How do you prune a Kalanchoe after it finishes blooming? Pinch off the top and it will sprout buds again, more and faster

After the Kalanchoe finishes blooming, the flower stems should be cut off, so that new shoots will grow below the cut. Some of these new shoots can bloom a second time, and some will bloom the following year. Let's talk specifically about how to prune and pinch Kalanchoe. Actually, throughout a Kalanchoe's life, it needs constant pruning and pinching to bloom more and more

Pinching

Pinching is generally suitable for small seedlings from cuttings of the current year. When a Kalanchoe seedling grown from a cutting reaches 5 cm tall, you can pinch it off at the fourth or fifth pair of leaves to limit its continued upward growth and encourage more side shoots. Only in this way can you shape the initial form of the Kalanchoe, so the plant can grow larger and bloom more in the future.

Tip pruning

As the cutting-grown seedling continues to grow, if there are leggy branches, you can prune the tips in time to prevent legginess from ruining the plant's shape and wasting nutrients for nothing.

Post-bloom pruning

After the Kalanchoe finishes blooming each time, cut the spent branches off at the second pair of leaves below the flower stem. After a while, new branches and leaves will grow below the cut, and with suitable temperatures it will bloom a second time. The pruned branches can be used for cuttings, turning one pot into dozens of pots. It's very simple

Routine pruning

While growing Kalanchoe, promptly prune away yellow leaves, diseased branches and overly dense branches to improve ventilation and light and reduce attacks by pests and diseases.

Pruning old plants

Generally, after two or three years of growing, a Kalanchoe plant will gradually age, and both its ability to sprout new shoots and its ability to bloom will gradually decline. To encourage an old Kalanchoe to bloom more, after it finishes blooming each year you can do one major pruning, cutting off the overly tall parts, spent branches, diseased branches and so on all at once, leaving bud nodes so they sprout new shoots and bloom the following year. The cut branches can be used for cuttings. In principle, Kalanchoe blooms best when re-propagated from cuttings every other year. After it ages, although pruning can still make it bloom more, it will never bloom as well as a freshly rooted cutting.

The basics of pruning Kalanchoe are pretty much the points above. In short, when growing Kalanchoe you must prune it; without pruning it will bloom little or not at all.

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