How to plant camellias to keep them alive
Main content introduction: The topic of how to plant camellias to keep them alive and a detailed explanation of camellia cultivation techniques, specifically introduced as follows:
Many friends are fond of growing flowers and love beautiful green plants. Having a potted plant with continuously blooming flowers can fit into any location in the house. However, in the cold winter, usually blooming flowers like roses and snowflakes begin to quiet down, and orchids and peonies stop blooming. There is a kind of flower that is different, blooming in the coldest time, from winter to April or May of the following year. Its blooming period is relatively long, and it is the camellia. Moreover, there are many types, such as Xiangfei camellia, Hualu Zhen, Hongchidandan, Dongfang Liang, and others.
Camellia flowers are also relatively large, with double petals and overlapping layers of petals. The flower colors are rich, including elegant white, pink, bright red, and various mixed colors. When they bloom, the leaves are lush and green, and the flowers are fresh, elegant, and grand. The flowers are larger than roses and more beautiful than orchids, with a faint fragrance. To some extent, they are even more durable and pleasing to the eye than peonies. Nowadays, there are more and more varieties of camellias, and some have very attractive fragrances. Keeping a pot indoors will make the fragrance more prominent, and a faint, pleasant scent will fill the room, refreshing the mind. So, how should camellia potted plants be cared for?
Camellia planting techniques have three points: large flowers, long blooming period, and the colder it is, the more it blooms.
1. When you first get the camellia potted plant, place it in a semi-shaded and well-ventilated area, allowing it to acclimate for about a week. Do not expose it to direct sunlight, as this will make the leaves wilt and look unhealthy.
2. If you are just starting to care for it, do not rush to prune the roots or change the pot and soil. Plant it in a slightly larger pot with the original soil, preparing decomposed leaf soil, river sand garden soil, some slow-release fertilizer, and granular soil, or adding other components to peat soil is also fine. Place some organic fertilizer at the bottom of the pot as a base fertilizer.
How to plant camellias to keep them alive
This kind of potting soil will not easily compact, providing better aeration and drainage. As long as the potting soil is fertile and loose, its growth will be better in the later stages. If the potting soil is good, loose, well-aerated, and fertile, it may start off as a small seedling, only 30 centimeters tall, and grow to over a meter tall in less than half a year, even growing full of flower buds.
3. When growing camellias in winter, if you want them to bloom earlier, you can place them on the indoor balcony with higher temperatures, which will cause them to bloom earlier. If the indoor temperature reaches 20 degrees, their blooming period will be ahead of schedule and very beautiful, continuously blooming. However, when caring for them indoors, you need to ensure adequate sunlight and maintain a certain level of humidity. If the air is too dry and humidity is insufficient, the flower buds may dry out.
By caring for camellias this way, their branches and leaves will be more lush, the flowers will be more vibrant and bright, the leaves will turn dark green and shiny, and the growth rate will accelerate. In just a few months, they will produce more branches and new stems.