![]() If your plant has been experiencing a period of stress, you might also find that this can actually trigger the plant to bloom - keeping your plant pot-bound as mentioned above is one way, as is reducing watering. ![]() So in order to encourage flowering, you might want to keep the plant relatively tight in the pot - new plant lovers can sometimes enthusiastically re-pot too often (I’m sure we’ve all been there…!) which means the plant is consistently focused on growing new roots over leaves or blooms. When houseplants are pot-bound you might notice that they start to produce offsets (new growth), but they can also throw out a flower spike too or blooms along the stem (like String of Hearts). If you haven’t repotted your plant for ages, it might have outgrown its current pot size, with roots circling around the base of the pot. My String of Hearts took a few years to flower for the first time, but has since flowered every year for the last 3 years, particularly in the Summer months. Sometimes plants will only come into bloom at a certain level of maturity, so if you are growing on a young plant, it might take a while. Plants that aren’t in optimum lighting conditions are much less likely to flower, so if you want to encourage your houseplant to flower, it might need to be receiving a greater intensity of light, so move to a brighter position. Light intensityįirst of all, consider the growing conditions and whether your plant is just about surviving or is growing well. There are a few ways that as a grower, you can promote or encourage blooming: 1. The questions ‘how to do I get my houseplants to flower?’, or ‘ what causes houseplants to flower?’ quite commonly arise, even when the plants in question are primarily not grown with an emphasis on flowering - especially in a typical home environment! Of course, I can relate to this as the curiosity of the ‘ plant experimenter‘ in me always likes to discover aspects like this first hand and understand what causes plants to behave in this way. I’d been meaning to re-pot it but it was one of those things that I didn’t get around to doing straight away as I was working on the renovation. As you might have seen in my previous post: Tradescantia nanouk: growth update, propagation + FAQ’s, it had really exploded in size and was pretty pot-bound. Let’s start with my Tradescantia nanouk which was the inspiration for this post - these plants are definitely grown for their pretty pink variegated foliage + not their flowers!įirst up, here’s a photo of the plant just before it started to bloom. I hope you enjoy seeing a different side to some of our favourite houseplants. So I thought it would be helpful to put a blogpost together for reference, as I know that some of these blooms are pretty elusive… When I’ve shared photos over on instagram of some of these houseplants in bloom in the past, I’ve had quite a few messages to the effect of ‘woah, I’ve never seen this plant flower before!’. At the end of the post I’ll be sharing what can make plants bloom in our homes. But very occasionally and if the conditions are right, these leafy plants might start making a flower or two. These are plants that are grown for their foliage and not for their flowers so more often than not they’ll be busy unfurling new leaves. To be clear, I’m not talking about plants such as Orchids or African violets here, but instead I wanted to show how some of our more typical houseplants look when they are in bloom. ![]() I wanted to share more of a visual post today to celebrate some blooms on a few of my favourite indoor plants.
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