How to Plant, Grow & Care for Geranium Plants in Pots - The Complete Guide 

@Don Landwehr, So nice of you, Thank you SOOOOOO much for the feedback, appreciate it :-)

@pema Lama, CONGRATULATION, that's really great news n it's party time :-) Yah, it's absolutely fine to apply Mustard cake liquid fertilizer and it works great. Also, I would really appreciate if you don't call me Sir :-( Gardening Upbeat, Bhayya, Brother, Bro, Bhai, Chandan (my name) anything would be just perfect :-) Thank you!

@@GardeningUpbeat thank you I would like to call you beta...if you don't mind 👍

@pema Lama, that's sweet and I won't mind it at all, thank you :-)

You are most welcome and thank you so much for your feedback!

@Rumma Subba Thapa, Thank you so much for the feedback, much appreciated :-) Sure, for the IVY geranium as well we can care the same way. Good luck in growing them, they are really gorgeous :-)

@Sidrah Smith, Thank you so so much and glad to know it was helpful :-)

@Ramachandra Thejasvi, Sorry for the late reply and here are your answers - 1. Yeah, care is same for all Geraniums. 2. SSP contains only the Phosphorus but DAP contains both Nitrogen and Phosphorus (helps in growth of roots and in flowering). For plant growth (top part), Nitrogen is essential. You can also use other organic fertilizers as well and now a days there are many in market :-)

@Mamta Asem, Most welcome and thank you so much for watching :-)

@Soumya Naik, Thank you so so much dr, appreciate it :-)

Thank you So much 😊

@Nutan Singh, Thank you once again :-)

Thank you so much for being one of my regular viewers and I really appreciate it! How to grow seedling - I already did a video where I have shared growing Gerbera from seeds and here is the video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dPSDodCBxFs.html Again, here is one video about how to grow Summer Flowers From Seeds - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eFwTxNwBW80.html Hope that helps...thank you once again and Sir is not required actually, Good Luck!

@pema Lama, thank you once again and good luck in growing them :-)

@Malabika Creation, Thank you So So much :-)

@sangeeta dave, Glad to know you liked it and thank you so so much for your words, much appreciated :-)

@Vanlal Dinpuii, Glad to know it was useful and thank you SOOOOOOOOO much for the feedback, much appreciated :-)

@Galina M, Most welcome and thank you for watching :-) Well, actually trimming is not required and if they get enough sunlight, they grow bushy itself. We can deadhead them on a regular basis and I have shown it here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oQKVDmgOEO0.html Thank you :-)

Gardening Upbeat Wonderful! Thank you so much for the reply! I already watched the video you recommended and I’m following:)

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@Jessica Burnett, Thank you SOOOOOOOOO much :-)

@Limgago Raso, Thank you So So much for the support, appreciate it :-)

@api kuame, Thank you very much :-)

@Mani Megala, It's happening as Temperature is going up...they are grown mostly as Winter flowering plant. They can survive in Summer but size of the blooms would be small and less. You really don't have to worry :-) Instead you can grow Summer flowering plants as there are many. For example - 1. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dL4-hmBXpD8.html 2. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XR6ejftAC7M.html 3. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7M11juZaJ_8.html Thank you :-) One request - I would highly appreciate if you don't call me Sir, thank you :-)

@@GardeningUpbeat tqs for ur quick response

@muskan khan new, thank you very much for the feedback, appreciate it :-)

Keep away this plant from rain water or else it will die... And water it normally , don't overwater it..

@Kappu Panda, I am really sorry for the late reply, have been growing lots of plants so that I can share with you & others.. If you are able to provide only morning sunshine, then I really don't recommend you to grow Geraniums. Petunia blooms even if we are able to provide them minimum 2 hours of direct sunlight but they become leggy. Same with Verbena. It would be much better if you grow plants like Primula (winter), Pentas (all year), Impatiens (all year), Salvia (all year), Gerbera (all year), Cineraria (winter), Kalanchoe (Winter), Poinsettia (Winter) etc. For yearly flowering, I am going to do another video and would upload very soon.

@Nee Sm, thank you very much for the feedback, appreciate it. There could be many reasons behind not blooming. So, could you provide me few details like - 1. At what stage you bought the plant and from how many days it's with you 2. How many hours of Sunlight it's getting 3. How you are fertilizing it. You can also send me one or more pics to my email id - gardeningupbeat[at]gmail.com But for time being here are few solutions - 1. Try to provide it at least 3-4 hours of direct sunlight 2. Fertilize it with high PK fertilizer, no N (Nitrogen) Apply once in 15 days and continue it at least for 1 month. If it's water soulble, you can mix 1/2 teaspoon in 1 liter water and then apply on soil directly 3. Let the top soil dry out completely before watering. Just do the above things and I hope it's going to bloom very soon. Thank you :-)

@@GardeningUpbeat Hi... It's been more than 5 months. The plant was already big and blooming while I bought.The flowers get more than 6 hours of sunlight. As for fertilizer I used garden soil and compost soil. The flowers grow more taller and leaves are green but not blooming. Hope you can help me out. Thanks.

