The 3 most common mistakes Geranium does not bloom or does poorly. And how to fix them quickly

Do you want your geranium on the window to be the most beautiful in the village? Then a fiery salute, comrade vain florist!

Stop looking with envy at the windowsills and photos of your friend, thinking: "When will you, canalya, confess what you are feeding them!" Let's take a closer look at 3 of the most common growing mistakes that can lead to such a dire situation.

Note to a boring friend: Everyone has long known that geranium means pelargonium. There is no need to report this unique knowledge in the comments. I use the popular name and see nothing wrong with it

Mistake # 1: Thinking Oily Soil Is The Best Geranium Can Give

How often good intentions lay the road straight to the non-flowering geranium! I do not in any way doubt that our pelargos love to eat and they need nutritious soil.

But generously to put in a pot of earth from the garden "fatter" - to start spinning the drum of Russian roulette. The result of such a game, as we all know, comrades, is unpredictable. Either the geranium will go crazy with joy and give a fantastically lush bloom, or it will begin to fatten.

Have you seen green bushes with trunks as thick as a finger, but without a single flower? I assure you: their owner also decided to please the geraniums with nutritious soil with a fair amount of dung or compost.

Note to a friend: I am already silent about the fact that it is in the oily heavy soil that pelargoniums most often rot.

And if you, comrade, have already pampered your plants with "good soil" and the geranium, in response, decided to thank you with impeccably green burdock leaves, just transplant it into the soil more modestly. But a handful of something nutritious, of course, is worth adding to the gluttonous.

Mistake # 2: being cheeky and not trimming

"What a pity to cut geraniums - she has grown so many branches, and over there - already a bud"- say those who in the summer will have a stack of leaves at best, but more likely - one or two sticks.
"The neighbor does not cut and she has a beautiful"- those who cannot decide on one simple, but damn important action in any way reassure themselves: to take and cut the trunks to hemp.

The more pelargonium branches, the more flowers it will have. And one trunk will never give the effect of mass flowering. Therefore, comrade: every spring, cut all geraniums to hemp of 3-5 cm. Yes, even if she is "yonder has already given a bud". Now overgrown people can simply be cut in half - a little bit, but they will start to grow.

Mistake # 3: Thinking geraniums don't need sun

All zoned pelargoniums love bright lighting - both shaded and direct. I don't understand people putting pots on the table a meter away from the window and waiting for some kind of beautiful flowering.

I was convinced of this from my own experience. Geranium stood calmly on the northeast window and idly released one umbrella after umbrella. One umbrella on pelargonium - laughing chickens. Despite the fact that my wife was waving her arms in a funny way, I defiantly moved the pot to the south side. And very soon the pelargonium changed its mind and began to bloom 3-5 pieces.

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Sincerely yours, Fyodor Tyapkin-Sklyankin, the commander of the pots in the house.