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Showing posts with label Haworthia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haworthia. Show all posts

Thursday, 30 July 2015

Haworthia rooting by cuttings/leaf cuttings during hot summer-- Experiment 1.
(夏天百合科發根----實驗1).
1. Cut, disinfect and dry your haworthia(leaves). (剪下葉片or分枝)


2. Prepare the shells of the new generation cachapons and disinfect them.(消毒扭蛋殼備用)
3. Put clean tissue paper at the bottom as the hatching bed and then put the plant on it. After that, spray some rooting hormone water* on it.(用乾淨衛生紙當著床,噴灑發根水給直株與著床)

4. Stuff the egg with some warps. Do not overflowing the egg. Leave as many space as possible since we only need to fasten the plant.(用乾淨保鮮膜塞住植物不要讓他晃動)
5. Close it and make sure the plant has been fixed.(關起來,並確保植物不會晃動)

6. Put all eggs into a freezer bag and spray some rooting water again. Then, fasten it. Do NOT seal it.
(放到保鮮袋中,再噴點發根水,大概綁住,千萬不要密封)

7. Put it into your refrigerator for rooting.  (放到冰箱冷藏發根)
*I will not public the rooting hormone water ingredients unless I succeed.
(發根水配方目前不予公開,直到我確定成功)

Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Here is a typical case of Haworthia hibernation Problem: The withered dried roots.
(Chinese speaker can use google translator, I've checked the result and it is correct. 中文使用者請使用google網頁翻譯)
Normally, gardener will adapt water rationing for those hibernating succulents to avoid rotten root, especially in hot and wet weather. However, a long period of water ration sometime causes problems. The root will dying due to the water shortage. Most haworthia plants will still need you to moisten the soil once a week to keep their root activation. Here is the case:
1. Apparently, there is no visible disease evidence. However, if your haworthia has become a little bit softer than before, you might need to pull it out for a check.(感覺比之前軟一點點)
2. Most of roots are dried. (soft and paper thin.)

3.Cut off those dried roots since they are already dead and spray some diluted bleach solution on it for sanitation. (probably 0.4-0.1%)

4. If the temperature is above 33C, you might need to pack it into a freezer bag with some small holes and let it sleep in the refrigerator(>4C) in the whole summer and regularly, spray some water once every 2 weeks depending on your refrigerator's capability.