How to Care Bougainvillea in Rainy season/Tips to Repot Bougainvillea/How to grow Bougainvillea
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Bougainvillea is an evergreen climber plant and is used as an ornamental in many gardens. Its bright colors can do wonders to any gloomy garden. The plant loves an open-air and hot dry climate. It is also resistant to attacks by cattle and birds, owing to its thick piercing thorns.
Bougainvillea is a tropical vine that blooms almost throughout the year making a light show. Bougainvilleas also make good pot or container plants which can be grown either indoors or outdoors. But you have to know the needs of the plant so that your bougainvillea plant is thriving and is lushly producing abundant blooms for which it is famous for.
You should put your bougainvillea in a place where it will receive at least six hours of direct sunlight every day. You can put it on a sunlit porch or at a south facing window if kept indoors.
When you are placing a bougainvillea pot outside or in your garden, do not maintain the container directly on top of the ground because the roots of the bougainvillea will grow out the drainage holes. Then the source will go into the soil and set the plant there. So put a trash container under the pot, or you can configure the bougainvillea pot on an elevated surface, such as bricks or crate.
You must note that you have to allow the soil to dry before you water again in the bougainvillea pot. You should give water only when the soil is dry. You must touch it and see if it is about 3 or 4 inches dry deep in the ground. Bougainvilleas will flower the best when they are ‘stressed’ dry.
Every time you water, make sure you put enough water so that it comes out of the drainage holes at the bottom. Then you must throw away the excess water that may have built up in the trash container. This is done to make sure that the soil does not remain wet.
Then you must throw away the excess water that may have built up in the drainage container. This is done to make sure that the soil does not remain wet.
You should feed the bougainvillea plant once every two weeks during spring. During winter, feeding is lesser and once a month is fine.
For your bougainvillea container plant, you can feed a mix of water-soluble fertilizer. Add this fertilizer when you water the plant. You can get a balanced fertilizer such as 20-20-20.
It is important for the bougainvillea to branch and encourage new growth. For that you should pinch the soft tips of the bougainvillea every month when it is actively growing.
Always clean your pair of clippers with a disinfectant before using. You can use rubbing alcohol. Always prune the bougainvillea plant after it has finished blooming.
If you bring your potted bougainvillea indoors, it might cease blooming if it does not get full sun. You can trim to your bougainvillea shape or thin it as you want. You can also prune it back less or aggressively or cut back to the to the bottom of the container.
Once the bougainvillea pot starts to grow again, start to pinch the tips to make it bushy.
You have to repot a bougainvillea when you see that there are more roots than the soil. However a bougainvillea will grow best when it is root bound. Take the bougainvillea pot out of the soil and then be careful to handle the roots so you do not damage them.
Plant it again in the larger sized pot, with ample drainage holes. Also use a potting medium that drains well and does not hold on to moisture. A soilless mix also works well for bougainvillea pot care.
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