Sentence examples for encourage flowering from inspiring English sources

Keep soil moist except in early spring, when a short drier period will encourage flowering.

Spur prune wall-trained pears and apples to encourage flowering wood in much the same way as you would the wisteria.

As the onset and development of flowering and the number of flowers produced are linked to the developmental stage of plants, seaweed extracts probably encourage flowering by initiating robust plant growth (Khan et al. 2009).

Primer sequences are listed in Additional File 4. Strawberry plants of Fragaria × ananassa and Fragaria vesca were grown under controlled conditions (23°C day, 15°C night) in a short day room (8 h day, 16 h night) for 3 months, then plants were moved to long day conditions (16 h day, 8 h night, 25°C day, 15°C night) to encourage flowering.

Requirements may differ based on your ambient light conditions, temperature, houseplant varieties, and whether you intend to encourage flowering.

Its conspicuous flower spikes are often the first sign that the plant survived a blaze and individuals grown in greenhouses are often subjected to blowtorching to encourage flowering!

They are not frost-tolerant, but keeping them outdoors from May to September encourages flowering.

Scratch a teaspoon of Epsom salts into the soil to encourage flower development.

Thankfully, picking encourages flowers to rebloom.

In the latter example, the application of COR to young flower buds (≤9 mm) encouraged flower opening, but COR failed to rescue flower opening when it was added to more developed buds.

Cut off dead flower heads to encourage new flowering.