Pink calyx sage
This species prefers a cool and dry environment, flowers in cold and cool areas for a longer time, but also tolerant of semi-shade, mainly sepal ornamental varieties, a wide variety, clear colors, flowers and large areas of cultivation effect is outstanding.
After drying, the smell is strong, and it is generally used to cook soups or meat foods with strong taste, add a little to ease the taste, mix it into the salad and enjoy it, which can play a more beautiful and beautiful effect. Flowers can be used to make tea, emit a clear fragrance, antibacterial effect, contain estrogen, pregnant women should avoid using.
Sage of the family Labiaceae is an annual herb with erect, clump-like plants, leaves paired, oblong-oval, new leaves reddened, looking like flowers in the distance, gradually turning gray-green, with concave and convex weaves on the surface, axillary inflorescences, small flower lips, white or reddish, and flowers surrounded by paper bracts.
Variety characteristics:
Life-cycle: more than 8 months
Planting - Region: Northeast, East China, North China, Southwest China, Northwest China
Germination - suitable temperature: 17-23 ° C
Growth - suitable temperature: 15-25 °C
Emergence - number of days: 8-10 days
Plant - Height: 70-90 cm
Adult - crown width: 40-60 cm
Planting - flowering: 80-100 days
Lighting - Demand: Prefer plenty of sunlight
Sowing - Season: Spring to Summer
Planting - Difficulty: ★
Cultivation - Index : ★
Sowing time
In the spring, after all the frost hazards have passed, the seedlings are bred in the greenhouse, and the outside temperature stabilizes at above zero 10 ° C after colonization.
This species form of the Platycodonidae probably puzzled plant taxonomists. Wikipedia has spent a long list of the plant's synonyms, but not a single word for morphological description. Just look at the long list of Wikipedia lists more than fifty synonyms, and the genus names change back and forth, and you know how difficult it is to classify it.
Sowing and management
Acupuncture tray seedlings or open-field direct seedlings. Spread the seeds evenly on the seedbed and cover them with a thin layer of soil. Seedling trays or foam trays can also be used to raise seedlings, and it is better to use a special seedling substrate to emerge. Strengthen ventilation after emergence to practice seedlings; if potted, the potted soil should be loose and fertile, and cultivated with a loose substrate. When the plant grows 4 pairs of true leaves, 2 pairs of true leaves are left to pluck hearts, which promotes the development of side branches.
Moisture and fertilizer
After colonization, the seedlings are suitable for time, and up to two seedlings are retained per hole. Cultivate the weeding and loosening the soil many times to facilitate growth. In order to promote the growth of seedlings, more watering at the seedling stage; watering after the seedlings follows the principle of dry watering; during the growth stage, ammonium sulfate diluted with 1500 times liquid is applied to change the leaf color, and the effect is better. In order to make the root system of the plant robust and the branches and leaves flourish, continuous fertilization is very important, increase phosphorus and potassium fertilizer once before flowering, remove the inflorescence after flowering, and still be able to continue flowering.
Pest control
Cataplexy, leaf spot disease, whiteflies, aphids, etc.
Cataplexy: Spray with 50% Bacillus Clear Wettable Powder 800 times liquid, or 70% methyl tolbuzin wettable powder 1000 times liquid spray, spray once every 7 days, 3-4 times continuously.
Leaf spot disease: Spray plants with 50% methyl tolbucin wettable powder 600 times liquid.
Whitefly and aphids: Control with 30% pyrethroid 800-1200 times liquid foliar spray.
Flower language and stories
Sage Flower Language: People who love their families
If you like this cute sage, you must be a family lover, you value chastity, full of justice and heroism, and you are a bright and upright gentleman. Your intellectual kindness is that you are your greatest charm, and your active mind and endless creativity make the person you love feel safe. You have a firm ideal, you are willing to spend your whole life to maintain it, you are willing to spend a lifetime to achieve it, and your heart is long and the big instrument is late.