How to carve a crabapple daffodil?

Carving crabapple daffodils is a traditional Chinese artistic method of raising daffodils in water. After carving daffodils, flowers and leaves are twisted growth, its posture like a crab, unique style, and therefore loved by people. Before carving, we should choose bulbs suitable for crabapple daffodil, preferably choose the main ball has more than 3 mature flower buds, each side has a side ball. Carving, divided into peeling scales, picking scales between the leaf buds, cutting the edge of the leaf and cut the pedicel and other 4 processes. Specific methods of operation are as follows: scrape the dead roots on the root plate, remove the brown skin, from the side of the main bud within the curved, about 1/3 of the part of the root with a knife to make a semi-circular transverse cut, layer by layer to peel off the scales, peeled to the leaf buds exposed until the time.

Then use the tip of the knife to carefully remove the rhombic scales between the buds, leaving about 1/3 of the scales on the back, until most of the leaf buds and buds are exposed. Then, slightly separate the closed leaves and buds, and carefully remove about 1/3 of the leaf margins from top to bottom, without touching the buds. Leaf buds without flower buds also need to be trimmed. Side bulbs are stripped of bulbs and leaf buds are shortened to make "crab eyes", and scales are carved in the same way as on the main bulb. If you prefer an upright flower club, you don't need to carve the pedicel. If you like to bend the pedicel, can be in the lower part of the bud to the pedicel longitudinal wound a little.

But it should be noted that, if you carve the pedicel accidentally destroy the original base of the flower, that is, can not re-flowering. Therefore, before carving the pedicel to separate the bud and pedicel from the leaves, so as to facilitate the operation. If the technology is not skilled, to be later when the pedicel has been stretched out and then use the carving knife to cut 1/5 or so more stable. Narcissus after artificial carving, leaf buds and pedicels carved which side, will be bent to which side of the growth, the deeper the cut, the closer to the root plate will be more bent. Due to the different degree of carving, the future growth of the leaves and flowers are also different, so you can shape a variety of daffodil molding.

Sculpted bulbs immediately after the incision down in the water soaked in water for a day and night, will be washed of mucus after the incision up flat in a shallow pot of culture, surrounded by pebbles and other bulbs will be fixed, slowly add water to the incision below, change the water to pay attention to do not make the bulb move, so as not to injure the roots. First placed in diffused light maintenance 3 to 5 days, to be wound healing, leaf color turns green in the daytime in a sunny place to cultivate. Generally every other day to change the water. After carving the daffodil, the flowering period is about 7 days earlier than the uncarved daffodil.