When it comes to new year's Eve flowers, we have to mention Cyclamen. This kind of flower is so popular that many flower friends will raise a pot in their house. It will be red and hot for a year.
The flower of Cyclamen is very bright in color and unique in shape. It looks like a rabbit's ear from afar, so it's also called rabbit ear flower. It's very beautiful!
There are many kinds of Cyclamen, according to the color, there are red, white, purple, etc. According to the size of flowers, there are common types and mini ones. According to the shape of flowers, there are two kinds: wavy side and smooth side.
Generally, cyclamen begins to bloom in November, and it can bloom until May of the next year. If the growth environment is suitable, it will not even sleep in summer, and it will bloom all the year round.
When Cyclamen comes home, there will be temporary yellow leaf wilting sometimes. In fact, cyclamen hasn't adapted to the new environment, as long as you pay attention to it, you can feed.
Generally, the Cyclamen bought is raised in the shed. The environmental conditions are different from those at home. At this time, cyclamen is still in the adaptation stage. Do not water immediately. And Cyclamen is a kind of bulbous flowers, more drought resistant, can wait for Cyclamen to adapt to the environment before watering
Sometimes when buying flowers, although the flowers are very beautiful, the flowerpots are not good-looking. In this case, don't change the basin immediately, otherwise the potted flower will die. To change basin can wait until after spring, at this time flowers have adapted to the new environment, temperature and other conditions are also more appropriate
When the Cyclamen comes home, it must not be exposed to the sun. Because the flower just changed a new environment at this time, if you accept the sun will burn, you can put the Cyclamen in the astigmatism environment for a week.
After the Cyclamen has adapted to the new environment, how should it be maintained? Now Huahua will share with you how to raise Cyclamen
Cyclamen is a bulbous flower. It has strong water storage capacity, so don't water it frequently. In winter, water once every 6-7 days. Before watering, you can see whether the soil is dry or not. When watering, please don't sprinkle water on the leaves and flowers
In winter, cyclamen doesn't need to apply fertilizer. It usually sprays 0.2% potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution to Cyclamen before flowering. Before applying fertilizer, it's better to loosen the soil and keep away from the roots.
In winter, cyclamen can be placed on the top of the tea table or cabinet in the living room to ensure a certain amount of scattered light and a good ventilation environment, which is conducive to the growth of Cyclamen, and it can also absorb harmful gases such as sulfur dioxide
The most suitable temperature environment for Cyclamen is 10 ~ 20 ℃, too low temperature is easy to affect flowering, so that the flower color is dim, if the temperature is too high, cyclamen will open and fail in advance.
The flowering period of Cyclamen is very long, but some of the Cyclamens in the family of flower friends have failed early. Why? Next, Huahua will tell you the precautions during the flowering period, so that the Cyclamen can bloom for a longer time.
Cyclamen is especially afraid of waterlogging. If there is too much watering, the flowers will wilt. Therefore, watering should be controlled. See the Cyclamen leaves are a little droopy and then water them. If it's not easy to control, you can use the soaking pot method
Cyclamen is a kind of flower that can't bear high temperature, like cool and well ventilated environment, so don't put Cyclamen in the heating, air conditioning and other places, generally the room temperature is about 15 ℃ for a long time.
Cyclamen is usually suitable to be placed in the scattered light environment, but after flowering, it is necessary to sun more, move Cyclamen to the window of the living room and other places with good light, so as to ensure adequate illumination.