After a ruthless pruning, the flowers burst out 10 shoots at once, unstoppable
Give the cactus a ruthless chop, and baby offshoots come popping out!
My neighbor's cactus had been growing for years, always a single lonely big ball, never producing baby offshoots. I gave her a tip, and from then on the babies kept coming!
1. Prepare a sharp large knife, preferably a kitchen cleaver, and soak it in a carbendazim solution for a while to disinfect it.
2. Use the knife to cut off the upper half of the cactus horizontally; the removed portion is about 1/3-1/2 of the cactus.
3. Put the cactus in a cool, ventilated place to dry for two days. You can apply some carbendazim powder to the cut surface of the base, and some rooting powder to the cut surface of the top part.
4. After drying, place it in a spot with plenty of light and care for it normally, being careful that the cut surface does not come into contact with water. After about 1-2 months, small balls will gradually grow out from the edges of the cut surface.
5. Repot the cut-off top part, or place it on a cup filled with clean water to induce roots. Once white roots grow, repot it, and you've gained another cactus!
Bend the rose over, and the shoots won't stop bursting out!
Many flower lovers, after seeing my earlier recommendation, rushed to buy rose seedlings. But the rose you just got is like a bare commander, truly not much to look at! Considerate me is here with a tip!
1. Horizontal pulling is the best way to make a bare rose burst with shoots. Just bend the rose over 90° and it will stimulate the rose to burst with shoots.
2. When horizontal pulling, you can tie a stone to one end of a rope and tie the other end to the rose branch that needs to be pulled horizontally, keeping the rose at a 90° angle.
3. Horizontal pulling will make the rose lose its apical dominance, and the base will keep bursting with small shoots!
4. Some flower lovers' roses grow very unevenly, with branches on one side but bare on the other. In this case, you can consider the side-pot method.
5. Tilt the rose 45° toward the side with more branches, with the side with fewer branches facing up.
6. In this way, the side with fewer branches will develop apical dominance, burst out quite a few small shoots, and the overall shape of the rose will become fuller.
7. Whether horizontal pulling or side-pot, quite a few small shoots will burst out, but it's recommended to appropriately remove some of the small shoots and keep a few of the thicker ones to reduce nutrient consumption.
Chop the head off a succulent, and the stem bursts with babies!
After a summer of shading, has your succulent grown leggy into a little monster? Although leggy growth can gradually develop into an old stump, many flower lovers still prefer short and plump succulents. Let me teach you the rescue method!
1. The quickest and most effective way to rescue a succulent that has lost its beauty is beheading.
2. Prepare a sharp small knife. After disinfecting it, cut off the head of the succulent. The length of stem to keep depends on your own preference. After cutting, put the succulent in a cool, ventilated place to dry, and do not water for the time being.
3. The weather is relatively cool now. After 2 weeks, you will find that quite a few small shoots have sprouted from the succulent's stem.
4. After the cut-off head dries, you can repot it, or twist off the leaves for leaf propagation.
5. Doing leaf propagation now, small shoots grow quite quickly too. Give the succulent a beheading, and you can harvest a bunch of babies.