How much pruning do angel trumpets need?
If you compare the pruning requirement with that of water and nutrients, as an angel trumpet owner you can almost lean back. Because the angel's trumpet is a comparatively easy-care protégé in terms of growth. It does not grow excessively fast and, especially in the main vegetation phase over the summer, automatically forms well-branched branches. During the warm months, when you have the angel's trumpet outside, you usually don't have to cut it back.
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In addition, the angel's trumpet is even more grateful for relatively little pruning - the less you trim it, the more it will thank you with a lush bloom.
The favorable conditions for the little cutting work are therefore:
- not a particularly rapid growth that needs to be controlled
- good independent branching in the main vegetation phase
- more flowering pleasure with little pruning intervention
When to cut back
However, you shouldn't leave your angel's trumpet entirely to yourself either. Especially when it comes to wintering, you should use scissors in moderation. When this makes sense, it hardly differs from other plants that need to be overwintered - usually it is advisable to clean the plant once before removing it and once before winting it out in certain places shorten.
Before wintering
Before you bring the angel's trumpet to your winter quarters in autumn, you can cut it back a little - but more because it then takes up less space inside. Also only prune the shoots that fork with the smaller, asymmetrical leaves in the upper flowering region. There should always be one leafy shoot per branch - this way you get all flowering shoots and can still save space.
You should not expect more reduction in view of the next vegetation phase. You should also prune the autumn as early as possible when it is still mild and do not put the angel's trumpet into winter quarters immediately afterwards. This promotes good healing of the cut surfaces.
Before wintering
When a second cutting check is worthwhile, is the time before the wintering. Depending on the circumstances in the winter quarters, the angel's trumpet can do some prematurely Shoots have formed, but due to the lack of light, they tend to be lean and have no leaves or hardly any leaves present. You should shorten these before removing them so that one or two leaves remain.
Radical cutbacks only in extreme cases
Very rarely do you have to radically cut back the angel's trumpet - this case only occurs with really serious mite or Fungal infestation and you should only take this emergency measure if all the means and treatments that are gentle on the plants no longer exist help. The radical cut back can then save the angel's trumpet, but it also weakens it enormously.
