How do you care for bougainvillea so it blooms more?
Every flower lover hopes the plants they grow will bloom more, so quite a few flower lovers ask how to get bougainvillea to bloom more. The experience summarized below by a flower lover based on their own growing process is excellent reference material for flower lovers.
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For bougainvillea to bloom more, the first thing is to give it plenty of fertilizer and water to grow the seedling big and strong. In daily care, keep to the principle of light but frequent feeding, appropriately increase phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, bury a little bone meal, and occasionally give some diluted fermented organic fertilizer or just bury a little - it depends on personal preference and there is no fixed method. Bougainvillea has much lower fertilizer requirements than roses, so heavy feeding does not suit it; feed lightly and often.
In daily care, watering is also fairly important. Although bougainvillea is drought tolerant, that does not mean it likes drought, so generally water once the potting soil feels dry. Unless you are using water control to force flowering, pay attention to watering as usual.
As for water control, I think if you are after that state of flowers with no leaves visible, it may be necessary; if you only want more flowers, water control is not a must.
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Another important part of getting more flowers is that pinching the branches must not stop. Cut overly long ones straight down by half; for short ones with six or seven leaves, just pinch off the terminal bud. My old worry that pinching would mean no flowers to see because the tips bloom was wrong - short branches bloom perfectly fine. Keep pinching, keep up the fertilizer and water, and the plant keeps growing side branches; every side branch is a flowering branch, and in the end when it really cannot hold back anymore, it blooms on the short branches.
As for light, there is no need to say much. Good light is indispensable for more flowers, so in summer let it bask in the sun.
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