What to Do When Peperomia Leaves Turn Yellow? Practical Flower-Growing Tips Shared
First, let me introduce Peperomia: Many people may not be familiar with this plant, which is mainly distributed in Taiwan, China, Fujian, Guangdong and other provinces. Peperomia is a perennial succulent clustering herbaceous plant that generally blooms between February and April or September and December; it likes humid environments and is commonly found on damp rocks or dead trees. Peperomia also has certain medicinal value: taken internally, it can treat rheumatoid arthritis and bronchitis; applied externally, it can treat sprains, fractures and so on.
Because Peperomia can also serve as an ornamental plant, many people like to place a few pots of it at home. However, yellowing leaves are a situation many people have encountered, and it affects the visual appeal. But few people know why it happens or what to do about it.
There are many reasons why Peperomia leaves turn yellow:
Point one:
Excessive moisture is one of the causes of yellowing leaves. Because many people do not understand the growth habits of Peperomia, they frequently water it. In fact, this is doing harm with good intentions. Although Peperomia likes humid environments, too much moisture will also affect its normal growth, and the direct symptom is yellowing leaves. Therefore, you should normally control the amount of watering and not water too frequently.
Point two:
It should be noted that too much moisture is not good, but too little moisture is also not good. If the roots of Peperomia do not get enough water, it will not only cause the leaves to turn yellow but also make them curl, which greatly affects the visual appeal. Therefore, we should not water it too often, but we also should not let the interval be too long. As long as the soil is kept moist, that is just right, no more and no less.
Point three:
Improper fertilizing can also cause yellowing leaves. A common misunderstanding is that the more fertilizer you apply, the better the plant grows. In fact, this is completely wrong. Everything has a limit. Too much fertilizer will lead to excessive nutrients in the soil, while Peperomia has limited absorption capacity, so it easily causes root rot, which in turn makes the leaves turn yellow. Therefore, you should control the amount of fertilizer, avoid applying too much, and it is best to use organic fertilizer.
Point four:
In addition to the above, another cause is pest and disease damage. Although some people place Peperomia indoors, pests and diseases can still inevitably appear. Since the leaves of Peperomia grow rather densely, we should pay attention to improving air circulation between the stems and branches. This can effectively prevent the occurrence of pests and diseases and reduce the harm.
A small pot of Peperomia still requires great care in its maintenance. So, have you learned these methods to prevent leaves from turning yellow?
Things You Should Know About Growing Flowers in the Office in Summer
"My succulents are wilting and the leaves are dry. What should I do?" Recently, such help-seeking posts have kept appearing on some plant forums. The hot summer has arrived. How can flowers and plants get through summer safely in a hot and stuffy environment? Recently, a reporter visited the offices of several flower-growing experts in downtown office buildings to look for summer flower-growing tips.
Succulents Are Lovable Summer Is a Hard "Hurdle" to Pass
"With a two-point-one-line life, the office becomes another home. After busy work, watering the flowers and appreciating them carefully to relieve work pressure, is that not a kind of enjoyment?" This is a passage left on a forum by a white-collar worker named "Lancome." In her office, succulents such as Sempervivum, Aeonium 'Zwartkop,' Haworthia cooperi, Sedum rubrotinctum and Senecio rowleyanus fill the entire windowsill. Counting carefully, there are nearly 20 varieties.
The white-collar worker "Unbelievable" has the surname Lu and works in an office building on Lantian Road in Haishu District. She is also a complete "succulent addict." Her office faces south, and succulents fill two whole windowsills, with more than 30 varieties including Haworthia cooperi, Crassula capitella 'Campfire,' Graptopetalum paraguayense, Graptopetalum 'Silver Star,' Haworthia fasciata, and Tillandsia. These succulents are carefully cultivated in ceramic pots, arranged with tall and short plants in a pleasing, well-spaced manner.
"Many succulents will lose their shape as they grow up and need constant pruning to maintain a beautiful 'figure,'" Ms. Lu said with a smile. In the corner of the office, more than 10 small flower pots placed on the floor are her succulent "propagation base." "The trimmed branches and leaves are put here to propagate. Succulents have an amazing reproductive capacity. A single leaf or a single branch can bring forth new life," Ms. Lu said.
"You did not come at the right time. The succulents are not in very good condition now. If you had come 2 months earlier, they would have looked much better!" What Ms. Lu meant by "not in good condition" is that some succulents have already entered or are about to enter their dormant period.
