How to grow colorful calla lilies and what you need to pay attention to

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1. Maintenance methods

2. Breeding skills

3. Problem diagnosis and treatment

4. Other issues

Soil: It likes soil with good air permeability. It is better to use garden soil and leaf mold soil to match it. Temperature: The most suitable ambient temperature for its growth is between 22-30℃. Pay attention to ventilation in summer. Watering: You don’t need to be too strict with watering at ordinary times, just make sure that the soil in its pot is moist. Lighting: You can usually keep it indoors in a location with good lighting. During its growth period, move it out as much as possible to let it see the sun.

1. Maintenance method

1. Soil: soil with good air permeability is more suitable for its growth. When preparing the soil, you can put a layer of sand at the bottom of the flower pot, and use garden soil or garden soil as the upper layer. A mixture of sandy soil and leaf mold soil will do.

2. Temperature: It prefers coolness A little growing environment, the most suitable environmental temperature for its growth is 22-30℃. In summer, you need to pay attention to high temperature and sun protection. In winter, you need to move it indoors as soon as possible because it is afraid of the cold.

3. Watering: Just keep the potting soil slightly moist. There is no need to strictly customize the watering time. If you find that the soil is white and dry, water it once. In summer, you can spray water frequently to moisturize and clean the leaves.

4. Light: During normal maintenance It's fine to keep it indoors, but when it's growing rapidly, it needs to be exposed to more sunlight. Different stages have different needs for light, so just make sure the sunlight is not too strong.

2. Breeding skills

1. Post-flowering care: Its flowers will lose their ornamental value after blooming, so the remaining flowers must be cut off in time. Also pay attention to pruning off dead and old branches around it to avoid wastage and excessive loss of nutrients so that it can grow better.

2. Pruning: When changing pots, the root system should also be pruned appropriately, and the dead and rotten root systems should be removed to promote the growth of new roots. Just change the pot to a larger one, fill it with soil and plant it again.

3. Problem Diagnosis and Treatment

1. Yellow leaves: The more common reason is that there are not enough nutrients in the pot soil, that is, it is time to fertilize, and yellow leaves will appear. Fertilizer should be applied to it in time to ensure sufficient nutrients.

2. Failure to bloom: Failure to bloom may be because the temperature of the environment in which it grows is too high. If the temperature is too high, it is not conducive to its flowering, and sufficient light is required to promote its flowering. Therefore, the temperature should not be too high during maintenance and should be lowered to 30°C.

IV. Other questions

1. Toxicity: Colored calla lilies are somewhat toxic. They contain alkaloids and herbal calcium crystals, so care must be taken not to eat them by mistake during maintenance.

2. Can it be raised indoors: Although it is poisonous, there is no problem in raising it indoors. Just pay attention to placing it higher than the child.

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