How to Grow Daisies in Water? A Detailed Guide to Hydroponic Care

Daisies are very common ornamental flowers, and they are excellent whether kept at home or given as a gift. So how do you grow daisies in water? Let's take a look together below.

1. How to grow daisies in water

1. Usually choose a tall, slim glass bottle as the growing container. A glass bottle is fairly transparent, so you can see whether the roots and stems underwater are rotting or damaged as they grow. Do not pour in too much water; use one third of the bottle's height as the standard.

2. Before growing them in water, you also need to trim and prepare the fresh daisy flowers. The lower part of the stems placed in water must not keep any leaves, and remove the upper flower stems that are numerous and densely packed. You can cut the lower part at a small 45-degree angle to increase the daisies' ability to absorb water and oxygen.

3. For water quality, usually choose purified water or mineral water, as these types of water have no impurities or residual microorganisms. Tap water must be left to stand for 1~2 days before use. You can choose three to five sprigs of daisies and put them in the water together; this not only adds to the ornamental value but also helps hold them in place for hydroponic growing

2. Care precautions

1. During water growing, you can add nutrient solution to the water to increase nutrients and promote healthier, stronger growth in the daisies. However, during the growing process it is best to change the water frequently. This is because fresh daisy flowers continuously produce mucus, which pollutes the water, causes bacteria to appear, and may even lead to disease that causes the roots to rot.

2. When the weather is hot, you need to change the water every day. If the weather is relatively cool, you can change the water once every 2-3 days, and remove fallen and withered leaves to avoid breeding bacteria.

Growing daisies in water is fairly convenient. With good care, they can be kept for a longer time. I hope everyone can grow beautiful daisy flowers at home.