After Christmas cactus and kalanchoe finish blooming, give them one cut, and every pot you tend will thrive
Lately, quite a few gardening friends have said that their kalanchoe and Christmas cactus at home have already finished one round of blooming, and now 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 so your flowers can still bloom a second round, a third round... bloom as many times as you want!
Give kalanchoe one cut after blooming, and it will burst into a full pot again in 1 month!
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Many gardening friends' kalanchoe plants have basically finished blooming. At this point, just follow Huahua and learn to make 1 cut, and new shoots will sprout right away, and it will quickly burst into a full pot again!
How do you prune kalanchoe that has finished blooming?
1. Normally, if you notice the color of your kalanchoe flowers starting to turn black, and the flowers feel a bit soft to the touch, and the flower stems begin to droop, it is basically time to prune.
2. When pruning, use sterilized 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, first place the kalanchoe in a cool, ventilated place to let the wound dry, and 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 kalanchoe to sprout new branches as quickly as possible, you must supplement nitrogen-containing fertilizer in time. You can bury 3-5 granules of compound fertilizer in the pot, or use homemade decomposed soybean fertilizer, okara fertilizer, etc., to let kalanchoe grow more new branches and thus bloom more.
5. Do not throw away the branches you cut off, because the branches after blooming are especially rich in nutrients. If you use them for cuttings, the rooting rate is very fast, and they can take root in about 20 days!
Give Christmas cactus one cut after blooming, and it will bloom as many times as you want!
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Some gardening friends' Christmas cactus only blooms once and then never again, but other people's Christmas cactus 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 Christmas cactus that has finished blooming?
1. If you notice that the flowers on your Christmas cactus have begun to wilt to varying degrees, then quickly grab a pair of scissors and snip snip away. Otherwise, leaving the flowers on the leaf segments will also consume unnecessary nutrients.
2. When using scissors to prune spent flowers, cut at the middle joint of the 2nd-3rd leaf segment below the spent flower, that is, cut off the 2 leaf segments counting down from the spent flower. If the Christmas cactus leaf segments are long enough, you can cut a bit more. Basically, leaving only 6-8 segments of leaf on each branch is enough.
Before pruning:
After pruning:
3. After pruning the spent flowers, shorten the branches, cutting off all the old stems and overly dense stem segments on the branches. The new branches that grow after pruning will be more tender green and robust, making the blooms more abundant!
4. After Christmas cactus blooms, because it has consumed a large amount of nutrients, it enters a brief dormant period. At this time, we can take advantage of the dormant period to repot the Christmas cactus, cut off 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 Christmas cactus and stop fertilizing. Wait until new buds sprout on the stem segments, then apply 1 diluted liquid fertilizer every half a month. When fertilizing, do not let it touch the stem segments, so that the modified stems grow quickly. After flower buds appear, spray a 0.2% potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution, and Christmas cactus will bloom again very soon!
6. Do not throw away the Christmas cactus leaf segments you cut off. Prepare nutrient soil mixed with peat soil and perlite at 2:1, and use the Christmas cactus leaf segments for cuttings. They can take root in about 10-20 days!
Give camellia one cut after blooming, and it will bloom as many times as you want!
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Because varieties differ, some gardening friends' camellias are still blooming, while some other gardening friends' 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 camellia that has finished blooming?
1. After your camellia finishes blooming, be sure to prune promptly to avoid unnecessary nutrient consumption. After camellia blooms fade, flower bases remain on the branches. The post-bloom pruning we need to do is mainly to prune the top 2 leaves below the flower base.
2. Cut off the top 2 leaves at the flower base. If the top leaves are staggered, then just prune 1. Because camellia growth has apical dominance, new shoots all sprout from the top. Pruning this way can encourage side branch growth, making more and more branches, and thus more and more flowers.
3. After pruning the spent flowers, prune the branches back, cutting off old branches, weak branches, parallel branches, etc., to promote new branches and increase the vitality of the camellia.
4. After pruning camellia spent flowers, before the spring shoots begin to stir, you can apply 1 round of compound fertilizer mainly based on nitrogen fertilizer or okara fertilizer, to supplement enough nutrients for the camellia to send out shoots. After new buds begin to stir, spray 1 round of foliar fertilizer to give the spring buds vigorous growth.
5. When the camellia's spring shoots grow to 10-20cm, you need to disbud the spring shoots, removing the top bud points and keeping 3-4 leaves, so that side branches emerge as quickly as possible, making the whole plant shape of the camellia look better.
6. Do not throw away the camellia branches you cut off either. After a slight trim, they can be directly inserted into the soil for cuttings. In spring, when the temperature is high and there is enough temperature and humidity, it takes about 10 days for the camellia cuttings to take root!
Give cyclamen one cut after blooming, and it will immediately bloom a second round!
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Many gardening friends' cyclamen died right after blooming once during the New Year, and then were thrown straight into the trash. Actually, after cyclamen blooms, as long as you care for it well, reblooming is super easy!
How do you prune cyclamen that has finished blooming?
1. For cyclamen that has finished blooming, be sure to prune the spent flowers promptly. Generally, prune from the base of the flower, cutting off the entire flower stem.
2. Besides 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. Cyclamen blooming consumes a large amount of nutrients from the tuber, so after post-bloom pruning, nutrients must be supplemented. You can bury 2-4 granules of compound fertilizer in the pot, or water with some homemade liquid fertilizer, so the tuber can accumulate nutrients.
4. In summer, when the weather is hot, cyclamen enters a dormant period, and the leaves continuously wither. At this time, stop water and fertilizer, and place the pot in a cool, ventilated indoor place for care, so it can pass the summer safely.
5. Wait until autumn when the temperature drops, and the cyclamen tuber will wake up from dormancy, begin to sprout new buds and grow flower buds, thus successfully reblooming. The only thing is that a reblooming cyclamen will bloom slightly less than the first time.
Give rose one cut after blooming, and it will bloom from spring all the way to autumn!
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Although many gardening friends' roses are still growing flower buds right now, some gardening friends have told Huahua that in the hot south, quite a few roses are almost done with their first blooms. Huahua is truly envious and jealous!
How do you prune rose that has finished blooming?
1. After the spring bloom of roses ends, be sure to prune the spent spring flowers promptly, so as to avoid nutrient consumption and allow the rose to have enough nutrients to bloom a second time right away.
2. When pruning, cut about 0.5cm above the rose's 3-leaf position, at a 45° angle, slanting inward, so the spent flower is completely cut off.
3. Blind branches and thin, weak branches on the rose should also be pruned promptly, and buds and leaves growing inward and downward should also be cut off at the same time, to promote ventilation and light inside the plant, strengthen the rose's disease resistance, and also allow more nutrients to be supplied to the rose branches that bloom.
4. After roses bloom, if you want them to sprout as quickly as possible for a second bloom, you must supplement fertilizer in time. Things like decomposed rice water and compound fertilizer can all be used on roses, about 1 time every 10 days. After rose buds appear, you can also water with some fishy water, which can make roses bloom bigger and more abundantly!
5. Cut the pruned rose branches into small sections of about 7-10cm, and directly insert them into soil for cuttings, or place them in water for water propagation. They will basically take root very quickly!
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