1, soil selection: Dianthus likes soft, breathable and permeable soil at first kiss. It can be made of humus, coarse sand and perlite in a ratio of 4∶3∶3. When serving in the basin, it is best to bury some decomposed chicken manure at the bottom of the basin as base fertilizer, which can promote better growth in the later period and is conducive to flowering.
2. Fertilization: Dianthus caryophyllus grows fast at the first kiss, with large flowers and high demand for fertilizer. Fertilizer should be applied before flowering, and phosphorus and potassium compound fertilizer is enough. Adequate nutrition can improve the quality of flowers. In addition, after flowering, you need topdressing, and you can use multi-element compound fertilizer once every half month for two or three times to supplement the consumed nutrients.
3. Precautions: During the first kiss of carnation, leaves with poor growth, such as yellow leaves and dead leaves, need to be trimmed in time, or trimmed and shaped as needed to make the plants grow more stylish and the leaves more tidy.
Carnation, also known as China swamp bamboo and carnation, belongs to Dianthus. Carnation is thirty to fifty centimeters high, the whole plant is hairless and pink-green. Leaf blade linear-lanceolate, tapering at the top, slightly narrower at the base, entire or denticulate, with prominent midvein. Flowers are solitary or several flowers are integrated into cymes. Petals are obovate triangles.