Care of the flowers:

The zingiberales is plants that grow in natural form in the tropic in a humid warm atmosphere. Therefore to maintain the quality of the cut flowers it is necessary:
1. not to store below 13ºC
2. to maintain a humidity of 90-95%.
3. before placing in the vase to cut 2 cm of the pseudotallo repeating every 3 days.
4. some people recommend to mix in the water of the vase sugar or molasses to increase the durability and to add a disinfectant as the hipoclorito.
5. to cut the tips of the bracteas that are mistreated with the transport.
6. Asperjar the flowers with water every other day.

Care of the rhizomes

It is the material of main propagation of the exotic flowers and they are underground shafts that you/they send buds (offsprings) to the surface producing the development delas plants and it stops their care it is necessary:
1. not to refrigerate.
2. to maintain a constant humidity.
3. to store them in a fresh, aerated, dark place and in a material that allows the absorption of humidity.
4. to revise that the rhizomes have yolks that assure the growth of the new plant.

Cares to the moment of the siembra

To assure the development of the new plant and the cultivation is necessary:
1. to disinfect the rhizomes and the sustrato with a solution insecticide-fungicide.
2. it is recommended to sow in bag if one has a single rhizome and in definitive place starting from three rhizomes.
3. to maintain humid the sustrato in that he/she is the rhizome.
4. to make a constant monitoreo to avoid the attack of plagues and illnesses.