A beginner grower only has to say one sentence, and the flower shop owner will see right through them

This is day 911 of Blue Demon's daily original articles

This article is original by Blue Demon

Excerpt from the "30 Days to Turn You from a Total Beginner into a Flower-Growing Expert" series course

When our gardening friends go to a flower shop to buy flowers, they all want to look like an expert, so that the flower shop owner won't tell at a glance that we're beginners and then charge us exorbitant prices. Or recommend some poor-quality flowers.

But to avoid being seen through by the owner as beginners, besides being careful with what we say, we still need to improve our own knowledge of flowers.

Friends who often read Blue Demon's articles know that Blue Demon also sells rose seedlings in an online shop, and many gardening friends ask Blue Demon before buying seedlings: Are your roses grown from seeds? Or are they seedlings? Actually, just from this one sentence, Blue Demon knows that this gardening friend is definitely a beginner, or rather a total newbie at growing flowers.

Why?The roses currently sold on the market are all rose seedlings, either cuttings or grafted seedlings. Very few rose seeds are sold, and for home growing, no one would choose to start from sowing.

As one of the woody flowering plants, the main propagation methods for roses are cutting and grafting. Although roses can also be propagated by sowing, sowing propagation has relatively major drawbacks. Here Blue Demon will use woody flowering plants as an example to explain.The difference between seed-grown seedlings and cutting-grown seedlings of woody flowering plants:

First, Blue Demon will briefly introduce the characteristics of seed-grown seedlings. Seed-grown seedlings are also called seedling plants, meaning seedlings grown from germinated seeds.1. Variability

Since seeds are formed by the combination of a mother plant and a father plant, the seeds carry the genetic genes of both the father and mother plants, so seed-grown seedlings first of all have variability. Therefore, rose propagation by sowing is mostly used for breeding new varieties. But the rose seedlings sold on the market are all cuttings or grafted seedlings.2. Delayed flowering or difficulty flowering

Besides variability, seed-grown seedlings have another very big problem: the time to flowering will be delayed, or they may even never bloom. Roses are not too bad; generally they can bloom half a year after sowing, but to reach the standard flower form also takes 2-3 years.

But for plants like wisteria, seed-grown seedlings need a very long time to bloom. Generally, wisteria seed-grown seedlings need 6-7 years to bloom. So many of our gardening friends find that a small wisteria dug up from under a large wisteria tree has been grown for several years and still doesn't bloom, and that is because it is a seed-grown seedling. But if it is a cutting-grown or grafted seedling, the time to flowering can be advanced.

You might say:If sowing is so bad, then why do so many people still use sowing? And the flowers others sow bloom in two or three months, not taking as long as Blue Demon said? Yes, in home flower growing, sowing is a very important method of flower propagation. What Blue Demon said above about not recommending sowing refers to woody flowering plants.

Different flowers also have different best propagation methods. For example, for some herbaceous flowers, the advantages of sowing propagation are much greater than cutting. But there will also be some problems. Tomorrow Blue Demon will continue to analyze this for you.

Blue Demon's past essential articles, recommended ways for you to learn and view them: Official account homepage Blue Demon Library Essential Articles Rose Special Articles 365 Days, Helping You Solve Flower-Growing Problems Circle If you want to buy the right variety of roses, they are already prepared for you!