Sunday, January 16, 2011

Sunflower


Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is an annual plant of the tribe kenikir-kenikiran (Asteraceae) are popular, both as an ornamental plant as well as oil-producing plants. Flowers of this plant is very distinctive: large, usually bright yellow, with a large flower head (diameter can reach 30cm). This flower is actually a compound flower, composed of hundreds to thousands of small flowers on one head. Sunflower also have a peculiar behavior, namely the interest is always facing toward the sun or heliotropisme. French people call it tournesol or "wanderer sun." However, these properties removed in a variety of new cultivars for oil production because it takes a lot of energy and reduce yield.
Sunflower is a national interest PRC and the official state flower of Kansas, USA. Table of contents

Caring for Bonsai


You can care for your bonsai in a simple way, but that too needs its own knowledge so that you may live long bonsai. While doing the measuring irrigation advance Ph levels and groundwater to help us give the dose of water on bonsai. Give the water at the first time bonsai plant, and do not forget to give it more water during dry weather and rising air temperatures. Choose a pot that can flatten flush water into various directions. To choose a fertilizer fertilizer nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to balance levels of oxygen in the soil and plant health. Give the vitamins to add luster of leaves, twigs and branches and strengthen others. Trim the twigs, leaves, branches that grow out of regular shape we want, is also a disturbing form of wild roots. When pruning discuss it so that does not cause injury stems trimmed. Bonsai Place where the morning sunlight, but sheltered from the blazing afternoon sun. To prevent pests, provide anti-pest which you can buy at the store plants. Consult with experts medicinal plants to provide a suitable pesticide for your Bonsai plant.

Bonsai Planting


To grow bonsai is not complicated, you can buy a bonsai in the shop will take plants or plants that you like on your home page. Select plants with a main stem that is strong enough and move it to the pot with extreme caution so as not to damage the crop. Then shape the flow of plants in accordance with what you like by using wire. Check twigs and branches that grow on a regular basis to form a bonsai accordance with what we want. Another thing that is not less important is the selection of land, because there the formation stems, branches and the branches are determined. A good soil for bonsai is not a land full of humus, but each type of bonsai has a particular soil needs different from each other. We recommend that you consult with experts of the plant. Choose the soil with little humus content of soil moisture and keep it but do not let too much water or to cause the soil to clot, it can threaten the life of the plant.

Friday, January 14, 2011

SWITCHING / grafting ALA VIETNAM for Adenium


Connection of Vietnam-style, so named because the technology at first discovered and usually done by farmers in Vietnam.
Connection of this is the easiest way for beginners, because it does not need to hone the ability to cut a V shape or the number 7 inverted, between scion and rootstock are identical, but only horizontally cut both scions and rootstocks.
One drawback is, how this connection can not be used if the stem above is too small or too young, and can not be done for entrees top (meristem). The link is due primarily to the case, not easy to do the binding of the stem of the rootstock. How it works a la Vietnam connection is as follows:
Prepare all the equipment (the same way as any other connection).

   
1. Cut the stem below the horizontal, about 2-3 cm above the cob.
   
2. Create a bond in the lower stem with a plastic rope in preparation for the tie rod above.
   
3. Cut the stem above the horizontal (plot rootstock), then cut the top too, so the entrees into a cylindrical piece, with a height of 1-2 cm.
   
4. Glue the stem above the cylinder on the rod down, and plastic rope that has been attached to the shaft bottom, tied around the stem up through the top of the cylinder in a cross, and fastened back on the rootstock.
   
5. Close the connection field, give the label.
   
6. two weeks after the grafting, shoots begin to grow. At this stage, let the plastic ties remain firmly attached, up to 1-2 months.

