Spring for indoor flower lovers is a time of additional worries and troubles. And everyone knows that. It seems like they just transplanted the plant and cut it off, but now it's time for flowering. And at the time of flowering, it is better not to disturb the plant.
Those who are just starting to deal with flowers are advised to take a closer look at the pruning of plants. Very often in the spring, indoor plants become sloppy and lose their attractiveness. During the winter, weak shoots appear, elongated, which do not bring any benefit to the flower, but only spoil its appearance and take away strength.
The process of pruning indoor green spaces must be started with an inspection. Having found new thin shoots, they need to be cut off.
When growing bushy plants such as indoor lemon, Garnet, ficus, bougainvillea and others, do not forget about fattening shoots. It is not difficult to define them. Most often these are thick, straight branches that do not have side branches. Plants such as lemon and bougainvillea have thorns on these branches. So, these shoots are not needed by the flower. They only negatively affect the plants, spending its strength. They need to be cut before they torture the flower at all.
To make the bush look more attractive, the inner branches also need to be pruned. On our site there are many articles on how to properly prune a plant.Pruning azalea can be an example of that.
There are such plants, in particular, herbaceous, which grow strongly during the winter. They lose their leaves and seem to go bald. Shoots without foliage also need to be eliminated. If you leave up to 6 buds on the shoot, then over time, green leaves will reappear on it.
The location of the kidneys and their number are also worth paying attention to. It often happens that not all kidneys wake up. Only one can wake up, which will be at the very top of the escape. It will look completely ugly, and the shoot will not branch. So this kidney will have to be cut off. There is no tragedy in this, on the contrary, maybe the lower kidneys then wake up.
There is an opinion among not quite experienced gardeners that vines (passionflower, ivy, scipandus, etc.) does not have to be cut off. But this can only be attributed to those plants that do not bloom and their branches did not become bare during the winter. There is a chance that after a while lateral shoots will appear on them.
For example, if you cut off indoor ivy, wax or ordinary, as well as scipandus, then shoots rarely appear on them in the place of the cut. So if bare shoots are found on such plants, then it is better to cut them off completely, leaving only 2-3 buds (nodes).
But a liana like passionflower needs more serious pruning. You need to cut it all off. If only 5-8 buds are left on the shoots, soon it will be possible to admire the beauty of the rejuvenated plant.
All these are just general recommendations and with the pruning process, each plant must be approached individually, taking into account all the features of the flower. And then indoor green spaces will always have a neat look.
