How to prune gardenias
Today's life hack: how to prune gardenias and the pruning diagrams for overly tall gardenias, covering the content related to green plants and flowers. Let's delve into this together.
Gardenias bloom in spring with large, pure white flowers that have a strong fragrance. Planting one in your room will fill the space with its scent when it flowers. To ensure that gardenias grow well and produce more flowers, with an elegant and full plant shape, pruning is essential. Let's talk about how to prune gardenias.
Gardenia pruning is done in stages. Generally, after flowering, a strong pruning is required. After flowering, remove the残花 promptly, and it will grow new branches from the top. This strong pruning involves cutting off the small inner branches, dense branches, and leaf buds at the bottom, ensuring good ventilation inside. The small branches do not receive enough nutrients, which can lead to weak growth and poor flowering. Long branches should be shortened appropriately to maintain a pleasant shape, which will help new lateral buds grow quickly from the top. These lateral buds grow rapidly in this season, continuing until autumn. Once new buds appear, retain two large leaves at the bottom and cut off the rest. You can keep a pair or two pairs of leaves, preferably shorter to make the plant shape more full.
If the plant grows too long, removing the top will make the whole plant look loose. Moreover, gardenias have a characteristic where the bottom leaves fall off as they continue to grow. If the branches are too long and only the top leaves are retained, the plant shape will not look good. This pruning and topping should continue until autumn. As autumn begins, you can prune and top the plant, but after pruning, do not prune again. The new branches grown in autumn are slightly slower than in summer. During autumn growth, the top buds will gradually age, the top will gradually seal, and flower buds will differentiate. Although the flower buds are not visible at the top, cutting them off will result in no flowers the following year.
Since gardenias produce flowers from the old branches of the current year, pruning and topping in autumn, along with sufficient phosphorus and potassium fertilizers, can promote rapid growth and aging of the branches, sealing the top gradually, and differentiating flower buds. By the following spring, when the weather warms up, flower buds will grow directly from the top.
In conclusion, pruning gardenias is crucial and must be done correctly. Proper pruning ensures that the plant has more branches, lateral buds, and a full shape, resulting in enough flower buds. If pruning is not done properly or continuously pruned in autumn, it will lead to no flower buds or flowers, making it impossible for the plant to bloom in the spring. No amount of fertilizer will promote flowering if the pruning is not reasonable.
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