Red luck: also known as the bromeliad

Scientific name: large-flowered red star, belonging to the bromeliad family, is the winter and spring indoor ornamental flowers, evergreen, beautiful inflorescences, colorful, commonly cultivated varieties of red, pink, golden, rose and other varieties. Red Luck has a long flowering period, suitable for family dill.

Cultivation techniques temperature

Red luck head native to tropical South America, the temperature of 15 ℃ to 22 ℃, the lowest temperature in winter should not be less than 10 ℃, otherwise it will make the plant frost damage, so that the leaves turn yellow, affecting the plant robust growth.

Light

To make the leaves of red luck bright and bloom regularly, light is very important, at least 4 hours to 5 hours of direct sunlight every day in winter. In case of rainy days, lights can be used to increase the light. In summer, it is appropriate to place the seedling pot in the shade, indoor cultivation can also be set up as needed shade net.

Soil

Red luck is suitable for growth in loose, fertile, humus soil. For home cultivation, you can use 2 parts of charcoal soil mixed with 1 part of fine sand to formulate a culture soil.

Fertilizer

Red Luck in the winter is the flowering period, requires sufficient fertilizer, usually once every two weeks to apply a thin organic liquid fertilizer, such as soybean cake, jaggery residue soaking liquid (concentration of 20% is appropriate), can also be used in soybean soaking liquid or fermented rice water.

Watering

Red Fortune likes moist environment, keep the potting soil moist on weekdays can be, cloudy and rainy days usually do not water. Watering needs to be done before noon, or early in the morning and late in the summer, but be sure to water in the leaf cup, not just in the potting soil. And at night to keep the leaves dry and clean, to humidify the need to replenish water in the growing environment to increase humidity, such as ground sprinkling or start a humidifier, etc.?

Watering needs to be based on the amount of water in the leaf cups, leaf cups should have enough water, and the water quality should be clean, you can also pour fertilizer, but must be replaced in about a week of fresh water, or easy to rot the core of the plant, and the bad smell.?

Family dill, it is best to use after drying water, not directly with tap water. Bromeliads are both flowers and foliage flowers, it is best to spray water on the foliage once a day, to remove dust, so that the leaves are bright, but also conducive to photosynthesis, promote robust plant growth.

Pest control

Red Luck is prone to pests and diseases in environments with high temperature and humidity, and poor ventilation, such as sooty disease, ** disease and red spider, mesquite and so on. If you find diseases, you can spray carbendazim in time, and insect pests can be sprayed with oxolinic acid. No matter which kind of spray, it must be done outdoors to prevent contamination of the indoor environment. In addition, you can also go to the flower market to buy sterilization, insecticide tablets, buried in the potting soil, eradication of pests and diseases.?

Red spots are the manifestation symptoms of brown spot disease, which requires timely spraying of strong fungicides such as carbendazim or trichlorfon, Aimee, and agro-streptomycin to prevent and control.?

This is due to the timing of water spraying is chosen too late, do not spray water after the evening, easy to harbor pathogens, there can not be water left on the leaf surface at night.

Now that it has the disease, it is recommended to cut off the rotten leaves, spray the leaves with carbendazim and irrigate the roots. If possible, give it a new soil. Before replacing the soil, clean up the rotten roots, preferably with potassium permanganate water soak sterilization.