Kalanchoe blooming sparsely? Add a double-ingredient fragrant fertilizer to the pot and flower buds will cover the branches in 40 days at the latest

As people's living standards rise, more and more people have fallen in love with growing flowers. You could say we have now entered an era of flower growing for all, with almost 98% of people placing a few pots of flowers at home. Foliage plants like pothos, spider plants and snake plants can be grown from south to north, but when it comes to flowering potted plants, especially those that bloom in autumn and winter, none can compare with kalanchoe. Kalanchoe has thick, succulent leaves, a wide range of varieties, rich flower colors, is easy to care for and carries an auspicious meaning, so it is loved by many people. Many people love it, yet some flower lovers still fail to grow kalanchoe well. Many kalanchoes people grow have lush leaves but simply will not bloom, or produce only a few flowers. So if we want kalanchoe to bloom more, what should we do?

This is the topic we are sharing today:

Want kalanchoe to bloom more? Add a "double-ingredient" fragrant fertilizer to the pot, and flower buds will cover the branches in 40 days at the latest!

We hope this helps you grow kalanchoe well.

In fact, to make kalanchoe bloom more, you need to pay attention to three points

1. Fertilizer must be appropriate.

2. Light must be moderate

3. Watering must be moderate

Among these three points, the most important is the issue of fertilizing. To fertilize kalanchoe, you need to do this: apply sufficient base fertilizer at the bottom of the pot. Here, Xiaohua shares with everyone a homemade double-ingredient fragrant fertilizer. The method is as follows:

Collect eggshells and banana peels from home, and prepare them separately as follows:

Wash the egg liquid off the eggshells clean, put them in the sun to bake for about 7 days, then crush them and put them into a large plastic bottle. At this point we can add some white vinegar, stir well, cover with the lid, and seal to ferment for about 20 days. White vinegar can speed up the decomposition of the eggshells.

Collect an appropriate amount of banana peels and put them in the oven for a few minutes, until the fragrance comes out. Then take out the baked banana peels and put them in the sun to bake for about 10 days, making banana peel powder.

Then you can mix the fermented eggshells and banana peels together. Find a large flower pot, first put a layer of garden soil in it, pour in a layer of the double-ingredient powder, then a layer of garden soil, and so on. Fill the small flower pot, spraying water once after each layer is laid, not too much, just moist. Finally seal the opening with a plastic bag and put it in the sun to bake. It will finish fermenting in about 30 days, and a nutrient-rich double-ingredient fragrant fertilizer is made. Whether mixed with garden soil to grow kalanchoe directly or used as a top dressing for kalanchoe, it can achieve especially good results!

The second point is watering

Because kalanchoe has thick, fleshy leaves with a strong water-storage capacity, it does not need much watering, nor does it need much water during the growing season. It is suggested that flower lovers water once every 5-7 days. Summer is its dormant period, so even less watering is needed; you can frequently spray water on its leaves. The potting soil is best kept moist but on the dry side.

During the flowering period, to encourage more blooms, you can control water appropriately and spray 1-2 times with a 0.3% monopotassium phosphate solution, which can make flower buds appear earlier.

The third point is light

For home care, kalanchoe needs to be placed in a sunny spot, but in summer it needs shade. Generally, ensuring 8-9 hours of light per day is enough. Especially when the flowering period arrives, its light must be controlled even more: give it at most only 8 hours of light per day, and keep it in a dark little room the rest of the time.

With this kind of care, when the flowering period arrives, kalanchoe will generally be covered with flower buds in 20-30 days, and at the latest 40 days.

Regarding kalanchoe care, flower lovers should also note that pinching is needed during the growing season, and spent flowers should be pruned promptly after blooming. Only in this way can the consumption of nutrients be reduced, encouraging it to produce more branches and more flowers.

Flower lovers, no matter what kind of flower you grow, it requires dedication. Only with dedication can you grow flowers well. That is all for today's sharing. Thank you for reading, and we hope you like it!