When caring for jasmine in summer, remember one phrase: white flowers cover the branches and fragrance fills the house.

Jasmine, with its delicate fragrance and pure white flowers, is a very popular flowering plant these days, highly ornamental, and placed on a balcony, a table, or in a bedroom, it has a strong decorative effect and is much loved by people.

When caring for jasmine in summer, keep one phrase in mind: white flowers cover the branches and fragrance fills the house.

If you want jasmine to have lush branches and leaves and bloom more, summer care is very important, otherwise it will struggle to get through the summer, and you can forget about seeing flowers again. So in summer, provide shade and cooling, prune more, and water and fertilize reasonably, and only then will it grow more and more vigorously, with fragrance filling the house.

Pay attention to shading and cooling

Jasmine is very fond of light. If you want it to bloom more, with whiter flowers and a fragrant scent, you must ensure at least 4 to 6 hours of light each day, but when summer sunlight is intense, pay attention to shading it and sprinkle water on the surrounding ground to cool it down, to prevent high temperatures from scorching the leaves and making them wilt and wither.

Prune more

During the growth of jasmine, pay attention to pruning, especially old branches. If they are not cut off, they will continue to consume nutrients and also affect the sprouting of new buds, because jasmine blooms on new branches and rarely blooms on old branches, so if you find that your jasmine blooms little, it is very likely that there are too many old branches and too few new ones.

Moreover, after pruning, it can also increase air circulation and light penetration, allowing the branches and leaves to fully receive light, so that they become more lush and bloom continuously.

Water and fertilize reasonably

When watering jasmine, do it in the morning or evening, before 8 a.m. or after 6 p.m., and never water at noon. Waterlogging easily leads to root rot.

Also, pay special attention to fertilizing. You can apply some organic fertilizer or fermented fertilizer water, such as rapeseed cake fertilizer, bone meal, soybean cake fertilizer, and so on. Making fermented fertilizer water is also very simple: collect various fruit peels, rotten leaves, and bones together, add some ferrous sulfate powder, add enough water, and place it in a sunny spot. It will ferment in about 20 days.

When watering jasmine, use fermented fertilizer water once every 30 days. This can make the soil acidic, make the leaves more emerald green and glossy, and make flowers cover the branches.