Serissa To Bloom

elgecko

I've had a Serissa close to a year now. It has solid green leaves. I have it potted in a large pot to let the truck thicken. Now it is growing in a south facing glass sliding door, still to cold to place it outside again. When growing outside it recieves direct sunlight all day. Is there anything special needed to get the tree to bloom? I've seen other Serissa's at stores that are in bloom.

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Aurelius

Let it dry out pretty good a few times in a row.
You have to watch it pretty good. Just let it get to the wilting stage before watering.
After a couple of times of this treatment it will think that it's about to kick the bucket and needs propogate itsself buy giving a last hurrah of flowers.
Now the draw back here, is that it may just kill it.
But, on the plus side............ that is the plus side.
One less serissa bonsai.

TreeBay

The large pot has probably encouraged it to grow roots and leaves, and develop its trunk. Now you want it to flower? You can't have it all

You might try this

1. Stop trimming it because you may be cutting off the flower buds
2. Use a fertilizer high in K (N-P-K)

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