Aglaonema is also known as sri fortune is a member of the family Araceae, one group with taro plant. The leaves of ornamental plants has 40 species, three of which are a favorite ornamental plant lovers are Aglaonema costatum, Aglaonema modestum, and Aglaonema crispum. Aglaonema found growing naturally in tropical countries such as in Southeast Asia, India, and China.
Natural habitats are swamps and rainforest. Sri fortune belongs to a group herbaceous plants that can grow with a height of 20-150 cm. The leaves are arranged alternately on the stem, round-oval shaped, and has a variety of colors from red to white-green. Aglaonema sap of some kind there that contain toxins. The toxins can cause skin irritation and inflammation of the lips, tongue, throat if swallowed. Aglaonema is very popular as ornamental plants because these plants have a fairly high tolerance to various environmental variation and easily grown.
These plants can adapt to a wide range of light intensity, not requiring extra attention harsh in her treatment, and has a relatively high resistance to pests. Some Asia (including China, Thailand, and Indonesia) believe that Aglaonema can bring good luck and fortune. Aglaonema has some pretty interesting variants such as snow white, legacy, cochine, lipstick, and thistle. Snow white is a variant sri fortune which has the characteristics of white leaves with green motifs are spread evenly over the surface.
Legacy has green leaves with shades of red dominance that follows the contours of the veins. Meanwhile, have a pattern of red lipstick around the edges of the leaves (so like lips lipstick). Cochine a fortune sri-leaved red or copper color.
Sri fortune to have a preference for the type of soil that is moist but not wet. Aglaonema generally grown in pots with soil media husk fuel. However, you should also try growing media commonly used by lovers of sri fortune in Thailand, that chaff soil mixed with compost leaves and extra chocolate chips.
Commonly used media composition consisting of husk, clay, and sand in the ratio 2:2:1 unfortunate. If you have Aglaonema seeds are still very young, then plant the seeds in the soil media mix husk fuel, poor sand, cocopeat, and dolomite (70:12,5:12,5:5 ratio). Dolomite is a sandstone which serves as a pH neutralizer. For the first spray, try a mixture of water with hormones, bactericidal, and fungisid. For further spray, please use plain water.
Aglaonema can grow optimally in a shaded area. They have a tendency to grow in the shadow that is not exposed to direct sunlight. Aglaonema can still flowering despite having a bit of sunlight. Sri fortune is not very resistant to low temperatures (<10 ° C), their optimum temperature in the range of 20-30 oC. They are also very like the air is humid.
The tools you need to grow sri fortune is; rubber gloves, scissors plants, pots, soil media and fertilizer. Rubber gloves can be replaced with plastic. The use of gloves is quite important because Aglaonema sap can be irritating to sensitive skin. The first step that must be done before the plant Aglaonema course choosing good seed. Seeds sri good fortune in the form of buds that have some new young leaves grow. Make sure the color of the leaves are light green buds fresh, not wilted green. Do not forget to also check the condition of your young seedling roots.
If the roots of seedlings are too messy, not what to cut / tidy plant with scissors. Next step is to divide the seeds into four sections so that you have lots of Aglaonema. This step is optional, not mandatory, but if you want to do then make longitudinal section of the shaft towards the roots, halve your seeds. Then, divide each piece again in advance so that you get the 4 parts of the seedlings.
Each hemisphere must have a stem portion and a balanced hump. Fill a pot that you have provided to the media and fertilizer with a ratio of 3:1, mix well. Immerse your seedlings are up only slightly visible bud sticking in the ground. Sprinkle the seeds with water, until the water flowing from the hole-lubag under your pots. In the first weeks, put the pots in the house in the shade, for example on the window sill.
HOW TO TREATING PLANT FLOWERS AGLAONEMA
Sri fortune is an ornamental plant that is relatively easy to maintain. Fertilizer should be given for Aglaonema plant is manure, humus fertilizer, compost, micro nutrients, inorganic fertilizers, hormones and fertilizers. 2 types of fertilizer latter is generally a slow release fertilizer. We recommend that you provide the type of fertilizer every 1 x in 3 or 6 months. As for micro-nutrients, should be sprayed as many as 1 x per month.
For fertility root, if you want to, should be given as much vitamin B1 1 x week. Fertilizer premiere performed at 2 months of age seedling growth. During the dry season, wash sri fortune on a regular basis and give fertilizer regularly every week. While in the rainy season, cut back the frequency of watering to 2 or 3 weeks. Replace Aglaonema planting medium at least 1 x per year. When issued from the pot to be replaced Aglaonema media, hold the stem at the base Aglaonema steadily and tilt the pot so Aglaonema uprooted from the medium.
