Hydrangea seedlings, can you trim them at the top?

For most flowers, the principle of conservation is to raise seedlings first, and to raise strong seedlings. Only when the seedlings are strong enough can we provide more nutrition for the flowers and develop more standard flower patterns. Therefore, for hydrangeas that are still in the state of small seedlings, it is suggested to trim and top them.

The pruning time of hydrangea is particular, but the flowering of hydrangea is particular about branches, so the pruning time should not be arbitrary, otherwise there will be no flowers to see in the next year. Next, let's get down to business. Most hydrangeas only bloom with old branches, so the pruning time must not be too late. Different from common flowers such as Chinese rose, it needs to be pruned in winter. Hydrangeas must not be pruned in winter and spring, even if they are topped. Only after flowering can it be properly pruned. The latest pruning time cannot exceed the end of July. Once August is over, you can't trim and pick the heart!

The pruning of seedlings is the same, because ordinary seedlings can bloom in the second year after growing for one year. Of course, if you raise endless summer, you don't have to be so rigid. Because it is a variety that can open new branches, it has a large number of flowers and is easy to feed, which is why endless summer is the most popular. Moreover, the general hydrangea can only bloom once a year, but it can bloom twice a year in endless summer, once in the next season and once in autumn. Based on this, endless summer can be cut again. For the seedlings in the endless summer, Hua Niang's suggestion is that if your seedlings were cut last autumn and winter, try not to let them bloom in spring and let them thrive first, but this autumn is already a year of growth. If there are buds in autumn, you can keep them for appreciation and cut them again after flowering. But if you haven't seen a bud by the end of July, it won't bloom again this year, so you can trim it directly before August, and it's a heavy cut! This will make the lateral buds and foot buds stronger.

So how much should I trim? Generally, counting from bottom to top, the bottom can retain at most two pairs of buds. No matter how much, it's useless, but they are all thin. For particularly long branches, just leave a pair of buds at the bottom, because they will sprout directly from the soil in the later stage, which is a better and stronger flowering branch. The pruning of seedlings is basically one of these two points, one is time and the other is weight.