Do reasonable watering.
Golden branches and jade leaves are fleshy stems and leaves, so special attention should be paid to watering. Too much drought or waterlogging in the basin will affect the normal growth of plants, which will seriously lead to rotten roots and fallen leaves. This plant Portulaca oleracea has strong drought resistance. In winter maintenance, the pot soil can be kept slightly dry, and it is not too late to water it when it is 80% dry, which is more conducive to the overwintering of plants.
When maintaining in other seasons, try not to let him lack water, especially in summer, when the temperature is high and the light is strong, the basin soil should be watered in time when it is dry. Of course, if the soil is not dry, don't water it often, otherwise it is easy to have rotten roots and fallen leaves.
Fertilize regularly.
Golden branches and jade leaves grow fast. As long as there are sufficient nutrients, strong small old piles can be developed in a few years. But there are also gold branches and jade leaves of flower friends, which have not grown thick for several years and are all twigs. This may be caused by lack of nutrition, especially the golden branches and jade leaves that have not changed for a long time. Fertilization must keep up. Without nutrition, the growth of plants will get worse and worse.
If you want to fertilize the golden branches and jade leaves, it is best to use the two fertilizers together. The first is organic fertilizer, which can be used as the bottom fertilizer in the pot. If you don't change pots for a year or two, you should regularly bury some fermented sesame cakes or sheep manure, which can not only provide nutrients for plants for a long time, but also improve the soil quality, making the pot soil softer and conducive to plant growth.
Another commonly used fertilizer is compound fertilizer. Not too much. Just apply it once a month, not too much and too thick, so as not to burn the roots. Usually, you can also use some organic fertilizer liquid fermented by yourself, such as rice washing water and peel water.
Ensure sufficient light.
Planting a potted plant with golden branches and jade leaves must not be short of light. If you lack light for a long time and don't see the sun for a long time, the plants will grow white, the branches will grow thin, the leaves will be thin and long, and the branches will grow in a mess and look ugly.
Golden branches and jade leaves are plants that like sunshine. In a sunny environment, plants thrive and their leaves are thick, full and full of luster. Therefore, when maintaining the golden branches and jade leaves at ordinary times, it is not appropriate to leave them in the sun for a long time, and the potted plants should be moved to a sunny environment frequently for maintenance.
However, when it is maintained in summer, it should also be properly shaded, because its young leaves are also afraid of strong light. It is easy to sunburn plants when placed under sunflowers in summer, resulting in yellow leaves falling off.
Always trim and reshape.
The shape of golden branches and jade leaves is good, depending on the usual pruning and shaping. If you don't prune it all the year round and let its branches and leaves grow naturally, the plant shape will become messy and lose its ornamental value.
In the growing period of golden branches and jade leaves, you can often prune those long branches, thin branches and cross branches. The longer these branches get, the more disorderly they will consume a lot of nutrients. According to the tree, only those main shapes can be kept. For the branches that need to be replaced, you can also make beautiful bonsai step by step with aluminum wire.