My neighbor aunt likes geraniums very much. She is 60 years old this year. After retirement, his usual hobby is growing flowers. He planted all kinds of geraniums on the balcony. She cut all these geraniums, and now he has become a big flower grower. Flowers bloom all year round, and the balcony becomes a garden, which is beautiful. Now share it with the flower friends. By the way, the way my neighbor's aunt cuts geraniums.
Neighbors and aunts who cut geraniums in spring especially like geraniums. Almost every variety will buy a pot, and then in March of spring, geraniums will be cut. How did she cut it?
(1) Selecting cuttings: First of all, let me popularize what cuttings are, which are actually branches used for cutting. Why do you cut it in spring? The main spring is the season when everything germinates, and it is more conducive to survival after cutting. Suitable temperature in spring is beneficial to the survival of geranium cuttings.
When neighbors choose geranium branches, they will choose geranium strong branches, because such branches are more nutritious and more likely to sprout new lateral buds.
(2) Processing cuttings: When the neighbor aunt processes cuttings, the pruned geranium branches are cut into small pieces of 5-8 cm. Cut into horseshoes at a 45-degree angle each time. In this way, the cuttings come into contact with more soil and water, and it is easier to survive. Then put it in a cool and ventilated place to dry, because geranium branches contain a lot of water, if you cut them directly, it is easy to have rotten roots.
(3) Soil: The soil used by the neighbor's aunt to cut geraniums is generally sand. She said that this kind of soil is permeable and breathable, and it is not easy to rot roots and black rot. However, the nutrition will be less, so the geraniums that survive cutting need to be transplanted into the basin in time.
(4) Cutting: When neighbors cut geraniums, they will fill the flowerpots with sand, or use foam boxes, boxes or pots about two centimeters below. Then insert a few small holes with chopsticks, which can be inserted according to the tax difference. This can prevent geranium cuttings from cracking and affect the survival of cuttings. Then insert 1/2, or 2/3 of the tax difference, bury the soil, water it, and put it in a cool and ventilated place.
How to manage geranium after cutting? The cut geraniums don't need to be watered for a short time, because they have been watered once before. You can wait until the soil is dry before watering the geranium again. Also, geraniums like warm environment, so when cutting geraniums, the temperature should be around 15~ 15 degrees, and the temperature should not be too low to prevent the cut geraniums from surviving.
When the weather is too dry, spray water around geranium leaves and flowerpots to prevent the leaves from drying up and turning yellow, but remember not to let the flowerpots accumulate water to prevent the roots from rotting. After such management, geraniums cut by neighbors' aunts can take root and sprout in about 20~30 days. Rooted geraniums need to be transplanted into flowerpots and then better maintained. How to transplant them into pots?
Pelargonium transplanted into flowerpots, neighbors and aunts will transplant Pelargonium into flowerpots in time after Pelargonium takes root and sprouts, because Pelargonium cuttings have no nutrition, and if they are not transplanted in time, they will easily die of lack of nutrition. Then how to transplant it into the pot?
[1] flowerpot selection: When neighbors put pots for geraniums, they will carefully prepare a small home for geraniums, and it is a beautiful home. The flowerpots used by her to raise geraniums are all from purple sand flowerpot, because she said that although the price in purple sand flowerpot is relatively high, it is noble and elegant, and when paired with geraniums, it looks more high-end and atmospheric. If you use plastic flowerpots, it is easy to have poor air permeability, which is not conducive to the growth of geranium.
[2] Soil selection: geranium is not strict with soil, but it will grow better in fertile soil with slight acidity, good air permeability and water permeability. So the neighbors' aunts usually use it. Three parts of humus soil, three parts of sand and four parts of pastoral soil are mixed. Then add a small amount of decomposed manure when serving.
[3] Potting: When neighbors and aunts put pots on geraniums, they will add soil to geranium flowerpots to 2/3 of them. Then water the geranium cuttings once until the soil is slightly dry. Transplant some geraniums with toothpicks to protect the heart soil, put them in the middle of the flowerpot in the upper basin, bury the soil and water them, and put them in a cool and ventilated place. You can gradually receive sunlight in about 5~7 days and then maintain it normally.
There is too much sunshine in the later period, so it can be shaded appropriately. After a long life, apply a lot of rare flowers 1, water once after the soil is dry, and apply phosphorus and potassium fertilizer before flowering. Doing these things well can make geraniums grow more vigorously and bloom that year.
Learn to cut geraniums in the last spring, and you can also become a big flower grower. The method is simple. That's what the neighbor's aunt did. In just two or three years, the balcony is full of geraniums and flowers all year round, turning the balcony into a beautiful garden. How to cut geraniums? Welcome the comments of flower friends. Let's call it a day. See you next time.