Why doesn't your plant bloom? The reason is so simple!

How do you help plants bloom?

I often have flower friends ask me why my plants do not bloom, some of them bloom together, but one does not bloom? If a plant that looks very healthy does not still bloom, many of them can be improved, and what is the reason? Xiaobian summarizes the following factors:

Not enough sunlight:

Almost all flowering plants need sunlight, and the more sunlight, the better flowering conditions.

Plants such as roses and roses need at least 6 hours of sunlight a day, and it is impossible to keep them indoors.

Even shade-loving plants, such as begonias, jonquil and African violets, need about three hours of sunlight a day to bloom more easily.

And some leaves have color foliage plants, occasionally give a little sunshine, the color of the leaves will be more beautiful.

Second, the wrong fertilizer application:

Flower friend asked: There are 3 numbers on the compound fertilizer pocket, such as 15-15-15, indicating the content of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, but some marked potassium sulfate, some did not mark anything!

Answer: compound fertilizer contains chlorine, and does not contain chlorine, potassium sulfate type, indicating that the potassium element of the product comes from potassium magnesium sulfate fertilizer, not potassium chloride fertilizer, generally potassium sulfate type compound fertilizer contains no chlorine, or low chlorine.

Common compound fertilizers are marked with potassium sulfate and potassium nitrate, which indicate the source of one of the nutrients.

To plant flowering, we need to apply more phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, that is, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer in the three numbers, the middle and the latter number higher.

For example: 10-30-10, or 5-20-10 and so on. If you use a high level of nitrogen, say 30-10-10, plants will grow stems or leaves instead of flowering.

There is a kind of total phosphorus fertilizer that encourages flowering (0-20-0), this flower friend still knows.

Third, wrong pruning:

Plants that need pruning should be pruned within a month or two after flowering, not after a season, which may cut off the buds of the next season.

For example, spring flowering plants, should be pruned in summer; autumn flowering, can be cut in early spring next year, flowers can be removed, do not know how to prune the situation, blind pruning oh!

4. Worms eat flowers

Check plants and leaves for insects that eat buds or buds. Check branches carefully. Like roses, aphids often breed, or caterpillars that inadvertently eat buds.

You can check it from time to time and wash it away with soapy water. (Soapy water is mixed with detergent or soap.) About 250 ml of water, plus a small tablespoon of detergent)

5. The plant is not mature yet

Some plants take two or three years to bloom, such as some ornamental pineapple flowers, wisteria plants take more than seven years to bloom, flower cultivation requires patience.

VI. Mistakes in changing pots

If it is a potted plant, it will temporarily stop flowering after changing the pot, so do not change the pot frequently.

Also, most plants need to be rooted (making them less comfortable) to flower, so don't change pots too big at once. Every time you change pots, you just need to make them bigger.

7. Too much love for plants

Some flowering plants will suddenly stop flowering, the reason may grow environment is too good, there is no sense of crisis, become lazy, flower bud obviously have, fertilizer and water sufficient, but not yet flowering, flower bud all fall down, because too doting!

(The goldfish spider orchid in the picture above is too lush to bloom!)

How do you make a goldfish spider bloom like this?

To pinch off the tender weak branches, reduce watering, slowly see the light, but summer has come, but also can not be exposed to the sun ah! It can only be seen in the morning and evening, 3 to 5 hours a day! (No need to worry about lighting time)

Because plants bloom to bear seeds and reproduce. When the plant feels no responsibility, it stops flowering. One way is to scare the plant, for example, by cutting vertically downward with a gardening shovel at the part of the plant where the fine roots are growing, so that the plant feels threatened and flowers and seeds. (Don't get too close to the trunk, you'll hurt the taproot.) I have used this method to make a peony flower which had ceased to bloom.