So how do you identify the dormant period? The experts say you should look at the growth state. During dormancy, the plant stops growing, the leaves become dull and lose their luster, and the whole plant looks listless. For example, after Aeonium 'Zwartkop' enters dormancy, its previously plump leaves become soft and their luster disappears as well.
"Summer is a hurdle for succulents. If you do not handle it well, they can all die!" To prevent the succulents in dormancy from rotting at the roots, "I would rather let them stay dry than give them water. I have not watered them for more than a week in a row!" Ms. Lu said.
Green Plants Are Refreshing In Summer, Avoid Too Much Light and Insufficient Humidity
Compared with succulents, green plants get through summer more easily. The office of the white-collar worker "Snow Realm Love" is recognized as the "most beautiful office" in the building. On the windowsill and bookshelves, there are more than 30 pots of green plants in total, including pothos, ivy, spider plant, Guzmania, begonia, snake plant, anthurium, purple oxalis, Christmas cactus, and Peperomia. She sometimes makes a few exquisite flower arrangements to add a lively touch to her desk. She said: "Being surrounded by flowers and plants while working can relax the body and mind and improve work efficiency."
In choosing green plants, what "Snow Realm Love" values is their air-purifying effect. On her desk, the most numerous are spider plants, with six or seven pots. "Several pots of spider plants were brought here for foster care by colleagues who could not grow them well. Although spider plants are easy to grow, the leaf tips are prone to drying, scorching and turning yellow. When growing spider plants in summer, the biggest taboos are too much light, insufficient air humidity, and improper fertilizing. These can all cause the leaves to dry, scorch and turn yellow," said "Snow Realm Love." If the leaf tips of a spider plant turn yellow and dry up, do not worry. You can move it to a semi-shaded, ventilated place, and frequently spray water on the leaf surface and the surrounding environment to increase air humidity. When fertilizing, avoid the leaves. In addition, also check whether the roots are rotten, and promptly cut off any rotten parts.
Behind her there are several pothos plants about half a person's height, with leaves as large as two adult palms. But the leaves of the hydroponic pothos on the desk are very small. They are both pothos, so why is there such a big difference in leaf size? "Snow Realm Love" said that the potted pothos was fertilized this year, so it grew rapidly, while hydroponic pothos has limited nutrients in the water, so its leaves can only be this large. "Plants are very clever. Under limited living conditions, they will actively change their body shape according to the environment to adapt to it. For this reason, with hydroponic pothos, you can regularly add a few drops of special nutrient solution to the water to supplement nutrients."
Getting Flowers and Plants Through Summer Watering Matters Most
Regarding how flowers and plants get through summer, Sun Lijun, deputy director of the Haishu District Greening Office, told reporters that among spring, summer, autumn and winter, people feel most comfortable in spring and autumn. Summer is hot and winter is cold, and succulents' feelings about the four seasons are basically similar to people's.
There are many varieties of succulents: summer-type species that go dormant in winter and grow in summer; winter-type species that go dormant in summer and grow in winter; and spring-autumn-type species that go dormant in summer and grow in spring and autumn, among others. Therefore, if you are not familiar with the characteristics of succulents, the most conservative approach is: less exposure to strong sun, less watering, and more ventilation.
Watering succulents in summer should depend on the situation. In summer, the active ones are mostly plants of the Cactaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Apocynaceae families. For succulents in the dormant period, watering must be stopped in summer. Once watered too much, the root system will rot. But for succulents in the growing period, such as Sedum adolphi and Pachyphytum 'Peach Beauty,' they need watering once every 2-3 days.
For green plants, most plants need shade and protection from strong sun exposure in summer. For indoor flowers and plants, water them once the soil turns white, and water thoroughly each time. Large-leaved flowers such as Epipremnum aureum 'Jade' and Alocasia amazonica must not lose water in summer. Once they lose water, the leaves will be damaged, while Asparagus setaceus should be kept "rather dry than wet."
At the same time, she particularly pointed out that you should not directly use tap water to water flowers, because tap water contains alum, which can cause soil compaction and affect the soil's water permeability and air permeability. For this reason, it needs to be left standing for more than 3 days before use.
