Azalea - Getting Started

Jonny D

Hi Chip, unfortunatley its difficult to comment on the azalea without a picture. Is its health good? Personally if it were me i would just get on with what ever I have planned particulalry as we will soon be out of winter, alot of people will start to wire from now until well into the spring with projects as things are just about to start moving (I would also consider how much I paid for the stock, how important it is to me, and what I can learn from it).

If you want to be safe though wait a few weeks yet.

Hope it helps cheers Jonny.

Oh, one other thing if you already think it is going to flower (which i would of thought is unlikely) and you want it to (again i wouldn't if its raw stock), then delay pruning untill after flowering in the spring otherwise you'll be pruning off the flower buds (they are usually more bulbus than the leaf buds).