First, the appropriate soil:
The Buddha's hand is suitable for growth in deep, loose and fertile soil, rich in humus, well-drained acidic loam, sandy clay loam.
The root system of the Buddha's hand plant is more developed, and the roots are more delicate, once the soil is too coarse particles, then the fit with the root system is not good, and it will not grow roots. So use fine particles when planting.
Treatment
When mixing the soil for planting Buddha's hand. You can use a mixture of one-third each of honeycomb dust + field soil + humus, and then add 10% of perlite.
Beehive coal dust is fine soil in which also has loose air permeability and good drainage of planting material. In the use of the first several times to soak the well water. Remove the alkalinity.
Second, suitable environment:
Buddhist prefer warm and humid, sunny environment, intolerant of cold, afraid of frost and drought, in the rainfall. Cultivation in areas without freezing in winter is appropriate.
The optimal growth temperature of 12-28 ℃, overwintering temperature of more than 5 ℃, low temperature to room, high temperature more than 32 degrees Celsius to shade. Conservation location air humidity required to reach more than 55%.
Light time required to reach about 5 hours, potted plants will be subject to the limitations of the location, you need to make timely and appropriate treatment.
Treatment
Maintaining the Buddha's hand, in addition to high temperatures exceeding 32 degrees Celsius, the appropriate shade, the rest of the time period should be maintained in the location of sufficient light.
Daily maintenance in addition to watering to replenish moisture, should often use the way to spray to the environment to increase the degree of Celsius, high temperature time to give cooling. Maintenance location to try to avoid the location of pollution sources of air. Keep fresh flowing air.
Third, moderate watering:
The Buddha's hand is slightly drought-tolerant due to a relatively developed root system and more fibrous roots, so it can capture very little water in the soil.
Maintenance should master a set of more systematic watering way, both to avoid the root system lack of water withered root phenomenon. At the same time, it is also necessary to replenish water in a timely manner to supply the growth needs.
Treatment
Watering the Buddha's hand mainly according to the soil planting material surface of the soil wet and dry as a guideline. When the surface of the planting material is dry, you can water it thoroughly by snapping off a shallow layer of soil with your hand, and when the shallow layer of soil is about 3 centimeters dry.
But you need to make adjustments according to the season, slightly extending watering by 2 to 3 days in winter and spring. In summer and fall, you can water immediately and increase the frequency of spraying to wet the leaves.
Fourth, moderate fertilization:
Buddhist has good barren characteristics, but long-term lack of nutrients, the plant will become weak, and will also affect the flowering and fruiting. In the fertilization should pay attention to different stages of growth to fertilize differently, in order to achieve the best results:
(1)Daily fertilization, as long as there is no high temperature 32 ℃, there is no low temperature of 10 ℃, can be given every month to the organic fertilizer, balanced supplementation of the growth of "nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium" three elements needed. "
These are the three elements that are needed for the growth of a balanced diet.
(2)Spring fertilization and pruning after the same fertilization, mainly to promote the growth of branches and leaves is the main , can be applied to the first containing "nitrogen" high urea once, and then changed to the application of organic fertilizer.
(3) In the Buddha's hand before the flowering period, fertilizer to favor "phosphorus and potassium". In order to ensure that the flowering more, hanging fruit rate is high.
It is recommended to use "potassium dihydrogen phosphate" 1500 times for spraying, wetting the main trunk and leaves. Use it 3 times in a row, with an interval of about 8 days each time. It can effectively improve the efficiency of nutrient absorption, promote flowering, and ensure the fruiting rate.
Fifth, from time to time pruning:
Planting the Buddha's hand can not be separated from pruning, pruning the purpose of the three main points:1, to maintain the shape of the tree; 2, to reduce the consumption of nutrients; 3, to promote the growth of lateral buds, to maintain a full crown.
(1) when planting the Buddha's hand, grow to have about 40 centimeters, you can carry out "beheading" pruning.
Retain a height of about 25 centimeters and cut off the stem directly. This will encourage the growth of side shoots and make the side branches more abundant. New shoots can be pulled at a horizontal angle with aluminum wire.
(2) There is a full crown of Buddha's hand, we have to deal with some useless branches, will be the inner branches, boring branches. Axillary branches, indeterminate buds and other timely pruning off.
These branches consume nutrients and rarely photosynthesize, and will not flower and fruit. When the crown is too high, it should be shortened in time to maintain a compact crown with a clear hierarchy.
(3) maintenance and management in place, the Buddha's hand flowering amount is more, in the branch does not need to keep too many flowers, the general recommendation to keep 3 flowers can be.
After the fruit, it is generally recommended that potted plants only retain each strong lateral branches, hanging a fruit can be. Too many flowers, and immature fruit, will fight each other for nutrients, the fruit is not big, not complete.