Five Techniques for Planting Vanilla Plants

Vanilla plants have always been the family plants of friends, but many friends don't know much about the cultivation of vanilla plants. This article is a coup that the school easy search got from senior flower friends. I hope I can help you.

Five tips for planting vanilla plants:

Coup 1: cross the water.

The most difficult problem for beginners is probably watering. It was the same when I first started growing things. I've always been afraid that it will dry to death. Later, I went to see if it was dry. It was time to add some water. Perhaps watering twice a day is not enough. When I saw a planting guide saying that a certain variety needs enough water, I felt that I should water it frequently. I wonder if everyone is familiar with it?

In fact, watering is really not a quantifiable thing. There is a famous saying that I still remember: 90{BF} novices grow things that are drowned instead of dried. As for the situation of dry death, we will talk about it later. Let's talk about how not to water indiscriminately.

Different plants have different watering rules. Only the watering rules of herbs are mentioned here:

Do not do it or water it.

. This means that if the soil in the pot is dry, don't water it, and then wait until almost all the excess water in the soil is used up before watering it thoroughly. But this degree of dryness and wetness needs to be grasped by experience. You can neither water it when it is slightly dry nor water it when it is completely dry.

This shows that the soil in the basin is completely dry, that is, the leaves droop, and the leaves will recover water in a short time after watering. Water before this stage, guess slowly and you will have experience ~

I think this is a good teaching method. I've been using it. It's called the pot method. When watering the flowerpot, you should weigh it. This time, it should be very heavy. Then, take back your hand that you want to water. After a day or two, when you see the color of the soil surface getting lighter and dry, insert your finger vertically into the soil along the edge of the flowerpot. If you feel dry, this time.

So watering can't be quantified as watering every few days. Imagine that if it is cloudy or the air humidity is high, then the water will slowly evaporate. If you still water according to the fixed number of days of dogma, it will inevitably lead to waterlogging.

If you often over-water, it will lead to poor air permeability of the soil and the roots will rot, because the roots also need to breathe. There will also be pests. If the soil is too wet, it will increase the probability of the spread of germs. At the same time, underground pests will also appear. For example, nematodiasis is a typical pest caused by excessive soil moisture. At that time, I watered it twice a day, and it hasn't had a translucent mollusk crawling in the soil for a long time. It's small, but it's really disgusting And although it was two years ago, I really feel sick when I think about it. At first, I tried to pull out the bugs boldly, but later I saw that almost all of them were drilling around in the soil, and immediately I felt chest tightness, shortness of breath and dizziness. I can't. I couldn't help throwing away my first herb.

Why don't you stay? Because of their appearance, blackfly will also appear. If not treated in time, other potted plants will be taken away by the little black fly with nematode eggs, which will continue to harm the soil of other flowerpots. However, you can grow your own plants without chemicals, which are neither ordinary organic chemicals nor self-made organic chemicals. If you irrigate the soil, too high concentration will affect the normal development of roots, and too low concentration will make the already wet soil worse. So for the health of other flowers and plants, only a small part can be sacrificed.

Coup 2: After over-irrigation, let's talk about the problem of insufficient irrigation. Although this problem is not as common as the first watering, it is also very common, especially in two aspects: incomplete watering and potted plants with soil.

There are four words about too little watering:

Pour it completely.

; Once watered, thoroughly water the bottom hole of the flowerpot, instead of just watering half, the top is wet and the bottom is dry, so that the roots will still be dehydrated. The correct watering method is: water the flowerpot slowly and evenly until the bottom hole leaks out. After about 3 minutes, pour out the water at the bottom.

However, we need to pay attention to another problem. If the basin soil is dry peat soil, it may flow out from the bottom when the top is watered. Does this mean that the soil is completely wet? No, this is peat soil. It is too dry to eat.

There are two reasons for this:

1. It doesn't. I haven't drunk water for a long time.

2. When mixing soil, put it in a flowerpot before it is completely wet.

Some TX soil mixture is mixed with soil, then put into flowerpots and moistened. In fact, it is easy to cause the soil not to be completely soaked. It is likely that the soil surface looks wet, but if you dig deeper, the middle of the flowerpot is dry. This kind of situation is very common, which will cause the seeds to become stiff after germination, or the transplanted plants to grow stiff and slow, all because of uneven water shortage. The best way is to stir it evenly, and then put it into a flowerpot to let excess water flow out of its bottom hole, so as to be qualified soil mixing.

