How to trim potted gardenia

For potted flowers and plants, pruning is a very important management work. Whether the pruning work is done well or not will affect the beauty of plant shape to a great extent, and even have a great impact on flowering. But for flowering plants, the focus of daily pruning is after flowering. Whether the post-anthesis pruning is done well or not will directly affect the rapid recovery of plant growth and the next round of flowering.

Gardenia as an ornamental potted plant, usually the most frequently used management means is watering. But if you want it to continue to produce beautiful flowers at a later stage, it also needs to be pruned. But pruning also needs to master methods, must not blindly apply the pruning mode of other flowers and plants, otherwise it is easy to cause problems.

For flowers and plants, it is generally necessary to prune them in time after flowering. After the gardenia blossoms, the range of pruning is very small, basically there is no need for us to prune. Generally speaking, you only need to cut off the poor growth of small branches and other bad forms of branches in the potted plant. As the plant resumes growth, it will sprout new buds under the flowering receptacle, and these new buds will continue to grow.

After letting these new buds grow for a month, we will find that the new branches have grown very long. If we do not control it at this time, then these branches will continue to grow wildly, and will become more and more slender and thinner, and the slightest carelessness may lead to lodging. As a result, it will inevitably affect the effect of its next round of flowering, at least much less.

Therefore, the first stage of pruning potted gardenia is after flowering, while the second stage is the growing season after flowering, and the third stage is just after the Beginning of Autumn. It is usually not suitable to prune it at other times, at least not by a large margin, otherwise it will affect the late flowering and even lead to the phenomenon of non-flowering of the plant. Therefore, to gardenia pruning must grasp the right time, in the right time to do the right thing.

Although the time of pruning needs to be chosen correctly, the method of pruning also needs to be mastered. Post-anthesis pruning, as we have said, can be done by cutting off the thin and weak branches; the pruning in the growing season is mainly to cut off the longer shoots that have sprouted under the receptacle of previously flowered flowers. When pruning, you can choose two adjacent and largest leaves, and then cut off the upper branches of the leaves, only need to keep the shorter branches.

Gardenia is in its peak growing season in summer, during which it grows very rapidly. But if its branches grow too long, all the leaves at the bottom of the pot will fall off, leaving only the upper long branches and leaves. If we do not prune correctly in time, when the leaves at the bottom are gone, but the leaves are high on the upper branches, the potted plants will not look good. Therefore, we need to truncate the upper branch in time, truncate it a little bit, and retain 1-2 branches.

The general principle is to follow the above method of operation, first select the two largest leaves from the lower part of the branch, and then truncate the upper branches and leaves of the leaf. In this way, as the plant grows, new buds will sprout again from the two selected large leaves. With the growth of new buds, the whole plant shape will become more and more plump and beautiful, and there will be no more leaves at the bottom and only leaves at the top. And even if the bottom leaves fall, it does not affect the overall beauty of the potted plant, so the flowering is more and more beautiful.