Carnation flowering months
An article about when carnations bloom and related topics on the ornamental season of green plants and flower planting, next, let's get to know together.
Whether it's a birthday or a holiday, flowers have gradually become one of the important choices for gifts. With Mother's Day approaching, certainly many friends are preparing gifts for their own mothers. Most of those who don't have a better idea will choose a bouquet of fresh-cut carnations, using the meaning of flowers to convey blessings. However, thoughtful friends can cultivate their own potted carnations. As the blooming period of potted carnations is from May to August every year, if you start raising them now, they will bloom next month! Moreover, Mother's Day is in May, so isn't it better to send a full-of-new-ideas potted carnation on that day! I've raised one pot. But how to maintain a potted carnation in daily life?
Carnations come in many colors. Whether choosing to grow from seeds or seedlings, it is first necessary to choose according to one's preferred color, and then also do some research on the color and texture of the pot to see how to match them beautifully. In addition, you need to understand its habits, and do your homework on how to make it bloom more, water requirements, and potting soil type.
A kind of flower, suitable for sending to mom, blooms from May to August, raise it now, and it will bloom next month
1. Water requirements for potted carnations
Carnations are drought-tolerant species of flowering plants. An environment that is too moist for a long time is not conducive to growth. Therefore, it is best to water thoroughly after the potting soil has dried up, and at the same time, pay attention to prevent accumulated water from lingering at the bottom of the pot for too long, which can cause the roots to be unable to breathe and affect the growth state. However, in order to ensure the fullness and state of the flower buds during the blooming period, the frequency and amount of watering should be increased appropriately.
2. Additional fertilization
If you want the flower pot to grow better than others, you need to put more effort into fertilization, and carnations are flowers that like a lot of fertilizer. First, mix some bone meal into the potting soil before planting or raising to provide a nutritional foundation for the plant. When the vigorous growing period comes, pay attention to the application of liquid fertilizer to ensure the healthy growth of the plant. Fertilization should be paused during the blooming period to avoid the branches and leaves growing wildly and taking away nutrients. You can also prepare a fertilizer pack to be used after the first batch of flowers fade, so that you can ensure a better state for the carnations in the following year or the next.
Carnation flowering months
3. Multiple pinchings to increase flower quantity
Naturally, when giving gifts, more and better blooming flowers are popular. After understanding the impact of basic conditions during maintenance, if you want more carnation flower buds, you need to pinch the plant once during its seedling stage to stimulate more lateral buds at the rootstock, and then pinch again when the lateral buds grow to 4-6 leaves, thus stimulating the growth of lateral buds multiple times. Finally, after the flower buds are formed, remove the lateral flower buds on each branch to give more energy to the main flower bud at the top, so that the flowers can be large and numerous.
This is the detailed maintenance of potted carnations. Such a beautiful flower, everyone must raise one pot, after all, as a flower with special meaning, when it blooms next month, it is very suitable to send it to your mom on Mother's Day. This living potted carnation is much more sincere than fresh-cut flowers!
The above sharing about when carnations bloom and detailed explanation of the ornamental season of carnations, hoping this article can bring you some help in green plant management!