Purple bamboo orchid (i.e. purple duck-toe grass) breeding technology:

Happy with warm climate, the optimal temperature for growth is 15?25 degrees Celsius. Not hardy,, safe overwintering temperature of 5 degrees Celsius. Like light, in sunny conditions in order to maintain bright leaf color, nodes short and robust. Prefer semi-shade environment, do not tolerate strong light exposure. Direct sunlight, the leaves will become dull, short, yellow and curled. 5 ~ September should be shade, shading 30% of the light?50%, or will be placed in the plant in the diffused light.

Because the branches and leaves are slightly fleshy, there is a certain degree of drought resistance, so even if a few days without shallow water, will not die. But the potting soil is moist, the plant can grow well. Watering during the growth period should grasp the "not dry not watering, watering is watering through" principle, keep the potting soil moist and not dry. In winter, you need to restrain watering, keep the potting soil more dry state.

Growing season every 1?2 weeks to apply a combination of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, nitrogen fertilizer alone, although the growth of branches and leaves is strong and large, but not bright. September to stop applying nitrogen fertilizer, only potassium fertilizer. Stop applying nitrogen fertilizer in September, and only apply poor potassium fertilizer to facilitate safe overwintering. Winter stop fertilizer.

The young plants should be centered to promote branching, so that the shape of the plant is full. Planted for a long time of the plant, the base of the leaves will wither and make the shape of the plant worse, should be combined with the spring turning pots on the plant for strong cut heavy cutting, so that the light decadence of the base of the buds renewed. The old plants with weak growth potential should be considered for cuttings to renew.

The cuttings of the plant, should be 3?5 plants planted into a pot, can make the pot plant early formation. Turn over the pot once every 1?2 years. Prefer loose, fertile and well-drained sandy loam, the substrate can be prepared with materials such as humus, peat soil, garden soil, huller's ash or sand.

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Purple bamboo orchid (purple duck-toe grass) main value:

Suitable for lawn clump planting, roadside planting landscaping. Can also be used as a flower bed edge edging material, and can be planted in tree pools, sparse grass, etc.; can also be used to hang pots cultivation, three-dimensional greening, as an indoor ornamental plants, planted in the balcony and other places with good light.

Purple bamboo orchid is also commonly used in folk medicine. It can invigorate blood circulation, diuretic, reduce swelling, dissipate knots, detoxification, treat carbuncle and gangrene, snake blister sores, scrofula and tuberculosis, gonorrhea, and externally pounded or decocted and washed with soup. The flowers of purple duckweed are sensitive to radiation, when encountered with radiation, the light purple-red flowers will turn white, it can be used to monitor radiation.

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