How do you care for petunias? Master these few tricks and your balcony will be covered in big flower balls

A pot brimming with petunia flowers - I believe many flower lovers have no resistance to something like this, so whenever they see a pot like this they want to take it home, thinking it is easy to grow, but some people then find that their own plants do not bloom nearly as well as they imagined. So today, Huahua will teach you how to get petunias to fill an entire pot with blooms!

First of all, if you want petunias to explode into a full pot, you must give them plenty of sunlight, because the more sunshine they get, the more flowers they produce, and the prettier those flowers are. Conversely, their flowers will be smaller and fewer!

So when growing them, place them on a balcony with ample light, and also turn the pot regularly so the light hits them more evenly. At the same time, we should keep up with watering to keep the soil moist, but remember not to let too much water accumulate and cause waterlogging, so we should use soil with good air permeability.

Besides this, another very important operation is pruning, because for petunias, shape matters a lot, which shows how important cutting the branches is. When we prune, we generally cut off a section of the topmost branches and leaves, so that many side branches will grow out from the sides, and later they will grow more and more lush.

If we are not careful with our care, it is easy for the plant to grow crooked, which makes the flowers it produces sparse and scattered. At this point, besides increasing light, what we should do even more is prune, cutting off the extra growth so it can retain more nutrients, and most importantly, new branches will soon grow out.

The stems we cut off should not be wasted either - they can be used for cuttings. Note that the stems should be healthy and free of insects, and as for the soil, ordinary nutrient soil will do.

Because the stems of this kind of petunia are rather soft, we had best first poke a hole in the soil with a wooden stick, and then insert the stem into it. At the same time, we should also remember to water it, so that in about half a month new roots can grow from the bottom of the stem.