Cause of failure to bloom
It is almost always Care errorscausing the jasmine flower to fail. The most common causes are:
- too little light
- too warm winter quarters
- too much pruning
- too old plant
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Jasmine needs a lot of light and sun
During spring and summer, jasmine needs a lot of light and warmth. A Location The plant does well in full sun. Only when you drag them in the flower window do you need to protect them from sunburn.
If you have jasmine in the bucket on the terrace or balcony move, look for a location that is as sunny as possible. Only there does the climbing plant develop its full splendor.
The temperatures in the winter quarters
As warm as the jasmine may be during the flowering period - in the winter the temperatures must not be too high. The ideal winter temperature is a maximum of 10 degrees. If the plant is in a warmer place, it will not bloom.
Cut jasmine properly
Jasmine should keep you in shape regularly cut. You have to be careful when doing this. If you shorten it too much, you will remove the inflorescences that develop mainly on the young shoots.
Cut the plant just before it sprouts in spring. If possible, only remove old shoots. This will encourage the formation of new branches with lots of flowers.
Rejuvenate plants that are too old
Sometimes the jasmine already has several years long bloomed abundantly. If it stops blooming, it is simply too old. To get the jasmine to bloom again, you should rejuvenate it.
In doing so, cut it back to a third and remove all old shoots just above the base.
To recover from this radical cut, the jasmine needs one to two years. During this time it hardly or not at all flowers.
Tips
That the leaves of jasmine before the winter break yellow become and eventually fall off is normal. If the plant loses its leaves in summer, it needs more water or a larger pot.