Steve C
Omono
Bougie is finally showing some summer color bracts now the past couple weeks.
Nice. I have a couple getting close.
Bougie is finally showing some summer color bracts now the past couple weeks.
Try some Bougain or Miracle-gro bloom booster. Let it dry out enough to wilt a bit then water. Don't pinch the new growing tips, that's where they will flower. Just a few suggestions.Ours just doesn't flower. What gives? Deep pot, high P fertilizer, full sun 12 hours plus every day... It flowered once in three years and just one new branch in one spot. What's your secret?
maybe you a are watering too much? they like to be dry-ish. Also, they only flower from new growth. Prune more often and see if it responds to that?Ours just doesn't flower. What gives? Deep pot, high P fertilizer, full sun 12 hours plus every day... It flowered once in three years and just one new branch in one spot. What's your secret?
Doesn't look like a Bougie to me. I have several, and none with brown bark and your leaves have a different, translucent look. Are you absolutely sure this is a Bougie? They come from everywhere around the world along the equator, so anything's possible.
It is a bougainvillea. See the image I just posted with the flowers.Doesn't look like a Bougie to me. I have several, and none with brown bark and your leaves have a different, translucent look. Are you absolutely sure this is a Bougie? They come from everywhere around the world along the equator, so anything's possible.
They bloom from the tips of a prior growth period's branch ends, so you need to let it go nuts and put out bull canes, then bloom on those and then cut it back hard enough to accommodate the next growing session's growth. That is, cut back to where it will look nice and then cut back beyond that to accommodate anticipated growth so that it will look nice after it grows back. After that initial "training", it will put out one bull cane at a time. You'll see a bud begin to expand as a cluster of leaves and lengthen. It will inflate the first pair of leaves and then each successive pair of leaves will have a longer internode by two or three times the length of the previous one, just like the bull cane. If you allow it to continue growing it will have very long internodes and be straight as an arrow and feet long instead of inches. This is a bull cane on a vine, the anti-bonsai. You need to pinch the second or third set of leaves when you see it is going to be longer than an inch. It will do this one-at-a-time routine until you think it will go on forever, but keep pinching back as soon as it puts on the second set of leaves and eventually it will bud out all over and they will be short and they will show color. None of the pinched tips will bloom. Over time, as you'll get more and more ramification, but not like a elm, just a lot of buds, and the percentage of non-blooming buds will be reduced and you will be happy and name your first born, "Bougie". Don't you just love happy endings?
I had trouble getting mine to bloom for years...also tried all the tricks.I’ve got a pink pixie Bougie that just flowers non stop. I’ll go through and trim out every bract and flower only for it to flush back through in a month. I do nothing but water regularly and feed heavy with a balanced NPK organic fertilizer.
I do nothing special to mine. And I’m no horticultural wizard that’s for sure. But mine just blooms and blooms. I wish I could tell you I did do something special @Mayank !I had trouble getting mine to bloom for years...also tried all the tricks.
Finally seeing the first ones ever this year!
The difference might be in your latitude. The amount and quality of sunlight your plant getsI do nothing special to mine. And I’m no horticultural wizard that’s for sure. But mine just blooms and blooms. I wish I could tell you I did do something special @Mayank !
Great point. Especially compared to Mayan Ks location in Michigan.The difference might be in your latitude. The amount and quality of sunlight your plant gets