Watson is common on the sunny hillside in the wild. In recent years, it has been favored by flower lovers. Many people keep it on their roofs and balconies. Others use Watson as a mulch to green the roof.
However, it is difficult to bloom or even die in the process of family maintenance.
Appropriate containers should be selected for cultivation of Watson. Although there is not much soil in the tile joints on the roof, the tile pines grow well. So we need to create a similar environment for the tile joints of the roof.
Use the small plastic box containing biscuits as the container, with half of the nutritive soil below and half of the coarse river sand above, and plant the seedlings of Watson. You can also use a small bowl with a diameter of 3 inches. The bottom of the basin is padded with 3 cm gravel, 3 cm nutrient soil and 2 cm thick river sand. The effect will be very good.
In addition, appropriate transplanting time should be selected. For transplanting in spring, dense rosette type leaves should be selected after overwintering, and they can bloom in the same year after surviving. For transplanting in summer and autumn, one-year seedlings shall be selected and can bloom the next year after survival.
Plant Watson in an ordinary flowerpot, because the amount of soil will be relatively large, after watering, the drainage is not smooth, easy to rot and die.
Solution
Select a smaller container, put a small amount of soil, water in the evening, a small amount of spray, it will not happen rotten roots.
It should be noted that at the flowering stage, the growth of Watson is large and needs more water, so it should be watered more; while the overwintering plants form short shrunken stems, which grow slowly and need less water, so it should be watered less.
The common diseases and insect pests of Watson are: the well-known mustard, snail, and invisible bacteria.
Solution
Adding a small amount of carbendazim into the water as water for flower watering can basically prevent most of the bacteria from breeding.
Powder mustard needs special attention, because it's very secretive. If you find some meat wilting, but you can't find the reason, you must turn up the leaves and look at the bottom of the leaves!
Snail is basically night action, the most difficult to prevent, maintenance time to turn over the flowerpot from time to time, to see if there is an ambush under the flowerpot this sticky succulent plant annoying guy!
