How to plant dragon tree

How to plant dragon tree

The dragon tree – beautiful exotic plant, but it perfectly takes root in our apartments. The dragon tree is considered one of the most unpretentious houseplants, it takes out dry air, insufficient illumination, drafts. It is and still better to put and grow up dragon tree in due form.

Instruction

1. If you have bought dragon tree in pot, then it should be replaced in slightly bigger pot, without destroying earth lump. Take pot for landing, fill in it a little drainage – haydite or gravel. Put the dragon tree which is taken out from old pot together with earth lump and podsypta of soil mix for palm trees or the earth prepared independently (equal parts of peat, humus, sand, the cespitose and sheet earth).

2. Happens that the dragon tree is on sale not in the form of adult plant, and in the form of thick shank. Carefully remove the paraffin applied on it from shank, smooth out the lower part knife and put shoot in bank with water. The water layer has to be 2-3 cm, it is better for bank to put to the warm place and to add to water any korneobrazovatel, for example, Kornevin. When on shank sprouts appear. It can be implanted in substrate for palm trees or the prepared earth, for a start from above having covered with can or transparent polyethylene.

3. You keep pot with dragon tree under scattered sunshine, after drying of the earth water. In month after rooting make the first fertilizing organic fertilizers. Then feed up constantly – 1 time in 2-3 weeks. At first you introduce organic fertilizers, and from the middle of summer and until the end of fall – mineral. It is necessary to feed up on the damp earth. Spray dragon tree leaves. Once a year replace it in slightly bigger pot.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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