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Pruning is beneficial to maintain plant shape and control plant growth and size.
The young tips of plants can be cut off with flower scissors or directly by hand. This process is called "pinching tips" and will promote plant branching. Parts cut from plants can also be used as cutting materials. Mature lignified branches on plants are very hard and need to be trimmed with sharp pruning shears. Failed flowers should be removed in time, or a single withered flower should be removed from the flower spike. There are also some special cases, such as plants growing decorative fruits or bulbs, which are pregnant with buds for the next season on the short branches of flower heads, so don't take off the flower heads.
Finally, in order to obtain beautiful and healthy plants, it is necessary to remove all diseased or dead branches and leaves, and remove the branches that destroy the overall shape inside the plants at any time.
pruning implements
scissors
pruning shears
Contraction tip
Pinching the tip can make the plant shape compact and prevent the lateral branches from growing.
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Place the plants on a special capillary mat or an old towel and soak one end of the towel in a tray filled with water (left). Other methods include: using cotton shoelaces or strings as wicks, soaking one end in water and the other end in the substrate of the flowerpot, or simply putting the plants in a place with suitable temperature and light, and inviting friends to look after and water them.
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The pruning methods of climbing plants vary according to their growth habits. Natural colored or dyed rattan or scaffolding is the most popular pillar material, which can be used alone or made into tripod style. Fix the tender plants on the bracket with small clips, soft ropes or raffia fibers (trim the ends neatly). Don't tie the stem too tightly. Jasmine and other plants have slender stems and vines, which can be wound on the frame ring, and the stems roll back to the original direction at the end of the frame ring to form a ring. Pruning is done every year, and new branches are bound (see right). If a shelf surface is fixed in the flowerpot or on the wall, plants can be shaped along the shelf surface. Plants with tendrils or bent stems, such as white rattan, will eventually cover the whole shelf and achieve self-reliance.
Daily pruning
Remove too many branches from the shelf, trim them and re-fix them. Remove the old stems from the base. The new branches will grow quickly.
Moss column is a very good support for climbing plants, especially for those plants that grow aerial roots and like high humidity. A cylinder is surrounded by smooth barbed wire, and there are two bamboo sticks tied with crosses at the bottom. Fill the column with moss, insert the flowerpot, and then compact the periphery with matrix, keeping the moss moist. Attach aerial roots of plants to moss columns with hairpins or grass threads. Other methods include winding a thick layer of sphagnum around a narrow plastic pipe and tying it with nylon fishing line. Be careful not to wrap the sphagnum at the bottom of the test tube, so it is easy to insert the test tube into the matrix. In order to display aerial plants, you can cultivate them on a dead tree, wrap the roots with sphagnum, and then tie the moss tightly with nylon thread.
Growing a permanently wet moss column along the moss column is the best climbing support.
Build a scaffold for the trimmed plants.
Zhuding
Winding tendrils on bamboo poles and binding the stems.
Single column support
Insert a bamboo pole carefully and try not to damage the root system.
Simple wire loop
Two circles are used here. If plants grow beyond this range, more circles can be used.