Getting Jasmine to Bloom Indoors

Jasmine is a tropical plant that has more than 200 different species. This plant produces beautiful little white star shaped blooms and mostly on the petals have a pink highlight. The Jasmine flower also has a sweet pleasant fragrance apart from looking so beautiful.

Jasmine plants grow well in regular,Provide well-drained soil in the garden with moderate levels of soil moisture and fertiity. Should you prune them to achieve it? The aswer is yes. Prune your plant in early autumn so it will get ready for the following year of blooms. If the jasmine you have planted is not thick as your expected.

The cultural requirements of Jasmine is commonly simple. When you’ve decided to have indoor jasmine, put it in a cool room and set it in a window that receives bright light but little or indirect sunlight is a must. Flowers will started to bloom and last longer with cooler home temperatures.

Watering

water them only when the top half inch of the potting mix is nearly dry, take a note that Jasmine will not tolerate soggy or waterlog so you have to make a hole at the bottom of the pot for well-drainage. If these things done, flowering generally will begins in late January or early February.

Besides, jasmine can not tolerate of soggy water. Jasmines are also sensitive to the dryness such as hot-air which through the ventilate, and wood-burning stoves when the winter is going. Then any tips to solve that? don’t worry here are some ways to increase the humidity around your plants indoors:

Put and run a humidifier near you

Fill the trays with gravel or pebbles and set plants on it, then add water to a level just below the tops of the gravel. Don’t let the soil mix in the pots comes in contact with the water, because the soil mix will draw the water into pot, which will cause the root rot. Do this continuously by adding the water in trays  to replace water lost through evaporation.

What you need to do to your jasmine after flowering/blooming?

Put your jasmine outside of direct sunlight  at least 6 hours in a day and normal room temperatures.

When the winter has passed that cause of frost of any plant, we suggest you to set the plant outdoors or the summer, shifting it gradually from a shady spot to direct sunlight.

Give fertilizer to your charming jasmine is about every 2-4 weeks during the growing season. When is growing season then? Usually it starts from early spring to early fall. withhold the fertilizer during fall and winter, when the plant is resting. Use a water-soluble fertilizer designed for houseplants  mixed at just half the rate which suggested by the manufacturer. As same as watering, plants will suffer if overfertilized.

Prune them is a must to control size or to maintain shape, but in late summer plants sets flower buds so stop pruning by August 1. Make sure your plant experiences the cooler temperatures and shorter days of early autumn to encourage the formation of flower buds for next season. The temperatures between 40- 50°F at nighttime is needed by plant for 4-5 weeks , plenty of sunlight, and the complete absence of artificial light after sundown.Before frost you have to bring the plant indoors and then give it indirect sunlight and cool temperatures until it blooms again in late winter.

You don’t need to repoting Indoors jasmines as frequently as other houseplants but move to a pot with fresh soil every three years or so. Use fresh potting mix, and prune down the roots when you move the plant is needed, so they have plenty of room to grow.

Depending on the season, you can choose to repot easily your orchid by using a friendlier container and the right growing medium. You need to know that short term care as well as long term care can be your concern for orchids when they bloom is over.  You will want to cut off the old flower spike which near the base after your orchid blooms. But some peoples hoping it will rebloom from the same spike which does sometimes it happen by keeping this spikes on.

How to propagate jasmine

The varieties that is easily to propagated is vining jasmine  by cutting the stem tip. Take the cuttings stem at the same time when you repot the plant. You can use the rooting hormone to increase your chances of successfully propagation, then place the cuttings in a bright location with high humidity and a steady, supply the water carefully. As long as you follow the tips in few weeks new growth should emerge.

As earlier explanation about the propagation that Vining jasmine easily to propagated. But do you know there are many varieties of Vining Jasmine, including:

• Jasminum polyantum well known as white jasmine, pink jasmine or chinese jasmine. This type can be your chooice to decorate your room and is one of the easiest vining jasmines to grow.

• Murraya paniculata as known as orange jasmine, can be a favorite cultivar is ‘Lakeview’, which grows to 15 ft. And the features small glossy leaves and small white flowers makes this flower looks so cute and beautiful with freshness citrusy scent that can make us feel good.

• Jasmine sambac well known as arabian jasmine flowers has intensely fragrant. It can grow about 5ft tall and commonly is a shorter plant.

• Jasmine primulinum or commonly called primrose jasmine has a yellow flower when it blooms and shrub-like growth habit but non-fragrant flowers as usually other jasmine. Sometimes it is categorized as Jasminum mesnyi. You can take a note that in the early spring to remain contained, a jasmine that is non-twining will still need aggressive pruning.

If there are pests removed manually like small snails in the growing medium, because snails eat leaves, rust leaves and stems that are black on the stems and leaves, just wash and rub hands. Usually during the rainy season fungi attack, this can cause the growing media to rot and die.