Not Removing Spent Flowers After They Fade Has Serious Consequences - It's Not Too Late to Learn Now

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In the process of growing flowers, many flower lovers only want to admire the beautiful blooms and hope the potted plants will flower for longer, yet they never remove the spent flowers. In fact, not removing spent flowers has a huge impact on plants.

You might say that plants in nature all bloom and set seed without anyone removing their spent flowers, so why should potted plants have their spent flowers removed?

Plants in nature bloom and set seed to reproduce the next generation, while we grow potted plants for ornamental purposes. When you are not collecting seeds, in order to let potted plants reach a better state, bloom more and bloom longer, you need to remove the spent flowers promptly!

Let's take a look at why spent flowers should be removed.

1. To promote the next flower to bloom as soon as possible. Anyone who has grown roses (monthly roses) should have felt this: when a rose flower fades, whether you promptly cut off the spent flower or not makes a difference to when the next flower blooms, and the flower size differs too.

If you do not cut off the spent flower, it will keep consuming resources and may even develop fruit, with everything prioritizing the spent flower, so the nutrients for the later buds get shared out,Cutting off the spent flower promptly concentrates the nutrients for the buds waiting to open, which can make them bloom earlier.

2. To promote a second bloom. For some shrub flowers,promptly removing spent flowers can also promote the formation of a second round of flowers.

Take roses again as an example: if the spent rose flowers are not cut off, the buds on the branches will sprout relatively late, the second round of flowers will bloom later, and the flowers will be smaller.

Promptly cutting off spent flowers can stimulate the growth of new branches and produce new buds. Since the spent flowers are removed in time, nutrient waste is also avoided, and the second round of flowers can still bloom fairly well.

Another example is some herbaceous flower varieties, such as petunias. After the first round of flowers, if the spent flowers are not removed in time, they will set seed, which not only inhibits the growth of the second round of flowers but also consumes a large amount of nutrients.

Link: https://www.zhihu.com/question/31097469/answer/225592103

Source: Zhihu

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If spent flowers can be removed in time, excessive nutrient consumption can be avoided, and secondary growth and reblooming can also be promoted.

3. To accumulate nutrients for next year's bloom. For some varieties that can only bloom once a year, spent flowers also need to be removed in time.Although after removing the spent flowers the plant cannot bloom again that same year, it can save a lot of nutrients and prepare for next year's bloom.

You should know that if the plant consumes too much because of flowering and fruiting, it can easily become weak and affect the next bloom.

Having said all this, do you understand the importance of removing spent flowers? It should be noted that removing spent flowers is different from pruning: when removing spent flowers, remove only the flowers, not the leaves,Leaves are used by plants for photosynthesis to make nutrients, so do not remove leaves casually.