Branch Thinning of Jasmine Flowers

Jasmine Flowers in good conditions of growing & cultivation will have formed a large number of branches after years of growth. 

Although for jasmine having many branches are the basis of high-yielding, but if it go beyond too much, it will cause bad results of field closures, inadequate lighting, poor ventilation and too much consumption of nutrients, and the watershoots will increased significantly while the number of buds per sequence will reducing, at that time the production and quality of jasmine flowers will be affected too.

The branch thinning job generally should be carried on during in the period of plant branches growing vigorously. At the beginning, in order to get a higher yield of spring flowers, usually only those worm branches, weak branches and watershoots should been cut and all healthy branches should be kept on.

As time went to June or July, through a series of branches divarication, field closure has become more obvious, and the flower price in this term annually also turn to inexpensive relatively, so it is the best time for branch thinning.
A flower shear or knife are generally choose to do the branch thinning, all branches grown too dense or relative weak, water shoots and worm branches should be cut off. 

The branch cutting should be start from gnarls grown this year or last year, and when cutting branches, the best job is branch to be cut off by once thus make the cutting face small and smooth, non-cracking, and do branch pruning on sunny days,

How much branches should be cut off based on the field closure status, generally 15% ~ 20% of the branches could be cut off.

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Guide Tips for Family to Grow Flowers in Winter (III)

6. Land Preparation
For land lots in a small amount in your garden which are in preparation for next year’s sowing, sticking and transplanting, you may dig them deeply in December, and the same time applied them with fertilizer cakes, pond mud, stall manure and so on.

Lands prepared for sticking should not be fertilized and not for make bed temporarily, waiting the winter passed and spring come, and the plow soil frozen, at that time to cultivate the bed for your flowers and plant, through this way, the pest number could be reduced greatly in the coming year.

* Wistaria

7. Preparation for Fertilizer

You may take your spare time to pour shattered rapeseed cakes, soybean cakes etc. into a pool tank, adding water then make them sealed for fermentation, in which way to prepare fertilizer.

You also can mix pig dung, chicken manure or pigeon manure with garden soils and accumulated, and covered it with stamping film to retting the fertilizer, which could be used for confecting cultivation soil and additional fertilizer for the next year.

Other way, to accumulate the dead weeds and defoliates collected from the garden with garden soil and fire it, after screening the burned soil could applied as covering soil when seeding or used as material of cultivation soil.

* Kefir Lily

8. Seeds Collection

The species of ornamental plant could whose seed could be collected there are: wisteria, privet, Ligustrum lobular, Pyracantha, Pachysandra terminalis, Cinnamomum camphora, Photinia serrulata, Photinia davidsoniae, Red Maple, Acer serrulatum, Geranium, Ilex latifolia, Ilex pernyi, Ilex, etc., among which most of species should be stored in sands for sprouting after some special treatment, and sowing the seeds when the seeds appeared clefts and white areas in the next early spring.

Most of plants and flowers whose seeds could be collected are species had been transplanted in simple plastic tents, such as scarlet sage, globe amaranth, marigold, maidenhair, and kefir lily etc. while the kefir lily seeds should be sowed shortly after collected.

* Dahlia

9. Roots Storage
As for dahlia tubers, rhizomes of large flower canna that stored indoors in sands, which need regular checks, first purpose is to maintain the room temperature not less than 4 ℃ to 5 ℃, and the second is to keep the sand in a slightly wet condition, thus to avoid rotting.

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Guide Tips for Family to Grow Flowers in Winter II

3. Watering
 
Live plants that been transplanted at the beginning of the year are needn’t to be watering, unless the soil is very dry.

Plants been transplanted in spring and summer days which are still not survived fully, if the weather has no rain for a long time, which should be watered through spraying its tree crowns about every ten days.

Flowers, grass or shrubs transplanted in days of later autumn and former winter, whose watering should been paid more attention to, give them a watering once a week thus to ensure their successful survival.

Evergreen flowers and shrubs grow in the garden, could be given a spray watering to their crowns around midday in sunny days, so as to clean its dusts adhered to their leaves, and give them a better condition of photosynthesis.


4. Fertilization

Ground grow flowers and shrubs which had been trimmed, such as camellia, chimonanthus, jasminum nudiflorum, fuchsia, magnolia, purple magnolia, rose, lagerstroemia indica, redbud, begonia, edgeworthia chrysantha, sweet-scented osmanthus, banana shrub and so on, around their roots you could dig a external circular groove with a depth more than 15 centimeter, and lay in some composite fertilizer or fertilizer cakes, which to meet their demand of growing in the next year.

Camellia

As for flowers and shrubs which been transplanted newly in days of later autumn and early winter, any forms of fertilization are unsuitable and should be stopped.

As to ground grow flowers and plants grow in north areas, such as carnation, hollyhock, collard, Verbena, Phlox, daisies, Calendula officinalis, pansy and so on, you can continue to nourish them with low-concentrated liquid fertilizer.

Carnation

5. Pest Prevention and Control

For flowers and shrubs whose trunk diameters reach to 2-3cm or above, you could prepare white pigments yourself and whitewash their trunks, thus to reduce the incidence of pests in the coming year.

For plants with exposed trunks partly, you could also prepare or buy lime sulfur mixture (ESA) to daub their trunks, thus to prevent rotting or worm eaten on their wood parts. Before daubing, you should check their trunks, barks and roots, and cleaning up egg masses or insect pupaes once found.

For those deadwoods, defoliates and weeds grow in the garden, which should be cleaned up together and be burned.

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