Few flowers on your roses? Press them down and add 2 ingredients, and they will explode with new shoots and blooms, each flower bigger than a fist

A rose in full bloom is naturally beautiful, but keeping a rose alive is easy while growing one well is hard. Many flower lovers say they raise roses painstakingly, yet the plants bloom very little. Why is that?

Few flowers on a rose may mean the plant is not big enough. For example, a rose bought just a few months or a year ago is still a small seedling with few branches, and only branches bear flowers. So when growing a small seedling, encouraging branches and leaves is very important. Branches and leaves determine how full the plant's shape is, and they also affect the number of flowers. To solve the problem of few flowers, we can press the branches down and add 2 ingredients, so the rose quickly explodes with new shoots, grows lush branches and leaves, and bursts into bloom, with every flower bigger than a fist.

A small seedling naturally has few branches and is not yet ready for pruning. To encourage branching, we can first press the branches down, bending them downward, ideally below the pot surface. This method actually breaks apical dominance so nutrients flow back to the roots, making new shoots more likely to burst out. Of course, there must be buds under the soil for the shoots to emerge.

New shoots have strong growth power. To prevent the shoot buds from taking most of the nutrients and leaving the other branches growing poorly, we need to artificially supplement the rose with some fertilizer. For growing branches and leaves, nitrogen is needed. We can use a nutrient solution high in nitrogen, once every 10 days, to encourage the small seedling's shoot buds to sprout vigorously, so the seedling grows fast with lush branches and leaves.

Once there are enough branches, we are one step closer to a mass bloom. At this point not every branch is capable of flowering. To produce good flowers, we can properly prune away diseased and weak branches, leggy branches, thin branches and so on, concentrating nutrients for the main flowering branches. Only then will the rose bloom abundantly and with large flowers.

The rose is a heavy feeder. If we want it to bloom obediently, we must feed it well. Before flowering, we can use a nutrient solution high in phosphorus, watering once every 10 days, to promote bud formation, so the buds are large and plump, not prone to dropping, and will not stay tightly closed and fail to open. Once the rose is well fed, it naturally blooms nonstop, with large and vivid flowers.

Keeping a rose alive is easy, but to grow one well still takes some care. If your rose also has the problem of few flowers, you can start from these aspects.

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