Gardenia won't bloom
iplant4mywife
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Comments (1)The flowers open early morning and close within a few hours. Likely you're just missing them....See MoreIt just won't bloom!
Comments (27)So much good information here. I am in SW Florida and the nighttime temps get into the 40’s enough during January and February that I think they get enough cool temps. I know there iis a hotel in Naples that has them as a mass planting and they bloom. My first year here Iost my best biggest Clivia to crown rot. Now I use a fungicide regularly. I have repotted all into an orchid mix of Leica, bark, charcoal for better drainage. I have discovered with care the plant can come back from crown rot because the roots are still healthy and a new crown is formed. It has actually taken two years so might not be worth it. They have tried to bloom but the stalks don’t grow above the crown and they start to rot so I have had to remove the blooms, and spray with fungicide to save the plant. I think I haven’t been fertilizing enough so I’ll do better and see what happens next year. They need so much more care here than they did in WA, but, after having them for forty years, I have to keep trying....See MoreCan you help me with a potted Gardenia that won't grow?
Comments (5)Nonbryan, There is nothing a gardenia hates more than being stuck in a pot. You live in a warm zone, so you must put it back in the garden. Before you do, find a nice spot for it around a tree, so it will get some afternoon shade, for the really hot months. If the shade is around 2pm til dusk, it would be perfect. Then, add some soil conditioner and some composted manure (or a little peat moss if you can't find soil conditioner) to the native soil and mix in it real good. Take the plant, rinse the roots off and plant it in the hole with your ammended soil. If you have red clay soil, plant the gardenia up on a little mound of your ammended soil so the plant sits higher up for good drainage. Don't feed it for one month. You just stressed it out. Mulch, mulch, mulch it good, but don't let the mulch touch the stem of the plant itself. Water it good after transplanting. Then don't water it again for a week. You'll kill it by overwatering it very easily. DOn't spray the water directly on the plant ever. Water in morning only once a week, spraying water on the bottom of the plant. In one month, which will be beginning of May, fertilize with Miracle Grow azela and Rhodo fertilizer. Half strength. A little goes a long way. It will get yellow leaves after you transplant it, that is normal. DOn't panic, it reacts to stress that way. Stop fertilizing in September, so that will be it's last meal. If you need more mulch by then, add some more for the winter. Placing a water feature like a little fountain nearby the gardenia will help provide humidity, unless it is humid where you live. Gardenias aren't hard to grow in the ground at all. Good luck to you, and I hope your wife is happy this summer with it. (by the way, you can get what you need for the soil and food at HD)...See Moregardenia won't stand up
Comments (5)I can't see your picture either, but have a few comments: the branches on a gardenia loaded with buds do tend to droop some. This morning, the branches on mine were drooping even more because they were wet with rain. Stake your plant up to the shape you want it in and quit worrying. As the plant gets older the trunk will strengthen more and conform to the shape it's staked in....See Moremersiepoo
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