How to cultivate Prunus mume in potted plants: methods and matters needing attention

Chinese wax plum is also known as golden plum, wax plum, wax flower and yellow plum blossom. Wax plum blossoms can bloom alone in the cold wind, tenaciously compete with the cold winter, no matter how cold the weather is, still graceful, emitting a charming fragrance, to bring a little different color to the withered winter, so today I will introduce to you how to raise potted plum blossoms.

How to raise potted plum blossoms

1. Pruning at the right time: through pruning at the right time, it can sprout more strong flower branches and make them bloom more. It is generally appropriate to prune the withered branches, overdense branches, cross branches, disease and insect branches, and leave 2 to 3 pairs of buds at the base of the annual branches, and cut off the upper branches to promote the germination and branching.

2. Timely fertilization: Wintersweet is a fertilizer-loving flower. Timely fertilization can promote flower bud differentiation and blossom more. For potted Chimonanthus praecox, because the potted soil is limited, the soil should be high in humus, loose and aerated sandy soil.

3. Proper watering: Chimonanthus chinensis is resistant to drought and waterlogging, such as too high moisture, too moist soil, poor plant growth, affecting flower bud differentiation. Therefore, potted Chimonanthus chinensis should keep the soil dry, usually not dry, watering thoroughly, but more watering in high temperature season to maintain normal plant growth and normal development of flower buds.

Culture methods and matters needing attention of preserved plum

Culture methods:

1. Ground planting: the planting of Chinese plum should be in the leeward and sunny place, the transplanting time is mostly in winter and spring, and the root of the seedling must take soil mass. Before planting, apply enough manure, barnyard manure or rotten bean cake as base fertilizer in the planting hole. After applying the base fertilizer, cover the fertilizer with a thin layer of soil, and then put the seedlings to fill the soil. After planting, it should be watered and pruned properly.

2. Potted plum should be cultivated in loose, fertile and humus-rich sandy loam. After putting on the basin, pour water in time, put it under the shade shed and slow the seedling for about a month, and then keep it in the courtyard or on the balcony where there is plenty of sunshine for maintenance.

Note:

1. Fertilization

The management of dried plum can be more extensive. In general, liquid fertilizer is applied every 20 days from June to September every year (bone meal and cake fertilizer can be used to soak in water and apply after full maturity), which can ensure the good development of branches, leaves and flower buds.

Potted wax plum, usually should often be fertilized, in order to promote its formation of a large number of buds, otherwise flowering is rare. Generally, mature cake fertilizer and water are applied every 7 days between May and June every year, and the ratio of fertilizer to water can be matched by 3:10. The flower bud formation period of Prunus mume is from July to August, and fertilization can be done every 15-20 days, and the concentration of fertilizer and water should be dilute, and the ratio of fertilizer and water should be 1:5. This is conducive to flower bud differentiation. The fertilizer must be fully rotten, or the roots will rot. Apply dry cake fertilizer again after autumn to meet the nutrient needs of flowering. After the beginning of winter, it is necessary to make the pot soil dry and no longer apply fertilizer, otherwise the florescence will be shortened.

2. Watering

The ground-planted Lamei was watered once before the early winter, fertilized once after the flowers faded, and watered once, usually not watered, but only properly watered when the weather was too dry.

Potted wax plum watering should grasp the principle of dry re-watering, not more watering, pot soil should not be too wet; but also should not be too dry, too dry will lead to irregular blossoms.

3. Temperature and light

Potted preserved plum was moved indoors in December. If the room temperature is high, it can blossom before New Year's Day, but if the room temperature is low, the florescence can be delayed until around the Spring Festival. After flowering, it should be moved to a shady place to prevent premature drawing of new shoots and leaves, affecting flower bud differentiation and disadvantageous to flowering in the coming year.

How to prune the plum blossom

Wax plum germination is strong, after flowering should be pruned in time, generally cut off more than 20 cm part of the flower branch, and cut the elongated branch of the previous year, leaving 1-2 pairs of buds. In this way, nutrients can be concentrated on new shoots and create favorable conditions for outstanding and large flowers the following year.

Is the wax plum blossom suitable for indoor use?

If the plum blossom is put indoors, it is not harmful to the air, but if people are allergic to the fragrance of the plum blossom, it is a different matter. In addition, plum blossom is not suitable for indoor cultivation, plum blossom sex like the sun, in sunny places will grow better.

There are thousands of kinds of flowers, but in winter, the most charming is the sweet plum blossom in the cold wind, yellow petals, particularly crystal clear, thin stamens, especially pitiful, more concerned about her nobility, her tenacity, her uniqueness.