Chocolate flowers belong to small shrubs and can bloom all year round. They like light, are more drought-tolerant and afraid of waterlogging. During the growing period, they can spray fertilizer or supplement compound fertilizer on the leaves. Once inflorescence appears, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer should be added.
When plants grow to a certain stage, they can be pruned into independent trunks or small shrubs or ordinary shrubs, but chocolate flowers have a weakness, that is, they are afraid of cold. It takes more than 28 degrees to bloom, and 30~35 degrees is its best flowering temperature, so it is difficult to bloom in winter in the north.
Chocolate flowers are well maintained and there are few pests and diseases. When there are no flowers, they should be trimmed properly.
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You can put it in the yard in summer. It prefers fertilizer. When it is found that the inflorescence is first applied with phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, and no flowers grow, slow-release fertilizer is supplemented, then water is poured twice, and then phosphorus and potassium fertilizer are supplemented, and so on.
Put it indoors in winter. If there is no heating, do a good job of insulation and wrap it with plastic sheets and other insulation materials, otherwise it will be very sad in winter.
Chocolate flowers can bear seeds, but they are rarely propagated by sowing. Generally, it is propagated by cutting and layering. With lignified or semi-lignified branches, up to about 10 cm, leave two leaves at the top, insert them into matrix or sand, and put them in a cool and humid place, and they can take root in about two weeks.