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New honeysuckle variety Mengshan Red blooms all year round
1. The color of the flower buds is highly variable. Before blooming, they change from purple-red to bright red; when blooming, they turn pink; after blooming, they become a mix of red, yellow, and white, very beautiful. The fragrance is stronger than ordinary honeysuckle, and the medicinal potency is high. The flowers, leaves, and stems can all be used as medicine, for treating painful swellings, boils, and sores, externally contracted cold, and the early stages of pestilential disease, clearing heat and detoxifying. 2. Early blooming. It blooms 5-10 days earlier than ordinary honeysuckle, with the flowering period from mid-May to mid-October, about 150 days. It can bloom 4 times a year. The yield of dried flowers is about 100 kg per mu. 3. Strong stress resistance. Apart from slight susceptibility to aphids,
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How do you pinch back honeysuckle (Japanese honeysuckle) so it blooms more?
The method for pinching back honeysuckle is: leave 2 nodes on the main stem of the mother plant, about 15 cm above the pot surface, and cut off the branches above that point, so that the main stem sprouts more new shoots. When the first branches grow to about 10 cm, choose the thick, vigorously growing branches, leave 3 nodes on each branch, and carry out a second pinching. After the second pinching, the new branches produce new shoots again; when the new shoots reach a certain length, pinch off all their growing tips, and at the same time apply a top dressing of once of a thin liquid fertilizer based mainly on phosphorus and potassium, to promote robust growth of all the branches
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