Camellia Thinning Techniques
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It is necessary to thin Camellia buds, but many flower friends can't bear to do it. Seeing the Camellia buds clustering, each bud is a little bigger than soybean, and some strong branches often gather more than two buds at the top. Camellia, like peony, has the habit of giving up life but not flowers. Too many flowers will consume a lot of nutrients, causing the tree to weaken, and the flowers are not large or standard, and it is not easy to show the characteristics of the variety. The ground planting is a bit better, especially the pot planting, which causes leaves to fall and slow and weak germination after flowering. Therefore, it is necessary to thin the buds during this period, which can not only make the flowers large but also maintain the tree's vitality.
The common practice of thinning is to directly break off the excess buds. Have you noticed this method? The base of the bud is closely adjacent to the base of the leaf bud. Breaking off the bud will leave a large wound at the edge of the leaf bud base, which can cause the leaf bud base to lose water, leading to bud shrinkage or even drying. Even if it does not dry up, it is relatively weak when germinating in spring. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the thinning method.
After many years of exploration and practice, the "bud cutting method" can achieve the effect of thinning without injuring the leaf bud. The specific method is: when the bud is about the size of a soybean or larger (the earlier the better, but too small is not convenient to operate), use a sharp pair of scissors to cut off the lower part of the excess bud's waist slightly. This bud will form a large wound surface, which will evaporate the remaining part of the bud's moisture. After a week, the remaining part will naturally turn yellow and fall off, and at this time, the connection with the leaf bud has also formed a dry scar, which does not affect the development of the leaf bud at all. What should be noted when cutting the bud is that the amount cut off should not be less than half, that is, the lower part of the bud mentioned earlier, the purpose of which is to damage the pistil. If the pistil is not injured, this half of the bud will continue to grow and develop.
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