Gardenia flowers- Clues for a radiant flowering.

The Gardenia is one of the well known plants within and among the most gorgeous in bloom. 

The keeping, watering, potting size and should help improve flowering. 

In summary, you ought to know: 

The characteristics of the Gardenia. 

Name: Gardenia

Family: Rubiaceae 

Type: House plant, shrub

Height: 2m and 0.5 to 1 m in buildings

Soil: soil

Exposure: Bright

Foliage: Evergreen

Flowering: May to October

Planting and potting Gardenia:

The tillage of gardenia is not always straightforward and some preservation is vital to boost growth and blooming gardenia, it starts with the planting and potting. 

Gardenia indoor care instructions:

Many people dont realize why after to obtain a beutifull gardenia plant full of blooms, buds and life the plant drops its flowers and at the end loses it buds amid weeks, we can notice - immediately that goes into to lose its buds and initiates to die.

The response for the gardenia indoors rests in the conditions we are growing the plant

The growing of the Gardenia indoors is the most numberless because our climate does not accept outdoor cultivation in the winter.

- It's recommended to plant your gardenia in a good potting soil for houseplants.

- Pick a bright place without straight sunlight.

Gardenia outdoors:

Planting Gardenia in the outdoors is only realizable if we are in the summer and moist but in the winter is not posible because it's not resistant to frost.

- Choose a location sheltered from the wind, slightly sunny not too exposed, excellently partial shade.

- Mix the soil of your garden potting soil, land of heather and dried leaves or river sand.

- Gardenia prerequisites a well-drained soil.

Potting Gardenia:

If you grow your potted gardenia, potting every 2-3 years is desired. The plant requisites space to grow and too little pot would affect its growth.

- Wait for then the plant is big . 

- Potting gardenia is in preference carried out in late winter or early spring.

- Is found in some particular stores and garden centers of special potting.

Multiplication gardenia:

- The Best way to multiply a gardenia is the way of cuttings although this technique is not always easy to execute.

- The Cuttings takes place in early spring.

- We can obtain the technique of the cuttings of about eight-ten cm.

- We prerequisite to remove the lower leaves to keep only the top pair.

- We must to soak the cutting in rooting hormone.

- Plant The cuttings in a proper soil or in a mixture of peat and river sand.

- Place Your light cuttings with no direct sunlight and with a high moisture content (you can overlay the cuttings with a transparent plastic to increase the humidity level).

-Keep The slightly damp substrate.

-Repot Seedlings when the cuttings have formed radiant leaves.

Watering of the gardenia:

-For the gardenia the best watering is to water with the rain water or with mineral bottled water.

-We need also constant moisture.

-Flowering, do not wet the foliage since it discolors the flowers and causes spots on the flowers.

-We ought a good level of humidity.

To do again the natural moisture conditions when we plant the cuttings, we can place it on a bed of clay pebbles or gravel that you always leave moistened with water. 

Supported by evaporation of water, you recreate the natural conditions of life of the plants in the tropics. 

Gardenia watering is more useful in the spring or in the summer:

It's fundamental to water regularly without flooding the plant, wait Wait for the time being the soil surface is dry between 2 irrigations. For the gardenia we requisite an environment with air moist to develop, we must regularly to spray water on the leaves and stop as soon as the plant is in full bloom. 

Gardenia Watering in the fall and winter:

Reduce watering. Wait in the mean time the substrate is dry before watering again.

Pruning and care gardenia:

-After flowering, prune your shrub slightly to maintain its graceful compact design while reducing the crown of 1/3.

-Remove faded flowers when they arise, this stimulates the emergence of new flowers.

-Strengthen the plant for having a spectacular flowering heather bring a particular fertilizer.

Malady and plagues that perturb the gardenia:

Grown houseplant, the gardenia is subject to most disease and pest insects or mites that perturb this type of plant.

-The main pests are aphids, mealybugs and spider mites.

-We must to fight against mealybugs, aphids, spider mites.

Note that if the leaves of the gardenia turn yellow, it's apparently linked to chlorosis as long as the water has a lot of limestone.

If the flowers fall before opening, this is probably a lack of moisture. sprinkle soft water on the leaves and unopened flowers .

The gardenia is strictly one of the most beautiful houseplants,native to tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia and Oceania, we for the most part like the gardenia for its abundant flowering that gives off a sweet fragrance of jasmine,this plant adapts very well when we have a high humidity. Do not put it near a heater to withdraw the dehydration.

Outside, it ought a very pleasant climate and hence no freezing winter.