Christmas cactus and snake plant hide little tricks; once you unlock them, new shoots sprout like crazy and flowers bloom into a sea

Usually when we grow flowers, we always follow routine steps like watering and fertilizing, but in fact many flowers have their own growth characteristics. If you can do a small thing targeted at their characteristics and unlock their little growth tricks, new shoots will shoot up quickly and flower buds will keep appearing. Let's take a look together!

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Little tricks for growing flowers

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- Christmas cactus -

Some gardeners' Christmas cacti grow for a long time with only a few lonely branches, while some gardeners, even with just a small pot, have branches and buds bursting all over the pot. The reason is that some gardeners know how to unlock the "little switch" of the Christmas cactus, making them grow like crazy.

The Christmas cactus grows relatively fast. During cultivation, when it grows to the 4th segment, you can snap off the 4th segment leaf. The bud points left by snapping it off will grow many tender little shoots. Don't be greedy; keep 2-3 young shoots. When the young shoots again grow to 4 leaves, continue snapping off the 4th leaf and continue keeping 2-3 young shoots. In this way, many new branches can grow, and more flowers will bloom too.

When the Christmas cactus is in the bud-setting stage, multiple flower buds often sit at the top of the same branch at the same time, and the buds compete for nutrients with each other. At this time, some buds should be snapped off, keeping one bud per stem segment. This can avoid bud drop caused by insufficient nutrient supply and also unify the flowering period to achieve the best ornamental effect.

After the Christmas cactus has grown flower buds, if there are still newly sprouted tender shoots from that year, they should be removed in time; otherwise they will divert the Christmas cactus's nutrients and cannot guarantee sufficient nutrient supply for the flowers.

- Snake plant -

Many gardeners' snake plants not only grow slowly, but also do not send up a single new shoot in a year, which is worrying to look at. In fact, besides needing loose, breathable potting soil and appropriate water and fertilizer, there is also a little trick, and it is at the roots.

Most snake plants are relatively tall, so many gardeners choose deep pots when growing them. The bottom often gets no light at the bottom of the pot and is also very stuffy, which is not good for the snake plant's sprouting and also makes root rot easy. Generally speaking, snake plants should not be planted too deep. Also, snake plants have weak roots and do not have high water requirements; deep pots themselves easily accumulate water and cause root rot.

For snake plants that have already been planted, you can dig away some of the potting soil on the surface of the pot to expose 2-3 cm of the root system, then care for them normally. After about a month, many small shoots will grow. After the small shoots have grown to a certain height, you can fill back some potting soil to prevent the snake plant from leaning.

The small shoots of the snake plant can quickly grow up, and it is so beautiful when they grow into a full, large pot!

- Rose -

There is no need to say how beautiful roses are, but if they are always just a few lonely stems in the pot, their growth compared with other people's is much worse, not to mention fewer flowers, with many fewer branches and leaves too. What should be done? The solution is very simple. Let's take a look at how to unlock the little trick in roses.

You can horizontally train the rose branches. If you want the rose to have more branches, horizontally training the main branches is a good method. Horizontally training the rose's main branches means moving the highest point of the branch close to the root, with the branch parallel to the ground, which can simultaneously stimulate more bud points to sprout and grow more branches. To horizontally fix the rose's branches, just tie them with string and fix them horizontally to the ground.

When roses experience unsuitable light, temperature or nutrition, blind buds and blind branches appear. They stop growing after reaching a certain point, halting abruptly at the top, neither growing nor blooming. Blind branches not only compete for nutrients, but also cause poor ventilation in the plant, giving pathogens an opportunity. So they generally should be pruned off, allocating nutrients to branches with better growing conditions.

By increasing new shoots and dealing with blind buds, you activate the rose's little growth trick, grow more branches, and with proper fertilizer and water, it can soon bloom all over the pot!

- Cactus ball -

Many gardeners grow cactus balls and always want them to burst with lots of little pups, but they find the cactus ball just will not cooperate and not a single one appears. In fact, we can activate the cactus ball's little trick by damaging its growth point, making the cactus ball burst with little pups like crazy.

The method is very simple: cut the cactus ball horizontally with one cut, just cutting off the bud point at the top, then sprinkle some carbendazim powder to prevent infection, and it will soon grow many little balls.

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