1.7 months later, do not cut it.
In July and August, most varieties of camellia stopped growing and no new branches and leaves grew. They changed from vegetative growth stage to reproductive growth stage, that is, they began to grow flower buds and gradually formed flower buds.
You can't trim it at this time. If the branches above are cut off, plants will not be able to grow flower buds, which will definitely affect the flowering of pregnant buds.
Camellia should be pruned, otherwise it will be too late. Generally, bloom should be trimmed and reshaped in time, and then fertilized to supplement nutrition, so that it can grow more new branches. Don't prune the branches after entering July.
2. Don't over-water in bud stage.
During the bud planting period of camellia, more attention should be paid to watering, and the water should not be too sufficient. Because there is too much water, plants will regrow and develop branches, but buds will be ignored. At this stage, moderately reducing irrigation and keeping the bonsai soil a little dry can promote the growth and development of plants.
Too much watering in bud stage will make bonsai soil too wet and too cold, which is not only not conducive to promoting flowers, but also will lead to root rot and yellow leaves falling off in the long run. So when watering, don't be too diligent, just make sure it is dry and watered thoroughly.
3. Regular supplementation of phosphorus and potassium fertilizers.
Camellia needs more than half a year from bud cracking to bud blooming, which requires a lot of nutrients. If there is not enough nutrients, it will affect the promotion of flowers, and it is easy to drop buds in the middle and late stages.
In the process of flower bud division, you can start to fertilize him to supplement nutrients. At this time, you can't use a lot of base fertilizer, otherwise the plant will not grow and develop into a flower bud.
The planting period of flower buds should be mainly phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, and more phosphorus and potassium fertilizer should be applied after the flower buds are produced in the middle and late stage. Applying potassium dihydrogen phosphate 1 ~ 2 times a month and diluting it into fertilizer solution according to the ratio of 1: 1000 can promote the plant to dedifferentiate more buds, grow more buds and improve the flowering quality.
4. There is no need for long-term lack of sunshine.
Besides abundant nutrients, sunlight is the main criterion for green plants to divide flower buds. If placed in a place without sunshine for a long time, plants will only try to grow branches instead of flower buds.
Camellia is afraid of sun exposure, but it can't grow and develop at all without sun exposure. Otherwise, plants are not easy to produce flower buds, and after flower buds are produced, they are easy to wither.
In the germination period of plant growth and development, as well as in the later germination period, let it see more sunshine, and put it in a sunny place or a diffuse environment for maintenance in the morning and evening, so that plants can accumulate more nutrients, so as to grow buds as soon as possible, so that the buds can bloom as soon as possible and in the morning.
Nowadays, the camellia raised at home has gradually grown and developed into buds. When maintaining, we only need to do the above four key points, and we can grow and develop buds smoothly, and often bloom when flowering.