SWITCHING / grafting Insert for Adenium


Connect inline rootstock usually done if you want to connect, its size more than 2 x folding in diameter than the upper stem. It could be if there is such a thing, made an incision rootstock V shape as usual, but the rod of which is inserted in the incision can be two or three bars, namely at the edge of the left, center and right. This can be done easily on grafting Adenium, Adenium not because berkambium and all cells are living cells or meristematik, so all fields can be used for the connection area, unlike the woody plants, which, if connected, then the cambium must meet with the cambium.
However, continued with the letter V with a few entrees that included at one rootstock, would reduce the beauty of the end result. Therefore, if the lower stem are much bigger than the stem upper or entrees, it is usually done by way of connecting insert, the lower stem created a pyramid upside down from the edge of the stem until the appropriate thickness of the upper stem. The rootstock can be inserted up to more than two entress around the outer circumference of the trunk.
Connect the insert would produce a more beautiful plants as rootstock seemed to issue a branch at the cut stem.
SWITCHING / grafting Insert ONE EYE
Connection of one eye, is one way to efficiency, that is to multiply the plants quickly, with limited entrees owned. Rootstock to be used, still have to cut the stem, to avoid apical dominance or the dominance of main stem growth. The order of works is as follows:

   
1. Prepare the upper stem. Try to keep the stem on a leaf (leaf no cut). Unless the eye was no leafy shoots again.
   
2. Cut the root stock or rootstock, approximately 2-3 cm above the cob.
   
3. Peel the stem side down, forming the number 7 is reversed.
   
4. Cut the stem of one eye (with leaves), field line number 7 in the stem upside down
   
5. Glue the entrees on the lower stem, and tied with plastic straps. Make sure the buds do not come attached. Further continuation of plastic covered, and labeled on the varieties and dates of grafting.
   
6. Two weeks after the process, the buds begin to emerge from the entrees. If emerged shoots from the rootstock, shortly before it grows bigger discarded, because it will reduce the growth rates of shoots of entrees.

Propagation Adenium


Adenium can be propagated by seed (commonly referred to as the breeding is mating), and multiplication are not married, such as cuttings, grafting / grafting, grafting and grafting.
Seeds are the result of pollination between the male flowers to female flowers, which then produce fruit and seeds. In a normal fruit (the fruit commonly known as Adenium seedpod), will have between 50 to 100 seeds Adenium. Once cooked, the seeds can be planted to produce new plants. Breeding of seeds, bulbs will produce plants with fast and large base of the stem, but this breeding to produce puppies that have the character / nature other than the parent, so it can not be expected to obtain an identical offspring.
Breeding without breeding (cuttings, grafting, grafting and grafting), is a way of breeding that will produce plants that are genetically identical to their parent. Breeding in this way, ordinary people do to reproduce a variety of easily and quickly. Cuttings and grafts, is faithful to eventually get a plant with a dense canopy, but this does not quickly produce caudex or tubers are big and beautiful. To produce plants with a caudex or tubers Adenium big and beautiful, and to produce editorial that is identical to its parent, then be taken two ways of propagation, ie propagation of seeds to produce plants with beautiful bulbs, and then performed grafting way to get an identical plant canopy nature or characteristics desired by the parent.
Sowing seeds to produce plants that beautifully gnarled. After the age of 8-12 months, the plant was ready for it jointed stems. Before starting the grafting, prepared equipment and materials as follows:

   
1. Knives for menggrafting. Use a sharp knife and thin, with long blades 8-12 cm. Knives are the most easily searchable cutter knife, but it quickly blunt knife, and can only be used a few times, because they can not re-honed or sharpened. The knife is commonly used for menggrafting Adenium is a type of stainless knife, for example victorinoc brand.
   
2. Plastics for the binding of the connection / grafting. Can use transparent tape, or use a thin plastic PE, and sliced 2 cm wide.
   
3. Plastic cover the field of grafting / grafting, can use PE plastic with a size adapted to the size of the area continued. For connection with rootstock 1-2 cm diameter, use a plastic PE size 8 × 12 cm.
   
4. Labels, labels and pencil rope. Labels are used to write information about the species / varieties to be joined. Can be added on date data connection, to provide certainty when the plastic cover results of grafting may be loaded.
   
5. Plants that will be grafted. For rootstock, select healthy plants, bulbs and stems are marked with a hard, dark green, and areas of grafting a stem diameter greater than or equal to entress or upper trunk. When cut, white bars no brown or black spots, and sticky with lymph node or white color. While the stem above, choose a healthy, older (marked with dark green color, hard, generally the size of at least 0.5 cm in diameter).

