Post-anthesis Management of Rhododendron

The warm spring is coming, and most of the Lunar New year flowers placed in your home have come to an end. Are you worrying about how to deal with these flowers that no longer have elegant demeanor? Are you asking for advice on how to take care of them? If you want them to smile again in the coming year, please pay attention here. From this issue, we will give you a series of articles on "Post-Flower Management of the Lunar New year Festival", hoping to be helpful to you. If you have this kind of maintenance experience, please write to us and share it with flower friends everywhere! First, after pruning and shaping the azaleas, it is generally necessary to pick the residual flowers manually, and then carry out appropriate thinning, cut off the dense branches and let them re-branch. Second, fertilizer and water management in the northern region, the water is alkaline, hardness is high, long-term watering of flowers is easy to cause soil Alkalization, affecting the growth of flowers. Therefore, before watering, the water should be stored in a container for more than 24 hours until chlorine is volatilized, or water with appropriate amount of ferrous sulfate or edible white vinegar can be watered every 10 days or so. When watering, pay attention to dry and wet. Cuckoos do not need much fertilizer, and generally fertilize with water. Bean cake fertilizer and water can be applied every half a month from late spring to early summer. Thin fertilizer should be applied frequently to promote the sprouting of new buds. If there is no bean cake fertilizer, you can buy some acid flower fertilizer on the market, using the same method. To the middle and late June, some available phosphorus and potassium fertilizers can be applied to promote the formation of flower buds; in late autumn, fertilizer should be stopped to prevent the growth of new buds from affecting flower bud differentiation.