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In Today’s episode we will look into some important care tips and Do’s and Don’t’s
on growing hibiscus plants in container gardening.
Will also tell you’re the secrets to induce enormous flowering and to get big sized flowers.
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Hibiscus plant needs no introduction.
It is one of the most common flowering plants grown at home gardens.
Generally all hibiscus plants are very much durable plants and perform well if proper
care tips are followed.
However if you wish to achieve maximum flowering and get big sized flowers, you need to apply
some extra hacks and tricks.
Let’s discuss all these points one by one: 8.
SUNLIGHT: Hibiscus needs 6 to 8 hours DIRECT SUNLIGHT not only for its growth but also
to produce flowers.
Here, One very important tip on sunlight: If your plant is newly bought from a nursery
or if it’s recently repotted, then you have to protect it from scorching noon sunlight
like from 12 to 2 pm.
Too hot sun, specially in summer at this time of the day can cause stress on the plant.
Using a Green shade net is a good idea, especially in summer.
7.
WATERING: Simple rule for watering hibiscus in summer is – Daily Watering.
In other seasons, specially winter, its always better to use finger dip method to check the
soil for moisture before watering, because over watering can kill any plant.
Make sure to check drainage holes of the container.
The Water should freely flow out of the container while watering.
6.
CHOOSING THE CONTAINER: Hibiscus actually performs well when its slightly root bound.
So when you see this root bound plant, do not jump into repotting it in a very large
container.
Prefer to choose only a slightly the next size of the container.
5.
POTTING SOIL: This is very important.
a) The PH of soil should be slightly acidic like 5.5 to 6.5 is the ideal PH for hibiscus.
A simple PH testing tool like this can be very handy.
If PH is on higher side, you can alter it by adding some 10 gms of Alum per litre of
water and add this to your container.
You can also use white distilled vinegar about 1 to 2 teaspoon per liter of water once in
a month.
b) The potting soil should well draining.
So add stuff like coco peat or peat moss, perlite and compost in proper proportions
to your garden soil.
One such potting mix recipe is discussed in one of my episodes.
You can check that from a link in description or from a card linked to this video.
4.
FERTILIZERS TO INDUCE FLOWERING AND INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE FLOWERS: You can add 1 table
spoon bone meal per container while making your potting mix or if its already potted,
add this little deeper into the container after removing the top soil, once every 3
to 6 months.
This is very important if you want your plant loaded with flowers.
Then, you can add compost like Decomposed Cow dung or vermicompost into the container
once every 15 days or atleast once a month after tilling or raking the top soil.
3.
PEST CONTROL: Controlling pests is very important step to keep the plant healthy and blooming.
Examine the plant closely for pests and insects including underside of the leaves.
Common pests like whiteflies, aphids, mealybugs can be easily eliminated using neem oil 10
ml + few drops liquid soap in 1 litre of water.
Or adding oils like Clove Oil or eucalyptus oil increases the efficacy specially if its
heavily infested.
You can use neem oil spraying once 15 days or monthly once for maintenance even if there
are no pests and weekly twice for few weeks if its loaded with pests.
2.
FOLIAR SPRAY WITH EPSOM SALT: Once in a month foliar spray of 1 teaspoon Epsom salt per
liter of water provides magnesium needed of chlorophyll and makes your plant lush green
and improves photosynthesis and overall growth and flowering.
1.
PRUNING or trimming your plant: Yes this is another important step which many of us neglect.
This promotes more branching and makes it more bushy and hence more flowers.
The best time to hard prune hibiscus is at the end of winter or just the beginning of
spring.
Also deadheading of the flowers from time to time is the most important step for maintaining
blooms.
Dead heading means removing dead and dried flowers form the plant and this diverts the
plant energy from seed formation to plant growth and more flowering.
So there you have it folks.
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