Euphorbia milii for Fertile and Flower Growing






 If you know the character of Euphorbia milii, then these plants will flourish and diligent flowering. Some things to note:
Watering: Euphorbia like water. but do not like wet, the water requirement is high. But the water supply berklebihan, can lead to root rot. Root rot is brown, mushy like porridge when held. Conversely, if watering is rarely done, the plants exposed to dehydration. The sign, plants shrink, leaf yellowing, easily fall out and the figure of the plant becomes stunted. If left unchecked, sooner or later, your plants will languish, and die.
Watering was done when the media looks dry. But do not believe in the eye only. Use the finger, to probe the medium 1-2 cm deep. If the soil feels masah, yes, Euphorbia You do not need watering. Conversely if it feels dry, immediately do the watering.
Watering time should be early morning, at -8.00-09.00 or afternoon, 15:00 to 16:00 o'clock
Do not water at the time of day or trerlalu scorching sun. Useless, the water will mengicap before absorbed by plants.
Watering is considered sufficient, if the water was out of the hole under the pot.
Use a sprayer, for the water that comes out is more subtle and does not damage the crop.
Instead, all the plants involved watered for dust or dirt sticking yuang washed away.
Weeding In the pot, weed, grass or other wild plants, usually come grow. If left unchecked, they can take nutrients you Euphorbia property. Then, unplug it, weed-weed, and clean your pots.
Pruning Pruning aims to beautify the plant canopy, also to reduce evaporation during vegetation.
Branches irregular diopotong. New shoots that appear on the plants were 1 year old also trimmed so as not to inhibit the growth of the parent plant. (Sst. .. former cuts should not be made, you know, because it still can be used as seed, cuttings or grafting both sticks).
Old flowers should also be trimmed.
Euphorbia flowers can last for 2 months. Over time, the color faded, dull eventually wilt. We recommend that you cut for the new flowers emerge.
Fertilization: Like other plants, Euphorbia milii also need to remove the flower nutrients. Nutrients obtained from the media using the earnings. But sometimes not enough, so that should be given additional beryupa fertilizer.
Giving pukuk be routine and appropriate dosage. If excessive plants can be disturbed, if it's too little, miserable condition of the plant.
Newly planted crops should not be cultivated first. After that just given NPK 20:20:20, a dose of 1 g / liter / per plant. Application of fertilizer once a week with the way pour into the planting medium.
Other fertilizers that can be used, slow release fertilizer, such as Dekastar, Megakamp and Osmocote with a dose of 5 grams per plant. Application every 3 months. This fertilizer does not quickly dissolve, and absorb it slowly.
IDENTIFY DISEASE Euphorbia: Although rarely attacked by diseases or pests, disease-free does not mean Euphorbia. The following diseases should be aware of:
WHITE Flies. The cause of mealybug (Homopteraaleyrodiae), often appears in the dry season. Symptoms of attack: the black leaf on top and bottom surfaces, and seen a lot of ants around the leaf. Eggs and larvae under the leaf in place.
Medicine? Spray concentrations Pegasus 05, ml / liter plus 0.5 ml of Biosoft. Or with Metindo concentration of 1 g / liter of water.
Spraying should be directed to the lower leaf surface. Only, if the contract is severe, you should unplug it, and burned.
Bacterial SOFT ROT. Culprit, the bacterium Erwinia carotavora. Seen in bat attack

 

Grafting technique for Adenium

Grafting technique is a way that is often used to reproduce, or make for a colorful flowered Adenium in one stem Adenium.
The following are the steps, follow and enjoy the results:

1. Use a sharp knife and sterile. It is very important to avoid failure due to fungi, bacteria or other impurities.
2. Cut Rootstock Stem such as the V character around 1-1.5 inches.
3. Descendants Cut carefully so it will be in accordance with the rootstock.
4. Use a small plastic tape or plastic to bind the union.
5. Wrap with plastic bags to keep moisture
6. Adenium put you in the shade or paper is used to prevent excess heat inside the plastic bag.
7. Remove the plastic bag after 10 to 15 days.
8. Remove the tape after the grafting union really well established. Usually takes 15 to 30 days.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

History of Bonsai



Bonsai comes from the art of miniaturizing plants called penjing (盆景) of the Tang Dynasty period. At the tomb of the son of Empress Wu Zetian are murals that depict waitress who brought the flowering trees in shallow pots. Small shallow pot is a miniaturization of natural scenery.

