Jasmine is actually a plant from India, but our love for jasmine is not diminished at all. How to raise jasmine is very simple, sufficient sunshine and watering, diligent fertilization and often pruning can make the home jasmine flourishing, fragrance full of garden. In addition to prevent disease and insect damage to jasmine plants.
1, acidic soil
Jasmine like a slightly acidic number from the fertile soil, because the watering and fertilizer is very hard, so the soil should be permeable. Humus humus and charcoal soil plus sandy loam are perfect, mixing in a ratio of 3:3:4. Ferrous sulfate needs to be added once a month to keep the soil acidic.
2, adequate sunlight
On the question of how to raise jasmine, the most basic is adequate sunlight to shine jasmine. The florist has always said that the sun does not kill the jasmine, the drought does not kill the plum. Spring and fall seasons and winter can be all day sunshine to ensure that the growth of jasmine, summer in addition to the distribution of noon can be exposed to the sun, morning and evening time can also be sunshine.
3, watering
Jasmine likes a moist growing environment, and needs to be watered to ensure soil moisture. Spring and fall season warm climate, 2 to 3 days watering 1 time is good, summer watering must be 1 time in the morning and evening the best, winter needs to be slightly dry soil 6 days watering 1 time. The pot does not need to have stagnant water, as long as slightly moist, especially during the rainy season, the pot needs to be poured out at any time.
4, temperature
Jasmine from the tropics, like warmer environments, intolerant of cold. It is suitable to grow in the environment between 22 to 35 ℃, winter time temperature must be controlled above 10 ℃, in case the temperature is lower than 5 ℃, will freeze jasmine tree. Summer 38 ℃ above will also be too high temperature and dormant.
5, diligent fertilization
Jasmine is a kind of plant and its like fertilizer, the community has always been clear to raise orchids, cloudy jasmine flower farming common sense. There are nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium any two kinds of composite fertilizer can be, fertilizer must do thin fertilizer diligently. Spring and autumn days of the growing period, 3 to 4 days fertilizer 1 time, between the flowering period when 2 days fertilizer a light fertilizer. Autumn apply light fertilizer for winter reserves, winter do not fertilize.
1, cuttings
Jasmine reproduction is divided into cuttings and presses, of which cuttings are the most common. The best time to take cuttings is in March/April in the spring, when you take a sturdy, leafy branch that is 2 years old, about 12 centimeters long, and leave 2 or 3 leaves cut in half at the top. Insert the branch bud into the soil and water it well, put it in a cool environment, and new shoots will grow in 10 to 15 days.
2, high bar pressure branch
Find a spring cool weather, the jasmine longer tough branch buds selected, cut off the top leaves, with a knife ring peeling a certain height of the branch bark part. Place a peat soil packet on top of the plastic wrap, wrap it around the barked part of the branch in a circle, tie it tightly with a string and press it into the soil. Generally speaking, 2 to 3 months later, jasmine ring peeling at the lower 3 centimeters will be able to take root.
Third, jasmine pests and diseases1, mealybugs
Jasmine fragrance is incomparable, it is easy to attract pests. The most common are mealybugs and nightshade moths. They will suck nutrients from the jasmine plant, which can make the scent of jasmine fade and the plant shrivel up. When the pests and diseases are not serious, you can use a black light and poplar branches to weed out the pests, and you can also use a sugar and vinegar solution to trap the adult pests. If it is too serious, use 90% of trichlorfon diluted 800 times of water to spray the plant to get rid of insects.
2, yellowing disease
Jasmine breeding improperly will make them suffer from yellowing disease, not only is the flower yellow, the leaves will be yellowed, the plant will slowly wither, gradually withered. This disease should be treated in time, or else it will cause the death of the sapling if it is serious. You can spray the plant with 100 times water diluted with black alum water to prevent and control.
Conclusion: Through the introduction above, I believe we can know how to breed jasmine. Jasmine fragrance incomparable, dense green leaves, raised in the home not only smells fragrant, will make the environment look pleasing to the eye, is really a home essential potted plants ah!