How to prune African jasmine How to prune African jasmine

African jasmine has a plump and beautiful plant shape and evergreen leaves all year round. It is a very popular foliage plant. However, many people who grow African jasmine at home find that it grows too vigorously, which greatly changes its appearance during the growth process, affecting its beauty. At this time, proper pruning must be carried out. I will write down its pruning method and tell you later.

1. Comprehensive pruning

When pruning African jasmine significantly, it must be done in spring, and it must be moved to a suitable environment half a month in advance. The growth should be promoted evenly and in an appropriate amount. After they have grown for half a month, each branch can be shortened. The length of the branches after pruning should be between fifteen and thirty centimeters.

2. Repotting and pruning

After pruning African jasmine, you must reduce the number of watering, but when watering it at this time, you can choose to water it with fertilizer, which can effectively promote the growth of new branches. During the cultivation period of African jasmine, it should be repotted once a year. Before repotting, it can also be necessary to prune it. The old branches grown last year can be cut to about ten centimeters, and dead branches, diseased branches, and branches that are too old or too thin should be cut off.

3. Pruning during the growing season

African jasmine also needs proper pruning during its peak growing season. At this time, the main focus is on pruning the dense old leaves and branches. Only in this way can it promote the growth of new buds and allow it to grow more new branches so that it can bloom more beautiful flowers after entering the flowering period.

4. Modeling and pruning

When some people grow African jasmine, they still like to give it a beautiful shape, like a spherical mushroom shape. However, if you want to make African jasmine have these shapes, you can't do it all at once. It needs to rest slowly. You must not prune it too much at one time, otherwise it will be difficult to restore it to normal growth, and the whole plant may die due to pruning.