The nobility in Japan began to recognize penjing around the end of the Heian period. Kanji script for penjing (盆景) pronounced the Japanese as bonkei. Similarly, in China, bonkei in Japan is also the miniaturization of natural scenery. Art that is only enjoyed by the upper class, especially among the courtiers and samurai, and just called bonsai in the Edo period .

Growing bonsai is a sideline samurai of the Edo period, when the bonsai's popularity peaked. Since the Meiji era, regarded as a hobby bonsai style. However, maintenance and watering bonsai takes a lot of time. In line with the environment they live in Japan are more modern and do not have a page, bonsai enthusiasts finally confined to the elderly.

Bonsai

Bonsai (盆栽?) is a plant or tree that dwarfed in shallow pots with the purpose of making a miniature of the original shape of an old tree in the wild. Planting (sai, 栽) performed in shallow pots, called the bill (盆). The term bonsai also used for traditional Japanese art in the maintenance of plants or trees in shallow pots, and appreciation of beauty of form branches, leaves, stems, and roots of trees, and shallow pot into a container, or the overall shape of the plant or tree. Bonsai is the Japanese pronunciation for penzai (盆栽).

This art includes various cutting techniques and pruning plants, wiring (the formation of branches and branches of trees by wrapping the wire or bend them with wire ties), and makes the roots spread on the rock. Making bonsai takes a long time and involve a variety of jobs, including fertilization, pruning, crop establishment, watering, and replacement of pots and soil. Plants or trees dwarfed by cutting roots and branches. The tree is formed with the help of wire on twigs and tunasnya. Wire must be taken before they could scratch the skin of the tree branch. Plants are living things, and there are no bonsai that can be said is complete or finished. Changes that occur continuously in the plant according to season or natural state is one of the attractions of bonsai.

The types of tulip garden


There are about a hundred types of tulips are often planted in the garden. When viewed from the leaf crown, there are tulips have petals that do not open during the bloom (still like a contract), wide-open petals during bloom, the curved edge of the leaf crown, and the pointed edge of the leaf crown. When viewed from the time of flowering, tulips are classified into:
 * Single Early (a layer of petals, early flowering)

    
Interest only has 6 leaf crown. Flowering in early April. This species is descended from a type of 'Duke Van Thol'. Plants tend to be short, about 20-30 cm plant height. Example: 'Apricot Beauty' and 'Christmas Dream. "

    
* Double Early (layered petals, early flowering)

    
Interest has more than 6 leaf crown but fewer in number than other types of Double Late. Plant height about 20-30 cm. Flowers durable and strong stalks. Flowering in early April. This species is a descendant of tulips 'Murillo' with white flowers, consisting of 120 cultivars. Example: 'Peach Blossom' and 'Monte Carlo. "

    
* Kaufmaniana

    
Type of Tulipa species developed from Turkestan kaufmanniana origin. This type of tulip bloom very early, in Washington, DC sometimes already blooming in early March. Short stalks, the flowers open wide in the sun so it looks like a hexagonal star. Flowering in early April. Plant height about 10-20 cm.

    
* Fosteriana

    
Kind of easy to breed, a hybrid variety of Tulip originating from Central Asia. Flowering in early April. Plant height of about 25-51 cm. Example: 'Purissima' (white) and 'Sweetheart' (yellow with white at the edge of the leaf crown).
 
 Tulip flowering rather slow
* Triumph

    
This species is the result of Single Early hybrids with the kinds of slow flowering. Typical oval shape Tulip flower, flower stem is strong and can survive in adverse weather conditions. This type is widely used for cut flowers. Plant height of about 25-41 cm. Flowering in mid-April. This cultivar has a variety of colors, such as' Negrita '(purple),' Kees Nelis' (mixture of red and yellow), 'White Dream' (white), 'Prominence' (red), 'Cairo' (brown), 'Zurel '(a mixture of purple and white),' Gavota '(deep red with yellow edge). One of the cultivars is to use the name of city in Indonesia, namely Tulip 'Makassar' which is yellow.

