How to trim geranium for lush flowering

Pruning is one of the mandatory activities in the room-based geranium care system. Timely shortening of deformed, dry and damaged shoots will help substantially improve the plant and return to him lost decorative attractiveness. Thanks to regular thinning, geranium bushes acquire a neat ordered shape, covered with young thick pigs and, most importantly, be abundantly, bright and fluffy.

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How to trim geranium for lush flowering - basic rules

Sanitary-decorative trimming of geranium is a number of certain consistent actions. In general, they are sufficiently simple and understood even novice flows, but at the same time some nuances and subtleties are not deprived. And although there is nothing intricate and difficult in the pruning procedure, it is worth remembering the individual approach to this plant and adhere to certain norms and rules:

• Perennial bushes thin twice a year - in the spring and autumn, the annual colors are sufficient only spring sanitary "cleaning".
• For geranium trimming, a comfortable acute tool is used - a garden knife or a secateur. The first will be combined to shorten the thin flexible shoots, the second will cope with more powerful branches without any special problems.
• Before use, the tool is definitely sterilized. For disinfection, garden devices are subjected to heat treatment (calcined in the ovens or boiling). Alternatively, the disinfection of the instrument with alcohol is considered.
• Geranium undergoing pruning needs special care. Quality lighting, absence of drafts, periodic moderate watering as the upper layer of the substrate in the pot and feeding the nitrogen-containing fertilizers will help to quickly recover the plant and achieve its lush flowering.

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Autumn pruning geranium

October-November - the most suitable time for the sanitary "cleaning" of many years of geranium. Consider a step-by-step algorithm for the autumn thinning of the plant:

1. Prepare for geranium trimming procedure in advance - set the container with the plant in the most illuminated place, disinfect the tool, dress gloves.
2. Gently remove all the dry stems and inflorescences.
3. Weakened and deformed branches shortened to the size of small "hemp".
4. Long unnecessary shoots cut slightly above the first sheet node.
5. The main stem also necessarily shorten by a third of the total length.
6. Separate sections with any natural antiseptic - crowded activated carbon, wood ash or powder cinnamon.
7. After trimming, apply a plant with nitrogen fertilizer, install on the southern windowsill or provide additional lighting.

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Geranium pruning in spring

Unlike the autumn, the spring trimming of geranium should be more superficial, delicate and neat. Optimal for the implementation of the spring "haircut" is considered the period from mid-February and to the first numbers of March. Manipulations with a plant at this time are performed using a pre-prepared sterile tool according to the following recommendations:

1. Start a sanitary "cleaning" of a vason with external stems, gradually moving towards its central part.
2. First of all, they remove dry and yellowed branches, then shorten healthy, but needing in another decorative form. At each healthy cropped shoot, no less than 3-4 kidneys are left.
3. To prevent pullouts, it is necessary to cut the upper part of the central stem.
4. When "haircut" plants necessarily take into account its size. Thus, the age-related large ports of geranium should not be subjected to radical trimming, with the small same single and twilight vases, you can remove more unnecessary shoots to give them the desired form.
5. If it is necessary to remove a large amount of fusion, the trimming is performed in 2-3 approaches with an interval of 1.5-2 weeks.
6. All sections are treated with special garden antiseptics or "powder" with sulfur powder.
7. At the end of the trimming, the plant creates the most favorable conditions - intensive lighting, moderate watering, periodic spraying of epin solution or another growth stimulator will help Gerani quickly leakeen and be covered with inflorescences.

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Geranium Pruning - Frequent Errors

Compliance with all rules is extremely important in the sanitary and decorative trimming of indoor plants. Incorrect holding of a "haircut" of a beloved vase is fraught not only to obtain an unplanned aesthetic result, but also his death. Pay attention to the most common mistakes that occur in the process of cutting home geraniums:

• Violation of the deadlines - especially undesirable winter trimming and "cleaning" during the period of active flowering.
• Removing a large number of shoots - In this case, the plant is exposed to a large stress, long increases the green mass and it blooms worse.
• With excessably frequent trimming, the formation of floral kidney has significantly slows down and, as a result, the expected flowering is distinguished.

As you can see, pruning room geranium - the procedure is not so much complicated as requested by the knowledge of certain nuances and rules. Remember that neat, regular and timely breaking of the plant is the key to its full growth and abundant lush flowering.