How do you grow Aglaia odorata? Master these cultivation tips and that's all you need

Aglaia odorata

Aglaia odorata, everyone must be quite familiar with it! Mention Milan and people think of football, but what we are talking about today is not that Milan, but the plant Aglaia odorata. Recently a fellow flower lover asked me to write about Aglaia odorata, and for a moment I did not know where to start. After thinking it over, let's just talk about its day-to-day care! If you want to grow Aglaia odorata well, just pay attention to these 5 points.

1. Location choice

Because Aglaia odorata likes warmth, heat and light, and also tolerates shade as a special habit, it is best to place it somewhere fairly ventilated with more than half a day of sunlight. Only such a place lets Aglaia odorata grow well, bloom many times, and have a rich floral fragrance.

2. Soil choice

Aglaia odorata rather likes slightly acidic soil, so when choosing soil you can consider mountain soil, but you do not need to use mountain soil entirely. Generally the potting soil for Aglaia odorata should use loose, fertile, well-draining humus soil (I will describe in detail next time how to make humus soil yourself), then mix in a little sand and mountain soil (both permeable and acidic). If humus soil is not so easy to find, you can also use loose and fertile loess mixed with 30% rice husk ash or orchid soil.

3. Watering

Although Aglaia odorata rather likes moisture, it must not be too wet. Generally you should only water when the surface of the potting soil in the Aglaia odorata pot has dried to whitish. When watering, be sure to water thoroughly, with water flowing out from the bottom of the pot as the standard.

In hot weather or fairly dry seasons, to achieve moisture, you can choose to spray and wash the leaf surface with clean water every day before sunset, or sprinkle water on the ground near the potted Aglaia odorata to increase the humidity in the air, but the water should be applied evenly, not sometimes more and sometimes less.

Friends growing Aglaia odorata in the north should pay special attention, because northern water has high alkalinity, and watering often will turn the soil alkaline, but Aglaia odorata likes slightly acidic soil, so this will not only affect Aglaia odorata blooming, but also cause Aglaia odorata to die. So how do you tell if the soil is highly alkaline? Highly alkaline soil shows up as Aglaia odorata leaves not being fresh green but tending yellow. At this time, if you want to save it, water it about every 10 days with 0.1% black vitriol water (ferrous sulfate).

4. Fertilizing

Fertilizing is also crucial for growing Aglaia odorata well. You must not only ensure sufficient fertilizer but also apply it properly. Why say that? Aglaia odorata blooms on newly grown branches, and the more times it blooms, the more nutrients it consumes. If you do not top-dress in time, after it has bloomed once, making it bloom a second time quickly will not be so easy.

So how should you fertilize? For Aglaia odorata you can apply decomposed organic fertilizer, combined with repotting in summer as a base fertilizer; you can also scatter it on the pot surface during the growing season and mix it with the topsoil. During the vigorous growth period and flowering period, you can top-dress every 20 days with 10 times decomposed liquid fertilizer mixed with an equal amount of 500 times potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution, or 1000 times Huaduoduo general-purpose fertilizer once. In autumn and winter, stop fertilizing.

5. Cold protection and overwintering

Cold protection and overwintering are very important for flowers, and in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River the main key to growing Aglaia odorata well lies in cold protection and overwintering. In these areas the causes of Aglaia odorata dying come down to no more than two: first, being brought out too early and dying from cold wind; second, dying from root rot caused by too much watering during indoor overwintering.

Aglaia odorata is even less cold-tolerant than jasmine. In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it goes indoors to overwinter at the end of November, and can only come out at the end of April or the beginning of May the next year. When the room temperature is above 5°C, it can overwinter safely. So what if it is very cold during this period? What should we do?

If the temperature drops below 5°C, you can cover it with a plastic film bag and place it temporarily for a few days on a cabinet or under a bed where the temperature is higher. When the temperature is high in March, do not open windows facing Aglaia odorata for ventilation, and even less should you move Aglaia odorata outside to bask in the sun. Because Aglaia odorata after overwintering indoors is rather weak, and at this time the temperature changes greatly. If a northwest wind blows, catching a chill will certainly cause Aglaia odorata to drop a large number of leaves and die.