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- Should fuchsia be cut before winter?
- Prepare fuchsias for the winter
- Cut back before the first frost
- Tips
In order to promote the flowering growth, pruning before wintering makes sense
Should fuchsia be cut before winter?
Maintaining fuchsias properly is not so easy, especially when it comes to the time for a pruning. Basically, fuchsias should be cut annually, as they lignify, age with the years and so less and less flowers form.
Prepare fuchsias for the winter
The fuchsias, which belong to the heavyweighers, have to be fertilized and watered regularly, although you should reduce the care measures from the beginning of September. If you stop fertilizing at this time and reduce the watering, then the plant can gradually prepare for the winter break.
Cut back before the first frost
As a result, this year's shoots begin the lignification process, so it's time for a pruning. Outdoor overwintering, hardy fuchsias will be cut before the first frost, whereas under cold conditions wintering specimens will be cut before grazing. The interfaces should dry well, so that fungal infections have no chance.
Tips
Basically, the pruning is also possible in early spring, with the autumn cut is useful for several reasons. Winter hardy Fuchsias will freeze in the cold season anyway, while leafless fuchsias can also be wintered in the dark.