When to start feeding clematis
How To Prune And Feed Clematis (For A Longer Bloom Season)
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the planters plant food hi I'm Marianne
Benetti and I'm going to give you some
tips on how to prune your clematis and
feed your clematis so you can have
blooms for two months out of the year
even longer than 8 weeks if you know the
secrets now this is a lovely small
flowering jáchym any type clematis glows
great on the lattice it's in full bloom
here's what you do not want to do do not
fertilize your clematis when it is in
bud or in bloom if you do that
oftentimes the buds will drop or if it's
a full bloom it'll just push out the
boobs very quickly drop the petals and
you have a very short bloom season
instead here's what I want you to do
when do clematis is done blooming this
was not quite done over here I'll show
you when it's finished blooming
okay here it is it earlier blooming
clematis it's just finished blooming and
what I'm going to do now is lightly
prune it remove about 1/3 of the vines
and that is going to courage more growth
now I can use a regular hand pruners
like this but I prefer when doing very
thin stems with clematis to using
kitchen scissors so what I'm going to do
is simply look for the top where I see
no new growth shorten it all the way
down to a joint where there's two leaves
coming across the bud that is a node so
right with that joint right above that
joint that's where I will click this off
okay back going to the compost pile now
where I see new growth now here's one
you can tell us this new growth because
the leaves are smaller because she is
even a little bit of more buds coming
I'm not going to cut that that will
become another wave of blooms on my
clematis that usually just blooms once a
year but if I go ahead and get stupid
with all this older growth here shorting
everything just by a third or so what
I'm doing I'm telling the plant oh you
didn't really flower flower again and so
that is how I will get a whole another
set of blooms and enjoy a lot more
flowers on my clematis you don't have to
worry too much about being particular
just don't take off more than one-third
of the vines and as soon as you're done
blooming go ahead and fertilize lightly
using a slow-release plant food like
Osmocote or maybe some alfalfa pellets
and water it in well you'll be blessed
with another whole display of Clematis
blooms this has been Maryanne Bonetti
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