How to pinch the top leaves of bougainvillea

A Bougainvillea may present many kinds of colors at the same time, and it is easy to feed. However, if it is allowed to grow, it cannot form a low spherical plant. If it wants to maintain its plant type, it must be removed. The specific method is to wait until it grows to 20-30cm, cut off the branch tip, and continue to remove the side branch when it grows to about 10cm, but leave three or four leaves for later modeling, cut off the other top leaves, and then use the same method to extract the branchlets on the side branch. Note that only the shorter branches can be picked, if there are longer branches, then choose to trim the shorter ones.

1. What is heart lifting?

There are buds at the top of the trunk of each plant, which is the reason why the plant keeps growing and reducing branches. Heart picking is to remove the buds on the main branch of the plant. Generally, the top buds of the vigorous lateral branches should also be properly removed according to the situation. Some plants do not have a long-term coring will make its excessive pull-up, the top will also appear a lot of leaf buds, at this time, it needs to be connected to the growth point of several buds together to remove, also known as lifting the top advantage.

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2. Method

When the plant is young, it does not need to consider the problem of picking the heart. When it grows to within 20 to 30 cm, it needs to cut off the branches and shoots. At this time, the plant is in the growth stage, and the leaf buds are still tender. Do not hurt other buds by mistake. After cutting off the branches and shoots, the auxin of the trunk diffuses downward to promote the growth of the lateral branches, which will soon be divided into multiple lateral branches. According to this method, the lateral branches grow to about 10 cm, and continue to be removed, but three or four leaves should be left for later modeling. The other top leaves should be removed, and then the branchlets on the lateral branches should be removed in the same way. After many operations, nine to twelve lateral "trigeminal nine branches" of spheroid plants will be formed. Note that only the shorter branches can be removed, if there are longer branches, then choose to trim the short branches.

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3. Function

It can prevent the growth of the trunk properly, and make the plant sprout more lateral branches, so as to prevent its overgrowth. To make the plant plump, it must be dwarfed so that it looks full and fluffy, and to achieve this effect, only the heart can be removed. Picking the heart can increase the germinating part of the flower, so as to increase the number of flowers and make the plant more delicate when it is open. Not only that, pick heart can also delay flowering time, if the good, a year can open a flower.

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