How big does a desert rose have to grow before it blooms?

How big does a desert rose actually have to grow before it blooms? You definitely don't know this!

A flower friend asked, at what age does a desert rose bloom? Nobody says a desert rose takes a long time to bloom, right? Because Xiao Qi has grown them for so many years, and in the past always bought seeds and sowed them. After sowing a batch, some of the fast-growing ones bloom in less than a year, and even the late bloomers at the back take at most a little over a year to bloom. So after a desert rose is planted, the time it takes to bloom is very short. You can ask other flower friends who grow a lot of desert roses, and they will absolutely tell you that a desert rose goes from planting to blooming very quickly. As long as you keep up with water and fertilizer, it grows fast, and once it reaches a certain size it immediately blooms. When its caudex is thick and its branches and leaves are lush, it directly puts out flowers and blooms.

So growing a desert rose doesn't take too long. If you are working with a cutting, though, because desert rose cuttings root very slowly, from rooting to the root system developing well, to branches and leaves becoming lush, this period may take two, three years. First of all, when we take desert rose cuttings, from the time they are stuck to the time they root, this takes a certain amount of time, and then getting the root system well developed and then growing lush branches and leaves takes another period of time. Cuttings are not as good as sowing, because the branches we use for desert rose cuttings won't have that big caudex later, just a single stem, and then it grows, and growing lush branches and leaves takes a relatively long time, whereas one grown from seed will have a big caudex, just like the desert roses we buy from the market. The form is nicer.

Once the desert rose's root system has developed well and it has a caudex of a certain size, by supplementing it with phosphorus and potassium fertilizer and giving it sufficient light, letting it see more light, it will naturally put out buds and bloom. Xiao Qi really isn't fooling you. It's easy, it's simple! If you want to try sowing, spend a yuan or two on a few seeds, then sow them and wait for them to bloom. It's really quite nice, very fulfilling.

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