we have a hibiscus plant which we have had 10 years, we get hundreds of buds but it NEVER flowers! Can you please offer any advice? Thank you.
Hi, and thanks for your question. This article should help you solve your hibiscus problem: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/flowers/hibiscus/hibiscus-flowers-hibiscus-blossoms-falling-off-plant.htm
Good day. My hibiscus leaves are hard, brittle, small and deformed. What is causing this? Thank you!
Deformed leaves may be a sign of pest or disease.
Review the links below.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/flowers/hibiscus/how-to-care-for-hibiscus-plants.htm
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/flowers/hibiscus/hibiscus-sticky-leaves.htm
My beautiful hibiscus got frozen one night in doors and all the leaves but a few dried up. I want to cut back the plant to where a few new growth is occurring. Is that a good idea?
I would wait until all cold danger has passed before trimming up your plant.
Cover the plant during cold spells and uncover when it has warmed up.
I have had one for years. It was braided stems. One died, but the other seems very happy, especially indoors. Right now, it is blooming, sometimes five at a time. However, the blooms do fall off as soon as the flower is full. I have two questions: 1. What do you mean when you say "haircut" for this plant? 2. More importantly, can I rebraid with a new plant?
You can carefully rebraid a new plant. Just choose three branches that will be suitable and use those. As far as the blooms falling off. This is common indoors, as the humidity if often lower inside. You can help some by spraying the plant with a fine mist of water in the morning, or during hotter afternoons. As far as pruning goes. You will want to remove any branches that intersect, or at least one of them, to keep the airflow through the plant. Basically, you will want to keep the small shrub from getting overcrowded.
Put out on a warm day for sun brought it back in in late afternoon the next day it started to wilt
If you are transitioning your Hibiscus from indoors to outdoors, always do this gradually and start with a part sun location. Morning sunshine and shelter from the afternoon sun works also.
Your plant may have been sun scorched.
Make sure the plant is adequately watered and continue its transition to full sun.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/flowers/hibiscus/how-to-care-for-hibiscus-plants.htm
Some years ago I bought a couple of hibiscus plants online and planted in the ground. They do quite well but in the winter after the leaves dropped I'm left with multiple stocks that never quite die off. So the stocks have been cut back to ground level and each year new stocks find their way out. Now it is so very crowded. How do I divide or get those old stocks out of the way so new growth can come out and I'm not left with ugly brown at the base of the lovely plants?
This can be quite difficult, but with some heavy regenerative maintenance, you can get this thriving again. You will have to wait until the next dormancy to dig this up, but when the time comes, you will dig it up and cut it into as many pieces as you can, and feel safe cutting it into. Plant one or two of these back into the original spot and move, or pot up the others, and give them away. This will help restore it once it is old and gnarled up at the base.
I live near Phoenix, Arizona and my hibiscus is in a huge pot on the north side of my house. It may have been without water 5-7 days while I was out of town. (The sprinkling system may have failed, but my kind neighbor told me he watered it.) When I returned the leaves were wilted and there were many yellow leaves. It seems to be recovering, but there are lots of bare branches. It was blooming when I left but now all the blooms have fallen off. I would like to prune it but am afraid after being dry for too long, pruning will put it into shock.
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Yes, I would wait to prune until next spring, before it starts to grow actively again. It will recover, and may grow slowly this year, but I would not prune it at this time.