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What practical tips are there for helping flowers resist high temperatures and drought?

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What simple tricks help flowers fight high temperatures and drought?

What simple tricks help flowers fight high temperatures and drought.

The techniques for helping flowers resist high temperatures and fight drought are as follows:

1. Ventilate the greenhouse as well as possible. Remove the side skirts and open the top vents as wide as possible to cool things down.

2. Add shade netting over the greenhouse; if one layer is not enough, use two.

3. Water more, watering in the early morning or evening when temperatures are lower. Or use shallow furrow irrigation and drain the water 2 hours after irrigating.

4. Reduce fertilization, because above 35°C flowers enter dormancy.

5. Delay planting lilies and African daisies (Gerbera) until at least after mid-August.

6. For the second- and third-generation lily bulbs after flowers are cut in June and July, dig them out of the ground and store them in cold storage at 1 to 3°C, to prevent them from staying in the ground and being affected by high temperatures, which causes vigorous respiration and consumes too much of the bulbs' nutrients.

7. Because high temperatures lead to poor flower quality, and because July and August are the off-season for selling flowers, cut most rose and African daisy (Gerbera) buds at the bud stage, and manage them so that more flowers, and good flowers, are produced in September and October.

1. Ventilate the greenhouse as well as possible. Remove the side skirts and open the top vents as wide as possible to cool things down.

2. Add shade netting over the greenhouse; if one layer is not enough, use two.

3. Water more, watering in the early morning or evening when temperatures are lower. Or use shallow furrow irrigation and drain the water 2 hours after irrigating.

4. Reduce fertilization, because above 35°C flowers enter dormancy.

5. Delay planting lilies and African daisies (Gerbera) until at least after mid-August.

6. For the second- and third-generation lily bulbs after flowers are cut in June and July, dig them out of the ground and store them in cold storage at 1 to 3°C, to prevent them from staying in the ground and being affected by high temperatures, which causes vigorous respiration and consumes too much of the bulbs' nutrients.

7. Because high temperatures lead to poor flower quality, and because July and August are the off-season for selling flowers, cut most rose and African daisy (Gerbera) buds at the bud stage, and manage them so that more flowers, and good flowers, are produced in September and October.

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