Lantern flowers in the breeding process, you need to use a uniform mixture of rotting soil, garden soil as a substrate, every month loosening the soil, but also grasp the principle of dry soil watering, winter need to wait for the soil to whiten and then watering, flowering every half a month need to be applied to a nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium composite fertilizer, seedling period, the need to be centered on the treatment of the fixed plants.

1, choose the soil

Lantern flowers need to grow in loose, fertile soil, if you want to pot lantern flowers, then you need to choose the caliber of 30cm some large clay pots as a container, usually we can use rotting soil, garden soil evenly mixed to do the substrate, usually loosen the soil every other month, so that the soil always keep loose.

2, moderate watering

Lantern flowers like to grow in a moist environment, but each watering should not be too much, usually need to grasp the principle of dry soil watering, each watering needs to be watered through the soil, in the flowering period or summer to keep the soil slightly wet on it, winter soil white and then water, to prevent over-watering rotten roots.

3, reasonable fertilization

In fact, the lantern flower also needs sufficient nutrients, when it comes to how to raise the lantern flower, it is necessary to apply a nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium composite fertilizer every half a month during the flowering period, the nitrogen content should be less, the temperature is too high in summer, the temperature is too low in winter, the lantern flower in the dormant period of the two seasons, so there is no need to fertilize it.

4, centering

Usually lantern flowers in the seedling period, the need to remove all the upper shoots, placed in a cool ventilated place, a month after the sprouting of new branches, when the plant is shaped need to give it another centering, and then every year in spring and fall to give it the appropriate pruning, so that it can make the growth of more lush, but also to extend its flowering period.

5, cuttings propagation

The end of spring and early fall each year, you can take shoots from the healthy lantern flowers, cut off the length of 8 to 10cm can be, and then put the branch in a cool ventilated place, so that the wound gradually healed, inserted into the soil suitable for growth, need to be watered every 3 to 5 days, and wait for the branches to take root on the good.