Professional Player Ball Planting and Maintenance Tips
An article about the knowledge of succulent plants, professional player ball planting and maintenance tips, please see the detailed introduction below.
Planting Method: Place the roots upwards for a few days after bringing it home, then bury the roots in the soil. In winter, no watering is needed, just let it dry indoors. Start watering when peach blossoms bloom in spring.
Wrong Methods:
1. Pulling off all the roots or breaking the wooden core after receiving the plant. This is meaningless other than increasing the mortality rate. Even if new roots grow, the chance of infection and rot is higher with the large wound than with keeping the wooden core. Many balls become stiff without the core, neither dying nor growing, not flowering for years, and some varieties cannot grow roots without the core. The roots with the core can live for a long time, more than 10 years in many cases.
2. Overwatering: Cacti can survive without watering for a year without drying up, so there's no need to worry about a few days or months of dryness. Water only when the ball is obviously wrinkled, and do not water when it is plump, as it may rot. The number of flowers is also related to the amount of watering, with the most flowers when slightly wrinkled, and fewer flowers when always plump. Do not water in the hot afternoon in summer, but it is okay to water at night. The ones I sell are all heat-resistant and do not hibernate in summer.
3. Over-fertilizing: Cacti are sensitive to nitrogen fertilizer, and organic fertilizers can easily lead to death. Especially in autumn, nitrogen fertilizers should not be given, as they can reduce the plant's cold resistance, leading to freezing in winter. During the growing season, you can apply wood ash or low-nitrogen compound fertilizers (the first number of the three digits on the fertilizer should be as low as possible, at least below 10, and the third number should be as high as possible). Slow-release fertilizers with added magnesium, such as the Ogreen A-2, are good.
4. Shading: Cacti are sun-loving plants and cannot tolerate shade. Adult plants should be given as much sunlight as they can gradually adapt to, as they won't die from too much sun, except for seedlings. However, note that there should be a gradual process for the plant to adapt to sunlight, and it should not be suddenly moved out to the sun after being kept in a dark place indoors, or rotated 180 degrees on a windowsill.
5. Small or shallow pots: The pot for planting should have a certain volume and depth, at least one circle larger than the ball, especially not too shallow. Fill the pot with soil as much as possible, and make sure the bottom conical area of the ball is more than 5 cm away from the bottom of the pot. If the ball is thin and long and cannot stand, use a deeper pot for planting.
6. Treating unexpected death as a cultivation failure: Often, death is a matter of probability. Some plants may still die even without any mistakes, much like there are many rotten ones in greenhouses. It's normal for 1 or 2 out of 10 to die, but if 8 out of 10 rot, there's definitely a problem.
The above is[] all about professional player ball planting and maintenance tips. Have green plant enthusiasts understood it?