Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts

Monday, February 28, 2011

Euphorbia Lively Flowers


The beauty of Euphorbia is when grown with blooming flowers. To get it is not difficult, just need accuracy and patience. First, let Euphorbia allowed to grow perfect before flowering. Here it takes patience to not enjoy the beauty of flowers while, because at this phase of each flower that appears directly potes (cut flowers without the tool, directly using the hands). This is done to stimulate the emergence of leaves and stems can grow exponentially. Each time the flowers appear immediately cut. Until felt was lush canopy. Furthermore, if the canopy was dense, left to grow new flowers. Within 2 weeks the flowers will meet canopy.

Plastic Silencer Heat to Bonsai


After doing the pruning, the growth of new shoots highly anticipated. However the young twigs that die when the sun, very disappointing. For that, use plastic wrap sticks with transparent until new shoots appear. On the plastic was made a hole for moisture stable. With this technique bonsai resistant to sunlight.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Guessing Color Vanda



Choosing orchid is easy. But for the beginner is often wrong when buying Vanda. Want to get a blooming Vanda bright but gets dark or vice versa. Here are tips from Ir Diah Wisdiastuti Darsono, from the Ornamental Plant Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture Jakarta. "Look at the bottom of the leaf color, if color is rather dark means dark-colored flowers, but if it means bright flower color will be bright.

Cotton wrapper orchid



Making deliveries, sometimes orchids were damaged in the move. To fix this, can use a cotton and tissue paper to wrap it. First Interest wrapped with cotton and then covered with tissue paper. This trick can be applied to several species of orchids, such as miltonia, and brassia. In this way the orchid will be safe during shipping.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Caring for plants in the rainy season


The rainy season should be aware of the hobbyists in ornamental plants. Because it can threaten the survival of your favorite plants. Plants become rotten and new shoots can be messy. Here are tips on caring for ornamental plants in the rainy season by Supriyanto, an ornamental plant hobbyists.
Succulent Included is a succulent plant Adenium, Pachypodium, Euphorbia, also cycads. If the rainy season has arrived, protect plants by using a plastic UV (ultra-violet). Or replace the planting medium with a more porous planting medium. So that excess water can be directly discarded. Thus succulent roots and tubers of plants do not become rotten. Porous growth media for example, fern, gravel and cocopeat.
Add bactericide and fungicide at the time of watering. This is to treat the roots of crops damaged by rain water.
 
Do not do grafting or cuttings, because it usually ends with decay and death. Unless you have a special place to do the grafting and cuttings. Reduce watering.



Nonsukulen
Nonsukulen plants usually live in areas of damp. Such as anthurium, aglaonema, sansieviera, kaladium, etc. These plants do not need much sunlight, but requires a lot of water. However, watering should not be too often so as not to cause decay.
The placement of plants must be protected from direct sunlight. Use plastic paranet and UV, with UV plastic composition above paranet. Thus the moisture and keep plants fresh.
Special aglaonema anthurium and taro should not be exposed to rain. If exposed to rain water, flush again with plain water is added with a fungicide or bactericide. Watering was carried out on the planting medium, not on the plant. In this way, then your favorite ornamental plants will be spared from the deadly disease. Watering was done when the planting medium already looked dry.