Methods for Pruning and Shaping Flowers
You may not be familiar with the common knowledge of flower cultivation, such as the methods for pruning and shaping flowers. Let's understand this together.
Pruning flowers not only involves removing diseased, weak, and dense branches and leaves, adjusting the nutrition and growth of existing branches and leaves, promoting the germination and vigorous growth of new branches, producing more flower buds, enlarging flowers, balancing and extending the flowering period, but it also improves the shape of the plant and is a powerful means for shaping flowers.
In a broad sense, pruning includes measures such as pinching the tips, removing leaves, stripping buds, peeling bark, cutting branches, cutting leaves, and bundling. This is done to adjust the density and orientation of the branches and leaves, the height and width of the plant shape: stripping and bundling mainly control the growth of different parts for overall regulation.
For example, if the leaves, small branches, and young buds are dense and not in harmony with other parts, they can be directly pinched off or cut off to make the plant balanced and symmetrical. For locally sparse branches or buds, with uneven distribution or a tendency to grow rapidly, local bark stripping or tight bundling can be used to control nutrient conduction, thereby adjusting the distribution of nutrients and growth rate among different parts.
When cutting and bundling, attention should be paid to leaving a smooth stub, the right length, and avoiding damage to other branches, leaves, buds, and bark.
Pruning and shaping are especially suitable for fast-growing flowers (such as Flos Chinae, potted grapes), with fine and dense branches, numerous and small leaves (such as June Snow, potted pomegranate, Milan), and strong wound healing abilities. Pruning can be done during the dormant period or at any season during the growing period.
It is common to prune and shape in early spring and late autumn. The flexible comprehensive application of lighting shaping, traction shaping, and pruning shaping will certainly yield satisfactory results.
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