Why experienced growers cut dahlias in July and the first buds are removed?
If you grow dahlias without support, it can not do without additional measures care for dahlias in July. But for an abundant flowering and beautiful need more and remove the first bud. How and why - we find out.
Dahlias must-cut. Uncontrolled growth of the plants grow, the pole with single flowers, not representing the aesthetic value for the garden and landscape design. This is especially true copies, growing up without support. The lion's share goes to the strengthening of the forces of the stem. It makes more sense to put them on branching. After all, the more branches - the more and buds that will become beautiful flowers. Therefore, cut the main stem when it is greater than 30 cm.
More important to remove the first 2-3 bud. This is done as follows:
dahlias - beautiful colors of autumn, so in the summer early formation of flower buds just do not go to the benefit of: rapidly developing, they are poorly maintained sultry weather and high air temperature. The first bud should be ruthlessly deleted. By this, a bud, a couple of centimeters lower in the axils of the leaves are developing new shoots. The first two pairs of shoots also need to remove, as they will soon give the flower buds on bad short stems.
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