Gardening Tips & Advice

How To Take Care Of Mums!

By Agriculture Review

Introduction

Chrysanthemum is a wonderful flowering plant that you can grow outside as well as inside your home. People started growing this flower back in 15th Century B.C.

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Growing Season

In temperate climate you can grow them during early spring season, while in hot tropical climate grow them during fall to early winter season.

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Potting Mix

Prepare potting mix with 3 part soil + 2 part compost + 1/4th part Neem cake fertilizer + one spoon bone-meal.

3

Sunlight

Mums can perform well under bright direct to indirect sunlight. However avoid low light conditions. 

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Watering

Be careful while watering mums. Apply little amount of water only when soil becomes completely dry

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Fertilizers

Mix organic compost and stone dust, and add one to two handful of this mixture once after every 14 days. Before flowering add banana peel fertilizer.

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Pinching

Pinching is important for making plant dense and getting heavy flowering. Leave 4 to 5 nodes in each branch and pinch out the rest part

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Propagation

You can use pinched out branches for propagating mums from cuttings. Plant them in sandy loam soil and wait for 25 days. 

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