Planting techniques and care of flowers for ten hours

Flower of ten hours is a beautiful, small flower, often used as a ornamental plant. The techniques of planting flowers after ten hours will help care and produce beautiful flower pots.

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Ten-hour flower planting techniques are not too difficult and sophisticated, because ten-hour plants are also very easy to live. Just pay a little attention to care that ten-hour plant pots will give many beautiful and eye-catching flowers.

Ten o'clock flowers were originally from South America but were developed in countries with temperate climates, especially in Vietnam, this is a beautiful flower that is easy to grow and care for small and thin flowers and wings growing close to the ground. Colors can be red, orange, pink, white or yellow.

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Paying a little attention to the technique of growing ten-hour flowers is that the growers will have the products they like.(Illustration)

The ten o'clock tree usually blooms at ten o'clock. Plants are often grown into flower beds, grown in basins, planted pots, planted hanging baskets. This species is suitable for drained and sunny areas.

Classify flowers for ten hours

There are two types of ten-hour plants in common on the market today: Portulaca grandiflora (ten-hour ordinary flowers) is a succulent, small, branched and fast growing trunk of the vegetable family (Portulacaceae). The name is ten o'clock because its flowers usually only bloom from around 8 am to 10 am during the day. A herbaceous plant, about 10–15 cm tall. Leaves are slightly flattened, 1.5–2 cm long, raw edges, pale pink, pale green leaves.

The second species is Portulaca grandiflora Hook (ten-hour Sam flower) because of their leaves like vegetables, their characteristics are like the usual ten o'clock, but only the leaf and leaf shapes of this kind of lanceolate, Succulent and charcoal, raw leaf edges.

Depending on tastes and aesthetics, growers can choose one of the above species or intercrop, but in general their flowers are nearly identical and quite beautiful.

How to plant flowers for ten hours

Ten-hour flowers belong to the type of beautiful flowers that are easy to grow, just branching into the soil as the trees will live, and the better the soil, the bigger and bigger the flowers (should choose the lower part, because the tops are easier to die). When planting, remember to bring plants into a cool place and regularly water, about 1 month after the tree will sprout new sprouts and develop beautiful flower pots.

Picture 3 of Planting techniques and care of flowers for ten hours Ten-hour flower-growing techniques are not too complicated and difficult.(Illustration)

In addition, if you want to have ten-hour flower pots as a work, growers can use ten-hour pods . The seeds are not difficult to grow, evenly spread the seeds in the soil, water with little water, do not allow the soil to be too wet, the seeds will be broken, but not to let the soil dry too, the seeds will not germinate. In addition, if planted with seeds, growers can study to produce ten-hour or two-color hybrids that are very special.

The hybrid is very simple, choose 2 flowers with 2 colors to cross, use a cotton swab to take the stamen of this flower to sprinkle on the pistil of the other flower. The work to be done then is to wait for the ten-hour tree to produce fruits, separate the seeds and plant them.

Picture 4 of Planting techniques and care of flowers for ten hours Growers can apply ten-hour flower-growing techniques with seeds to produce special color flowers.(Illustration)

How to take care of flowers for ten hours

Although saying ten-hour flowers are easy to grow and live, but if you pay attention to care techniques, ten-hour plants will be green, beautiful, flowers will be bigger, more colorful and more colorful. Taking care of flowers for ten hours should pay attention to such factors

  1. Pruning : It is advisable to prune old, or withered, branches that are too long, and should not be too dense to cause diseases and fungi.
  2. The trunk type is very succulent so they are favored by leafworms, snails and thinning to allow light to penetrate and are easy to handle when attacking worms or snail attack.
  3. Water should be watered in the early morning, from 8 am to 10 o'clock should not water the plants, because at this time plants are flowers.It is advisable to allow the soil to dry before starting watering
  4. The appropriate location for trees to grow and flowering is dry areas with direct sunshine, trees should not be left in a humid or obscene position, there will be a phenomenon of coal rot, root rot and sprawling. eye.
  5. Fertilizer : Dinamic fertilizer should be applied to plants, once a month, after watering enough to wet the soil.