How to grow gardenia? How to grow gardenia and what to pay attention to

Gardenia is evergreen all year round, with elegant flowers, rich fragrance, luxuriant branches and leaves, and high ornamental value. Especially after it enters the center of the flower, the green leaves and white flowers complement each other and look particularly tender and lovely. So how should this beautiful gardenia be raised? I will write down its cultivation method and tell you what you need to pay attention to when raising gardenia.

How to grow gardenia

Gardenia can be grown in acidic soil containing a lot of humus. If there is no such soil, you can directly use leaf mold or garden soil and soybean meal and other materials in a ratio of 4:4:1, and then add one part of river sand to make culture soil. Before planting gardenia, you must also apply enough base fertilizer in the soil.

How to grow gardenia

1. Gardenia is a light-loving plant. It should be placed in a sunny environment during normal cultivation, especially in spring and autumn. It should be exposed to sunlight for more than eight hours a day. However, in summer, the sunlight is strong. Gardenia must not be exposed to sunlight at noon, otherwise its leaves will turn yellow. It should be moved to an environment with sufficient scattered light.

2. Gardenia is a water-loving plant. It must be provided with sufficient water during the cultivation period. In spring, after it enters the peak growth season, it should be watered every three days, and water should be sprayed around the flowerpot to increase the air supply and humidity. However, after entering the hot summer weather, the watering time should be adjusted. Watering should not be done in the morning, but at three or four o'clock in the afternoon. When watering, pay attention to the water quality. If the water quality is too hard, it is not conducive to the growth of gardenia.

Precautions for growing gardenia

1. When growing gardenias, you must pay attention to pinching them in time, because it is a plant that grows particularly vigorously. Only by pinching them in time can it grow more side branches, have a good plant shape, and grow more flower buds and bloom more beautiful flowers.

2. During the cultivation process of gardenia, special attention should be paid to fertilization. It needs sufficient fertilizer during the growth period and should be top-dressed every fifteen to twenty days. A nutritionally balanced compound fertilizer can be selected, but fertilization must be stopped before cutting propagation, otherwise it will affect the survival rate of the cuttings after growth.