AT A GLANCE
How do I save my bougainvillea when it loses leaves and flowers?
To save a ailing bougainvillea, you should first prune it back and remove dead shoots. Then repot in new substrate and water sparingly. After the winter, remove to a warm, sunny spot from mid-May.
What is the best method to save a bougainvillea?
A two-step program pruning and repot is the best way to save a bougainvillea. The stressed triplet should then regenerate in a suitable location. This is how the rescue operation succeeds:
- Thin out the bougainvillea and cut back dead shoots into the healthy wood with sharp, disinfected scissors.
- After pruning, the triplet flower repot in a structurally stable substrate over a drainage expanded clay.
- Water sparingly before clearing out the bright window seat and do not water for four weeks fertilize.
- Clear out in mid-May to a warm, rain-protected, full sun spot on the balcony.
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How can I save a bougainvillea from drying up?
With a immersion bath you can successfully save a bougainvillea from drying up. Typical symptoms of drought stress are
hanging leaves and shedding of the flowers. It is best to fill a bucket with rainwater and place the tub in it until no more air bubbles rise from the root ball.You can save a heavy bodied boletus from drying out by lifting the plant pour penetrating. Let the soft water run onto the root ball until the saucer fills up. As an exception, leave the excess water in the saucer.
Tip
Frost kills bougainvillea
All rescue efforts are in vain if you clear out your bougainvillea too soon after winter. Native to South America, the boletus has not learned to survive in freezing temperatures. For this reason, bougainvilleas should be bright and frost-free hibernate at 5° to 15° Celsius. In mid-May you can plant put out, when there is no fear of night frost after the ice saints.