How to grow Chrysanthemums in pots | Growing Chrysanthemums and care

How to grow Chrysanthemums in pots | Growing Chrysanthemums and care

Growing Chrysanthemums 

Chrysanthemums scattered their amazing color on patios, terraces, and balconies. They make your home colorful and attractive. Let’s know  How to grow Chrysanthemums in a container, Chrysanthemum propagation, care and Chrysanthemum growing information.

Chrysanthemum flower

Chrysanthemum flowers sometimes called mums, Chandramukhi, Guladaudee, Chandramallika, or chrysanths, are flowering plants of the genus Chrysanthemum in the family Asteraceae.  They are native to Asia and northeastern Europe.  Chrysanthemum 400 AD was brought to Japan by Buddhist monks. Mum’s throne to sit on the Japanese emperor used to love. These flowering plants are growing Tropical, which is basically the Eurasian region. With 20,000 species of chrysanthemum, the Asteraceae family is the largest family of flowering. Here Nature Bring tells you a Chrysanthemum growing tips and care.

Wild chrysanthemum is a texa herbaceous perennial plant. Mums leaves are alternately arranged into leaflets with toothed. The head is covered by layers of phyllaries. The flowers are white, yellow, and red in the colors. Chrysanthemums are also known as ‘Mums’. Starting early in the fall blooming chrysanthemums are beautiful varieties of perennials.

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Overview Chrysanthemums

Scientific name      Chrysanthemum

Plant type              Flowering herbs

Sun                        Full sun

Soil                        Fertile, sandy soil

Blooming time      October -November

Height                   10 centimeter- 1.5 meter

Rank                      Genus

pH                         6.5

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Growing information Chrysanthemums

How to grow Chrysanthemums, this is not a complicated process, this plant can be easily planted, but every plant has its own nature, which depends on its temperature, climate, and soil there.

Location and Soil

Mums prefer full early sun, at least 6 hours of sunlight is necessary for the plant when inserted it in the sun so it would be nice to produce flowers. It responds to well-prepared soil and moisture because plants require more food. Mix well the soil, fertile, sandy soil is good. The time of planting, the holes should be dug extra deep so that the roots can be moisture.

Planting time

The easiest way to develop early in the spring season. However, it can be planted at any time, but its root system before the summer season should be developed properly.

Varieties

There are hundreds of species on the basis of individual size and color, you can choose any option for your garden.

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Chrysanthemum in container

How to Grow Chrysanthemums in pots

  • Mums grow very easily, so any gardeners can also grow it without any problems. If you want to grow in the pot, choose-medium sized pot.
  • It flourishes well in a well-drained and loamy soil. Mix the sand in the soil so that it becomes well-drilled, mix organic compost in the soil, thereby improving soil quality.
  • Bring a healthy plant from the nursery. Put it in the pot. After growing plant, water it liberally for a few weeks. This will help the establishment of the plant. After planting them, for good results, place it on the courtyard, balcony or terrace on your house, where there is clear sunshine.
  • If you set up inside the house then there is clear sunshine. Direct sunlight and proper air circulation are important for the healthy growth of these plants.

Chrysanthemum propagation

Mums propagated easily by seeds, you can plant it by cuttings and dividing also, or buy from the nursery.

  • Use 4 to 6 inches fresh healthy cutting, remove the lower half of the leaves ·
  • Rooting hormone use in cutting. The sterile moist sand, vermiculite or sphagnum moss and keep up to a 1-inch deep crater.
  • Prepare a mini greenhouse container above the container cover with poly film. ·
  • Chrysanthemum produced by seeds soil before the start of the spring season.

Chrysanthemums care

  • Do not plant mums for three consecutive years in the same place, it helps to prevent diseases and pests. To get the best results plant should at a distance of at least 18 to 30 Inches.
  • This plant is required balanced fertilizer every 2 weeks.
  • When the plant is 6 inches long, then all branches of the plant pinch about 3/4 Inches. It helps to develop the plant and promote more bloom when the plant should be 1 foot tall pinches them again.
  • The plants are susceptible to mildew, so the priority should be to keep the plant dry.
  • The plant much more air circulation, water drainage, and the morning sun are very important.
  • These plants require fertile, well-drained, sandy or loamy soils with 6.5 pH.
  • Balance fertilizer and sunlight encourages blooming in the growing season.

Pests and diseases Chrysanthemums

Aphids and leaf miners are common pests. Leaf and bud eelworms stock can cause damage. Occasional pests like Capsid bug and glasshouse red spider sometimes damage. Rust diseases, white rust, are particularly harmful to the chrysanthemum, it is difficult to control them. Powdery mildew can be harmful in dry conditions. In wet weather, gray mold and other fungal diseases harmful.

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