How to manage flowers during the White Dew season? These key points you need to master

How should flowers be managed during the White Dew season? Flower management during the White Dew season is especially important. Starting from White Dew, you should begin controlling the amount of water given to flowers to avoid root rot from excess water, and stop fertilizing in time to prevent excessive growth of branches and leaves that would affect overwintering. In addition, you should also control light exposure and prune at the right time. Only in this way can the flowers overwinter better when winter comes. Follow along with the editor below to learn about the precautions for flower management during the White Dew season.

1. Timely light:

Some light-loving woody flowers that bloom in summer, such as jasmine, Chinese hibiscus, and orange jasmine, should still be placed in a sunny place so the flowers receive sufficient light, promoting the maturity of the plant's branches so they can overwinter safely.

Potted flowers that bloom around the Spring Festival, such as azaleas, clivia, cyclamen, poinsettia, and Christmas cactus, should also be placed in a sunny place to receive full sunlight; otherwise, the flowering period may be delayed or they may not bloom.

Generally, foliage plants are more shade-tolerant and can be given appropriate light.

2. Timely water and fertilizer:

Start controlling the amount of water given to flowers at the right time to avoid root rot from excess water, and stop fertilizing in time to prevent excessive fertilizer from causing excessive growth of branches and leaves, which would affect the flowers' overwintering.

Flowers that bloom around the Spring Festival, such as cyclamen, clivia, Christmas cactus, and azaleas, have passed their dormant period and are beginning to enter their peak growing season. Therefore, from autumn until before the Spring Festival bloom, fertilizer and water management should be strengthened, and phosphorus and potassium fertilizer can be appropriately increased to help flower bud formation.

3. Timely pruning:

Except for flowers that bloom in early spring, most flowers such as jasmine, crape myrtle, and pomegranate can be pruned and shaped in autumn to reduce the plant's nutrient consumption in winter, which helps potted flowers bloom more the following year. When pruning, remove diseased branches, dead branches, overly dense branches, and leggy branches to prepare potted flowers for overwintering.

4. Timely propagation:

In autumn, as temperatures gradually drop, some biennial flowers, such as pansy, China pink, cineraria, and hollyhock, are at the perfect time for sowing. After sowing, pay attention to watering to keep the soil moist.

In addition, some woody flowers are suitable for cuttings in autumn, such as Chinese rose, geranium, and jasmine, which have a relatively high survival rate when propagated by cuttings in autumn.

For perennial flowers such as tree peony and Chinese peony, when they grow too densely, they should be divided and propagated promptly.

For flowers that bloom around the Spring Festival, such as hyacinth, tulip, and amaryllis, you should hurry to pot them.

5. Timely moving indoors:

This can be handled separately according to the different varieties of flowers.

Warm-loving flowers and trees such as Chinese hibiscus, poinsettia, begonia, cyclamen, jasmine, coleus, and Swiss cheese plant should be moved indoors when the temperature is 10°C;

Spider plant, cast iron plant, asparagus fern, dwarf umbrella tree, and rubber tree should also be moved indoors when the temperature is 5°C.