Calla lily is also called Guanyin lotus, Ciguatina, water taro, is a kind of perennial herbaceous plants in the family of Amanita muscaria. It's leaves are green and full of vitality, the flower shape is like a horseshoe and more bright white, yellowish, pink, it can be potted indoors, but also in the water in a vase, has a certain ornamental value, is a flower friends like to plant a flower.

And for some novices with little experience in planting, planting calla lilies is a very difficult thing. They do not understand the growth habit of calla lily, can not grasp the correct maintenance method, so they planted out of the calla lily either bloom less, shorter flowering period, or is not blooming, leaf yellowing, so they do not know what to do. So how should you go about breeding calla lilies? Below I will be from the three breeding methods and three notes, to give you a specific, I hope to be able to help the flower friends.

Culture of calla lilies has the following three points:A choice of suitable soil planting

In fact, the calla lilies are very adaptable to the soil environment, such as common sandy soil, clay soil and so on are suitable for its growth. But in order to let it bloom more, more beautiful flowers, in the planting of calla lilies try to choose the kind of soil loose and fertile, drainage and air permeability are relatively good and rich in humus, slightly sticky slightly acidic soil.

If you have some conditions to configure this type of soil, you can use leaf litter, river sand, perlite, sawdust according to the 4:1:2:1 ratio of the preparation, in the preparation of time you can add some other nutrients. Add some other nutrients, such as completely rotted bark, peanut shells and so on, to make the nutrients in the soil more comprehensive and sufficient.

Two meet its light needs

Calla lily is a sun-loving flowers, it has a high demand for light, only to let it full contact with the sun, let it enjoy the sun's "bath", it can better photosynthesis. In order to better photosynthesis, in order to create, transform more nutrients for the plant to use, the plant in the adequate supply of nutrients, in order to grow well, in order to have more energy to flower, to reproduce.

But it should be noted that although the calla lily is light-loving, but it has certain requirements on the intensity of light, it can not be under the strong light for a long time. If long time to let it receive strong direct light, the plant will easily be sunburned, the leaves will evaporate a lot of water, and sunburned after the plant's root absorption capacity will be seriously reduced, resulting in the leaves can not absorb enough water to replenish the amount of water evaporated from the leaves, a long time the leaves will become dry, yellow or even fall off, the whole plant's growth will become worse and worse, and even wilt, wilting, and even the plant's growth. The whole plant will become worse and worse, and even wilt and wither.

So if you want calla lilies to grow well and produce beautiful flowers, it is very important to do a good job of light management. You can let it under the sun all day long in the mild sunny spring, fall and winter, so that it is fully exposed to sunlight. And into the hot summer, we should give it do some shade measures, such as covering a layer of shade net to block the strong sun rays, to avoid sunburn plants. You can also avoid the hot time period, choose every morning before 9:30 and afternoon after 4:30, let the calla lily exposure to the sun, the rest of the time it is placed in a cool ventilated environment maintenance, which not only meets its light needs, but also to avoid the situation of plant sunburn.

Three to give it a suitable growth temperature

Calla lily is a warm, intolerant of low temperatures flowers, the most suitable temperature for it to grow in the 15 degrees to 25 degrees between the temperatures once the temperature is lower than 15 degrees it will be growth. become particularly slow, when the temperature is lower than 5 degrees it will stop growing, the leaves may also appear sagging, wilting.

After entering the winter, the temperature in most areas will be relatively low, especially in some northern areas, the temperature can even be as low as minus ten degrees, in this case it is necessary to timely move the calla lilies indoor maintenance, and open the air conditioning to raise the room temperature to prevent the plant from frostbite.

And want calla lilies can grow well, bloom colorful flowers, just do the above three aspects or not enough, but also need to pay attention to the following three points. 1 reasonable, appropriate amount of watering

Calla lily is a like wet and fear of flooding flowers, it is relatively high water requirements, only to master the correct watering method, control the amount of watering and the number of watering to do not dry and not flooded, in order to let it grow well.

Spring and fall is the growth of calla lilies in the peak period , this time you can properly increase the amount and frequency of watering, you can every two days watering to keep the soil moist state, so that it absorbs enough water for better growth. After entering the summer calla lily will enter a dormant state, the demand for water will be correspondingly reduced a lot, at this time you can reduce the number of times you water, you can wait until the soil is dry and then moderate watering, to maintain its vital signs, in addition to watering should be avoided at noon high temperature time period, choose to water in the morning The best way to do this is to water in the morning or in the evening. Winter temperatures are relatively low, generally a week of watering to meet the growth needs of calla lilies.

2 timely fertilizer

Calla lily's growth is inseparable from the nutrients, only according to its growth needs timely fertilizer, in order to let it grow strong, healthy, in order to let it bloom beautiful flowers.

In its growth period can be every 20 days or so to apply a rotted soybean cake fertilizer, until it growth period can shorten the time of fertilization, can be every week or so to give it to apply a nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium-based mixture of liquid fertilizer, so that it absorbed the liquid fertilizer, so that it absorbed the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium-based mixture, so that it absorbed the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium-based liquid fertilizer. Let it absorb enough nutrients for growth. And in the pre-flowering period you need to stop applying nitrogen fertilizer, you can spray potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution to let it better differentiate the flower buds, so that it will bloom more colorful and colorful flowers.

But calla lily into the dormant period should stop fertilizer to avoid the emergence of the "burning roots" of the situation, in addition to the fertilizer do not drip fertilizer to the top of the leaves, otherwise it is easy to burn the leaves, so that the leaves appear yellow, dry and blotchy. The leaves appear yellow, dry or even rot.

3 Pruning in time after flowering

Calla lily's growth rate is relatively fast, the flowering time is relatively long, so in order to let it keep the beautiful shape of the plant, in order to better promote its growth, you need to do some pruning in time, and the best pruning time is after flowering.

After the Calla Lily bloomed cut off some of the residual flowers and leaves, at the same time will be too old branches and stems cut short, to avoid excessive consumption of nutrients, so that the nutrients saved can be better utilized by the plant. It is important to note that Calla Lily should not be pruned before flowering, otherwise it will affect the flowering process, but also make it shorten the flowering period, ultimately affecting its ornamental value.

Summary:In fact, the maintenance of calla lily is not very difficult, as long as you master certain breeding methods, strengthen the management of soil, light, temperature, and at the same time in the watering, fertilizer, post-flowering pruning of the three aspects of more attention, you can let the calla lily grow vigorously, so that it blooms colorful flowers.