Many partners who have just entered the flower business have an immature question about raising camellia. Is the camellia as long as possible? Or do you need regular pruning? However, this problem cannot be explained clearly in a few words. The following focuses on the pruning of camellia.

First, the purpose of pruning camellia

1. Make the shape and crown beautiful and improve the ornamental value.

2. Prune weak branches, keep strong branches, promote new branches and improve plant vitality. Many friends cut camellia before they knew the function of pruning, and the consequences can be imagined!

Second, the best time to prune camellia.

1. Before the spring buds germinate

The best time to prune camellias is generally about one month before new buds sprout. Fujian, Jiangxi, Yunnan, northern Guangdong and other southern regions can be pruned about 20 days before the Spring Festival (that is, about 65438 solar calendar1mid-October), and low-altitude areas in the Yangtze River basin can be pruned before and after the Spring Festival. Neither the south nor the Yangtze River basin should be pruned too early or too late. The weather is too cold to prune plants too early. If it is too late, camellia buds will consume a lot of nutrients and grow badly that year.

2. Summer and autumn differentiation type

Most camellias usually bloom in spring, and their flower buds begin to differentiate in the summer and autumn of the previous year. Pruning must be done after flowering. If pruning is carried out in winter and spring, many flower buds will be cut off. If pruning is too late, these unwanted flower buds will consume a lot of nutrients, thus affecting the quality and quantity of flowering.

3. Variance type of current year

A few varieties of camellia bloomed in autumn that year, such as autumn peony and flower peony. Generally, it can bloom in the middle and late June of 10. It doesn't need a period of vernalization (that is, low temperature time) in summer and autumn, and it blooms directly in the same year. The differentiated camellia that bloomed in the autumn of that year, its flower buds were formed and blossomed on the new shoots of that year, and there was no low temperature, so this variety of camellia could be pruned during the dormant period (although this variety of camellia was less).

There are actually three types of flower bud differentiation. In addition to the two mentioned above, there is also a "multi-differentiation type", which does not conform to this article, but I want to mention it by the way here. Multi-differentiation refers to flowers that can be picked many times in a year, and each time they are picked, they will differentiate into flower buds. As we all know, the Chinese rose is such a flower. The first buds in spring were formed last year. As long as new branches keep growing in a year, they can keep blooming. Therefore, in the growing season, when the flowers wither, they should be pruned immediately to promote the axillary bud germination under the incision, and then draw new flower branches to prepare for re-flowering.

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Three. Matters needing attention in pruning camellia

1. During the period from pruning to bud germination, it is best to apply a compound fertilizer mainly composed of nitrogen fertilizer once, and spray foliar fertilizer again when bud germination, which can make spring bud germination more energetic.

2. If camellia is planted in the ground, if possible, in the early spring season before pruning (solar calendar 165438+ 10), the diameter of the main stem of camellia is about 12 times, and the lateral roots around the main stem are cut off to promote the germination of more new roots for the coming year. Attention should be paid to it.

So much for the pruning of camellia. If you don't give up the cut branches, you can also choose excellent branches for cutting propagation, which is also a good resource utilization!