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How to prune bougainvillea branches

Mike Ehrmantraut
2020-07-30 08:42:15
Heavy cutting: cut off all branches, keep the main branches, in order to change the shape and promote growth. Medium cut: remove dead branches and branches that affect the shape, often. Light pruning: prune the diseased and weak branches at seedling stage and concentrate nutrition. Retraction: keep the plant type unchanged and carry out short cutting to give more growth space.

Trim method

There are still many pruning methods of the bougainvillea. For different growth purposes, we need to carry out different forms of pruning.

Heavy shear

A lot of plants will go through this step of re cutting. Generally, such a large-scale pruning is to change the shape of the plant so that it can grow better.

When pruning, we should cut off all the branches and keep the next few main branches. The main branches should also be pruned by a large margin. Heavy pruning seems to be very thorough.

Middle scissors

This is a relatively light pruning method. Cut off some dead branches and unnecessary branches from the top of the bougainvillea plant, and cut the rest slightly, so as not to change the shape of the plant.

Light shear

In fact, the light pruning is smaller, just a little pruning the weak branches and dead branches. Generally, the seedlings are pruned in this way.

Retraction

Retraction is basically to keep the shape of the tree unchanged, but the branches should be cut short, so that the plant has more room for growth.

pruning method of Bougainvillea

Precautions

Moderate

One is that when pruning, we should be moderate. Don't prune too often or with too much force. It's not good for the growth and flowering of Chimonanthus.

Time

Triangle plum can be often pruned, but each time the pruning range is not too large

Cautions for Bougainvillea pruning

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