Red sandalwood is a kind of sun loving plant, which is not resistant to low temperature. Its suitable growth temperature is between 20-30 ℃, and it is easy to suffer from frost damage when the temperature is lower than 3 ℃. Therefore, the potted plant of red sandalwood with small leaves is suitable to be placed on the sunny balcony or sunny place to ensure sufficient light.
Red sandalwood has developed root system and nodule. It can fix nitrogen and has no strict requirement on soil.
Small leaf red sandalwood belongs to tropical plants, which is not drought resistant and has high requirements for water content. Generally, it needs to be watered in two or three days. Watering should not be carried out at noon, otherwise, it will easily cause evaporation of water vapor of red sandalwood plants under high temperature, which will lead to withering and death of plants in the long run. Water to be poured through, not only wet soil surface, can often spray water to the leaves.
It is not necessary to apply fertilizer to potted plants of red sandalwood, usually 1-2 months can drop plant nutrient solution into water and mix well, then directly pour it into the soil.
Small leaf red sandalwood bonsai has the ability to adapt to the environment. When it is used to the surrounding growth environment, it is not suitable to move the bonsai frequently to avoid increasing the growth burden on the small leaf red sandalwood bonsai.
The two common diseases, anthrax and nevus, are easy to occur in the seedling stage and young trees of red sandalwood bonsai, which can be controlled by spraying 1:100 Bordeaux solution or 50% carbendazim 1000 times solution. In terms of insect damage, there are leaf eating insects such as goldbug and beetle, which can spray trichlorfon.
