The longevity flower in the flower market is almost full of buds, which is really liked! When you buy it, you have to pick a lot of buds. Go home and take good care of it. It will be a big flower ball in the New Year!
1. Put it in place
The longevity in the flower market is raised in the shed. Don't put it under the sun directly when you go home. First put it in a place with good light in the house. It's better to keep it 15 degrees up and down. There is no heating at home (below 5 ℃), it's better to put a plastic bag to keep warm at night.
After 3 days or so, if there is nothing to live a long life, you can move to the sunshine place to raise and bask in the sun to open the flower buds faster. But can not see the cold wind, easy to interfere with the normal longevity of the "biological clock", resulting in defoliation, falling bud.
2. How to water
Longevity is very drought resistant, even in the greenhouse, watering is not very frequent. Don't water just after you get home. If you see the leaves are wilting, you can spray water mist around them when it's warm at noon. Don't condense on the buds and leaves
After a week or so, longevity adapts to the new family environment and can be watered. At this time, the water is best prepared in advance. The newly connected tap water has more chlorine. After 1 day, water the flowers again, which is less irritating.
Long life, drought resistance, fear of waterlogging. When watering, pay attention not to accumulate moisture in the basin. It's better to water at noon. The temperature is high and the evaporation is fast. In the evening, the temperature is low and frostbite will not occur. Long life with flower bud 7 - 10 days water once.
3. Do you want to apply fertilizer in the flowering period?
Most of the flowers are not recommended to apply fertilizer after they have a bud, because they are all devoted to flowering at this time, unable to absorb nutrition, but when the fertilizer effect is distributed, it will burn to the flower, causing yellow leaves and buds.
As far as longevity is concerned, special fertilization is not necessary. If it's the longevity just bought, it's usually already fattened. Just bask in the sun and wait patiently. If it is a long-term long-term self-cultivation of longevity, the flower bud does not open, you can spray some potassium dihydrogen phosphate, urge a hurry.
4. What to do after the long life bloom?
When the Florist Kalanchoe are almost blooming, you can trim them as soon as possible. After all, the flowers are not good-looking, so it's better to keep some nutrition and keep the next time you want to revive them. When pruning, you can take the first pair of leaves below and cut them 10-15cm long with the flower pole.
After cutting off the flowers, don't rush to water them first, wait for the wound to heal before watering them. When watering, you can add some nutrient solution, or you can use retting rice water, soybean water to water, add some nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer, etc. 2-3 months later, it will bloom again.
In the flower market, the Christmas Cactus, a leaf can't wait to grow seven or eight buds, all of them are full of energy, just like small steel plates. A few days after I took it home, it collapsed, and the flower buds fell out. It hurt me
1. Crab claw orchid will be soft in the sun.
The Christmas Cactus belongs to the short sunshine flower, originally in the nursery not how to bask in the sun, go home bask in half a day to dehydrate, wilt son. It's best to put it about 1 meter away from the sunshine zone. If you don't have heating and the temperature is low, you can only put it in the sunshine to keep warm.
3-5 days later, when the Christmas Cactus just came in, it was basically adapted to the environment. It could be properly dried for no more than 3 hours a day. If it was too long, the leaves would become red and thin (dehydrated).
In winter, Christmas Cactus blooms. It's better to keep it above 15 degrees. Don't toss: put it here and move it there. Don't move easily after choosing the position, you can rotate at the same position, so that all four sides can receive light evenly.
2. How to water properly
Crab claw orchid just came into the house, don't rush to water, first slow down for 1-2 days, then look, flower market usually uses dark color nutrient soil, you can use your fingers to insert along the edge of the basin, to see whether the soil brought out is dry, if it is dry, then water.
Water the newly bought Christmas Cactus. It's better to prepare the dried tap water in advance. Water it at noon. The evaporation is fast and the stimulation is small. The home has heating, remember to spray in the surrounding humidification, do not concentrate on the leaves and flowers of cactus, may cause spots, decay, fall.
Crab claw orchid is usually watered at a low frequency. It is watered once a week or so. If it is rainy, do not water it. If the humidity in the air is high and it is not easy to evaporate, there will be a problem. It is not late to water it again when it is sunny. It's better to pour less water at the flowering stage, or the flowers will wither ahead of time.
3. Fertilize Christmas Cactus
Crab claw orchid does not need a lot of fertilizer, and it must have been fertilized for a while, depending on the appearance of flower buds in the flower market. Wait until it's finished blooming.
It should be noted that it may only be a temporary phenomenon for the Christmas Cactus to use the flower stimulating fertilizer in the flower market to urge so many flower buds out. In fact, they can't be completely opened when they are taken home. It's better to be ruthless in advance, nip off the weak flower bud and leave the strong one
4. What to do after flowering?
After the Christmas Cactus is opened, you can also pinch off the remnant flowers together with the first leaf, so that it is easier and faster to repeat the flowers behind. After pinching, water again in a few days. The water vapor in the basin can't be too much
After pinching off the flowers, you can top up the Christmas Cactus. Usually, you can collect some bone dregs (filter out the salt) and grind them into powder, or you can boil the soybeans and add the fat water for retting, which is suitable for Christmas Cactus. Disrelish troublesome also can use flower nutrition liquid, general version is OK..
