Bougainvillea grows fast but won't bloom? Get these few steps wrong and you'll learn to grow it the way others do

If your bougainvillea grows fast but won't bloom, take a look at these few reasons - getting it to flower is simple

The bougainvillea grows very fast but won't bloom, why is that?

Looking at your picture, first of all the leaves on your bougainvillea are very large and thick, and at a glance it's a red variety, that is, the green-leaf large-red variety of bougainvillea. With this variety of bougainvillea, if it isn't cared for properly, blooming once a year or not blooming at all is completely normal.

For it to bloom, it must go through strict water control and light. With proper water control and sufficient light, it can bloom two to three times a year. Any more than that and it won't be able to, and in your picture the branches are clearly growing vigorously, and you're not controlling water. In the picture there's not the slightest sign of any previous water control, and that's what's stopping it from blooming.

If you want it to bloom, here's what you must do now. The long branches, the new branches, must be cut back short - from the spot where you last pruned, keep two nodes of leaves. Don't be reluctant - all the branches must be pruned, keep two nodes. Then put it in the spot with the most abundant light, and don't be afraid of full sun. During this period do not water at all, and when its leaves start to wilt, give it a little water in the evening. This little bit of water is calculated according to your pot - you can give it one bowl of water, and after you give it that, in about two to three hours its leaves will stand up completely. Then control water again, let it wilt again, and keep this up until autumn. From the state of the leaves in the picture you can see it's clearly very well nourished, so during this period don't fertilize it. After autumn arrives, use monopotassium phosphate, once or twice a month. Don't stop the water control, and in probably no time past late autumn it will be able to produce flower buds, at which point stop controlling water. Regularly, about once every ten days, give it monopotassium phosphate, and when the buds gradually form and are about to open, stop fertilizing and just quietly wait for it to bloom - it's that simple.

What Xiao Qi is saying is this: you must cut its branches back short. Give it plenty of light, no fertilizing early on, use phosphorus and potassium fertilizer in autumn, and by autumn it's guaranteed to be covered in flowers, it's that simple. If your bougainvillea grows fast but won't bloom, take a look at these few reasons - getting it to flower is simple

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