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A pruning before retreating to winter quarters does the vanilla flower well
Can the vanilla flower be cut before winter?
Over the summer, the vanilla flower can also reach a stately size of up to eighty centimeters as a potted plant. It then requires more space in winter quarters than is often available.
Cut back heliotrope professionally
Before you overwinter the solstice, all dried-up plant parts and the flower buds have to be removed. Before moving to a frost-free room, a slight pruning is done, in which you can shorten the plant by up to a third.
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The distant shoot tips can be used very well as cuttings. Planted in permeable soil, roots quickly form. By the next garden year, the offspring is large enough to be planted with the mother plant in the field.