Margaret sun-loving, daily maintenance should be more sunshine, enough light is conducive to the plant to accumulate nutrients, branches and leaves grow short and strong, more flowers. Even the summer sun, as long as you give enough water, Margaret is not afraid. If there is a lack of light, margaritas will tend to grow in vain, and the stems and leaves will be slender and not bloom.

2, temperature

The most suitable temperature for the growth of Margaret in 15-22 ℃, Margaret afraid of freezing, winter to move the potted plant indoor maintenance, to ensure that the maintenance temperature of 5 ℃ or more, the summer weather is hot, the potted plant to move to a relatively cool place, more ventilation, as far as possible to ensure that the maintenance of the temperature does not exceed 32 ℃.

3, watering

To Margaret watering to follow the "see dry see wet" principle of watering, in order to ensure that the planting of Margaret under the premise of loose soil, you can use your hand to weigh the weight of the potting soil, feel the obvious lighter when watering, if you can not weigh the weight of the potting soil, you can use your hand to touch it! If you can't feel the weight of the potting soil, you can feel the surface of the soil with your hand, and if you feel dry and grainy, you can water it thoroughly.

4, fertilization

Margaret likes fertilizer, in the plant's growth season, you need to water the flowers every half a month to the flower more than 1 or the Melaleuca universal nutrient solution, to promote vigorous growth of plants, such as margaritas branches and leaves after the growth of the full force, every half a month to the flowers watered flowers more than 2 or the Melaleuca flower-type nutrient solution, to promote the rapid flowering of the plant.

5, pruning

Margaret in the seedling grew to 8cm, you need to top, pinch off the plant's top 2cm of foliage, such as branches and grow to 8cm when continue to top, until the margaret branches and leaves full of growth until. Margaret seedlings in each flower failure, you need to promptly cut off the residual flowers and flowers under the 2 pairs of leaves, to promote their re-flowering.

Margarita planting method

We buy back the margarita are usually hole tray seedlings, after receiving the goods, you need to prepare a few smaller pots, pots filled with loose fertile nutrient soil, incidentally, in the bottom of the pot soil mixed with 30g of slow-release fertilizer as a fertilizer, and then the margarita hole tray seedlings with a lump of soil transplanted to the center of the pot soil, and gently compacted with the soil by hand.

Usually a small pot planting a Margaret, planted immediately after a thorough watering, slowly watered until there is water from the bottom of the pot until the pot, will be placed in a cool, ventilated place to slow down the seedlings, Margaret seedlings such as stems and leaves to restore upright, the observation of plant stems and leaves there is a clear tendency to grow, and gradually increase the light to the full sunshine, and later with the plant's growth, and gradually replace the larger pots.

Margarita propagation method

Margarita is usually propagated by sowing seeds and cuttings. If you sow seeds, you should wait until the margarita flowers have failed, then harvest the seeds when they are ripe, sow them in moist soil in spring and fall, and keep the soil moist until the margarita seeds have germinated and come out of the ground, and then keep them out of the sun to prevent them from growing.

Cuttings can be taken at any time in spring and fall, you can use the branches of Margaritas as scions, remove the leaves at the bottom of the scion, and only keep the leaves at the top of the plant, then prepare vermiculite or perlite as the substrate, insert the scions into the substrate and keep the substrate always moist, place the pot in a cool and ventilated place, and wait for the rooting of the plants, then transplanted and planted into the soil.