    
* Darwin Hybrid

    
This species is known only after World War 2, is the result of a hybrid between Tulipa fosteriana large and 'Darwin'. This species has a large interest than other types Tulip so often planted in flower gardens and produced large-scale as cut flowers. Planting easier, have a strong trunk and resistant to virus attacks. Plant height of about 30-51 cm. Flowering in mid-April. Flower color variation is not too much, among others: 'Pink Impression' (pink), 'Apeldoorn' and 'Oxford' (red). In addition, there are also other colors that have descendants' Apeldoorn 'and the' Oxford, 'such as' Golden Oxford' (dark yellow), 'Blushing Apeldoorn' (yellowish orange), and 'Oxford Elite (orange with yellow edge).

    
* Greigii

    
This type is developed from Tulipa species origin greigii Turkestan. Sturdy trunk, a medium-sized flowers that open wide in the sun to show the basic old-colored flowers to black. Leaf patterned like typical lines or shades of purple. Flowering in early April. Plant height about 20-30 cm.

 
Tulip late-flowering Tulip  
* Single Late (leaf crown layer, late flowering)

    
All cultivars of this species has a long and strong stems. This species is a collection of the types such as 'Breeder', 'Darwin' and 'Cottage', each of which has been lost due to typical hybridization results. Plant height of about 37-76 cm. Flowering in late April. 'Ile-de-France' is one cultivar of this species are flowering more quickly than species flowering early. Example: 'Pink Diamond' (pink) and 'Queen of Night' (dark purple).

    
* Double Late (layered petals, flowering slow)

    
This species Peony Flowered Tulip designation because it has a flower like a peony flower. The flowers are large with a crown of leaves in layers. This species should be planted in a protected place for flowers that are large can not stand heavy rain and strong winds. Plant height of about 30-41 cm. Flowering in late April. This species has only a few cultivars, such as 'Angelique' (pink and white), 'Mount Tacoma' (white), 'Ice Cream' (bottom of pink, white top).

    
* Lily-flowered Tulip

    
This type of long-stem length and has a crown of flowers by the edge of the divided leaves and spiky flowers like Lili. In ancient times in general have a Tulip flower shape like this. Tulip acuminata origin of species but have a strong stem. Popular as cut flowers. Plant height of about 36-76 cm. Flowering in late April. Example: 'West Point' (yellow), 'Ballerina' (orange), 'Marilyn' (white with red brush strokes).

    
* Fringed Group (the edge of the crystal)

    
This species has a crown of leaves that decorated the edges like crystals or tassels. Flower looks very beautiful and durable. Plant height of about 20-76 cm. Flowering in late April. Most Tulip is a mutant species of type Single Late. Tulip 'Crystal Beauty' with red flowers is a mutant of 'Apeldoorn' ornaments such as crystals forming at the edge of the leaf crown. Tulip 'Barbados' has a crown with leaf edge decorations like tassels sharp, while the edge of the leaf crown of Tulip 'Royal Sphinx' only have decorative tassels very little to almost invisible. Another example: 'Fancy Frill' (pink) and 'Hamilton' (yellow).

    
* Viridiflora (green line)

    
Type of Single Late relatives who still has a green line on the crown of leaves starting from the basic interest rate to the edge of the leaf crown. Long-lived plants and flowers are often used for cut flowers. Plant height of about 41-61 cm. Flowering in late April. Example: 'Spring Green' (white lines green) and 'Greenland' (pink striped green).

    
* Rembrandt

    
This type of descent from Darwin which changes color is caused by several types of viruses. At first people did not know that the colors are fantastic motifs such as brush strokes are caused by viruses, so this kind Tulip traded at a price like crazy in the 17th century until the 18th century. Original Rembrandt tulips are diseased there is no more and replaced by disease-free type of Rembrandt. Flowering in late April. Cultivars that something like for example: 'Bizarre' and 'Ice Follies. "

    
* Parrot

    
This species is known from leaf-like feather crown. Type of Parrot as much as 99% represents a change from the kinds of Tulip other. It is said that there are theories that say such corolla corolla is due to separation is not perfect. The kind that is now having a strong stem, while the species present in former times have weak stems. Color can vary, but in the middle of the leaf crown would have patches of green. This species is extremely vulnerable to bad weather and should be planted in a protected place. Plant height of about 31-41 cm. Flowering in late April. Example: 'Flaming Parrot' (yellow and red streaks), 'Estella Rijnveld' (a mixture of red and white) and 'Blue Parrot' (dark blue purplefish).