Clerodendrum is truly a miracle among indoor plants. Its large green leaves, shoots, which can take the form of a tree or creepers, complement the apartment with notes of tropics, warmth and exoticism. But it so happens that the flower does not want to open its buds. What is the reason below in the article.
Why does clerodendrum not bloom
Many flower growers believe that this flower has good energy and brings feminine happiness to the house. Green handsome - a lover of the warmth of the African and American tropics. There, its creepers reach up to 4 m in length, green leaves cover the entire length of the shoots every year, falling during the cooling period. Shoots become woody, which allows you to grow this plant as a tree or bush.
Flowering contrasting handsome
Flowering occurs from the beginning of spring until the first days of autumn. At home, most often you can find Ms. Thompson's clerodendrum and Clerodendrum Prospero. For the types of Thomson and Clodendrum Prospero, home care is the same, they differ only in shape and color palette.
If you leave the length, the plant can pull its shoots up, requiring a garter, or fall down from a hanging pot
The conditions for keeping an evergreen representative of the Verbenov family are simple. The lack of flowering is associated with insufficient care. Main reasons:
- improper care during hibernation of the plant;
- incorrect exit from a state of rest;
- lack of top dressing or untimely soil replacement;
- wrong pruning.
How Thomson's Clodendrum with red stamens and snow-white Prospero bloom
Home Care Difficulties
With special attention, care should be taken for the phyto-friend during periods of rest and exit from it. With the onset of winter, it should be put in a place where the temperature will be about 15 ° C. Watering should be reduced to a minimum, but make sure that the soil in the pot does not completely dry out.
Important! In winter, it is impossible to spray, fertilize, put the plant in a warm place.
Since watering is reduced, many gardeners forget about their indoor friend and may miss the appearance of the first buds of peduncles. With their biting, an active period of plant care should begin, this is approximately the end of February and the beginning of March:
- Mandatory pruning. The length of the shoots should be reduced by one third. If long lashes are formed, you need to remove a minimum of length, if you want to create a tree, you can leave 10 cm of shoots. The smaller the shoots of a plant, the larger and denser its flowers will be.
- Transplanting or updating the topsoil. The flower slept in winter, and during the active period of growth, it needs a lot of nutrients that must be in its soil. A transplant is not necessary if the roots of the plant have not reached the bottom of the pot.
- After transplanting and pruning, it is important to provide the clerodendrum with warmth and plentiful lighting.
- In conditions of awakening, the flower needs daily watering with the mandatory removal of excess water from the pan.
An example of how to trim the clerodendrum correctly
Transfer
Needs a transplant annually, since the root system is very developed and growing rapidly. Most often, it looks more like transshipment than transplantation. The roots of the plant are very tender, it is better not to touch them.
Note! It is impossible to get rid of the soil strongly, as it can be damaged, which can also cause a lack of flowering.
A flower is picky about soil: you need nutritious, slightly acidic soil. To create these conditions, you need to mix in equal parts:
- clay soil;
- leafy soil;
- peat;
- coarse sand.
Note! Before transplanting, the soil is disinfected with steam or in the oven.
Conditions for lush flowering
Florists, wondering why Thompson's clerodendrum does not bloom, attribute the plant to capriciousness and a difficult character. And he only requires similar conditions with his native home: light, heat, humidity and plentiful watering, not lingering in the roots.
- It will not be difficult to provide light for it; it feels great on a western or eastern window, most importantly, diffuse lighting. In winter, he does not need abundant light. But when you exit hibernation, a lack of light can provoke falling flower buds.
- The temperature in the summer should be 20-25 ° C. During the rest period, the temperature should not be higher than 18 ° С, ideally 12 ° С.
- Increased humidity should be maintained by frequent spraying and a moist layer of expanded clay in the pan of the pot. When spraying, it is important that the water does not fall on the inflorescences.
- Abundant watering begins from the beginning of spring after pruning and transplanting the plant. With the onset of the rest period, along with a sharp decrease in temperature, watering is also reduced.
- A comprehensive fertilizer for flowering plants will provide all the necessary minerals and trace elements during active flowering and growth.
Important! In the autumn and winter periods, you do not need to fertilize, since the plant can go into active growth and miss the sleep period, and with it the formation of buds with future flowers.
Clerodendrum: how to make bloom
There is one secret what to make the indoor clerodendrum bloom. You can provoke flowering in one true way - pruning.
The first buds on the plant appear flowering, and then leafy. If the plant does not release them on its own in early March, the plant should be pruned. Pruning should be done not sparing, the shorter the better. After the procedure, the plant should be transplanted into fertile soil. With this method of withdrawing from dormancy, leaf buds first appear and its large green leaves begin to unfold, and flower buds follow their active growth.
Why do clerodendrum yellow and fall leaves
Why do the leaves of clerodendrum turn yellow, and what to do in this case:
- During the periods of spring and summer, the leaves will turn yellow with sparse watering. It should be made plentiful.
- If the leaf plate does not turn yellow completely, and only yellow dots appear, it is not a matter of watering. This is a sign of chlorosis disease. The plant does not have enough iron in the soil and fertilizing, you need to add this element to restore color. Sometimes chlorosis occurs with a sharp difference in temperature at different times of the day.
- If the leaves of the clerodendrum brighten and fall in early autumn or the dormant period, this is normal for clerodendrum. He prepares for wintering and stores his strength, so he leaves the foliage yellow and fall.
Lack of care leads to a loss of a healthy appearance
Clerodendrum: Correct Cropping
Pruning is an important procedure for this flowering phyto-friend. It is on young shoots that good flower buds are formed. To provoke the growth of young shoots, you need to trim the old ones. Shorter shoots should be 1/3 of the length at least.
Using pruning, you can form a tree, bush or long vines that will braid the support
Although clerodendrum requires attention in the beginning of spring, it is necessary to thank beautiful flowering for this care. Its flowers look bright and festive and exude a honey aroma. This is a worthy decoration for any home.
