Water once every five days in spring and autumn, and once every two days when the temperature is high in summer. If the plant withers, it can be cooled and humidified by spraying water. Reduce the frequency and amount of watering after winter, and water once a week. After the bougainvillea blooms, it begins to control water, not watering, watering thoroughly and not accumulating water.

How to fertilize bougainvillea?

Fertilization is essential if flowers want to grow well. Fertilizing before budding during bougainvillea growth can accumulate nutrients for budding and make bougainvillea bloom faster. When applying fertilizer, you can use phosphate fertilizer or decomposed fertilizer water. In principle, follow a small number of times, don't burn too much.

How does bougainvillea bask in the sun?

Bougainvillea likes basking in the sun best, so the best way to cultivate bougainvillea is to raise it in the open air. Generally, bougainvillea should have eight or nine hours of light every day, otherwise it is easy to grow without flowering, and even if it blooms, it will lead to falling flowers. Bougainvillea bougainvillea should be maintained in the shade when it first enters the pot, and it can be maintained normally in about two weeks.

What soil is better for bougainvillea?

Bougainvillea is a kind of flower with strong viability, which has low requirements for the environment and can survive even in poor soil. Choose sandy soil with good drainage and rich humus for bougainvillea potted plants. If peat soil and garden soil are used, you can add some perlite instead of clay.

How to prune bougainvillea?

Many flower lovers are reluctant to trim flowers, which is understandable, but flowers strongly recommend pruning and shaping flowers, because the more flowers you cut, the more flowers you grow, and the more you have to give up.

Pruning method: 1, when to cut?

The red bougainvillea is pruned in March and April.

Purple bougainvillea should be pruned twice a year. Prune bougainvillea before it sprouts in spring, and then prune it again at the end of 1 1 month.

2. Specific pruning methods

1) thin branches, long branches, cut!

Observe your bougainvillea carefully. If you find many slender branches besides the trunk of the plant, cut them off decisively.

2) Cross branches and cross branches, cut!

Some flower branches on the plant are parallel or crossed, so they should be cut off, otherwise the flowers will grow too densely, which will not only make it difficult to bloom, but also easily lead to diseases due to poor internal air circulation.

3) pudding, cut!

When plants just sprout, they should be pruned and pitted. For example, a new branch that has just grown has several pairs of leaves, so cut off the upper pair of leaves.

4) The buds are too dense, cut them!

Bougainvillea grows rapidly, sometimes several buds will appear on a flower branch, so it should be cut off appropriately, leaving only one or two.

5) Cut it after bloom!

After the bougainvillea blooms, the residual flowers should be cut off in time, and keeping them will only disperse nutrients.

4. Precautions for pruning

In the process of pruning, many flower lovers will ignore one thing, that is, disinfect your tools. This small step will greatly reduce the chance of infection by germs.

How to cut bougainvillea?

This season is suitable for cutting. Flower friends, hurry up and move ~

Cutting method: 1, select cuttings.

Select annual, robust and semi-lignified bougainvillea branches, and cut about 10 cm as cuttings, preferably at one time, leaving a pair of leaves at the top of the cuttings.

2. Selection of cutting substrate

Coarse sand, peat soil and cinder can be selected as the cutting substrate of bougainvillea, and peat soil is generally selected with some vermiculite and perlite.

Step 3 cut.

Prepare a flowerpot, fill it with peat soil, and dig a hole in the soil with a wooden stick, seven or eight centimeters deep. Then insert the cuttings into the holes to compact the soil. Watering is permeable. You can cover plants with plastic bags or plastic wrap, and then move them to a cool place to keep them ventilated and illuminated by scattered light.

4. Plant in a pot.

Generally, roots can grow in a month, that is, bougainvillea seedlings are placed in scattered light for a week. Then pour out the flower seedlings and plant them in the culture soil with some cutting substrates, and they can be maintained normally.