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Winter Crab Claw orchid leaves soft how to do, leaves become thin and soft.

Jane Margolis
2020-11-16 11:23:35
If you want to change from hydroponics to soil culture, you must first select a strong plant with developed root system. Remove from the hydroponics container and cut off most of the water roots, leaving a few taproots cut short. The pruned roots are put aside to dry, soaked in carbendazim solution and rooting powder solution for sterilization, and then fished out to dry. Prepare a suitable pot and soil, fill the pot with the prepared soil, and then plant the smooth sailing plant in it, gently compacting the soil.

1. Temperature Control

Zygocactus belongs to greenhouse flower plants, and its cold resistance is not high.In winter, the temperature becomes lower, and it is necessary to control the temperature properly.If the temperature is low, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is too large, it is easy to appear the phenomenon of leaf softening, and when serious, the bud will fall.It is best to maintain the temperature at about 15 degrees, not less than 10 degrees, so that it will recover slowly.

2. more sunshine

It likes light itself. During the management period, it has to be exposed to astigmatism for four to six hours every day in order to maintain its normal growth needs.Winter light is very mild, should be placed on the windowsill to the south, more sunshine.If there is a lack of light, the leaves can not carry out photosynthesis, and will be soft and wilting for a long time.More light will bring it back.

3. reduce watering

It has a certain drought tolerance, and water evaporation is slow in low temperature environment in winter, so it does not need frequent water replenishment.If watering is too frequent, the plants can not absorb all of them, and over time there will be water accumulation, so that the root system is easy to rot, can not normally provide water and nutrients to the leaves, slowly will be soft.It is suggested to reduce the amount of water, if the soil is not dry, do not irrigate at will, so as to avoid this phenomenon.

Zygocactus japonicus

4. Appropriate fertilization

If there is no habit of changing pots or fertilizing during the management period, this phenomenon is easy to occur, and the leaves are easy to soften due to lack of fertilizer.Should be in the spring of each year after the flowering period of timely repotting fertilization treatment, autumn or increase the application of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer once or twice, so that not only can promote the root system is strong, but also can promote flowering, leaves will be more full, more flowering.

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