Adult rhododendrons are pruned only after the flowers.
If you have a lot of woody plants in your home, how can you have one or two of these pruning tools?
No matter how pruned, it's easy to sprout adventitious buds. Prune from the end of May to the end of May, and then the top of new shoots will sprout in autumn. Note do not prune after summer.
The following figure shows the basic growth of flower bud:
Within 2-4 years of Rhododendron growth, the plant is relatively small, and cutting off the flower bud can accelerate the formation of skeleton, which is conducive to the formation of flower type later.
It will affect the beauty of Rhododendron and make the branches grow disorderly. After flowering, pruning the long branches can control the plant's shape very well, and the growing shape will be good-looking only when it is sparse.
Rhododendron leaves are easy to turn yellow and fall off. It is found that the branches with poor growth are pruned in time during maintenance, which is conducive to the healthy growth of the whole plant.
Rhododendron bonsai is not a unique branch is beautiful, some abnormal branches, will affect the healthy growth of plants, some will affect the beautiful.
