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- The supreme discipline of bougainvillea cultivation: the flowering
- When the bougainvillea blooms
- What results
- Tricks for more flowering
The bougainvillea blooms several times
The supreme discipline of bougainvillea cultivation: the flowering
It is undoubtedly the highlight of every Bougainvillea cultivator: the breathtaking flowering. When you can expect the color spectacle and how you can help a little bit, it really only requires a few knowledge bases and small tricks.
When the bougainvillea blooms
The Bougainvillea is known to come from the subtropical South America and is therefore accustomed by nature to changing dry and rainy seasons. Therefore, her flowering depends - apart from the light - strongly on the water supply, which is given to her. If it has enough light - in our latitudes over the summer - it develops several flowering phases, which are based on the one hand on the water and on the other hand on the general nutrient supply.
Characteristics of Bougainvillea:
What results
Over the vegetation phase, you can look forward to several bouquets. You can promote this basically by a good plant care - mineral-containing, peat-free substrate with good drainage, for. through lava granulate, careful casting practice and of course a full sun, warm location. With the addition of special flowering plant fertilizer, you can stimulate flowering from the fully developed vegetation phase.
Tricks for more flowering
A simple trick of howling out a flower is a brief drainage and subsequent intensive watering. So give the bougainvillea a dry season and the following rainy season, as she knows it from her homeland. Of course, the drying phase must not last too long - at the latest when the plant begins to throw off the leaves, you must quench the thirst of the bougainvillea.
Also, by being a bit naughty with the pot size, you can drive the bougainvillea to more flowering. It then focuses instead on rooting and growth more on pollination advertising - that is the flower formation.