Can the longevity flower bloom without being kept in a dark room?
An article on small knowledge sharing, introducing the related experience of growing longevity flowers without keeping them in a dark room to bloom, with detailed introduction below.
Recently, some flower enthusiasts have asked, "Why don't the longevity flowers I raise bloom, while the ones sold in the flower market are all blooming? I heard that longevity flowers need to be kept in a small dark room to bloom. Is that true?"
Today, let's talk about the matter of keeping longevity flowers in a small dark room, hoping it will be helpful to you.
Do longevity flowers really need to be kept in a dark room to bloom?
The natural blooming period of longevity flowers is in autumn and winter and early spring. Normally maintained longevity flowers will not bloom in summer because they are short-day flowering plants and only differentiate flower buds under short-day conditions.
Therefore, longevity flowers do not necessarily need to be kept in a dark room to bloom. In the natural short-day environment of autumn and winter, longevity flowers can also bloom naturally without the need for a dark room.
However, if you want longevity flowers to bloom in the long-day summer, you will need to keep them in a dark room.
The specific operation method of keeping longevity flowers in a dark room
Can longevity flowers bloom without being kept in a dark room?
Longevity flowers are short-day flowering plants, and the differentiation of flower buds requires an environment with less than 8 hours of light, and the light should be sufficient.
Usually, in a short-day environment, within 1 month, longevity flowers will differentiate flower buds and bloom. We can calculate and regulate the blooming time based on this characteristic of longevity flowers.
After 4 pm every day, cover the longevity flowers with a black plastic bag for shading, and remove the plastic bag after 9 am the next day.
In the time without the bag, it is necessary to maintain sufficient lighting and promote flowering by giving the longevity flowers a dark treatment. It is best to do this before summer or at the end of summer and beginning of autumn, avoiding the hottest summer.
Promoting flowering before summer allows the longevity flowers to be in bloom during the summer and avoid being exposed to the intense sun. Dark treatment at the end of summer and early autumn can advance the blooming period of longevity flowers.
Many flower enthusiasts who have raised longevity flowers have such an experience: the flowers form buds in winter but do not open. In fact, this is because the temperature is too low. Therefore, we perform dark treatment in advance at the beginning of autumn to allow the longevity flowers to differentiate flower buds ahead of time and achieve early blooming.
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