How do you care for a money tree normally so it grows vigorously?
How do you normally care for a money tree? Please give guidance on the methods. The money tree is a perennial evergreen shrub, native to the Malay Peninsula and the South Seas Islands region. In recent years, through cultivation and selective breeding, it has widely entered urban and rural households in our country. For home cultivation, based on its habit of preferring high temperatures and high humidity and being intolerant of frost and dryness, indoor...
How do you normally care for a money tree? Please give guidance on the methods.
The money tree is a perennial evergreen shrub, native to the Malay Peninsula and the South Seas Islands region. In recent years, through cultivation and selective breeding, it has widely entered urban and rural households in our country. For home cultivation, based on its habit of preferring high temperatures and high humidity and being intolerant of frost and dryness, the following four points should be noted for indoor planting:
1. Pay attention to light. The money tree likes light and cannot be shaded for long periods. Therefore, during care and management it should be placed in a spot indoors with ample sunlight. When positioning it, the leaf surface must face the sunlight. Otherwise, because the leaves grow toward the light, the entire branches and leaves will become distorted. In addition, every 3 to 5 days, spray water on the leaves once with a spray bottle; this not only helps photosynthesis proceed but also makes the branches and leaves look more attractive.
2. Pay attention to watering. If watered too little, branch and leaf development stalls; if watered too much, it causes root rot and death; with moderate watering, the branches and leaves grow thick and large. The first principle of watering is to keep it moist rather than dry; the second is "two more, two less," namely, water more in the high-temperature summer season and water less in winter; water more for large and medium-sized plants in vigorous growth and water less for small newly potted plants.
3. Pay attention to fertilizing. The money tree is a flowering plant that likes fertilizer, and its demand for fertilizer is greater than that of common other flowering plants. When repotting each year, the proportion of fertilized soil can account for 1/3, or even more. The fertilized soil can be made by collecting leaf mold from the fallen leaves of broadleaf trees, adding a little garden soil and mixed bone meal and soybean cake residue. This fertilized soil has high efficacy and is convenient and easy to obtain, but care should be taken to fully decompose it, so as not to "burn" the leaves yellow. In addition, during the money tree's growing period (May to September), every 15 days, apply once a fully decomposed liquid fertilizer or a mixed flower-growing fertilizer to promote deep roots and lush leaves.
4. Pay attention to temperature and humidity. The money tree has relatively high requirements for temperature and humidity. If the temperature is relatively low or humidity is lacking, leaf drop often occurs, and in severe cases the branches become bare, which not only hinders viewing but also very easily causes the plant to die.
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