Why is your Desert Rose not blooming? Read on and you'll understand

How many years does a Desert Rose need before it blooms? Actually, a Desert Rose grown from seed takes about a year or so to bloom, but there is one prerequisite: it must have sufficient light and phosphorus-potassium fertilizer to bloom.

These days many gardening enthusiasts sow Desert Rose seeds. That's because growing from seed is relatively cheap, and Desert Rose seeds have a very high germination rate. From sowing to blooming, if you sow in spring and care for it well, it can bloom by autumn. But it must have completely sufficient fertilizer, water and light, and its plant must have grown large enough. Even if it blooms late, as long as its care condition is normal, it will bloom within a year and a half at most.

Generally, the large Desert Roses we buy from the market can bloom directly, and many of them are grafted. They can all bloom directly. The reason yours doesn't bloom for a long time after you buy it, sometimes even for a year or two, is mainly that your care hasn't met the conditions for blooming. For a Desert Rose to bloom, there is one prerequisite: the light must be very sufficient. If your light is even slightly weak, it will just grow branches and not bloom, because its demand for light is extremely high. This is easy to understand, because the desert is its native habitat. In the desert, the light is extremely abundant. To reproduce, it must bloom and set seeds. What are the light conditions in the desert like? Everyone should know. So to get it to bloom, you must give it sufficient light.

Another thing is to give it sufficient fertilizer. In spring, use a multi-element mixed fertilizer mainly containing phosphorus and potassium to supplement it; once or twice a month is fine. Mix it in each time you water, then water it with it. Don't make the concentration too high; make it as low as possible, because the Desert Rose's roots are very sensitive to water and fertilizer. Once you water it with water and fertilizer, it can quickly absorb enough and store it in its caudex, which is also a self-protection instinct it developed in the desert. If the concentration is too high, it will absorb too much, which can lead to root rot or scorched leaves, so you must use diluted fertilizer. Only by keeping up with fertilizer and light this way can you get it to bloom.

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