How to cultivate Prunus mume blossom

Place: Chimonanthus bonsai should be placed in a place to avoid the wind and the sun, avoid cold wind, slightly shade in summer, pot plants in winter should be moved to indoor overwintering when the temperature is less than 1 ℃.

Watering: wax plum is more drought-tolerant, it is known as "immortal wax plum", but it can not be too dry. Usually the basin soil can be slightly drier, watering should be "dry and wet", if it is not watered, it will be watered thoroughly. Summer is the flower bud formation period, can not be short of water, should be watered in the morning and evening, after autumn leaves, the basin soil can be dry, watering every 5-7 days.

Fertilization: wax plum is very fertile, so it is appropriate to apply cake fertilizer and water every 10 days in the early stage of flower bud formation from April to June. From the end of June to before ambush, the thin fertilizer and water with the combination of nitrogen and phosphorus was applied once a week to promote the formation of flower buds. The fertilizer should be thin when topdressing for 1 or 2 times in summer. Apply it again after autumn. When changing the basin, you can apply sufficient basic fertilizer such as bone meal and bean cake at the bottom of the basin.

Pruning: pruning and sprouting are very important to make Wintersweet blossom year after year. Pruning usually takes place from March to June and stops after August. The old flower branches should be truncated immediately after flowering each year, leaving a maximum length of 15 to 20 meters each. After the new branch has 2 or 3 pairs of buds, the terminal bud will be removed, and soon the side branch will grow again. After the new branch grows to 10 centimeters, the bud will be picked again and repeatedly several times until the flower bud is basically formed. It is also necessary to prune all kinds of cross branches, parallel branches, overlapping branches, opposite branches, long branches, and overdense and thin branches that affect the appearance of the tree. It is said that there is no shortage of branches in the flower proverb, so the wax plum can be re-cut.

Turn the basin: the bonsai of Chimonanthus should be turned every 1-2 years, and it is better to turn the pot at the end of winter and the beginning of spring. The germinated buds can be removed before turning the basin, and then transplanted when the hidden buds sprout and expand after about 5 days. When turning the basin, remove the old soil of 1B3, cut off the rotten and withered roots, and trim the overgrown old roots. Instead of frozen crisp pond soil or humus-rich rotten leaf soil, mixed with appropriate amount of rice chaff ash and sandy soil.