After the Kalanchoe and Christmas cactus finish blooming, make one cut: care for one pot and it thrives, blooming abundantly.
Recently, quite a few flower lovers have said that their Kalanchoe and Christmas cactus at home have already finished one round of blooming, and next, do they just have to wait until next year for more flowers? Huahua wants to tell you: NO! Today, Huahua is going to teach everyone a little method to make your flowers bloom a second round, a third round... bloom as many times as you want!
After Kalanchoe blooms, make 1 cut, and in 1 month it bursts into a full pot again!
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Many flower lovers' Kalanchoes at home have basically finished blooming. At this point, just follow Huahua and learn to make 1 cut, and new buds will immediately sprout, and it will quickly burst into a full pot again!
How do you prune a spent Kalanchoe?
1. Normally, if you notice the color of your Kalanchoe starting to turn black, and the flowers feel a bit soft to the touch, and the flower stems start to droop, then it is basically time to prune.
2. When pruning, use disinfected scissors and cut starting from the position of the 2 pairs of leaves below the flower. As shown in the picture below, just prune from the position below the 2.
3. After pruning the Kalanchoe, first place it in a cool, ventilated place to let the wound dry. After about 1 week, move it to a south-facing balcony to receive plenty of sunlight. During this period, water only after the surface of the potting soil turns white, to avoid root rot.
4. If you want the Kalanchoe to sprout new branches as soon as possible, you must supplement nitrogen-containing fertilizer in time. You can bury 3-5 granules of compound fertilizer in the flower pot, or use homemade decomposed soybean fertilizer, okara fertilizer, etc., to let the Kalanchoe grow more new branches and thus bloom more.
5. Do not throw away the branches you cut off, because the branches after flowering are especially full of nutrients. If used for cuttings, the rooting rate is very fast, and they can root in about 20 days!
After the Christmas cactus blooms, make 1 cut, and it will bloom as many times as you want!
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Some flower lovers' Christmas cacti at home bloom only once and then never again, but other people's Christmas cacti can bloom 3-4 times a year. What is going on? Of course, it is because post-bloom pruning was done properly!
How do you prune a spent Christmas cactus?
1. If you find that your Christmas cactus flowers have already begun to wilt to varying degrees, then quickly grab a pair of scissors and snip away. Otherwise, if the flowers stay on the leaves, they will also consume unnecessary nutrients.
2. When using scissors to prune the spent flowers, cut at the middle node of the 2nd-3rd leaf below the spent flower, that is, cut off the 2 leaves counting down from the spent flower. If the Christmas cactus leaves are long enough, you can also cut a bit more. Basically, leaving only 6-8 nodes of leaves on each branch is enough.
Before pruning:
After pruning:
3. After pruning the spent flowers, shorten the branches and cut off all the old stems and overly dense stem nodes on the branches. The new branches that grow after pruning will be more tender green and robust, thus making the flowering more abundant!
4. After the Christmas cactus blooms, because it has consumed a large amount of nutrients, it has a short dormant period. At this time, we can take advantage of the dormant period to repot the Christmas cactus, cut off the old roots and weak roots, and then place enough base fertilizer at the bottom of the pot, such as soybean cake fertilizer, bone meal fertilizer, or homemade okara fertilizer.
5. During the dormant period, control water for the Christmas cactus and stop fertilizing. Wait until new buds sprout on the stem nodes, then apply 1 diluted liquid fertilizer every half month. When fertilizing, do not let it touch the stem nodes, so that the modified stems can grow quickly. After flower buds appear, spray a 0.2% potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution, and the Christmas cactus will quickly bloom again!
6. Do not throw away the Christmas cactus leaves you cut off. Prepare nutrient soil mixed with peat soil and perlite at 2:1, and use the Christmas cactus leaves for cuttings. They can root in about 10-20 days!
After the camellia blooms, make 1 cut, and it will bloom as many times as you want!
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Because of different varieties, some flower lovers' camellias at home are still blooming, while some other flower lovers' camellias have basically finished blooming and are preparing to enter the spring shoot growth period. At this time, you must prune promptly!
How do you prune a spent camellia?