In addition, she also listed summer care methods for several green plants. Summer is the peak growing season for orchids, so you must ensure the water and nutrients needed for their growth and maintain a ventilated and well-lit environment; rhododendrons grow slowly in summer and are in a semi-dormant state, so avoid strong sun exposure and excessive fertilizing, provide shade, water 1 to 2 times a day, and spray water on the leaves and ground to retain moisture and lower the temperature; jasmine blooms in summer, so sufficient water and fertilizer will help it bloom, and spraying the leaf surface with clean water can stimulate flowering; Aglaia odorata likes light and heat, grows vigorously in summer, should be fertilized before and after flowering, and should be sprayed with water on the leaf surface frequently; peonies fear heat and moisture, so in summer the plant should be placed in a cool, ventilated place, and there is no need to water too much. Keeping the potting soil moist is enough to avoid root rot.
A Complete Collection of Chinese Flower-Growing Proverbs
The history of flower growing among Chinese people is long and far-reaching. Generation after generation of flower growers have summarized rich experience and passed it down, and when people gathered it together, flower-growing proverbs took shape. Chinese flower-growing proverbs read like idioms and jingles, catchy and full of wisdom. Below is a collection of Chinese flower-growing proverbs compiled by Huacaoshumu.com for you.
Lilies mostly prefer acidic soil, though there are a few exceptions.Lily bulbs have no skin, so pest and disease control takes effort.
Help people by helping their hearts; water flowers by watering their roots.
Apply thin fertilizer frequently.
Protecting flowers and fruit is not as good as protecting leaves.
This is originally a sun-loving flower; after eight hours of sun it is at its best.
Croton prefers sticky soil.
Sowing takes many years; cuttings bloom in the same (next) year.
If you do not understand yin and yang, you are not a good gardener.
Do not water when dry? No: if not dry, do not water; if you water, water thoroughly.
Not choosy about soil and water, it thrives wherever it is.
Tea wants acidic soil.
Tea is suited to the shade of high mountains, yet welcomes the early sun.
If you often spread sulfur powder, mildew disease will not come to your door.
Water thoroughly in the morning, water half as much in the evening.
To achieve a good match for flowers, excellent varieties are right before your eyes.
When bolting and forming buds, quickly apply phosphorus and potassium.
During the bud-sprouting and bud-forming period, potted tea plants must not be moved.
If seedlings are hardened after leafing out, the root system develops well.
If the water amount is controlled well at the initial stage, the leaves will not easily fall over later.
Sow in spring and enjoy flowers the same year; sow in autumn and wait until next year for fragrance.
Divide peonies at the spring equinox, and they will never bloom even when old.
Divide peonies in the spring breeze, and they will never bloom even when old. (This means that not all flowers and plants are suitable for spring planting. Peonies have well-developed root systems, and if transplanted in this season, the roots will inevitably be damaged, leading to insufficient nutrient absorption and very likely causing the phenomenon of "never blooming even when old.")
Take poinsettia cuttings in spring, and they can take shape by autumn of the same year.
Spring warms and flowers bloom.
Divide plants in spring and autumn; take leaf cuttings in May and June.
Plant peonies in spring, and they will never bloom even when old.
At the turn of spring and summer, pests and diseases must be prevented.
Store nutrients in spring, go dormant in summer, grow in autumn and bloom brilliantly in winter.
Coarse sand is best for cuttings.
Single-petal hibiscus is especially afraid of drought.
Nitrogen fertilizer promotes branch and leaf growth; phosphorus fertilizer promotes fruit formation.
With sufficient nitrogen fertilizer, flowers will not appear.
Block wind and shelter rain through spring and summer; good winter temperatures promote sprouting.
Low temperature with too much water rots roots and leaves.
When white roots come out of the bottom hole, move it from a small pot to a large pot.
Withhold water in winter to suppress new sprouts; in spring more buds will form and more flowers will bloom.
Put on a plastic film cover in winter to keep camellias warm.
Winter is easy to pass; spring is hard to get through.
Paphiopedilum does not leave the room.
Paphiopedilum fears dryness.
Paphiopedilum grows under the forest.
Peperomia likes warmth and coolness; it has a hard time with high heat and cold.
Rhododendron roots must not be waterlogged.
Rhododendron and Michelia figo like light fertilizer; pomegranate and Chinese rose like strong fertilizer.
Rhododendron avoids strong fertilizer. Once strong fertilizer is applied, its little life is in danger.
