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A Detailed Guide to Night-Blooming Jasmine Planting Methods and Key Technical Points

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Night-blooming jasmine (Cestrum nocturnum), also called night-blooming jasmine, night-fragrant flower, night-glow flower, woody night-blooming jasmine, or night clove. It is native to tropical America and the West Indies. Its leaves are heart-shaped, with fine hairs along the edges. Every summer and autumn, clusters of yellow-green bell-shaped small flowers open in the leaf axils. When the moon rises above the treetops, it sends out wave after wave of delicate fragrance, and this scent frightens mosquitoes, making it an excellent mosquito repellent. The night-blooming jasmine has slender branches and blooms in summer and autumn; its yellow-green flowers open in the evening and release a strong, pungent fragrance. In the south it is often used to decorate courtyards, windowsides, pond edges and pavilion sides.

Selecting cuttings

Choose branches that are robust and free of pests and diseases. On the same plant, choose current-year middle and upper sun-facing branches, with shorter internodes, thick and strong stems and leaves, and plump buds. Do not use branches that are about to flower or spindly overgrowth shoots.

Selecting the substrate
Mix peat soil, leaf mold and sand at a ratio of 3:3:4. The resulting bed soil has the characteristics of raising bed temperature, retaining water, allowing air circulation, being fertile and slightly acidic, and is suitable for branch rooting and sprouting.
Treating the cuttings

Before cutting, treat the cuttings with agents such as ABT rooting powder to promote rooting. Cut the cuttings into 8 cm to 12 cm sections, each with 2 to 3 buds. The cut at the lower part of the cutting should be 0.5 cm below a node, and the cut should be smooth. Remove the lower leaves, keeping only the top 2 to 3 leaves. The insertion depth is generally about 3 cm.

How to produce a strong fragrance:


    It is suitable for potted ornamental display. Because of its rich fragrance, it has a mosquito-repelling effect at night, but it should not be placed indoors during the flowering period. It likes warmth, is not cold-tolerant, likes sunlight, is not shade-tolerant, and prefers loose, fertile soil with good drainage.


    To make it bloom more and have a strong fragrance, pruning, fertilizing, watering and other tasks must be done well. Night clove branches grow vigorously; if allowed to grow naturally, they can grow about 1 m tall in a year.


    Therefore, it needs to be pruned every year to promote more side branches and more flowers. Pruning is generally done in late autumn, leaving each side branch about 10~12 cm long.


    In northern regions, repot before moving it outdoors in mid-to-late April, and after moving outdoors place it in a sunny spot. About half a month after the new shoots sprout, apply dilute cake fertilizer water once. For regular watering, it is best to keep the pot soil moist at all times.


    In the hot summer season, watering must be sufficient; do not let it suffer drought, but the pot must not hold standing water. Move it indoors before Frost's Descent, and the room temperature must be kept above 5C for it to overwinter safely.





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