How to grow night-blooming jasmine? Detailed planting methods and precautions

Night-blooming jasminehas an intense fragrance, and its small white flowers give a fresh and elegant feeling. Many people plant a pot of it at home, so how exactly should night-blooming jasmine be planted, and what points need our attention when planting it? Let's take a look below.

Seed treatment

Before planting night-blooming jasmine, you can first soak the seeds in cold water, or first let the seeds sprout under a wet cloth, and then plant them in the soil. Generally, after planting in the first year, the flowers bloom, set seed and fall to the ground, and in the second year many can come up.Night-blooming jasmineis not a very precious flower.

Cultivation methods

1. Soil: Night-blooming jasmine likes loose, well-drained, organic-rich, slightly acidic soil. For cultivatingnight-blooming jasmine,the potting soil can be made from 3 parts peat soil or leaf mold plus 2 parts coarse river mud and a small amount of farmyard manure. When planting, fill the bottom about 1/5 deep with granular broken brick pieces to help drainage, then add the prepared growing soil.

2. Watering: Summer is the peak growing season for night-blooming jasmine, and the potting soil must be kept moist regularly. If necessary, water twice a day. If it is a night-blooming jasmine seedling, spray the leaves once to twice a day.

3. Temperature: In mid-to-late October each year, night-blooming jasmine should be moved indoors, and the indoor temperature is best kept at 8°C to 12°C. If the temperature is lower than 5°C, the leaves of night-blooming jasmine will turn yellow and fall off, or it may even die.

4. Light: Night-blooming jasmine likes a sunny, well-ventilated environment. From early May to the end of September, it is suitable to keep night-blooming jasmine outdoors in a sunny place or on a balcony, but at noon in summer, avoid exposing night-blooming jasmine to scorching sun.

5. Fertilizing: During the growth of night-blooming jasmine, apply liquid fertilizer once every 10-15 days. Starting in late April, apply a thin liquid fertilizer once every half month. From mid-May, continuous flowering can be ensured. If high-efficiency humic acid liquid fertilizers such as Chunquan 883 or Huimanfeng are used, the effect is even better.

Cultivation precautions

1. Night-blooming jasmine often suffers from sooty mold and ring spot disease, which can be sprayed with a 500-fold solution of 50% thiophanate-methyl wettable powder.

2. Keeping night-blooming jasmine indoors for a long time will cause symptoms such as dizziness, coughing, asthma and insomnia in residents.