As the saying goes, flowers and trees should be managed in seven parts and pruned in three parts. This is an important rule of thumb for growing flowers. By pruning unnecessary branches, diseased branches or properly treating the branches for the germination of new buds, you can save nutrients, reduce consumption, ensure concentrated supply of nutrients to the required branches and leaves or promote flowering, and achieve the purpose of more flowers and more fruits. It can also adjust the tree vigor to make the branches of the flowers and trees evenly distributed, control the excessive growth, and ensure the neat and beautiful plant shape of the flowers and trees. In addition, pruning can also make the flowers and trees reach the ideal height and thickness, reduce the occurrence of diseases and insect pests, and help improve the survival rate of the flowers and trees. Pruning methods There are many pruning methods. Here are some commonly used pruning methods: (l) Short cut: This is to cut off part of the branch, usually 1/3 - 3/4 of the front end of the branch. The purpose is to prevent the branch from stretching. At the same time, it promotes the germination of axillary buds under the cut, ensuring the growth of more side branches, extending and expanding the periphery of the crown, increasing the flowering parts, making the crown evenly distributed, and the plant shape becoming plump and round. It is also helpful to increase the flowering points and ensure that the plants bloom and bear more fruits. (2) Thinning: When the plant is growing vigorously, cut off overlapping branches, inward branches, diseased and insect-infested branches, leggy branches and aging branches, and cut off leaves injured by diseases and insect pests or overly dense leaves, in order to improve the ventilation and light transmission of the plant. Conditions can reduce the occurrence of pests and diseases, which is conducive to the healthy and robust growth of plants. It can also adjust the shape of trees to make them clear-cut, neat and beautiful. Thinning pruning does not leave stumps like short cuts. Thinning pruning relies on trimming at the base and leaves no stumps. For foliage flowers with stripes and mosaic leaves, if the green branches grow more vigorously than the branches with stripes and mosaics, the green branches should be pruned in time to prevent the green branches from covering the branches with stripes and mosaics and maintain the original variety. Features: Note that it is not advisable to remove leaves from coniferous trees. (3) Topping: Also known as tipping and topping, the young apical buds are directly picked off with fingers to eliminate their top advantage and promote the germination of lower axillary buds, thereby inhibiting the excessive growth of branches and promoting the plant to branch more, forming Purpose of multiple flower heads and graceful plant shape. For example, Four Seasons Begonia, Yichuanhong, Lotus, August Snow, Jiuli Xiang, Admiralty, etc. all need to be topping (4) Bud wiping: Wipe off the axillary buds and twigs of the flowers to save nutrients and ensure adequate nutrient supply to the main trunk (5 ) Leaf removal: In order to make the flowers more beautiful, remove yellow leaves, residual leaves, diseased leaves and leaves that cover the flowers and fruits: (6) Flower and fruit thinning: For most fruit-bearing flowers, the number of blooms Too much will affect the blooming effect and fruit quality, so the flowers and fruits that are too dense should be thinned out because the remaining flowers may not all bear fruit. Therefore, the remaining flowers should be 2-3 of the expected number of fruits. times, wait until the fruit is firm, and then thin out the excess young fruits. For example, potted flowers such as camellia often form too many flower buds. In order to make the flower bloom more beautiful, the flower buds can be thinned out as early as possible. In order to prevent excess buds from consuming too much nutrients, it is usually done when the flower buds and leaf buds can just be distinguished, and the excess buds are removed, leaving 1-2 flowers on each branch to prepare the potted flowers for harvesting. Remove the remaining flowers in time after they bloom to prevent them from consuming nutrients: (7) Wiping: Large flowers such as rubber trees, Schefflera, and Da Wang Dai are too tall and difficult to cultivate indoors, so they need to be wiped. .