Hello Friends!
Today we will look into the Bloom Booster garden tips, secrets and hacks on how to increase
flowering in plants and also look into some common reasons why your plants do not bloom.
Stay tuned..
Firstly I shall list out the common reasons why your plant does not bloom:
1.
Age of the Plant: If your plant is too young and especially grown from seeds.
It might take 2 or 3 years to start flowering depending on the type of your plant.
This problem is solved by grafting or getting flowering or fruiting plants cloned by cuttings.
You can watch my video on What is Grafting � explained in detail.
2.
Environmental Factors like � not enough sunlight, temperature and humidity are important
factors � change your plant location to receive atleast 6 to 8 hours sunlight.
3.
Poor Pollination: If you are driving away bees and butterflies in your garden � you
are inhibiting pollination and flowering.
Also if the weather is windy or wet, they are driven away.
Also make sure you use organic pesticides as much as possible in your garden � not
to kill or drive away those useful pollinating insects.
4.
Pruning: If not pruned correctly or at the appropriate time, flowering can significantly
be reduced.
Best time to prune is late winter or early spring.
5.
Last but not the least - the Nutritional Deficiencies in Plants:
Phosphorus is the element most responsible for stimulating strong budding and fruit and
flower development.
Fertilizers specifically formulated for bud and bloom development are often higher in
phosphorus than the other two primary nutrients.
One such Fertlizer I use is the Organic Steamed Bone Meal with the NPK ratio of 3, 15 and
0 respectively � for beginners NPK is Nitrogen Phosphorous and Potassium.
There is a separate video on the general purpose fertilizer in my channel � just search #npkcrystals
in youtube search.
NPK can have 20 20 20 or 12 12 12 ratios for general purpose fertilizer requirements.
Well Coming back to the blooming issues � One more factor sometimes that can burn your roots
and weaken the plants is excess Nitrogen.
Nitrogen gives green lush growth to your plant, but not blooming.
You can remove excess Nitrogen if you have already added to your plant, especially the
Cow dung or its powder.
So I recommend the following General Tips and hacks on nourishing your plants for blooming:
1.
Bone Meal (What is use is purchased online � the link is given in description).
The ratio is NPK 13, 15 and zero.
I use 1 tablespoon in a 12 inch pot every six months.
Best is to add into the soil and mix, especially in deeper areas when you are repotting your
plant.
Here I will reveal 2 Hacks or secrets: 1.
If you are a meat eater, Do not throw away the bones, especially the spongy type of bones,
you can dry them in sun and powder them and you get your home made bone meal fertilizer.
2.
Second is a Secret or you can call it a Garden Hack, which I found incidentally twice when
I purchased flowering plants from a nursery.
When I was repotting the plant, I found bone pieces in the soil.
I think, you can try inserting a bone piece deep in the soil and see the results within
3 months.
I have tried this for my hibiscus and without adding any bone meal or any fertlizer and
it really worked.
The plant is not grown well in size, but the flowering is fantastic� there are one or
two flowers blooming almost everyday in it.
You can see this plant yourself.
So there we have it folks, that was our episode on the How to increase or maintain flowering
or blooming in your garden.
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