Rhododendron has shallow roots, so do not plant it too deep.
Rhododendron likes acid and dislikes salt and alkali.
Apply more organic nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; apply less chemical quick-acting fertilizer.
Pinch more, branch more, bloom more.
Below 25 degrees, growth and development are good.
Preventing disease is better than treating it; treat disease promptly.
Apply less when fertilizer concentration is high, apply less when sprouting, apply less when flowering, and apply less after rain.
Fertilizers fall into two types: organic and inorganic.
Manure must never touch the leaves; once it touches the leaves, they turn yellow.
Do not settle a home in a drafty spot.
Hyacinth: dormant in summer, planted in autumn, sprouts in winter, blooms in spring.
Bromeliads fear cold, not heat.
Do not let the center of a bromeliad lack water.
When Buddha's hand comes out of the room, prune dead branches; for thin fertilizer feeding, apply frequently; skillfully use medicine to prevent diseased branches.
Before the dog days, apply phosphorus and nitrogen; during the dog days, apply phosphorus and potassium.
Lotus is suited to summer and also to autumn; plant it once this year and it will fill the ditch.
Lucky bamboo does not care whether there is more or less water.
Lucky bamboo is easy to grow, but it fears freezing.
Orchids prefer dry, chrysanthemums prefer wet.
In high temperature and drought, prevent mite damage.
With high temperature and high humidity, powdery mildew occurs easily.
Place a laurel wreath on the wise.
With insufficient light, variegated leaves turn green.
With too much light, leaves turn yellow.
With poor light, leaves suffer.
Insufficient light is bad, too much is harmful.
With sufficient light, colors are vivid and flowers are many.
With too much light, the plant does not grow.
With lack of light, colors are dull and flowers are small.
With too much light, leaves are scorched.
With sufficient light, floral fragrance is strong.
Monstera deliciosa fears strong light; after being brought outdoors, place it in the shade.
Monstera deliciosa is phototropic; turn the pot regularly to prevent uneven crown growth.
If osmanthus does not sleep, next year's branches will be poor.
Osmanthus likes fertilizer, especially phosphorus and potassium.
When too hot or too cold, stop fertilizing and withhold water.
Wintersweet will not die from drought.
Good fertilizer avoids strong fertilizer.
Good seed makes good seedlings.
The most economical time to fertilize is when new shoots have stopped growing for ten days.
Butterflies do not touch mud.
For Phalaenopsis, temperature is the lifeline.
Butterflies flutter about, but fear the cold wind.
Saxifraga stolonifera fears dryness.
Sansevieria is propagated by leaf cuttings.
Prune and fertilize after flowering, and new branches and flower buds will emerge.
Fertilizer is needed most after flowering.
Watering flowers with snow water makes them both large and beautiful.
Too much water during the flowering period causes flowers to drop.
When leaves turn white, light is insufficient.
Flowers are choosy about soil: they like it slightly acidic and dislike saline-alkaline soil.
When repotting, do not trim the roots; plant the original roots into the pot.
Prepare enough soil for repotting well in advance, choose a good pot and disinfect it, and the base fertilizer at the bottom must be fully rotted.
Yellowed and withered lower leaves are best left unpicked.
Cymbidium faberi fears both wetness and dryness.
Whether it lives or not depends on water; whether it thrives or not depends on fertilizer.
Cryptanthus needs no soil.
Impatiens fruits are impatient; harvest them before they burst.
Do not apply concentrated fertilizer, do not apply raw fertilizer, do not let plants sit in fertilizer, and do not apply fertilizer in hot weather.
Without a south-facing wall at home, do not plant hostas and crabapples.
After cutting good cuttings, you must wait for the cut end to gel over.
Alternate between dry and wet.
Calla lilies cannot be killed by watering.
Watering: more in spring and autumn, less in summer and winter.
Watering has three considerations: look at the flower, look at the pot, look at the weather.
Calendula is hardy by nature and will grow wherever it is planted.
Moving plants indoors too early makes flowers poor.
On the ninth day of the ninth month, prune pomegranates.
In the ninth month, thin the buds and keep one; in the tenth month, the flower opens as big as a bowl.
Watering roots with leek juice makes leaves bright green.
When chrysanthemums show buds at White Dew, remove the side buds without delay.
For Cattleya, the key to flowering is light; too much or too little light is bad.
