How to grow and water the sparse-tailed bamboo

Many people like scattered bamboo and want to grow it at home, but they don't know how to grow it. Scattered bamboo is an evergreen foliage plant that can purify the air and beautify the home. The cultivation method is not complicated, but you need to pay special attention when watering. Next, I will tell you in detail how to grow scattered bamboo and let you fully understand how to water it.

How to grow and water the sparse-tailed bamboo

1. Prepare the culture soil

When cultivating loose bamboo, you must prepare suitable culture soil in advance. This plant has strong vitality. It likes slightly acidic soil and fertile and loose soil with high organic matter content. When you cultivate loose bamboo at home, you can add bamboo leaf soil to peat soil, add 1/3 river sand, and 1/3 perlite to prepare nutrient soil.

2. Apply fertilizer in time

When cultivating scattered-tail bamboo, it is necessary to apply fertilizer in time. It has a relatively large demand for this medicine during its normal growth period. When planting, it should be buried deeper, so that the new teeth can absorb nutrients in the soil. After it enters the peak growth season, it should be fertilized once every one to two weeks. The fertilizer should be a sustainable compound fertilizer. After entering late autumn and winter, its growth rate slows down and fertilization should be stopped.

3. Humidity and temperature

When growing the bamboo, you also need to adjust the humidity and temperature of the breeding environment. This plant likes a humid environment. In the summer, when the weather is dry, you should spray water on its leaves in time, or wipe its leaves with a wet cloth to increase the humidity of the environment. The other three plants like a warm environment. It grows best when the outside temperature is between 25 and 35 degrees. It is particularly sensitive to low temperatures. In winter, when the indoor temperature drops below ten degrees, it will stop growing. When the temperature drops to five degrees or even lower, it will suffer frost damage.

How to water the loose-tailed bamboo

There are many things to pay attention to when watering the plant of Lophatherum gracile. It is a plant that is afraid of both dryness and wetness. The frequency of watering is different in different seasons. It should be watered once every three days during its peak growth season, twice a day in the hot summer weather, and once every ten days in the cold winter weather. When watering, you must also follow the principle of "dry through and wet through".