Christmas cactus grows slowly, but after using homemade flower fertilizer it grows rapidly, becomes as hard as iron, and blooms continuously

Growing flowers is a very interesting thing, and also very simple. Many people like growing flowers. Growing flowers can cultivate character, delight the mood and nurture the spirit, and can also make the home beautifully decorated, making people feel happy when looking at it, and enriching leisure life.

Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera) is a flowering plant that many people like. Its leaves are thick and juicy, and its flowers are exquisite and delicate, extremely cute, and very popular. When caring for Christmas cactus, it is inevitable to encounter some problems, such as slow growth and few flowers. You can make homemade flower fertilizer, and then it will grow rapidly, with leaves as hard as iron, and blooming continuously with great ease.

If you want the leaves of the Christmas cactus to be firm and not soft, you need to supplement fertilizer containing nitrogen, such as urea, which is a directly purchased fertilizer. Bury a few granules in the flower soil of the Christmas cactus, once every half a month, using it continuously 2 to 3 times, and the leaves will become as hard as iron and not soft.

So making homemade fertilizer containing nitrogen is also very simple, and costs not a single cent. You can use soybeans to make it. After boiling the soybeans, fully mash them, put them together with the water and liquid into a mineral water bottle for fermentation. After fermentation, the water is a fertilizer water rich in nitrogen. In the current season, you can use it continuously 2 to 3 times, and the leaves will no longer be soft, hard as steel.

Having solved the problem of soft leaves, let's talk about the difficult problem of the Christmas cactus not blooming. If the Christmas cactus does not bloom, besides being related to external factors, it is also inseparable from the supply of nutrients. Moreover, if you want the Christmas cactus to bloom, you need to supplement phosphorus and potassium fertilizer in time, so as to promote flower bud differentiation, make it set more buds, and make it bloom more.

So what are the common phosphorus and potassium fertilizers in daily life? For example, potassium dihydrogen phosphate can be purchased directly, cheap and affordable. In the early stage of bud pregnancy, spray it 2 to 3 times, which can increase the number of flowers, make the flowers more vivid and larger, and increase the ornamental effect.

Besides directly purchased fertilizers, you can also make them yourself, such as bone meal, which is also rich in nitrogen and phosphorus elements and can promote flowering. The production method is very simple. Take various bones from the home, such as fish bones, pig bones, chicken bones, etc., completely remove the meat and tendons on them, put them in the sun to exposure for a few days, crush them with tools, and fully dry them, then they can be used. The effect is first-rate, and blooming continuously is too easy.