Goldfish grass has a variety of larger plants, but also a variety of low flowering. Potted goldfish grass should choose a variety of low plants and flowers, so that the ornamental value of potted plants is higher.
Goldfish grass should use a mud or plastic basin with a diameter of about 15cm and good permeability. The culture medium should be loose, fertile and well drained, or mixed with saprophytic soil, peat, grain and plant ash. Before planting, apply some dry animal manure or cake fertilizer, and slightly add bone meal or superphosphate as the base fertilizer.
Goldfish grass is usually fertilized once every 10 days. Goldfish grass is not allowed to accumulate water in the soil, but insufficient watering will also affect its growth and development. The correct way is to keep the soil moist, and it should be slightly dry between two times of irrigation. In addition, when watering, try to avoid supplying water from the top of the plant, so as to reduce the leaf humidity and water splashing to spread the disease.
Goldfish grass is a kind of all light loving plant. Under the condition of sufficient sunlight, goldfish grass grows at the same height and blooms neatly and brightly. Under the condition of half shade, the growth is higher and the color is lighter. Goldfish grass blooms early in winter when it is given 4 hours of light supplement. The temperature of goldfish grass was kept at 15 ℃ in the night and 22-28 ℃ in the day. When the temperature was 2-3 ℃, the florescence was delayed, the number of blind flowers increased, and the quality of cut flowers decreased.
Goldfish grass is mainly propagated by sowing and tissue culture.
After goldfish grass blooms, cut off the ground part in the same soil, irrigate once for water penetration, and then sprout new branches in about a week, and then apply thin liquid fertilizer once every 10 days to form flower buds.
Common diseases of goldfish grass include stem rot, seedling rot, grass rust, leaf blight and grey mould.
Common insect pests of goldfish grass include aphid, spider, whitefly, thrips, etc.
