2006-07-13 01:36:29 · 9 answers · asked by sixmilebrooker 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Pruning these beauties should mainly be done to shape the plant. If your rhododendron is young, you will be able to get it started and prune it in such a way that it might never need pruning again, depending on where you have planted the bush.
The best time to prune is in late winter or very early spring, before the main growth spurt begins.
Here is a site from the American Rhododendron Society that explains exactly how and when to prune your plant:
http://www.rhododendron.org/v47n2p79.htm
2006-07-13 01:47:14 · answer #1 · answered by geisha girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When can I prune a Rhododendron? The optimal season to prune a rhododendron is immediately after bloom in the spring. This will force the plant's energy into new growth, breaking from lateral nodes; exploding with vigor and potentially setting bud for next year. http://www.rhodo.com/Care.cfm
2006-07-13 01:42:41 · answer #2 · answered by Carla S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Billy Ray is ideal. Prune on condition that you pick too. Pruning should be finished lengthy after the blooms have dwindled, in late summer ideally. Prune gently, as Rhododendrons do no longer pick universal pruning for healthful boom. some particular propose should be considered for reinvigorating older flora, you could reduce decrease back one 0.33 of the shrub each and each and every 365 days for 3 years. Prune the shrub gently. in case your Rhododendron blooms heavily another 365 days, skinny out crowded flower buds contained in the autumn. if you're not from now on having a difficulty including your Rhododendron then i doesn't difficulty pruning it. let it take the shape that it obviously grows.
2016-12-01 04:57:59 · answer #3 · answered by severino 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prune after flowering. Rhodo's bloom on the previous season's growth, which develops in the late spring, early summer. Cutting off this new growth will prevent bud set.
2006-07-13 02:17:00 · answer #4 · answered by Dan S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dan S. and Carla are correct. Do not listen to any of the others. After blooming is when you do that, and do not cut off any more than the top 1/3 of growth. Same thing with azaleas.
2006-07-13 05:19:03 · answer #5 · answered by floridaleoness 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best time is early spring. March or beginning of April before the growing starts.That way the plant, bush have the growing season to recover.
2006-07-13 01:53:42 · answer #6 · answered by adamwitzhoops 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the middle of winter. it is best to do it then. it is dormant during the winter.
2006-07-13 01:39:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No don't
2006-07-13 01:40:05 · answer #8 · answered by spongebobsquarpantsfreak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO!
2006-07-13 01:39:00 · answer #9 · answered by thirsty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