How to Overwinter Potted Jasmine and Key Care Tips

Jasmine, also known as jasmine flower, is native to India and Pakistan, and was introduced to China long ago and is widely cultivated. So how do you overwinter potted jasmine?

1. How to overwinter potted jasmine

Potted jasmine is best moved indoors for the winter. Because it is relatively cold outdoors, it is very easy to freeze and damage the plant. You can place it in a relatively warm room, which is better for it. Winter light is relatively weak, so it should be placed in a spot with good lighting to provide it with enough light. In addition, before winter arrives, you can prune it once, cutting off dried and overly long branches to save nutrients.

2. How to make jasmine bloom

1. Pruning

Jasmine blooms most abundantly on 3- to 6-year-old plants, after which it ages year by year, so timely heavy pruning and renewal are necessary. Before it sprouts in spring, the previous year's branches can be appropriately shortened, keeping 10-15 cm at the base, so that many thick new branches grow. If the new branches grow very vigorously, they should be pinched when they reach 10 cm to encourage secondary shoots, which will result in more flowers, a compact shape, and high ornamental value. Note that pruning should be done on sunny days, and can be combined with leaf thinning, removing diseased branches, and adjusting the plant, which benefits growth.

2. Fertilizing

Jasmine is a plant that produces multiple flushes of shoots and buds each year and blooms year-round, so it has a very high fertilizer demand. Keeping the potting soil sufficiently fertile is an important guarantee of abundant jasmine blooms. For potted jasmine, organic liquid fertilizer is best for topdressing, but it is best to use decomposed human waste, or human waste mixed with chicken and duck manure, pig manure, soybean cake, rapeseed cake, and so on. The best time to apply fertilizer is when the potting soil has just dried on the surface and small dry cracks have just appeared around the soil surface near the pot wall. When new shoots begin to sprout, diluted manure water can be used once every 7 days. As flowering approaches, the concentration of the manure water can be increased, applying once every 3 days. When the second and third batches of flowers open, because the temperature is suitable, there are many flowers and growth is vigorous, it can be topdressed once every 1-2 days. After that, gradually control fertilizer and water to avoid excessive vegetative growth and tender tissues that make it difficult to overwinter.

Jasmine has good health and beauty benefits and can be used in food and drink. It symbolizes love and friendship. At the same time, "Jasmine Flower" is also a traditional Chinese folk song, and in animation it has also been used as the name of a cartoon character.