These days, all the cuttings are growing strong. As they grow underneath the vast sky, they are getting used to the heat and the rains. The good news is that the cuttings are growing up to become plants. Some of them are indeed very healthy, happy, ready to grow taller, touch the skies, but some are still a little laidback, slack. That’s all right, in a family, every child is bound to be different.
These days, it becomes imperative to spray your chrysanthemum with the insecticide, Malathion every week. About 1 capful of medicine in 1 litre of water should do the trick and protect the plant from the ill effects of tiny insects and pests.
Now is also the time to pinch the plants at the top. In the pictures below, I have made an attempt to illustrate this process. It is said that the more you dig the soil, in which the chrysanthemum grows, the healthier they become. My friend Manju has shared some wisdom with me in this regard- that you must start digging at the edge of the pot, so that their sensitive roots do not get damaged. This is such a simple thing, but like all simple advice, it is seldom followed.
About two days after the digging, add some NPK fertilizer organic khad to make your chrysanthemum cheerfully healthy. That’s it from me, waiting for the mums to grow into adolescence!
All pots are open-to-sky. Saplings are now strong enough to face the direct heat of the sun and rain.
Weekly spray of insecticide(Malathion.Roger) should be done on the plants to get disease-free crop.
The process of pinching or pruning starts at the top of the multiple variety plant to get a good bloom.
Pinching the multiple variety mum.
The pruning is complete. It is done at least 2-3 times in the season.
Pinching of a double variety sapling.
Just pinched double variety.
3-4 days after the pinching, side branches have just started emerging.
About a week after pinching the double Variety plant ,three side branches have emerged to take three flowers at its end.
Almost 10 days after pinching, the double variety as seen from the top. The three side branches will hopefully yield three flowers in November.
Again, about ten days after pinching, a single plant to get four side branches in a pot. I expect 4 flowers from this pot.
Digging of the soil is started from the rim of the pot to avoid damage to the root of the plant.
Turn the soil fully after digging it deep.
Addition of N.P.K.(Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium)after 1-2 days of digging the pot.
N.P.K.is sprinkled close to the rim of the pot which is then filled with water.
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