Fertilizing during the flowering season burns both buds and petals.
If chrysanthemum leaves look soft, add water at once.
Control water but not fertilizer; stems will be thick and flowers beautiful.
Water azaleas with aged water, and the leaves will be lush and the flowers vivid. (Aged water: snow water or rainwater that has been stored or left to stand for some time.)
Wintersweet has no shortage of branches; it can be pruned from March to June, but do not prune in other months.
Orchids like the morning sun but fear scorching exposure.
Cold fertilizer for flowers, hot fertilizer for vegetables; using raw fertilizer burns everything.
Rose cuttings taken at the two seasonal transitions benefit from both good timing and good conditions. (The turn of spring and summer, and the turn of autumn and winter.)
Phosphorus promotes flowers, nitrogen grows leaves, and potassium strengthens stems and bones.
When Epiphyllum shows buds, water at eighty percent.
Keep spring shoots, not autumn shoots. (When pruning, keep spring shoots and remove autumn shoots.)
Keep autumn shoots, not spring shoots. (Remove spring shoots and keep autumn shoots.)
Aloe will not die of drought.
Bare-rooted orchids should be washed first when they arrive; newly potted orchids need soaking.
Pothos likes plenty of moisture.
Green cacti are grown on their own roots; colorful cacti are mostly grafted.
The fragrance of plum blossom comes from bitter cold; without bitter cold, the flowers are hard to open. (If plum blossoms do not go through a period of low temperature while in bud, flowering is often abnormal, with small flowers and flowers and leaves sprouting all together.)
Plum blossoms favor simplicity and purity.
When the plum rains fall in endless drizzle, that is the perfect time for cuttings.
Narcissus needs some sunlight every day to develop well.
Sudden exposure to strong light will scorch the leaves.
Apply less fertilizer at the seedling stage; apply more when flower stems grow out.
Do not mistake poppies for ornamental flowers.
Do not water only halfway down.
Tree peonies prefer dry conditions to wet ones.
Tree peonies like coolness but fear freezing, like warmth but fear heat, like light but fear shade, and like dryness but fear wetness.
Drought-tolerant, fears waterlogging.
Drought-tolerant, avoids wetness.
Kalanchoe is drought-tolerant and fears waterlogging.
Peperomia is shade-tolerant and an excellent indoor ornamental.
A well-fed mother raises strong children.
Better wet than dry.
When women grow flowers, men leave home. (Russian proverb)
Fears cold, not heat.
The key to potted plum blossoms is pruning.
To see potted plum blossoms flower, the key is getting through summer.
If the potting soil is too wet, roots suffocate; if the potting soil is too dry, leaves drop and dry up.
Potting soil should be on the acidic side; heavy clay soil is not suitable.
Standing water in the pot rots roots; soil that is too dry turns leaves yellow.
A thousand-year-old lotus seed can still sprout.
If cuttings fail, use layering.
If cuttings do not root, layering can multiply the plant.
Good cuttings mean early flowering.
For taking Epiphyllum cuttings, May and June are best.
Water frequently with magnetized water, and flowers will be vivid and leaves emerald green.
Diligent people keep fish; lazy people grow flowers.
Orchids prefer clear water, jasmine prefers rich water.
Tree peonies prefer clear water, herbaceous peonies prefer rich water.
Withhold water in autumn, and next year the flowers will be beautiful.
Autumn chrysanthemums brave the frost.
Plant hibiscus in autumn and store it in a cellar; next year the plant will branch vigorously.
Keep a pot of mosquito-repellent plant at home, and you need not fear mosquito bites.
Without enough sunlight, the cactus body grows long and thin.
People eat rice, flour and vegetables; flowers feed on nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Picky eating is common, but total omission is unacceptable.
People have hardness and softness; water has hardness and softness.
If fleshy roots are not well developed, apply more potassium.
If you want fruit all over the branches, apply more phosphorus and potassium.
If you want large flowers, remove the side buds.
If you want orchids to do well, let the wind blow them tilting and swaying.
In the third month divide, in the fourth month take cuttings, in the fifth month pinch the tips; in the seventh, eighth and ninth months, water with manure.
Pansies like coolness; high temperature and high humidity make them grow poorly.
Jasmine cannot be killed by sun.
Camellias fear saline-alkaline soil and also fear sticky clay soil.