1. After the camellia at home finishes blooming, you must prune promptly to avoid unnecessary nutrient consumption. After the camellia finishes blooming, it will leave a flower base on the branch. The post-bloom pruning we need to do is mainly to prune the 2 leaves at the top below the flower base.
2. Cut off the 2 leaves at the top of the flower base. If the top leaves are staggered, then just prune 1. Because the growth of camellia has apical dominance, new shoots all emerge from the top. Pruning this way can promote the growth of side branches, making more and more branches, and thus more and more flowers.
3. After pruning the spent flowers, perform renewal pruning on the branches, cutting off old branches, weak branches, parallel branches, etc., to stimulate new branches and improve the vitality of the camellia.
4. After pruning the spent camellia flowers, before the spring shoots sprout, you can apply 1 compound fertilizer mainly based on nitrogen fertilizer or okara fertilizer, to supplement enough nutrients for the camellia to send out shoots. After the new buds sprout, spray 1 foliar fertilizer again, which can make the spring buds sprout vigorously.
5. When the spring shoots of the camellia grow to 10-20 cm, you need to do bud removal on the spring shoots, pick off the top bud points, and leave 3-4 leaves, so that side branches can be sent out as soon as possible, thus making the overall shape of the camellia look better.
6. Do not throw away the camellia branches you cut off either. After trimming them a little, you can directly insert them into the soil for cuttings. In spring, when the temperature is high and the temperature and humidity are sufficient, in about 10 days, the camellia cuttings can root!
After the cyclamen blooms, make 1 cut, and it will immediately bloom a second round!
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Many flower lovers' cyclamens at home, after blooming once during the New Year, directly died, and then were thrown straight into the trash can. In fact, after the cyclamen blooms, as long as you care for it well, reblooming is super easy!
How do you prune a spent cyclamen?
1. For a cyclamen that has finished blooming, you must promptly cut off the spent flowers. Generally, prune from the base of the flower and cut off the entire flower stem.
2. Besides the spent flowers, all the dead branches and withered leaves should also be removed. If you do not want to use scissors, you can also just pull them off by hand.
3. Blooming consumes a large amount of nutrients from the cyclamen tuber, so after post-bloom pruning, nutrients must be supplemented. You can bury 2-4 granules of compound fertilizer in the flower pot, or water with some homemade liquid fertilizer, so that the tuber can accumulate nutrients.
4. In summer, when the weather is hot, the cyclamen will enter a dormant period, and the leaves will continuously wither. At this time, stop water and fertilizer, and place the flower pot in a cool, ventilated place indoors for care, so that it can safely pass the summer.
5. Wait until autumn when the temperature drops, the cyclamen tuber will wake up from the dormant period, begin to sprout new buds, grow flower buds, and thus successfully rebloom. It is just that a reblooming cyclamen will bloom slightly less than the first time.
After the rose blooms, make 1 cut, and it will bloom from spring all the way to autumn!
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Although many flower lovers' roses at home are still growing flower buds now, some flower lovers told Huahua that in the warm south, many roses' first flowers are almost finished blooming, which really makes Huahua envious and jealous!
How do you prune a spent rose?
1. After the spring flowers of the rose finish, you must promptly cut off the spent spring flowers, so as to avoid nutrient consumption, thus allowing the rose to have enough nutrients to immediately carry out a second round of blooming.
2. When pruning, from about 0.5 cm above the rose's 3 leaves, cut at a 45° angle, slanting inward, so that the entire spent flower is cut off.
3. Blind branches and thin, weak branches on the rose branches should also be cut off promptly, and the buds and leaves growing inward and downward should also be cut off at the same time, to promote ventilation and light inside the plant, enhance the disease resistance of the rose, and also allow more nutrients to be supplied to the rose branches that bloom.
4. After the rose blooms, if you want it to sprout as soon as possible for a second round of blooming, you must supplement fertilizer in time. Things like decomposed rice water and compound fertilizer can all be used for roses, about 1 time every 10 days. After the rose sprouts flower buds, you can also water with some fishy water, which can make the rose bloom large and abundant!
5. Cut the pruned rose branches into small sections of about 7-10 cm, and directly insert them into the soil for cuttings, or place them in water for water propagation. They will basically root very quickly!
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