Chrysanthemums won't bloom for a long time? Let me teach you a few methods to force flowering
As a symbol of noble integrity, the chrysanthemum represents lofty sentiment and elegant feelings. Many poets in ancient times especially loved to invoke the image of the chrysanthemum, whether to express their wish to retreat to the fields and mountains, like Tao Yuanming, or to show their own aloof and extraordinary character, like Li Qingzhao. Although chrysanthemums are used as sacrificial flowers during the Double Ninth Festival, people have not developed any taboo feelings toward them because of this. On the contrary, thanks to their many effects and varied forms, people have come to like them even more.
Chrysanthemums most often appear in flower exhibitions. Just looking at chrysanthemums of all sizes and colors is a delight to the eye. Chrysanthemums can also be brewed as tea and have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, so quite a few people like to grow chrysanthemums at home. However, home-grown chrysanthemums and the chrysanthemum tea sold outside are not quite the same. Most home-grown chrysanthemums are about the size of a bowl, while the kind sold outside for chrysanthemum tea is far more miniaturized compared with home-grown ones.
Sometimes home-grown chrysanthemums run into problems, such as not blooming for a long time. This drives the grower crazy with worry. Originally, growing chrysanthemums at home was for health preservation, but because the chrysanthemums are too large to brew as tea, now things have come to this: they can't be eaten and they can't be enjoyed visually either, so they might as well just show us bare branches.
1. Why do chrysanthemums fail to bloom for a long time? It can't be that the flowering season simply hasn't arrived yet, can it? Whether the flowering season has arrived depends on just how long the "long time" you mention actually is. One or two months is a long time, three or four months is still a long time, and a year is still a long time. If they haven't bloomed for one or two months, there is no need to worry at all. If they haven't bloomed for three or four months, it may also be that the temperature, water, humidity and other conditions of the environment do not meet the conditions for flowering, so flowering has been delayed. All of this is quite possible. It is a full year without flowering that should really put you on alert. That is the chrysanthemum sending you a warning. If you don't take measures, then not only will there be no flowers, but the entire chrysanthemum plant may even wither.
2. If a chrysanthemum does not bloom for as long as a year, what exactly is the reason? One possibility, and the biggest one, is insufficient fertilizer. No matter what plant it is, when it blooms it consumes far more nutrients than usual. Plants usually need to store up a large amount of nutrients in advance for use when flowering. But if the soil itself does not contain enough nutrients, the plant has no resources to store up even if it wants to, which leads to insufficient stored nutrients, and the plant cannot bloom. Even if it does bloom, it cannot produce full flowers and will wilt within a few days. Therefore, generally speaking, if you supplement the chrysanthemum with a little nutrients and slowly nurse it along, it won't be long before you see it bloom.
3. Besides insufficient nutrients, could there be other reasons why a chrysanthemum doesn't bloom? Then it may be that it has been attacked by hateful pests and diseases. Originally the chrysanthemum wanted to bloom normally, but then it ran into annoying insects bothering it and even damaging its own tissue structure, so how could it still bloom properly? So when you encounter a chrysanthemum that isn't blooming, you can check whether there are insect eggs on its branches or holes left by insect bites, and then spray insecticide on the affected areas.
If it still doesn't bloom, you can consider transplanting the chrysanthemum indoors, artificially creating a strong light source, giving the chrysanthemum long periods of light, and making a simple greenhouse for the chrysanthemum.