After the soil is hardened, you can see clearly that the soil in the flowerpot will form a block. When watering, it will pile up on the surface of the soil, completely unable to penetrate. Slight soil hardening will cause yellow leaves to fall off due to insufficient watering or long-term water accumulation.
If the root system can not breathe in the soil for a long time, it will cause rotten root. Therefore, we must be alert to the phenomenon of soil hardening!
Many flower friends water their flowers from the tap water pipes. For some areas with alkaline water quality, watering flowers for a long time will cause the phenomenon of soil hardening.
1. Water the flowers after 1-2 days.
The tap water contains chlorine, so it's easy to harden if you water the flowers directly, so before watering the flowers, it's best to connect the tap water from the water pipe, air it for 1-2 days, let the chlorine in the water evaporate, and then use it to water the flowers.
2. Try to water the flowers with rainwater and snow water.
When it rains normally, you can contact the rain or get some snow water, and then use it to water the flowers after it turns on. Because the rain and snow water are acid, and also contain nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, etc., watering the flowers for a long time can avoid hardening.
3. Water with vitamin C .
Before watering the water, you can throw a piece or half of vitamin C in the bucket, because vitamin C can neutralize the chlorine in the water, so that the water quality is cleaner, and it is not easy to harden when watering.
For many northern flower friends, the soil is generally alkaline. In addition, if the water quality is alkaline and the watering time is long, a layer of white material will accumulate on the soil surface, which is commonly known as soil salinization, hardening is certain!
1. Water the peel
The peel and some rotten fruits at home, such as orange peel, banana peel and rotten fruit, can be packed in a big barrel, sealed with some rice washing water and fermented. Generally, after one month, they can pour out water 50 times, and water the flowers directly! The peel water is slightly acidic, and long-term watering can improve the soil alkalinity.
3. Pour some beer water.
Usually drink the rest of the beer, you can mix 50 times of water with synthetic beer solution, and water the flowers directly. Beer contains a lot of nutrients, not only to improve the soil hardening phenomenon, but also to supplement nutrients, so that flowers grow vigorously!
3. Pour some white vinegar water.
There are flower friends with white vinegar at home. When watering, you can drop 2-3 drops of white vinegar into the water to make the water acidic, which can neutralize the alkalinity of the soil and prevent hardening, especially for gardenia, azalea, camellia and other people who like acid soil, and avoid yellow leaves.
Garden soil is the soil we can dig everywhere on the road. If we only use garden soil for a long time when we raise flowers, after watering several times, the soil will stick together and harden!
1. Mix some sand in the basin soil.
After the soil is found to be hardened, you can use chopsticks to poke holes in the flowerpot. You'd better insert them into the bottom of the flowerpot, and then plug the straw in.
Grab a handful of sand, pour the sand in from the straw, and then draw the straw out, thus forming a sand pillar. When watering, it can permeate the soil from the sand and reduce the hardening phenomenon.
2. Mix some cinders in the basin.
Don't throw the cinders at home. After crushing, they will be soaked in water and filtered, leaving slightly larger particles. After drying, they will be directly mixed in the soil, which can increase the permeability and permeability, so as to prevent the soil from hardening.
3. Mix some pine needles in the basin
Take advantage of the autumn, go to pick up some pine needles under the tree, take them home, scald them with boiling water, sterilize them, seal them and ferment them for one month. When the pine needles turn black, they will be ripe. When the soil is mixed with loose needles, the permeability of the soil can also be increased to prevent hardening.
If the flowers in the family are kept for 2-3 years without changing pots, all the nutrients in the soil will be absorbed. If the time is long, the soil will be hard and airtight, and the drainage will be poor accordingly.
1. Change basin every 1-2 years.
If you haven't changed basin for a long time, you'd better change basin for it. When the autumn temperature lasts at 25 ℃, take the flower out of the pot, prepare the loose and breathable nutrient soil, and replant it in a slightly larger pot. After watering the pot once, first put the scattered light for a few days, and then change the pot successfully!
When changing pots for flowers, the soil must be loose, breathable and nutritious. When mixing soil, you can mix some pearlite, vermiculite and other large particles in the soil, or you can mix some compound fertilizer, slow-release fertilizer and so on.
2. Add some earthworm excrement to the basin surface.
If you can't change the basin for the time being, you can only add fertilizer to it. Take advantage of rainy days, go outside to pick up some earthworm manure, and sprinkle it directly on the surface of the flowerpot. When watering, the nutrients of earthworm manure permeate into the soil with water, which can improve the hardening phenomenon and supplement nutrients.
3. Sprinkle a handful of chicken manure on the basin surface.
Flower friends who don't want to go out to pick up earthworm manure can also try to sprinkle a handful of dry manure on the basin surface, such as chicken manure, sheep manure, etc. First, loosen the soil on the basin surface with a small shovel, do not water it in a day, then spread chicken manure or sheep manure on the basin surface, and finally spray water to get wet. After about 20 days, the soil will feel loose, and then use it once every two months.
Flower lovers love to apply home-made fertilizer to their flowers. But if the fertilizer is not fermented, it will be directly poured into the soil, which will not only cause root burning, but also cause soil hardening in nine out of ten.
1. Full fermentation
Whether it's rice washing water or soybean water, you'd better find a plastic bottle, pour them into the bottle, seal and ferment for 1-2 months, wait until the fermentation is successful, and then mix with water to water the flowers, the completely decomposed fertilizer will not cause the soil to harden. (it's like soybean water. It will turn black when it's completely rotten)
2. Pour some fish tank water.
If you don't want to ferment fertilizer, you can also water the fish tank directly. Replace the water in the fish tank, and put it under the room temperature for 1-2 days, and water the flowers directly. The fish tank water contains fish waste and some leftover fertilizer. It contains a lot of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and microelements, which can supplement nutrients and prevent soil from hardening.
3. Frequent application of thin fertilizer
When applying fertilizer to flowers, do not apply too much at once. If you apply too much concentrated fertilizer, it will also cause hardening. You can use thin fertilizer to apply frequently. The self-made liquid fertilizer, usually once a half month, is enough. Do not apply too often.
