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Gardenia 3 months to become old pile, strong leaves and green flowers full of branches, no matter how much money to sell!

Published: 2024-09-19 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/09/19, When Huahua went to a friend's house to play during the holiday, I saw that there was a gardenia bonsai in his house. I only knew after asking that the gardenia potted plant that had been raised for only 3 months could be turned into an old pile bonsai. Huahua who has asked the great god for advice must share his experience with everyone!

How does gardenia pot grow old pile bonsai?

1. Plant depotting

Choose a healthy gardenia, trim the excess branches and leaves, then peel it out of the flowerpot, gently shake off the soil, and be careful not to hurt the roots.

2. Washing and pruning roots

Gently wash the roots with running water, after washing, cut off rotten roots and diseased roots, especially those with root nematodes, and retain fibrous roots and fine roots.

3. Disinfection

The pruned roots were soaked in potassium permanganate solution diluted 500 to 1000 times for 2 to 3 hours.

4. Matching soil

The slightly acidic sandy soil red soil, humus soil, coarse sand mixed at 7:2:1 to prepare basin soil, luxury can use red jade soil mixed with a little garden soil.

5. Upper pot colonization

Put the plant into the basin, not too deep, be careful not to nest the root, cultivate the soil and pour water once, and then slow down the seedlings in a cool place.

6. Post-anthesis plastic surgery

Gardenia bonsai has many styles, such as straight dry type, curved dry type, oblique dry type, cliff type and so on. After flowering or dormant period, you can use brown wire, aluminum wire and other materials to bend the sturdy branches, increase the shape, and trim the overdense twigs and weak branches.

How to maintain gardenia bonsai in summer?

1. Lighting

Gardenia does not like strong light, when the summer temperature is too high, it should be properly shaded, put in the indoor scattered light, and keep ventilated.

2. Watering

Gardenia likes to be wet, water evaporates quickly in summer, and water is watered once every morning and evening. If the basin soil has poor air permeability, it can be irrigated once every two days. Spray to the leaves every day to maintain high air humidity.

3. Fertilization

Gardenia like fertilizer, the growth season every half a month or so to apply mature cake fertilizer water, high temperature weather to reduce fertilization, when the temperature exceeds 35 degrees to stop fertilizer.

4. Change the basin

Bonsai gardenia should turn the basin and change the soil every 2 ~ 3 years, and the root should be trimmed and reshaped.

Flower friends, in fact, it is very easy to develop old piles.

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