It's time to eat pineapple again. Some flower friends want to potted pineapple at home. In fact, the potted cultivation method of pineapple is very simple, and Huayou in the north can also potted pineapple! However, it should be noted that winter, for indoor heating flower friends, potted pineapple is even less pressure, let's go to see how to potted pineapple?
The first step: potted pineapple to choose healthy pineapple, because pineapples have been stored for a period of time, some leaves are withered, so choose the leaves that are well developed and in good condition. For example, the white powder of the leaves is still there, and the leaves are green. In order to improve the success rate, you can buy more. For the core of the small leaves to pay special attention, can not be gently pulled off.
Step 2: cut from the junction of the foliage and pineapple without pulp.
Step 3: peel off the outer green leaves layer by layer from the lower green leaflets. Leave 5-10 large leaves according to the size of the leaf clump. Pay attention to only peel off the outer green leaves. There may be some small leaves hidden between the green leaves, which are preserved. In this way, there are 1.5 cm to 2.5 cm of white stem exposed.
Step 4: after a few days in the shade, place it in a glass or a suitable bottle for hydroponics. The height of the water is half that of the white stem but lower than the base of the leaf. Place in front of the window where the scattered light is bright. Change the water once a day. Generally, the root will come out within a few weeks.
Step 5: plant in slightly acidic soil with good drainage. Pineapple is fibrous root, afraid of water in the soil. The cultivation soil does not need to be fertile, and does not add base fertilizer. Because pineapple root system is not developed, the flowerpot does not need to be very big, the next year when changing the pot to change the big pot. After a week, they were exposed to the sun for 6 hours. Keep the soil moist. The way you water it is a bit special. Pour a small cup of water over the center of the foliage and the leaves and let the water flow down the plant into the pot.
Step 6: start fertilizing when new leaves begin to grow. If compound fertilizer is used, choose the variety without copper or boron. Prepare a small cup of fertilizer water according to the concentration of 1 / 4 of the instructions, and pour it into the center of the foliage and on the leaves, just like watering.
In the absence of a sound root system, pineapple mainly absorbed the water and nutrients retained in the leaves through the leaf surface. After two months of planting, the root system is fully developed and cultivated as other long sunshine flowers. Pay attention to pineapple drought tolerance, do not water too much, sunshine should be sufficient, half a year of good management can bud, from flower to fruit about 200 days, in the maintenance process found that all yellow leaves break off. Flower friends in the northern region should pay attention to the temperature problem, because pineapple is a tropical fruit, the northern area with heating is good, without heating flower friends should pay special attention to heat preservation.