How to make jasmine grow strong and fragrant

Jasmine is one of the typical strong positive flowers, which grows vigorously in the hot summer season and needs to bask in the sun. There is a saying that "sun-immortal jasmine".

If the light is insufficient, the leaves will become bigger and thinner, the leaf color will become light green, the flowers will be few and the aroma will be poor.

Selection of basin

Choose a medium-sized basin mouth with a diameter of 15 to 25 centimeters, generally planting two plants per plate, with a distance of 5 centimeters.

Soil

Generally, you can use four parts of pastoral soil, four parts of compost, two parts of river sand or Gukang ash, plus an appropriate amount of fully rotten dried cakes and chicken and duck droppings, and sift out the powder and coarse grains to cover the bottom with coarse grains and powder cover.

Watering

Jasmine shoots and grows leaves throughout the spring and consumes little water. It can be watered every 2 or 3 days to make the soil surface moist. The air and humidity can be reduced in autumn, and the soil can be watered once every two days to make the soil surface moist. Spray water on the leaf surface about half a month in winter to make the leaf surface moist.

Light

"the immortal jasmine and the immortal magnolia." So jasmine is most suitable for potted plants on the balcony of buildings with strong light. Jasmine is afraid of the cold, when the temperature drops to 6-7 degrees, it should be moved indoors, while paying attention to open windows for ventilation, so as not to cause leaves to turn yellow and fall off.

Pruning

The jasmine must be pruned so that its branches and leaves will be strong and there will be many flowers. The jasmine will blossom in three stages every year, and it will be pruned after the third period of blossom to prepare for the flowering period of the coming year.

Fertilizer application

Jasmine in the exuberant season, to flood and fertilizer, can promote its exuberant growth, many flowers, flower fragrance. "clear orchid, turbid jasmine" can see the degree to which jasmine likes to be fat.

Matters needing attention

1. After each flower fade, the residual flowers should be removed in time and the long branches should be trimmed properly. One more fertilizer should be applied.

two。 When buying jasmine, try to buy young plants. Jasmine blossoms on new branches. Old trees that have formed stumps should be bought carefully. The old stumps tend to blossom less and are often eliminated by florists after flowering years.

3. Change the soil in time after leaving the room in spring, remove the old leaves of the next year, trim the long branches (about 10 cm), cut off the diseased and withered branches, too dense twigs, in order to promote the germination of strong new branches.

4. Insect pests are caused by weak plants and poor ventilation, while strong plants rarely occur.

5. Fertilization should be stopped in the first ten days of September to facilitate the Lignification of branches and to survive the winter. As long as we fully master the cultivation essentials of jasmine and put it into practice, we will certainly be able to make jasmine strong and fragrant.