It's a good time to start with gardenia in the north.

Many flower friends can not raise gardenia in the north. Gardenia that we started last year blossomed smoothly this year. I summed up my experience and shared it with you.

1. Buy gardenia flowers, preferably peat soil culture seedlings (pots can not change soil to reduce root damage, easy to survive), preferably gardenia flowers with smaller crown width (easy to provide high humidity environment in the future, healthy growth); purchase in late summer and early autumn (beginning to enter the peak growing season, there is plenty of time to adapt to your environment The most important thing is to have flowers in the coming year), it is better not to take a bud (out-of-season buds are abnormal, not long-term, with little).

2. Trim directly after starting, and put on the basin (soil formula can be laterite / pine branch / volcanic rock 3 / 2 / 1; or acid peat / perlite 5 / 1; tile basin is best) and keep in a cool place. If the branches and leaves become dry, wilted and dehydrated, they can be covered with plastic bags to moisturize, ventilate 1-2 hours every morning and evening, gradually reduce the bagging time after a week, and gradually increase the light to refine the seedlings, about 1 month later, they can grow normally and continue to send out new buds to show survival, start fertilization, organic liquid compound fertilizer is the best, during the emergence of fallen leaves, yellow leaves and other phenomena are also normal, and not every one can survive.

3, enter the winter less water and stop fertilizer, let gardenia fully dormancy, provide 5-10 degrees environment and appropriate light, indoor heating need to pay special attention, the temperature is too high, gardenia does not dormancy, less blossom or abnormal flowers in the coming year.

4. in spring, with the increase of temperature, gardenia begins to fertilize after sending out new buds, with emphasis on phosphorus and potassium fertilizer; it is best not to prune in spring, otherwise it will postpone flowering or not blossom; pregnant buds in spring need to provide a high humidity environment, you can use the method of often spraying water on the leaf surface and moisturizing tray, until after the emergence of buds, stop spraying water to avoid falling buds. The best light is 70% direct sunlight for more than 10 hours, and generally begins to blossom in May, until a bud grows on each branch and blooms, pruning and changing pots according to the situation.

5. Enter the summer, the temperature is higher than 30 degrees gardenia will enter a semi-dormant state, slow growth, less water to stop fertilizer, proper water spraying, semi-shading, pay attention to disease and insect prevention.

Then it is autumn, see dry and wet, organic liquid compound fertilizer once a week, or water-fertilizer-water alternately, the water can be mixed with rotten rice washing water to 5 times tap water, or salt-free white vinegar to 200 times acidic water is the best, all right. I wish you can also see your own gardenia in the north.