Crane Wanglan

, also known as the flower of the polar bird, is the evergreen root herb of the tourist's banana family. Flower-shaped strange, dazzling colors, like a crane looking up, viewing value is very high, is a precious type of cut flowers. When it was first transplanted from Africa to the Royal Botanic Gardens, it was able to make a huge splash. Now china has been widely cultivated as greenhouse flowers, but mostly as large potted flowers, used in halls, conference rooms for interior decoration, used to cut flowers less. Due to its long viewing period, bottle water can be up to
15 days - 20 days, so it is used to cut flowers promising.

ecological habits:

Hewang Lanxi warm and humid climate, cold resistance, high air humidity. In summer, you are afraid of the sun, and in winter you need plenty of sunshine. The growth temperature is 18 degrees C-24 degrees C from March to October, 13 degrees C-18 degrees C from October to March, and not less than 5 degrees C in winter. The soil is loose and fertile. Hewanglan is a typical bird-borne plant, pollination by hummingbirds in the origin, domestic planting needs artificial pollination to be strong. After pollination, 80-100 days of seeds can mature. Crane orchids are Buddha flame-like, total purple, orange-yellow flowers, bright blue petals. The flowering period runs from September to June of the following year. Also of ornamental cultivation are: (1) white-crowned crane S.alba flower white. (2) S. angusta stem up to 10 meters, spring flowering, total purple, 30 cm -40 cm long. (3) S. Nicolai stem height of about 5 meters, sliver white, petal blue, flowering in May. (4) S. parvifolia stick-shaped leaves, large flowers, dark orange red and purple.

breeding and cultivation:

Breed with seeding and subseeds. Seeds should be harvested in time after maturity, timely seeding germination temperature of 25 degrees C-30 degrees C, 15 days after planting - 20 days germination, germination rate is lower than you. 3 to 5 years after the broadcast, with 9 -10 blades when flowering. Subsubs reproduce, usually in early spring combined basins. Select the lush plant, cut from the gap in the root, apply grass ash to the wound, leave to dry for 1-2 hours, to prevent the wound from rotting. Cultivated soil to be loose, fertile, can be added to the appropriate amount of potassium phosphorus fertilizer or oil residue as base fertilizer. Planting should not be too deep, so as not to affect the germination of new shoots. Summer growth and autumn and winter flowering, need sufficient moisture. Watering can be reduced appropriately after flowering. Grow and grow every half-month to cast 1 rotting cake fertilizer, when the formation of flower stems to bloom, the use of 2-3 times calcium phosphate. Such as potted plants, formed plants every two years to change the pot once.
Cut flowers cut and preservation:

crane Wanglan each branch on the total flower 6 -8 flowers, open. When the base has just opened 1 flower, it can be cut. After mining, the upper part is wrapped in tissue paper and boxed for listing. Crane orchid cut flowers in 22 degrees C conditions, pre-treatment for 4 hours, preservation effect is good. Pre-treatment can be made with a mixture of 8-hydroxyquinone citric acid, citric acid and sugar.