Camellias have five taboos: avoid alkaline soil, avoid sticky soil, avoid severe heat and severe cold, avoid scorching sun, avoid fertilizer that is too concentrated, and avoid overwatering.
Camellias come from misty mountains.
Pinch the tips of herbaceous peonies; trim the base of tree peonies.
In midsummer and harsh winter, stop watering.
Fertilizing: in the first half of the year, the third, fourth and fifth months; in the second half, the eighth, ninth and tenth months.
Do not fertilize evenly; red flowers should get a larger share.
If fertilizer is not applied evenly, stems will not grow evenly either.
Fertilizer should be applied sparingly rather than heavily.
Dendrobium likes the morning sun.
Pomegranates are fairly drought-tolerant; too much water easily rots the roots.
Like a vine but not a vine, it needs support.
Indoors with high temperature and dim light, narcissus leaves turn yellow and the flowering period is short.
When indoor temperature is high and the air is dry, camellia buds easily drop.
Do not collect seeds too late; get them before they turn black.
Too much water easily causes flowers to drop.
Water is the source of all life.
Water temperature should match soil temperature.
Grow narcissus in water and tend it carefully, and the color will be vivid and the fragrance full. (Early growth stage)
A fleeting Epiphyllum bloom.
For climbing honeysuckle, one good pruning every three to four years.
The weather has unexpected changes, and flowers have diseases hard to prevent.
Grow lotus in an iron pot, and leaves will be lush and flowers vivid.
Do not fertilize when plants are leggy, do not fertilize when newly planted, do not fertilize during dormancy, and do not fertilize in the hottest summer days.
Heavy, sticky soil easily leads to root rot.
Alkaline soil turns leaves yellow; nutrient-poor soil leaves branches weak and stunted.
Alkaline soil easily causes chlorosis.
For soil moisture, half-moist is best.
Soil is the foundation of roots.
Soil comes in five colors, each with different properties.
Rabbit's foot fern fears both cold and heat: no lower than 5, no higher than 30.
All things grow by the sun.
Right temperature, eager bloomers.
High temperature with cold water makes leaves wither.
When the temperature passes 25, sowing should stop.
A mild, moist environment is ideal; grow camellias well and they bloom beautifully.
Oncidium fears frost but not cold, and can make it through.
To sow asparagus fern, you must soak the seeds first.
During the flowering period of asparagus fern, the pot must not be moved.
There is no trick to growing asparagus fern: just master fertilizing and watering.
Colorful ranunculus, a guest of honor at Spring Festival.
Keep Western azaleas above zero and in dormancy so they do not grow leggy; then petals are many, colors bright, and flower branches vigorous.
Dahlias love fertilizer; apply plenty of nitrogen and potassium.
Dahlias love light; they need ten hours of sunshine.
Loves light, avoids heat.
Loves moisture, avoids waterlogging.
Loves moisture, fears flooding.
Cattleya loves moisture and fears cold.
Loves warmth, avoids high temperatures.
Loves warmth, cannot tolerate cold.
Loves warmth, fears heat; loves fertility, fears strong fertilizer; loves moisture, fears waterlogging.
Loves warmth, fears cold.
Loves sunlight, avoids scorching exposure.
In summer avoid blazing sun like a furnace; in winter avoid insufficient light.
When summer is too hot, flowers and leaves easily drop.
Do not fertilize when summer temperatures are high.
Why need a flower understand your words? The truest flower lover is the one who cherishes it.
To grow Paphiopedilum well, suitable light is very important.
To keep a plant short, root pruning is the way.
Sun-facing flowers and trees meet spring early.
A sun-facing pomegranate is red as fire; a shade-facing apricot is sour to the core.
A tiny Cryptanthus can make its home in a bottle.
If new leaves curl, it must be too much fertilizer.
Pruning plus pinching doubles the number of flowers.
Snow water is gold, rain water is silver; using tap water often easily causes disease.
Lavender, the pride of Portugal.
Tropical orchids grow on trees.
To grow white magnolia well, watering is the key.
Growing flowers without fertilizing is a wasted effort.
A thousand days of growing flowers can be ruined in a moment.
Three years of watering to grow flowers. (Growers need years of exploration to master watering techniques.)
To grow flowers, first grow leaves; to grow leaves, first grow roots.
Keeping them alive is easy; keeping them thriving is hard.
