1. When purchasing potted flowers, beginners are better off buying potted flowers directly. If it is a flower viewing plant, it is better to have bud and one or two flowers have been released, so it is easy to survive and not easy to make mistakes.
2. When purchasing plantlets without pots, pay attention to whether there are soil balls at the root of the plantlets. Evergreen trees and flowers, such as Milan, Jiulixiang, citrus, pine and cypress seedlings, do not have soil balls in their roots, which is difficult to survive and cannot be bought. The seedlings with soil balls should be larger than those with loose soil balls. The flower seedling is 30 cm high, and the diameter of the soil ball should be more than 10 cm. The earth ball is too small, cracked or is a fake earth ball wrapped with straw and soil. The soil ball accompanying shall be less consolidated and loose soil. You can gently break off a small part of the soil ball to watch, such as white tender young roots to buy; If the root system is blackened, it indicates that the root is moldy and cannot be bought. The deciduous bare root flower seedlings, such as those with few roots, or those that have blossomed or sprouted, cannot be bought. Do not buy flowers and trees that have just been put on the pot before they sprout. Because most of them are shipped back from other places, they are sold as soon as they are put on the pot. It is difficult to ensure their survival without curing for a period of time. Part of the pot soil can be peeled off for inspection. If the pot soil can be obviously separated from the original soil ball, it is just put into the pot.
3. People without experience should not buy seedlings in the market. Because it is difficult to feed seedlings that have not been put into pots. In addition, some seedlings have only a few leaves, neither flowers nor flower buds, which is difficult to identify. Especially when buying expensive flowers and trees, such as camellia, it is better not to buy seedlings to avoid being cheated. Some vendors sell fake seedlings, such as seaweed as incense, common cypress as pearl cypress, boxwood and privet as osmanthus, and winter jasmine and gold bars as night lilac. There are also Haitong as a smile, Zhubai as a daphne, Zhudinghong as a clivia, melon seeds and boxwood as Milan, and wild daffodils as tulips. Sometimes, at the farmers’ market, some people put camellia or rose flowers into the Nine Dead Revival Grass to take photos to sell fake “flower seedlings”. Nine Dead Revival Grass is a fern named Selaginella, which grows on the rock walls of barren mountains in the wild. Its vitality is particularly strong. The withered plants can turn green and live after soaking in water, which can be used as the ornament of basin surface or rockery in bonsai. But it is a fern and will never blossom.
4. There are also patterns of wild stumps, especially the purchase of wild bonsai stumps such as bromus, elm, birdball, azalea, crape myrtle, etc. These tree stumps are dug from the mountains. They are beautiful and cheap. When purchasing, pay special attention to the fine roots of the roots. If there are only truncated main roots, but no fine roots, it is difficult to survive. Also, due to the wind and sunshine along the way, the branches and roots wilted and shriveled, and the survival rate was not high after buying them.
5. Second, beware of vendors posing as good seedlings with broken branches or newly grafted seedlings. For example, a customer bought a pot of five needle pine, found the branches shaking, pulled out and found that it was a cut five needle pine branch, inserted into the pot and sold as a live seedling. Some people use yellow croaker glue to coat the joint of the grafted five needle pine and sell it as a live seedling.
