How to care for dormant flowers in summer

Some flowers, such as cyclamen, hanging golden bell, begonia, daffodil, geranium, taro, magnolia, freesia, paulownia, tulips, lotus flowers, etc., enter a semi-dormant or dormant state in the summer high temperature season, showing a decline or pause in growth rate in order to resist the harm of external adverse environmental conditions. In order to make this kind of flowers safely through the summer dormancy period, it is necessary to take corresponding measures to take meticulous nursing according to the physiological characteristics of their dormancy period.

Fuchsia

1. Move the dormant flowers to a cool and ventilated place after summer to avoid direct sunlight and rain, otherwise it is easy to cause rotten roots or even death.

2. Watering should be strictly controlled. During dormancy, too much watering, basin soil for a long time wet, very easy to rot roots, watering too little, basin soil is too dry, and easy to make the root system atrophy. Therefore, watering is appropriate to keep the basin soil slightly moist. But often spray water on the branches and leaves and sprinkle water on the ground around the flowerpot to form a moist and cool microclimate, which is conducive to dormancy. However, for flowers such as paulownia with dense fluff on the leaf surface and cyclamen whose flower buds are sensitive to moisture, it is not suitable to spray water to the leaf surface or leaf center.

3. Stop applying any fertilizer. Because the physiological activity of flowers is very weak during dormancy, there is no need for fertilizer. If fertilized, it is also easy to cause rotten roots, rotten balls, and even the death of the whole plant.