Clean the roots and tubers of Aglaonema from the rest of the media are attached by immersion in water for a maximum of 30 minutes. How good is the replacement of the media by preparing pots are coated styrofoam or broken tiles or brick red at the bottom. Then, enter the new media to one per three high pot. Put sri fortune on new media, right in the middle of the pot and then piled with pots filled to the media. To condense the media in the pot, at the side of the pot so that the beat-down with the media itself. Avoid pressing the media surface by hand as this may damage the roots of Aglaonema. After quite dense, slow release fertilizers give up quite wet and flush. Aglaonema is a plant that is quite resistant to pests, so you do not have to worry so beloved ornamentals fungal infection. Aglaonema only takes 4-5 months to grow big and optimally. At that age, you are able to instantly multiply your fortune sri.
FLOWER PLANT ENGINEERING reproduce AGLAONEMA
You can cultivate plant Aglaonema with cob. Of the hump you can get 2-3 new tillers. After 6 months, you can separate the new puppies from their mother. Tips for Aglaonema breed faster is by cutting shoots.
This technique stimulates the parent plant to put out new shoots. From one piece shoots, you can get 2-3 new tillers again. Puppies of this piece can be used as seed shoots after he has 5-7 leaves. If you use this method to two, then from one plant you can get 5-6 new tillers sri fortune. If you want the maximum cutting shoots, then choose Aglaonema adults who have 8-10 leaves. Conditions parent plant should be healthy by the criteria of fresh mature leaves and sturdy, while the young leaves did not shrink. Its roots also need to be strong with the criteria of a white, fat, and no foul. Before cutting the bud, you should bury the stem deeper into the soil up to 8-10 cm. Frequency of fertilizer application was allowed to be increased 2-3 weeks before cutting shoots. If you usually give fertilizer 1 x week, then doubled before cutting into 2 x week.
How to cut shoots are as follows:
• Prepare a knife and poker tools
• Match the media to see the condition of the roots (remember criteria strong roots!)
• Cut the stems of Aglaonema and leaving the leaves on the plant stem weevil, which is intended to keep mother plants can photosynthesize produce food, so the new shoots that emerge will be big.
• In the section cut, either on the remaining stump shoots also in pieces, rubbing antiseptic (betadine or a mixture of betel nut +) to close the wound
• Plant shoots pieces in a mixture of soil media husks, poor sand, humus andam, and ferns (ratio 1:5:2:2 respectively)
• Water regularly, and place it in the shade
• The new shoots will appear within 1 month.
Puppies that will you get from the cuts do not necessarily have a root shoots. When you move the tiller Aglaonema that do not have strong roots then use plastic wrap method. Planting new saplings in pots, then made of clear plastic lid.
Thus, the high humidity in the containment (80%), the temperature remains stable. This allows an increase in the metabolic rate so that the roots grow faster. Roots will appear after 3 weeks disungkup and ready to be moved out. The clear plastic lid can also be replaced by a transparent tube of plastic material if possible. A plastic tube is more durable than ordinary clear plastic because it will not tear.
Aglaonema multiply technique in a short time is graft using plastic pots orchid seed / ex glass of bottled water like Aqua / 2 Pliers etc.
Stages grafts as follows:
Grafted plants will be healthy, free of pests and diseases. Trunk Aglaonema already high from the surface of the media. (Aglaonema Plant height which determines the number of grafts).
Prepare a plastic pot orchid seed / ex glass of bottled water. To cut orchid seedlings plastic pot with a vertical cutter wear glasses while ex bottled drinking water should be made the bottom hole and then cut vertically using a cutter, to cut the top with scissors.
Aglaonema stem to be implanted, if there are leaves then the leaves are removed then the curette stem about 1 cm and smeared with root stimulating hormone. Plastic pots were cut vertically integrated by using a stapler.
The contents of the plastic pot with media that has been watered husk fuel. Treatment plants that have been grafted together just before grafted. Watering is done 2-3 days a week and 2 times a watered with vitamin B1.
2 months later the roots will grow and look through plastic pots. That's when the grafts can be separated from the parent. (If there Aglaonema rods in 1 2/3 grafts, make sure the top graft must have grown roots that can be directly separated, respectively, if not then start from the bottom in stages).
Separate each graft that has grown roots with a sharp knife and cut the stem sterile exactly at the bottom of the plastic pot. Then before planting, cut the stem at the bottom of the spread with a fungicide (Dithane 45). The grafts plants with planting medium consisting of husk fuel, poor sand, dolomite lime taste with a ratio of 3: 1. Sprinkle plant grafts with vitamin B1.
Furthermore, the grafts treatment as other plants.
Stem weevil ointment smeared on the top of the growth hormone cytokinin and auxin are already commonly used on orchids??. (Cytokines function stimulates cell division area side shoots (lateral) while auxin plays a role in cell division shoot tips (apical bulb). Generally appear 1-2 months 3-4 tillers. Newly separated Puppies usually after 4-5 leafy leaves.
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