the remaining flowers in time after flower withering, which will help to form more buds and flowers.
Apply fertilizer once a half month or so, and use Huiyou 15-15-30 potted flower fertilizer or mature cake fertilizer.
It is common to suffer from leaf spot. It can be sprayed with 25% carbendazim WP 1000 times.
Red spider and aphid are harmful to insects. Aphids are killed by spraying 1000 times of 2.5% rotenone emulsifiable concentrate and 1500 times of 40% Omethoate emulsifiable concentrate.
Medal flowers are often planted, divided and propagated by cutting.
Sowing can be carried out in April Spring or September autumn. The suitable temperature for germination is 16-20 ℃. The seedlings will germinate 15-25 days after sowing. When a pair of true leaves grow, they will be transferred for the first time.
Most of the branches of the medal flower were dug out before the germination of the foliage from March to April, and cut longitudinally from the root neck of the cluster with a sharp knife. Each branch can be directly potted with bud head and root system.
The Cuttage Propagation of medal flower can be carried out in spring and autumn. The buds with stem nodes are cut, two leaves are left at the top, inserted into the sand bed, and the substrate is kept wet. Under the temperature of 20-25 ℃, 20-25 natural roots are born after cuttage. If 0.1% indobutyric acid is used to treat cuttings for 1-2 seconds, the rooting is faster.
