When does jasmine bloom?
This article answers the question of when jasmine blooms and provides a brief introduction to the flowering period of jasmine for green plant flower planting. Next, the editor will introduce to the netizens.
It's almost the end of June and soon it will be July. The higher the temperature, the stronger the blooming performance of jasmine. If your jasmine has not formed buds and bloomed yet, you must do three things immediately, so that it can quickly grow buds and bloom. Because July is its peak blooming period, missing this period will result in fewer blooms in the later stage. If you don't know how to care for it, you can learn about it, and when it blooms, the fragrance will fill the entire room.
1. Pruning
If your jasmine has not formed buds and keeps growing branches, the branches will be very long. Although the blooming operation may succeed, the number of blooms will be reduced. What we need to do is prune. The pruning method involves cutting off all thin and weak branches, internal crossed branches, and buds growing from the bottom. Keep the thicker branches but shorten their length, usually retaining three to five centimeters from the last pruning position, which is about three to six bud points.
So, how do you control the plant shape? If you are growing it as a bonsai, you can prune the dead branches according to the crown of the whole plant and retain an appropriate length. As long as the thick branches remain, the retained length will quickly sprout, and multiple buds will make the blooms more beautiful. Those thin and weak branches, even if they grow later and form buds, the buds will be small, and the flowers may not bloom. Keeping them will only increase the consumption of nutrients.
2. Sunbathing
The most crucial point for jasmine to bloom is to have sufficient sunlight, as it is a long-day plant, which we can understand as a full-sun plant. How is it a full-sun plant? For example, if you have a yard, no matter which season, you can just throw it in the yard where it gets the most sunlight. When the sun comes out, it gets sunlight, and when the sun sets, it doesn't. All day long, it gets full sunlight, and then it can form buds and bloom.
If you are growing it indoors and don't have that much sunlight, then ensure it gets at least six hours of sunlight so it can differentiate flower buds. After pruning, ensure it gets sufficient sunlight. When it sprouts and grows two to three centimeters, it can quickly form buds and bloom.
3. Flower Boosting Fertilizer
To make jasmine bloom continuously, you need to choose the right fertilizer. If your jasmine has been growing branches in the early stage, and you ensure pruning is done and it gets appropriate sunlight, start using monopotassium phosphate now because it doesn't lack nitrogen in the early stage. So, use monopotassium phosphate every ten days until new buds grow, with two to three leaves, and when you see flower buds at the top, stop using monopotassium phosphate.
Switch to a fertilizer with high phosphorus content and no lack of other elements, such as "Flower多多二号". The fertilizing frequency is also three times a month. By continuously supplementing, the flowers will bloom quickly. After the flowers have bloomed, don't stop fertilizing. Keep using it, cut off the残花 (withered flowers), and prune the branches. It will grow new buds and bloom again.
This is what you need to do for jasmine in July. After doing these three things, prune promptly after the flowers have bloomed, ensure sufficient sunlight, and ensure adequate fertilizer. It will be able to bloom one batch after another. And as long as you keep pruning, it might bloom every day, filling the room with a beautiful fragrance.
The introduction above (Green Plant Enthusiast Website) on when jasmine blooms and a brief introduction to the flowering period of jasmine is provided for netizens to refer to and learn from.