How to Deal with a Blooming Safflower
The editor brings you some small experiences on how to deal with a blooming safflower. Next, the editor of this site will introduce to everyone.
How to Deal with a Blooming Safflower
Blooming safflower management is very simple. Since it has grown a flower spike, all we need to do is let it bloom. Naturally, the flowering period will end, and no other heads will develop flower buds. After about one or two months, it will grow several lateral buds from the base of the stem, which is the method of dealing with it.
Some netizens asked: I don't know the basis for the article that says to cut the head of a blooming safflower. My safflower started to bloom, I cut the flower bud at first, then it continued to grow new flower buds, and after a few times, I cut the head directly, and then the lateral branches started to grow flower buds. Finally, I just left it alone.
Under What Conditions Does a Safflower Bloom
There are many varieties of safflower, and we all know that it belongs to the Echeveria genus. During maintenance, if the plant is large enough and receives a lot of phosphorus, it will bloom.
Many people know that after it blooms, it will die. The so-called dying means that the flowering branch will die completely and will not be able to grow anymore. So, how should we deal with its blooming?
How to Deal with a Safflower After It Blooms
Usually, many people, upon seeing it bloom and just after the flower spike appears, will cut it off. This is not correct.
After cutting it off, the plant itself has already felt that it is about to bloom and has reached the conditions for blooming. If you cut off its flowering branch, it will cause it to bloom on other lateral buds, and you will cut them off again after blooming. This continuous cutting will result in all its branches growing flower spikes to bloom.
So, for your safflower, after all branches have finished blooming, the final result will be that they all dry up and die.
Safflower blooming management is very simple. Since it has grown a flower spike, all we need to do is let it bloom.
In fact, when a safflower blooms, it looks like a cone shape, with a very large top and many small flower buds that are very beautiful on top.
If it blooms, it can continue to bloom for nearly two months, with a very long flowering period.
We just need to let it grow on top, choosing fertilizer with a high nitrogen content and no lack of other elements, such as "Flower More 10," to let it get enough nitrogen fertilizer and finish blooming ahead of time.
If we see that most of the flowers are falling and withered, then we look down from the flower spike and see a black-brown area. Cut this part off directly.
After cutting, if there is a healing agent, apply a little bit of it. It will naturally end the flowering period, and no other heads will grow flower buds.
After about one or two months, it will grow several lateral buds from the base of the stem, which is the method of dealing with it.
Generally, for safflower to bloom, one needs a large plant and excessive phosphorus supplementation. I once accidentally浇ed potassium dihydrogen phosphate on a safflower I was raising, and it bloomed that year.
Moreover, the main stem's diameter was about 5 centimeters, very large, and over a person's height. After it finished blooming, I cut it off directly.
Remember, if you are raising a safflower and it has bloomed, let it finish blooming completely before pruning. This is the best method.
Do not supplement phosphorus fertilizer during regular maintenance. Choose fertilizers with high nitrogen content and no lack of other elements.
Supplementing it once or twice a month can make it grow lateral buds quickly without causing blooming, so our maintenance will not have any issues.
The above information introduces how to deal with a blooming safflower for green plant enthusiasts, hoping to solve your problems in green plant and flower management.