How to prune the branches and leaves of cloves and how to cut cloves

Lilac flowers are not only elegant and refined, but also accompanied by bursts of freshness, which is pleasing to the eye and refreshing. Many people like to raise lilac potted plants at home, which are used to decorate the room or balcony, but lilac farming also requires skill. Let's take a look at how lilacs are trimmed and maintained with the editor.

How to prune the branches and leaves of lilac

1. Thinning cut

The degree of thinning is strong, mainly in order to maintain the tree shape and growth momentum of cloves, which is conducive to the growth and flowering of the second year. Thinning should be carried out after the defoliation every year, mainly to cut off the disease and insect branches, dead branches, weak branches, inner bore branches, overlapping branches, long branches, etc., which affect the growth and beauty; the small lateral branches in the lower part of the main branch need to be cut off; the aging branches should also be cut off to maintain a uniform gap between the main branches and be dense and moderate.

2. Truncation

Short cutting is light pruning, mainly pruning plants that do not need to leave seeds, thinning the branches that are too dense in the inner chamber, increasing ventilation and light transmittance, and accelerating the germination of new branches and the formation of flower buds. The inflorescences of cloves are planted at the top of branches and differentiate from terminal buds into flower buds, so they should not be truncated after flowering (except for cutting flowers) and should not be pruned until the flowers are withered. When inflorescences begin to wither in late spring and early summer every year, if there are no seeds left, the residual flowers together with the two buds in the lower part of the spike can be cut off to reduce nutrient consumption. If the plants with residual flowers are not cut off, the number of flowers will be greatly reduced in the second year, or even unable to blossom.

3. Cut flowers

The ornamental effect of cloves is excellent, and it is an important cut flower raised in indoor bottle. When cutting flower branches, you must cut them close to the side branches below, do not climb and break them by hand, and leave fewer stumps. An adult clump of cloves can provide a large number of cut flowers every spring, but when cutting cut flowers from young cloves that bloom for the first time, the number should not be too large, otherwise it will affect the growth of young trees.

How to cut cloves

1. The length of the branch we use is about fifteen centimeters. First of all, we have to cut off the leaves below it, leaving only one or two leaves at the top.

2. After that, the matrix is soaked in indole acetic acid, the concentration is 100mg/L, and the time is eight to twelve hours. The main purpose of this thing is to ensure its rooting rate, after adding it, the probability will reach about 80%.

3. After that, take it out and wash off its cuttings with clean water.

4. If it is a twig, we can insert it directly into the hotbed. It will directly take root and sprout into a new plant. Generally, it will take root in about a month at 25 degrees Celsius. When the root changes from white to yellowish brown, we can transplant it.

5. If we use hardwood, we basically insert it into the seedbed and then cover it for a shade. It will take about 50 days to take root. This planting is usually the next spring.

How to fertilize cloves

First of all, the planting soil of cloves requires fertile, loose, good drainage, and there are enough nutrients in the soil to meet the growth needs of cloves. In the growth process of cloves should be timely topdressing, cloves do not like big fertilizer, too much fertilization will cause branches and leaves to grow, flower buds are difficult to form because of lack of nutrients, resulting in reduced flowering, so fertilization is very important.

Cloves should supplement nutrients in time after flowering to promote plant recovery, appropriate supplement of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, usually about 75g of phosphorus and potassium per plant, 25g of nitrogen fertilizer, pay attention to not excessive nitrogen fertilizer, otherwise it will affect the flowering of the second year.

In addition, generally every year or every other year, it is necessary to apply rotten compost before winter to replenish the nutrients in the soil and let the cloves survive the winter safely.

Matters needing attention in lilac culture

First of all, clove culture should be maintained from its infancy, and the wind protection should be done during the period of clove seedlings. Bamboo can be used to fix the trunk of clove plants to reduce the damage caused by shaking.

The second is weeding: weeding is carried out from July to October every year to get rid of the grass around the clove plant, but do not throw away the grass, cover the grass over the plant, you can make green manure.

After the seedlings grow into large seedlings, they can be pruned properly and cut from 30 centimeters above the ground, which contributes to the growth of branches and luxuriant branches and leaves.

Finally, the growth environment: cloves like sunshine, moist, but drought-resistant, so watering should not be too much, but in the relatively dry spring, they can be watered once during bud germination and flowering to store enough water.

Requires fertile, good drainage of sandy soil, cloves do not like big fertilizer, so do not need more fertilization, otherwise affect flowering.

The flowering and growth of cloves still need to turn the pot and change the new soil every 3 years or so. When turning the basin, the root system should be trimmed to remove the long root and the old root.

Through the above content, I believe you have a certain understanding of the maintenance methods of lilac. If you like to cultivate flowers, you might as well cultivate a pot of lilac at home. Every time it blossoms, it is beautiful and fragrant, which makes people feel happy.