It's spring, how to raise hydrangeas? Need to be trimmed? Today, the Blue Demon will focus on the management of hydrangeas in early spring, hoping to help you.

Hydrangea early spring management focus

Hydrangea planting and maintenance is generally relatively simple, in early spring, Blue Demon recommends that you focus on the following 3 points, your hydrangeas, in the spring can bloom beautiful flower bulbs.

1. Clean up the dead leaves

Hydrangeas planted outdoors, the leaves will wither in winter, some leaves have not had time to fall off, although they wilt and wither, but still hanging on the branches, at this time you should do a cleaning of the hydrangea, remove the withered leaves on the branches, and clean up the fallen leaves in the pot.

In some areas, the winter is warmer, and the hydrangea may not lose its leaves, but if the leaves are large and yellow, it is recommended to remove them directly.

2. Trim properly

Hydrangea grandiflora is generally old branches blooming, so pruning is about pruning after flowering, and not pruning in winter and early spring, in fact, this statement is not comprehensive. Why not prune in winter and early spring, the main worry is to prune off the flower buds, and in early spring and spring they do not bloom or bloom less. We know the reason for not pruning, and we know how to prune.

In winter, hydrangeas often freeze to death due to cold weather, so in early spring, Blue Demon recommends that you prune hydrangeas properly.

First, cut off the entire wilted branch (pictured in (1) above) to allow room for new branches to grow. Then there are the half-wilted branches (shown in (2) and (3) above), and the withered parts should be cut off (with the weak buds).

In addition to the withered branches, there are also some particularly thin branches (shown in (5)(6)(7) above), and it is also recommended to cut them, even if the thin branches are kept, they may not bloom, and even if they do, the flower bulbs are relatively small. In addition to pruning weak branches, pay attention to pruning weak buds, such as the bud points on the same branch, the upper part is small, and the lower bud points are full, so you should cut off the weak buds and keep the full bud points.

Pruning hydrangeas in early spring is mainly to cut off dead branches, weak branches, and weak buds, and will not do too much pruning. Of course, if the plant is very tall and wants to dwarf, you can also prune off some branches and keep the lower bud points.

3. Change the pot and apply fertilizer

After the potted hydrangea is optimally pruned in early spring, it can be replanted with new fertile potting soil, and sufficient fermented organic fertilizer or slow-release fertilizer can be added as the base fertilizer to ensure the basic nutrient needs of the hydrangea during the one-year growth period.

When changing pots, if the root system of hydrangea is seriously entangled, you can directly cut off the 3/0 root system, and you don't have to worry about the broken root hydrangea will die, on the contrary, proper root trimming is more conducive to the growth of hydrangea.

For ground-grown hydrangeas, after optimal pruning, shallow burial or sprinkling of fermented organic fertilizer around the root system should be applied to supplement soil fertility.

If it is planted in a large pot, or the hydrangea potted plant is not going to be repotted, Blue Demon recommends that you can mix 2 parts of fermented organic fertilizer and 0 parts of potting soil, and then add it to the surface of the hydrangea pot, which can also add nutrients to the hydrangea. In early spring, if you can do these 0 things well, the hydrangea will still bloom with large flower bulbs just by watering.

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