So what if there is a problem of dryness? A good way is to sit in a basin, that is, put a container larger than a flowerpot, put a certain amount of water into the flowerpot, and do not exceed the edge of the flowerpot, otherwise the soil will float out. Sit like this for half an hour to an hour, then lift the flowerpot and try again. You will find that because of the principle of the communicator, water will be slowly sucked into the flowerpot from the bottom hole and then completely infiltrated into the peat soil. The weight at this time is the weight that the flowerpot absorbs full water. The situation mentioned in the first article can be normally absorbed by plants after watering.

Coup 3: Reluctant to top.

In fact, this kind of psychology can be relaxed, because I have been entangled in this point before, and now there is no such entanglement at all, because every time I need vanilla for cooking or daily necessities, I will pick the toppings, and naturally I will knock down the vanilla toppings and supply them to the kitchen and daily life. Therefore, it can only be said that if you plant herbs, you should actually plan the use of varieties in your life, so that your reluctance will be gradually overcome. However, toppings are essential for herbs themselves, especially potted herbs. If it never tops, it will be super tall and super thin. Vanilla leaves are not only low in yield, but also too high in height will lead to lodging.

I have seen chopsticks or gardening brackets used to fix the main stem of vanilla before, but I want to say that this is actually the result of not topping. The solution is that nap cruelly left three pairs of true leaves on the soil. There will be lateral buds in a few days. A seed and a bud can support a whole pot of herbs, and the leaves are inexhaustible. So the more you are willing, the more you will get in return.

Of course, in addition to use, it can also be used for cuttage hydroponics or direct soil culture, which will breed new seedlings. It's not a waste at all, there are many ways to use it ~

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Tip 4: Arrange the placement of potted plants reasonably.

Generally, everyone has some ideas about orientation and lighting. However, as for them put together, under the same sunlight, why the sunlight is unevenly distributed needs to be discovered.

Sometimes, because of the characteristics of plants, even when sowing at the same time, some seedlings may grow very tall and some may still be so short, such as tomatoes and radishes. How can cherry radish never be taller than tomato? Then, tomatoes placed side by side in flowerpots may block the original sunshine of radishes, especially when planted on balconies. If the plants in front block the back row, then the back row will never get direct sunlight. Therefore, always check whether your flowerpot placement is scientific. Under the same lighting requirements, plants should be arranged from short to high to ensure harmonious sharing of the same sunlight.

Coup 5: Fertilize herbs.

In fact, this point was discussed in detail last class. No matter how small, there can be a vanilla garden, but TX often asks me if I can put rice soup, eggshells and the like.

I really want to say, please don't put all kinds of kitchen waste in your clean pot soil, plants can't absorb it directly.

If you really want to use kitchen waste, you must go through a complete and long composting process, which takes about a year. The purpose is to turn the accumulated kitchen waste into organic fertilizer through fermentation and microbial action. The original intention is good, but it is actually not suitable for balcony families. Generally, self-composting is more suitable for families with land and has a wider planting range. Therefore, it is not cost-effective to use organic fertilizer in the market, and self-composting can be considered.

But for those who put their fists on the balcony or just try to plant, there is no need to fatten themselves up, because there will naturally be a little smell, especially for the whole indoor or semi-indoor living environment. I think the organic fertilizer on the market is actually enough to grow vegetables on the balcony, and it also has the advantages of low cost, good effect and no pollution to the environment.

TX will often ask why your potted herbs and vegetables are about the same size as those planted in the ground. Because in many people's impression, potted plants should be small and may be malnourished, so many people will have doubts about potted vegetables.

Of course, this is closely related to fertilization, and my method is

Dilute application of chemical fertilizer

; Because of potted plants, the soil is not suitable for organic fertilizer with too strong fertility. Generally speaking, being buried underground is always written in the manual. Black-bone chicken is not fat, especially the fat cake is too fat, which is easy to hurt and burn the roots. The performance of injury is that the original smooth leaves suddenly appear small bumps, or the leaves are deformed.

How to make the soil fertile without burning the roots?

The method I have used so far is to put the organic fertilizer into a watering pot and soak it in water for fertilization, instead of putting the fertilizer directly into the soil.