Too weak a dose cannot cure the disease; too strong a dose harms the plant.
To have lilies blooming often, plant early and harvest late.
To see plum blossoms at Spring Festival, keep things moist a month before.
To keep azaleas from getting sick often, plant plenty of chives in the garden.
To get more fruit, do not rub off spring shoots carelessly.
For good flowers, feed them full with fertilizer.
For fragrant flowers and sturdy leaves, choosing good bulbs is most important.
To have a splendid bloom next year, change the soil after potted plum blossoms fade.
To have vigorous plum blossoms, summer management must keep pace.
To grow dianthus well, replace the plants every two or three years.
For brilliant leaves, strong light and ample fertilizer.
When leaf undersides are covered in rust color, spider mites are raging.
In the leaf rosette, do not let water accumulate.
When leaves reach four or five, do not delay transplanting.
Leaves flat and spread means light is just right; leaves tilting up means sunlight is too little; leaves drooping means sunlight is too strong.
When axillary buds are the size of wheat grains, it is the best time for cleft grafting.
One bout of drought takes years to recover from.
The whole year's plan lies in spring.
Better dry than wet.
Better shallow than deep; if too deep, roots will rot.
The Chloranthus will not die from shade, the jasmine will not die from sun.
Camellias for shade, peonies for sun.
Watering flowers with hard water will sap their vigor.
With light and without light it is different; only with ample light are flowers fragrant.
With a mind to grow flowers, they may not bloom; with no mind to plant willows, they shade you.
With a mind to plant flowers, they may not bloom; with no mind to plant willows, they shade you.
When young, keep dry; before flowering, keep moist; in summer, water must be ample.
Fish water is fat, rice water is strengthening; tap water is only safe after standing overnight.
Corn poppies are not delicate; they tolerate cold, fear heat, and avoid waterlogging.
Take honeysuckle cuttings in the rainy season; by summer and autumn of the next year you can enjoy the flowers.
Tulips need sandy loam.
With acid, primroses turn yellow.
If you do not prune roses, next year's blooms will be sparse.
Cut off the faded rose blooms and flowers will keep coming endlessly.
The more sun, the redder the flowers; the more sun, the more fruit.
When budding and flowering, the soil must be moist.
With proper cultivation, few diseases arise.
Soak in cold water before planting, and tubers develop early.
When planting peonies, cover with soil no more than one cun.
Planting should not be deep; the head should stick out.
Water in the morning, let it dry by night; this ensures sturdy leaves and fresh flowers.
Water early, fertilize late.
Morning water is gold, evening water is silver; watering flowers at noon can kill them.
Long-term lack of sun turns leaves yellow; long in a cold room turns leaves black.
Long-day or short-day, there must be no day without light.
Fertilize more when the plant is nutrient-deficient, more before sprouting, more before budding, and more after flowering.
When growing lilies, avoid continuous cropping.
Short-lived seeds are hard to store and sow.
Seeds with hairs are best sown mixed with soil.
A large day-night temperature difference gives better cutting results.
A large day-night temperature difference gives better growth and development.
A large day-night temperature difference makes Dendrobium grow well.
With a suitable day-night temperature difference, flowers bloom eagerly.
Amaryllis planted deep will not bloom; winter coral with too much water will not set fruit.
Amaryllis planted deep tends to produce offsets, planted shallow tends to bloom. (This means planting shallower favors flowering, deeper favors producing small offsets.)
Cordyline should not live in a big house. (The pot should not be large.)
Pitcher plants need high temperatures.
Beside the pigsty, osmanthus thrives.
Bamboo rhizomes do not cross a trough, lotus does not cross a bridge. (Because it is shady under the bridge, so lotus cannot grow.)
Calathea fears cold and fears shame. (Shame at seeing sunlight.)
Calathea fears strong light.
Though Calathea is pretty, do not neglect cold protection.
A crop's flower all depends on fertilizer as the head of the house.
Redbud bears flowers on old wood, plum blossoms on new branches.
One raised from a young age is your own daughter; one that enters the home grown is a daughter-in-law.
So, after reading so many flower-growing proverbs you must have benefited a lot, but just reading flower-growing proverbs without getting hands-on and growing a few pots of flowers means you will remember nothing. Clever and hardworking flower lovers, hurry up and grow a few pots of flowers, and put the flower-growing proverbs you have seen into practice!