Hottentot-bread Dioscorea elephantipes

Exposure Hottentot-bread
Succulent plants can also be cultivated in a cold green house, with temperatures which must be below 5°C for many species, but in this case it’s necessary to keep them totally dry. We suggest growing the The Hottentot-bread In the house or in a warmed greenhouse; when the minimum temperatures go past 15°C it is possible to move them outside.Plant which need at least a few hours a day of solar light.

Watering Hottentot-bread
Let’s remember that the succulent plants can withhold water inside their materials, therefore they need to be watered only when the weather is hot. Let’s avoid watering the The Hottentot-bread excessively, always leaving the soil dry for a few days between one watering and the other, therefore let’s irrigate the substratum deeply every 4-5 weeks with 1-2 glasses of water .

Fertilization Hottentot-bread
In this period of the year, let’s remember to enrich the soil of our succulent plants, using, every 15-20 days, a specific fertilizer; fertilizers for succulent plants must be poor in nitrogen to avoid them from producing too much vegetation which would be easily attacked by fungal diseases.

Watering Hottentot-bread
Let’s avoid watering the The Hottentot-bread excessively, always leaving the soil dry for a few days between one watering and the other, therefore let’s irrigate the substratum deeply every 4-5 weeks with 1-2 glasses of water . Let’s remember that the succulent plants can withhold water inside their materials, therefore they need to be watered only when the weather is hot.

Treatments Hottentot-bread
As the day-time temperatures rise at the beginning of the spring, it is agreeable to practice a preventive treatment, with a wide-range insecticide, which should be applied when there aren’t flowerings in the garden. Before the buds become too large, it is advisable to also treat them with a wide-range fungicide, to prevent the development of fungal diseases which spread easily when there is an elevated environmental moisture.

Soil Hottentot-bread
Grow in a soft and sandy, very well drained soil.

Climate peat sand Soil Pumice Bark S. Organic alpine 0 1 3 0 0 0 continental 0 1 3 0 0 0 mediterranean 0 1 3 0 0 0

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Notes Hottentot-bread
If desired, we can grow the The Hottentot-bread in a container. The indications given in this article are related to a medium size plant.

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This page concerns the weather continental it is possible to choose another climate area alpine mediterranean

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