Grandma’s house in the village, a small window and lush geraniums on the windowsill. These associations have all been familiar to us since childhood. Now this plant with bright flowers is probably in every house. Why are geraniums so popular? Yes, because they are unpretentious, bloom long and luxuriantly, decorate the interior of the house while in a pot, or garden design, if they grow on the site. We will tell you how to care for her, and help to understand the question of why geraniums do not bloom.
Does geranium not bloom?
It seems to you that you know everything about geranium, but sometimes it happens that a apparently healthy plant suddenly stops blooming. It seems that you take care of your favorite flowers, and surround them with care, but they do not want to please you with their bright flowering. So why not blooming geraniums?
This plant, which is scientifically called "pelargonium", although not whimsical, but when caring for it, you need to take into account some points. If once your flower has stopped blooming, then the reasons may be as follows:
- perhaps you are not sufficiently feeding your pelargonium or doing it with the wrong fertilizers;
- you water your beautiful geranium a lot, so she too can stop blooming;
- the pot is too big for her;
- not done spring pruning;
- there is little light for geraniums, or it grows in direct sunlight;
- the air temperature in the house is not suitable for this flower;
- geraniums are stuffy.
As you can see, there are many reasons why geraniums do not bloom, but we will try to deal with each.
How to care for geraniums
There is an opinion that pelargoniums make a person friendlier, help to achieve goals, attract good to the house and make it more comfortable. Here they are - indoor geranium flowers . Caring for them should be appropriate. Try to create the necessary conditions for geraniums, and they will thank you with a beautiful and long flowering.
The complex of measures for the care of geraniums is as follows:
- plant geranium in a small pot so that it is a little cramped in it (in a large pot, greens grow and the root grows, and geranium blooms sparingly or does not bloom at all);
- Pelargonium loves neighbors, so you can plant up to 4 bushes of this flower in one pot at once;
- the soil should be sod with the addition of sand and humus, annually change the top layer of the earth in the pot to a new one;
- transplant your geranium every 2 years;
- the room should be well lit, but do not put a pot of plants directly in the sun;
- Do not water the flower unnecessarily, but do it only if the soil dries (better often, but less);
- when watering, make sure that water does not fall on leaves and flowers, pour under the root;
- while feeding, avoid organic fertilizers, it is better to use supplements containing potassium and phosphorus (do top dressing whenever possible every week);
- in the summer it is better to keep geraniums on the balcony in the fresh air, and in winter put the pots away from heating radiators (geraniums love to winter at a temperature of 10-15 degrees);
- cut the bushes of pelargonium and remove dried flowers (shorten the stems by about half);
- plant your geranium in the flowerbed for the summer, if possible.
If you follow these simple rules, then you will not be wondering why geraniums do not bloom.