How to Grow Periwinkle So It Overflows Its Pot? Master These Care Basics

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Soil: When planting periwinkle, never use saline-alkaline soil, and the soil must have good drainage and aeration. Light: Periwinkle quite likes sunlight; keeping it in a spot with suitable, ample sunlight is very helpful for flowering and can also effectively prevent leggy growth

Soil:

When planting periwinkle, never use saline-alkaline soil, and the soil must have good drainage and aeration.

Light:

Periwinkle quite likes sunlight; keeping it in a spot with suitable, ample sunlight is very helpful for flowering and can also effectively prevent leggy growth.

Temperature:

The most suitable temperature for periwinkle growth is between 20°C and 33°C. Once the temperature drops to 15°C, periwinkle will stop growing, and if the temperature falls below 5°C, it will freeze and damage the plant.

Fertilizing:

If no base fertilizer was applied at planting time, then during the growing season apply a water-soluble fertilizer once every 10 days. However, in winter, reduce the amount of fertilizer applied appropriately.

Watering:

Periwinkle is very afraid of water accumulation and waterlogging, as this will cause its roots to rot. So when watering, be sure to note: do not water if the soil is not dry, and when you do water, water thoroughly.

How to grow periwinkle so it overflows its pot?

Care basics for making periwinkle overflow its pot

Soil: When planting periwinkle, never use saline-alkaline soil, and the soil must have good drainage and aeration.

Light: Periwinkle quite likes sunlight; keeping it in a spot with suitable, ample sunlight is very helpful for flowering and can also effectively prevent leggy growth.

Temperature: The most suitable temperature for periwinkle growth is between 20°C and 33°C. Once the temperature drops to 15°C, periwinkle will stop growing, and if the temperature falls below 5°C, it will freeze and damage the plant.

Fertilizing: If no base fertilizer was applied at planting time, then during the growing season apply a water-soluble fertilizer once every 10 days. However, in winter, reduce the amount of fertilizer applied appropriately.

Watering: Periwinkle is very afraid of water accumulation and waterlogging, as this will cause its roots to rot. So when watering, be sure to note: do not water if the soil is not dry, and when you do water, water thoroughly.

Methods to make periwinkle overflow its pot

Propagation: You can use propagation methods to make periwinkle overflow its pot; both seed sowing and cuttings work, but periwinkle grown from seed is more robust than that grown from cuttings.

As an ornamental flower, periwinkle is a great choice; once it overflows its pot it is very pleasing to look at, and it can remain in its flowering period all year round. Besides its ornamental value, periwinkle also has high medicinal efficacy. But the editor wants to remind fellow gardeners that when placing it indoors, be sure to keep it away from children, and it absolutely must not be eaten; accidental ingestion will cause adverse reactions in the body.

Periwinkle Efficacy and Effects, Contraindications, and Medicinal Value

Periwinkle is what people know as Four Seasons Plum, a flowering plant with high ornamental value that is also very suitable for growing at home. However, for a flower to be widely grown by everyone at home, it absolutely must satisfy some need of people, such as having very beautiful flowers for viewing or having some beneficial characteristic for the human body. Periwinkle combines both.

Periwinkle Efficacy, Effects and Contraindications

1. Periwinkle Efficacy and Effects

Periwinkle has a very good blood-cooling and blood-pressure-lowering effect on the human body, and also has a very good calming and tranquilizing effect; it has a very good curative effect for treating high blood pressure and fire/scald burns. If someone has malignant lymphoma, or choriocarcinoma and other relatively rare cancers, using periwinkle can be considered.

2. Contraindications

The main toxicity of vinblastine is suppression of bone marrow function; vincristine's toxicity to the nervous system and gastrointestinal tract is more prominent, such as paresthesia, loss of knee reflex, muscle weakness, neuralgia, hair loss, and abdominal colic, intestinal obstruction, etc., while its reduction of white blood cells and platelets is much milder than that of vinblastine.

Periwinkle Medicinal Value

1. Clearing heat and detoxifying

Periwinkle clears heat and detoxifies; mashing fresh leaves and applying them externally has a fairly good therapeutic effect on sores, swellings and toxic lesions, and burns and scalds.

2. Calming and tranquilizing

Guangzhou Military Region "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": "Calms and tranquilizes, pacifies the liver and lowers blood pressure. Treats high blood pressure.

3. Lowering blood pressure

Intravenous injection of total alkaloids has a blood-pressure-lowering effect on anesthetized cats and rabbits; blood pressure drops quickly, unlike the slow blood-pressure reduction of Rauwolfia total alkaloid preparations, and while lowering blood pressure it is accompanied by deepened and increased-amplitude breathing; cutting the vagus nerve or using atropine does not affect its blood-pressure-lowering effect.

4. Anti-cancer

Periwinkle contains more than 70 kinds of alkaloids and is a natural good medicine for preventing and treating cancer. Among them, vinblastine and vincristine have a certain curative effect on treating malignant tumors such as lung cancer, lymphosarcoma, and acute leukemia in children.

How to grow periwinkle so it overflows its pot

1. Soil

When planting periwinkle, never use saline-alkaline soil, and the soil must have good drainage and aeration.

2. Light

Periwinkle quite likes sunlight; keeping it in a spot with suitable, ample sunlight is very helpful for flowering and can also effectively prevent leggy growth.

3. Temperature

4. Fertilizing

5. Watering

Periwinkle Sowing Methods and Precautions

I. Periwinkle Sowing Methods

1. Sowing time

Sow around March to May in spring; the best temperature is between 20-25°C, and germination generally occurs 14-21 days after sowing. In early spring you can start raising seedlings, and in warm spring you can carry out planting.

2. Sowing soil

Mix peat and perlite at a ratio of 3:1; leaf mold can also be used. Use fertile, loose, well-draining sandy soil or humus soil, or soil tolerant of poor fertility, but do not use saline-alkaline soil or poorly aerated clay soil, as this will hinder plant growth and cause yellowing leaves and failure to bloom. Before planting, sterilize with a 500-600 times dilution of carbendazim solution and place it facing south toward the sun.

II. Precautions

1. When sowing, cover with a thin layer of fine sandy soil; do not let sunlight shine directly on the seeds. Use a fine watering can to give the periwinkle enough water, and cover with plastic film or a straw curtain to keep the soil moist, so as to suit the environment needed for germination.

2. Periwinkle germinates 14 to 21 days after sowing. The newly emerged seedlings must not be exposed to strong light for long periods; at midday when the temperature is high, 2-3 hours of shading is needed. When the seedlings grow to 5 cm and produce three pairs of true leaves, they can be potted; when they grow 6-8 pairs of true leaves, they can be planted in place. Plant in flower beds in May, water once every 3-5 days, and fertilize appropriately to benefit periwinkle growth.

As stated above, periwinkle, as a Chinese medicinal herb, has very good curative effects. However, these curative effects require processing the periwinkle before they take effect, rather than directly picking it fresh and using it. Another point to note is that periwinkle is toxic, so avoid accidental ingestion to prevent adverse symptoms.