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How to raise Cyclamen

Gustavo Fring
2020-04-29 08:53:15
Soil: select loose and well drained soil for cultivation. Light: like sunshine, but avoid direct sunlight. Temperature: the required temperature is 18 to 20 ℃. Watering: keep the basin soil slightly moist. Fertilizer: the requirement for fertilizer is relatively high, and it needs to be changed every year.

I. soil

The soil needed in cultivation must be loose and well drained. We can mix peat, perlite or river sand according to the ratio of 2:1. The traditional flower grower, cyclamen, will use the mushroom fungus or the waste material mixed fertilizer after mushroom cultivation. No matter what kind of substrate is used, it must be disinfected before cultivation, otherwise some will be produced. Very serious disease, after planting, the bulbs must be exposed to the soil surface, at least half of the maintenance space.

2. Light

Cyclamen likes sunshine. By may or so, the South even paid attention to it in April or so. We must reduce the direct sunlight and put it in a cool and ventilated place to spend the high temperature season

Temperature

Cyclamen for temperature requirements in 18 to 20 degrees Celsius, is the most ideal growth range, more than 30 degrees after the start of dormancy, 35 degrees is easy to rot, the best winter is to maintain more than 10 degrees, 5 degrees below the growth of slow, prone to freezing damage.

IV. watering

When watering, keep the basin soil slightly moist. When cultivating many basins of Cyclamen, make sure to water according to the basin, not uniformly, and do not water on the leaves.

5. Fertilizer

The requirement for fertilizer is relatively high. Every year, it needs to change basin. When changing basin, use bone meal or compound fertilizer as base fertilizer. In summer, pay attention to ventilation, rain protection and high temperature season.

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