Planting Red Dracaena

My mum bought the red Aglaonema plants many years ago because it was very popular at that time when it was just introduced into the horticulture market locally. This cultivars originated from Thailand.

This photo shows there were planted in the garden trench together with Sellaginella, which is an ancient club mosses. This red Aglaonema grows very slowly despite fertilisers.

Then i took a stem cutting and planted it in Hydroponics Mineral Water. Now it produces flower. Note that the colour may look less intense than previous photo, this is because the sunlight was dimmer under shade. Infact the colour was still the same as before, red and beautiful.

Then i transfer it to a newly bought ceramic pot. It looks more beautiful now. Just like having new clothes. Note that i have removed the flower.

I bought this plant two years ago. It was small and got discount. So i bought and planted it in the garden trench. It grew bigger with time and care. This cultivar has very bright pink leaf.

This plant was planted in a pot. I don't think it likes the pot. If i have the time, i will move it to Hydroponics Mineral Water. They seems to grow far much faster and bigger leaf with Hydroculture.

Here it is planted with sea sand. I collected it from the beach and washed it off the sea salt. Then i use it to plant this cute plant. Planting in sand is very clean, but the only fertiliser suitable thereafter is Hydroponics Mineral only. This is because sea sand is lack of natural soil bacteria that convert common fertiliser into useful form for the plants. Therefore we compensate this clean sand with Hydroponics Mineral because it is already the simplest form suitable for the plant to use efficiently without further needs of bacteria conversion. But this is worth it. It is effective, clean, almost same cost as common fertiliser, and no need to use dirt and soil.