How many days should gardenia be watered?

Gardenia is one of the famous flowers, also known as yellow gardenia, mountain gardenia, etc., with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, raising flowers has become an indispensable part of people's life. Gardenia is a relatively wide range of flowers among many flowers. but many people do not know how to water gardenia, let's take a look at gardenia a few days to water it!

How many days should gardenia be watered?

Gardenia watering every few days is not necessarily, because the climate of different parts of our country is very different, for gardenia watering should be based on their own actual situation. In spring, water is usually watered every three days, and water is sprinkled around potted flowers every morning and evening to improve air humidity. Summer after the hot weather, less watering in the morning, watering thoroughly after two o'clock in the afternoon, with soft water irrigation is appropriate, because the hard water contains more calcium, magnesium salts, which is very disadvantageous to the growth of gardenia, light branches and leaves turn yellow, heavy die quickly. Winter should be controlled watering, do not dry do not water, long-term water content is too much, easy to cause rotten root death.

What will happen to gardenia watering discomfort?

1. Too much watering: too much watering of gardenia flowers will lead to dark yellow and no luster of young leaves, no obvious change of old leaves, small yellow-green branches, and atrophy of new shoots. At this time, put the flowers out of the pot in a ventilated, cool, self-drying soil mass and then put them back into the basin.

2, too dry: gardenia is too dry and too much watering is not the same, when the leaf tip or edge is too dry, the old leaves are withered and yellow from the bottom up, but the growth of new leaves is relatively normal, pay attention to watering enough and thoroughly at this time.

How to cultivate gardenia?

1. Potted soil: gardenia is an indicator flower in acidic soil, and the suitable pH value is 5 to 6. Cultivation soil can choose rotten leaf soil, peat soil or retting sawdust plus half of the garden soil, avoid using old wall soil and cinder, with the market of gentleman orchid soil is more convenient and practical.

2. Watering: gardenia likes moist soil and large air humidity. Keep the basin soil moist during the growth period from April to September. Usually the basin soil can be watered once it turns white. However, after the flower budding, watering should not be too much, so as not to cause bud drop.

3. Fertilization: gardenia is a fertilizer-loving plant. The cultivated soil is supplemented with 3% rotten cake fertilizer as base fertilizer, and the alum fertilizer made by cake fertilizer and ferrous sulfate retting is watered once a week during the growing season. 0.1% potassium dihydrogen phosphate aqueous solution can make the flowers hypertrophic and fragrant.

4. Illumination: gardenia flowers like light and can grow in semi-shade for a long time, but the flower branches are longer and the flowers are less. Except for the strong light from July to August noon and the dormant period in winter, gardenia generally need to be maintained in the sun in order to blossom and flourish.

5. Pruning: gardenia is trimmed lightly after flowering every year, cutting off internal bore branches, diseased and weak branches, and individual long branches are truncated. But remember that gardenia can not be cut short in spring, otherwise it will not blossom in that year.

6. Change the soil: it is better to change the soil in March in spring. Cut off part of the old root after pouring the pot, shake off half of the old soil, pour water after planting in the pot with new soil, put it in a warm semi-shady place, and keep it in the sun when new buds sprout.

7. Overwintering: gardenia can overwinter in the open field in Qinling Mountains of China, but the roots of potted gardenias will be damaged after severe winter. potted flowers can be put in a cold room of about 5 ℃ to make them dormant, protect their roots, and overwinter in leeward and sunny places. Spring recovers quickly and blooms early.