How Does Night-Blooming Jasmine Safely Overwinter? Detailed Winter Care Tips
Night-blooming jasmine (Cestrum nocturnum) is a flowering plant variety with extremely high ornamental value, especially when its flowers are in full bloom, twinkling like a sky full of stars. That is why many home gardening enthusiasts love to grow it. But in the process of growing night-blooming jasmine, quite a few flower lovers have surely encountered the situation where the weather turns cold in late autumn and the plant dies before winter even arrives. Below, the editor of Huinong Network will explain in detail the winter care methods for night-blooming jasmine and how to get it through the winter, so let's learn together.
1. Water appropriately
If you want to care for night-blooming jasmine in winter, you must have a certain understanding and control when it comes to watering. In winter, it is best to water night-blooming jasmine once a day, and winter care must keep the potting soil moist. It is acceptable for it to dry out completely, but do not let it get too wet. Because winter is cold, we only need to water a little.
2. Plenty of sunlight
When caring for night-blooming jasmine in winter, you must ensure there is plenty of sunlight, and the temperature must stay above 15°C, because winter is relatively cold and night-blooming jasmine needs sunlight very much. Sunlight can bring warmth to night-blooming jasmine and prevent its roots from freezing or suffering cold damage, so in winter we can place it under the balcony every day for care.
3. Stop fertilizing
When we care for night-blooming jasmine during normal periods, we only need to ensure it absorbs sufficient nutrients, so we need to apply fertilizer once every half month. But once winter arrives, it becomes a special period, and at this time we must pay attention to stopping fertilization immediately, because doing so could very likely cause root burn in night-blooming jasmine, so do not fertilize in winter.
4. Repotting and rotating the pot
After night-blooming jasmine has been grown for some time, the soil in the pot must be replaced, because night-blooming jasmine absorbs soil nutrients fairly quickly. So repotting in time can ensure that night-blooming jasmine has sufficient nutrients to absorb, and during care the pot must be rotated appropriately. If it faces the sun in one spot for a long time, the plant will grow crooked, which greatly affects its appearance.
The above are the 4 key winter care points for getting night-blooming jasmine safely through winter, compiled by the editor of Huinong Network. Winter is a testing season for many flowers, so flower lovers must follow the above steps and care for them patiently. If night-blooming jasmine can be successfully grown through the winter, I believe next year its flowers will bloom even more brilliantly!
Care of Night-Blooming Jasmine Flowers
Floral Bonsai Network Flower Care Column: Care of Night-Blooming Jasmine Flowers
Night-blooming jasmine belongs to the Solanaceae family and is an evergreen shrub. It is also known as night fragrant flower and night orchid fragrance. Whenever the flowering season comes, it closes its flowers during the day, and only when the sun sets in the west and the sky darkens does it open its petals and release a refreshing fragrance.
Night-blooming jasmine likes to grow in an environment with plenty of sunlight and good ventilation, so it is very suitable for cultivation on a balcony. Potted night-blooming jasmine can overwinter outdoors in the south, but in the north it must be moved indoors. If it drops its leaves because the indoor temperature is too low, there is no need to worry; when spring comes the following year, it will still send out new shoots. The flowering period of night-blooming jasmine runs from June to November, with the most abundant blooming in the height of summer. Night-blooming jasmine has a particularly strong fragrance. If a pot is placed indoors in summer, mosquitoes and insects will flee one after another.
Every spring, night-blooming jasmine should be repotted with fresh soil and given sufficient base fertilizer. During the growth period, apply some dilute liquid fertilizer regularly. The branches and leaves of night-blooming jasmine grow very quickly and are also very dense, so overly dense branches should be pruned to facilitate the growth of new branches.
Night-blooming jasmine is generally propagated by cuttings, and after the young plants survive, they should be potted in time. The growing medium can be a mix of 4 parts garden soil, 4 parts horse manure, and 2 parts river sand. After the young plants are potted, they must be watered thoroughly, kept indoors for a week, and then moved to a sunny place for care. Young plants potted in June can bloom in August to September if cared for properly.
How to Propagate Tuberose by Division and How Tuberose Should Overwinter
Tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa) is also known as night-blooming jasmine and incense of the moon, but it must be distinguished from what people commonly call night-blooming jasmine, even though the flowers of both are white and both give off a strong fragrance at night. Tuberose belongs to the Amaryllidaceae family and is a perennial bulbous herbaceous flower, with spicate flower clusters borne terminally, each spike bearing 12 to 32 flowers, the flowers having 6 lobes, and the scape upright; night-blooming jasmine is a vine-like shrub with weak branchlets and a corolla with 5 lobes, so the most direct and simple way to tell them apart is by counting the petals.
Mature tuberose plants are about 40-90 cm tall. Because of its strong fragrance, slender flower stems, soft lines, and the ease of planting and flowering regulation, it is one of the very important cut flowers and is often used as a filler flower. But its fragrance is rather intense, so try not to place it in a bedroom or a poorly ventilated room.
Propagation Methods of Tuberose
Generally, division propagation is used in March to April. Before potting, take out the bulbs and soak them for 1 day before planting, so they can fully absorb water and sprout more easily. When planting, those that can bloom that year and those that cannot must be planted separately, so as not to affect management and flowering. Both field planting and pot planting must be given sufficient base fertilizer. For pot planting, a slightly larger pot is suitable, with 3-5 bulbs planted per pot; when planting, plant large bulbs shallowly, exposing the top bud portion of the bulb, and plant small bulbs deeply, exposing only the bud tip of the bulb. Keep the soil at half moisture and place in a sunny spot.
Winter Care of Tuberose
In winter, after frost, the stems and leaves stop growing. Before the ground freezes, dig out the bulbs, cut off the upper stems and leaves and the lower fibrous roots, dry them thoroughly in a frost-protected place, then choose a dry spot and cover with soil to overwinter; to prevent freezing and rotting, cover with dead leaves, dry grass, horse manure, or similar materials, and dig them out in April for separate planting. If the aboveground stems are taller than 60 cm, it is advisable to set up supports.