Daisy like cold climate, avoid hot. It is light loving and half shade tolerant, and it is not strict to the cultivated soil. The suitable temperature for seed germination is 22-28 ℃, and the suitable temperature for growth is 20-25 ℃. In Southwest China, it is suitable to plant single petal or semidouble petal varieties of middle and small flowers. The double petal varieties of middle and large flowers have weak growth and poor seed setting.
After years of cultivation and cross breeding, it has greatly improved the flower type, flowering period, flower color and plant height compared with the wild type. Many horticultural varieties have been screened out to form different series of varieties. The common cultivated varieties at home and abroad are as follows:
The petals of habanella series are long, and the stems can be as long as 6cm. In the early summer of flowering, they are white, pink and red.
The double petaled stem of the daisy in the pile ball series is about 4cm, white, pink and red, with pleated petals.
Early flowering, large amount of flowers, semidouble petals, red, rose pink, pink, white, etc., with a stem of about 3cm
Tasso series of double petals, with pleated petals, mostly 6cm stems, pink, white, red .
