How to grow honeysuckle at home

Honeysuckle Growing Conditions

Honeysuckle can grow and bloom in coarse bone soil in sandy and gravel mountains, limestone brown soil and saline-alkali land. It has a wide range of adaptability to temperature and can safely overwinter in winter at minus 30 degrees Celsius. It begins to germinate when the temperature is above 5 degrees in spring, and the new shoots grow fastest in summer at 20-30 degrees. It likes light, and the plant grows healthily and produces many flowers when there is sufficient light.

How to grow honeysuckle

Under normal circumstances, you can also cut healthy branches from the honeysuckle mother plant with 3 to 4 leaves on them, then disinfect and dry the wounds, and directly cut them into moist soil. Then place them in a cool and ventilated place for maintenance. After a month, the cuttings will be successful and new roots will grow.

Watering Honeysuckle

Generally speaking, honeysuckle should be watered every 3 to 5 days during its growth period, every day in summer, and every 7 to 10 days in winter. After the soil turns white, water similar to room temperature should be used.

Honeysuckle fertilization

In the process of caring for honeysuckle, thin fertilizer should be applied frequently, generally once a week in spring and autumn to supplement the nutrition of honeysuckle and enable it to grow better.

Honeysuckle pest control

The more common diseases of honeysuckle are leaf spot, powdery mildew, aphids, sawflies, etc. Once discovered, timely measures should be taken to spray the flowers with a ratio of malathion emulsion to water. However, the pesticide should not be sprayed one week before and after flowering, otherwise toxic substances will easily remain in the flowers.

How to grow honeysuckle at home

1. When growing honeysuckle at home, the potting soil is generally a mixture of fertile garden soil, leaf mold and sand. Before cultivation, a small amount of rotten bean cake fertilizer and manure is applied to the bottom of the pot, and a small amount of superphosphate is added as base fertilizer.

2. To grow honeysuckle, you need to ensure sufficient sunlight. In rainless weather, you should water it every 3 to 5 days. In addition, apply dilute organic fertilizer water every 15 days.

Precautions for caring for honeysuckle

In the process of caring for honeysuckle, weeds should be removed in time. If there are too many weeds, they will consume nutrients and the plant will grow slowly. In addition, appropriate pruning is also required. Scientific pruning can improve ventilation and light transmittance and accelerate plant growth.