Goldfish Chlorophytum, also known as Goldfish Flower and kangaroo Chlorophytum, is a semi lignified flower. Its leaves are dark green and thick. The flowers are orange. It has a small mouth and a large stomach. It looks like a little goldfish and is very popular.
Goldfish Chlorophytum is from the tropics. It likes shade and wetness. It doesn't attract diseases and insect pests. Compared with the rose gardenia, it's so easy to keep. Here's how to keep Ipomoea lobata.
Pick flowers
To choose those plants full and tidy, leaves full and bright, stem is not in vain, the best with buds of Ipomoea lobata, to avoid starting in winter Ipomoea lobata, temperature is too low, easy to frostbite does not bloom.
Basin soil
When changing the basin, change to a clay basin or pottery basin with a diameter of 2 ~ 3cm larger than the original basin.
Goldfish Chlorophytum is wet loving and has high requirements on soil. It is generally prepared by mixing peat soil, rotten leaf soil and vermiculite in the proportion of 6:3:2.
Common mountain soil and garden soil are not suitable for Ipomoea lobata, easy to harden, poor permeability and permeability.
It is suggested that some coarse river sand be used for pavement, which can keep water and ventilate.
Watering
Goldfish Chlorophytum likes to be wet. It needs to be watered more in spring, summer and autumn. It is usually watered in the evening, once every 2-3 days. When the soil is dry, it needs to be watered. Grasp the frequency
When the temperature is too high in summer, you can use the soaking pot method to put the flowerpot in a shallow plate filled with water to keep the water content. Usually pay attention to spray water around goldfish to keep the air humidity.
When watering, pay attention not to pour it on the leaves. The light will reflect through the water drops. The thin leaves may get sunburnt.
Illumination
Goldfish Chlorophytum likes shade. In summer, the sun is too much to shade. Generally, we can put it in the window on the shady side.
In winter and spring to bloom, we should pay attention to increase the light, otherwise it will not bloom, but also increase the light, inhibit its growth.
Fertilization
In the preparation of soil can add a little chicken manure or cake fertilizer to increase the nutrition of the pot soil.
At ordinary times, it can be diluted 20 times with the rotten rice washing water and then applied to the Ipomoea lobata, once every half a month or so.
Pay attention not to apply fertilizer when flowering, spray some 0.1% potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution before flowering to promote flowering, and apply nitrogen fertilizer after flowering, mainly to raise leaves.
Pruning
If you want to keep the Ipomoea lobata flourishing, you should pay attention to topping off the heart, otherwise it is easy to cause it to grow in vain and not bloom.
Cut off the branches on the top of the Ipomoea lobata, so as to promote the generation of lateral branches.
Goldfish Chlorophytum cuttage is very simple, with a cut off branches can
Cut a section of branch about 15cm, put it in a cool and ventilated place to dry, insert it into the river sand and soil, water it, and take root in two weeks.
After rooting, transfer the seedlings of Ipomoea lobata to the basin, and the soil will use the soil mentioned above
Then you can get a basin of cute
