Lantern flower cultivation methods and precautions

Lantern flower is a beautiful ornamental plant. Many people like to grow it at home, but they don’t have a comprehensive understanding of its cultivation methods and don’t know what to pay attention to during the cultivation process. Today I will introduce this knowledge to you, so that you can easily master the cultivation methods and precautions of lantern flowers, and easily grow good lantern flowers.

How to grow lantern flower

1. Choose the right soil

When growing lantern flowers, you must choose suitable soil. This plant is suitable for growing in fertile, loose, slightly acidic soil. You can use a mixture of garden soil, humus soil and leaf mold to prepare nutrient soil. You should also put some decomposed cake fertilizer in the nutrient soil. This will make the soil more fertile and more conducive to the growth of lantern flowers.

2. Moderate light

When growing lantern flowers, you must provide it with moderate light. This plant is a light-loving plant and needs to receive sunlight for 6 to 8 hours a day. If it does not receive sufficient light, it will have various adverse symptoms such as long branches and leaves and no flowering. In addition, when growing lantern flowers, it must not be exposed to strong sunlight, otherwise it will affect its normal growth.

Precautions for growing lantern flowers

1. Apply fertilizer in time

When cultivating lantern flowers, you should pay attention to timely top dressing. It is best to apply top dressing every 10 to 15 days. Choose decomposed organic liquid fertilizer. If the lantern flower does not bloom for a long time during the cultivation process, you need to apply potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution. Dilute the fertilizer before fertilizing so that it can bloom as soon as possible.

2. Reasonable watering

When growing lantern flowers, you must pay attention to proper watering, because this plant is particularly sensitive to water. Excessive watering or insufficient watering will affect its normal growth. When growing, you must adjust the frequency and amount of watering according to seasonal changes. In spring and summer, you can water it once a day. After entering autumn, you need to water it every 3 to 4 days. In winter, the weather is cold and the water consumption is relatively less. At this time, you can water it every 6 to 10 days.

The above introduces the cultivation methods and precautions of lantern flowers. It can let everyone know how to grow lantern flowers well, and also let everyone understand what to pay attention to when growing lantern flowers. When you grow lantern flowers in the future, just follow the correct methods introduced above to easily grow this plant.