Producing a Bush Fuchsia
A guide to growing a
bush Fuchsia
- Use a young plant, either a
cutting you have taken or a bought in plant.
- Use controlled release fertilizer
in the compost.This releases nutrients into compost as
the temperature increases, as the plant requires more
feed more nutrients are released. It always pays to
liquid feed even if slow release fertilizer has been
added to compost.
- Let the plant produce 3 sets of
leaves.
- Pinch out the growing tip (this is
called stopping and 1st stop). The plant will then
produce 6 side shoots, in a couple of weeks when the side
shoots have developed and produced 2 sets of leaves pinch
out the growing tip (2nd stop).
- Continue pinching out the growing
tips (3rd stop produces 24 shoots) untill the plant has
developed into the required shape.
- Single variety Fuchsia flower
aprox 60 days after the last stop.
- Semi double fuchsia flower aprox
70 days after the last stop.
- Double Fuchsia aprox 80 dats after
the last stop.
- Feed the Fuchsia little and often
as this produces better results than feeding once a week.
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