Hi @Nee Sm, look like I got the issue. But, before suggesting you anything, let me tell you one very imp thing. See, there are many varieties of Geraniums and few bloom well in Summer and other in Winter season. The plant which bloom well in Summer season, most likely won't bloom in Winter season. Summer bloomer plants are mostly taller and Winter bloomer plants looks bushy as you can see in my video. Since you bought the plant 5 months back, definitely it's a summer bloomer and if I am not wrong, the plant is not looking bushy. So, instead of worrying too much, I would recommend you to buy seedlings or plants at this time and those would be blooming continuously till around March - April. Or if you want to try once again (to get blooms on your plant), I would suggest you to apply fertilizer something like this - Multiplex MUTI-PK Fertilizer (N:0 P:52 K:34). Dose - 1/2 teaspoon in 1 liter water and apply on soil once in 10 days. Just apply 3 times in November and see what happens. This is a good fertilizer and works well for me and if it's not available in your place, you can try similar fertilizer with same NPK ratio. Hope that helps..all other things are just perfect like Sunlight. If you have any question, plz let me know. Thank you!

@@GardeningUpbeat Thank you very much for your reply and the value able lessons. I would definitely do you said . Hoping for a good results. Happy gardening!

@@ncsncs4488 Most welcome and glad to know it was helpful. Happy Gardening :-)

@Smita Madhu, Thank you so much for the feedback, much appreciated!! I am from Guwahati (Assam) and collected the seedlings from Nursery over here. For the seeds, you can try either TrustBasket or SeednPots. I bought many seeds from them and those were good enough. Thank you :-)

@Saluto, Thank you so so much for visiting and appreciate it :-) DAP is a fast release fertilizer and results can be seen within 10-15 days. If you have any questions, plz let me know and I would be glad to answer :-)

@@GardeningUpbeat ya, my other question was about your potting soil being free of weeds. Do you use any weedicide or the likes ?

@Saluto, During winter time, I don't get too much weeds issue and whenever I see them, pull out them as fast as I can do that they can't spread. Problem is in Rainy season (currently) and I am actually tired of keeping my pots weeds free :-( I don't use any kind of herbicide, thank you :-)

@@GardeningUpbeat thank you.

@Zenyr Garden Làm Vườn Vui, thank you once again for the awesome feedback, appreciate it. I believe you are not from India..n so it would be bit hard for me to suggest you a recommended seller, sorry :-( I mostly buy the seeds from Amazon.in. Sometimes I get good seeds and sometimes very poor. Anyway, I just let it go and try again. Thank you once again :-)

Okay then, I’ll try searching around some more. Have a nice day :)

@Milly Manuel, Thank you for your question :-) Unfortunately no, Gereniums are propagated either from Seeds or Soft-wood cuttings. One request - I would appreciate if you don't call me sir :-) Myself Chandan Dutta and Plz feel to call me by my name or anything you like, thank you :-)

It would be difficult to say the exact color. But you can identify 2 different plants by looking at the leaves. Few plants would have leaves where you would be able to see circle in light gray color and on some plants, leaves would be plain green. That way, you would be able tell that both are going to have blooms in two different colors.

@Gajendra Tripathi, Best to grow them is end of Septmber and they are grown mostly as winter flowering plants in India :-)

@@GardeningUpbeat thank you.

@Duata Duati, Extremely sorry for the late reply, I was busy on growing many plants. Well, in most cases, I collect either the seeds or seedlings from reputed nursery as I know those are going to be high quality. I also try seeds online and got good results many times (but not always). In my new videos, I am going to cover everything from Sowing seeds => Flowering and I would also let you and other know about the source from where I bought the seeds. I hope, it would works.

@Enrique Marak, We can sow the seeds when night temperatures is around 15°C - 20°C. In India, they are mostly grown as Winter flowering plants and best time to sow the seeds is end of Sept - Oct. But, mostly it depends on temperatures and that's why in most place it's grown in Summer as well. Thank you :-)

@Waneva Cook, You don't have to be sorry at all, in fact I am sorry as my pronunciation is not perfect. Those are the DAP (Diammonium phosphate) Crystals. It's a chemical fertilizer and works well. In case you don't want to use it, you can use any other organic fertilizers as well like Blood meal or Fish emulsion fertilizer. Thank you :-)

@sangeeta dave, I actually haven't tried using soilless potting mix for Geranium..but now a days experimenting with many plants and some are working well. For example, I have shown this in this video (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wC7LokhsZ88.html) and if you want to try soilless potting mix for Geranium, then you can try similar. Good luck :-)

@Namitha dl, It's because of the high Summer temperature and it's common, nothing to worry about :-) Thank you for watching the video :-)

@@GardeningUpbeat Thank you so much..

@Tabassum S, Please see how much you are watering your Geranium plants..they hate wet soil..Please don't water your plants if the top 1-2 inches soil is not dry. In fact, I can say safely that, we can water them when almost 80% soil is dry. Other cause - Lack of nutrients. Believe me - water is the main issue and that's why, I get lots of trouble while growing Geraniums during the summer in my place. It's because, rainfall during the summer in my place is quite high.

i dont know how is the weather like there but they can grow in like any condition. just protect it from freezing temperatures.

@Naseema Khan, Problem is weather...as you said, your plants are healthy, they should've bloomed well. May I know current temp in your place? They won't bloom that well if it's above or around 30.

@@GardeningUpbeat day time it is around 28/29...I have kept them in balcony so not that hot

@Pragya Hazari, sorry for taking bit more time to reply. I am sorry to say but look like you are overwatering your plants :-( They are kind of succulent and so we need to be very careful while watering them. If the branch is turning deep brown, I would recommend you to cut the branch IMMEDIATELY and stop watering until n unless you don't see the leaves are wilting. I can understand that you are already getting blooms on that stem and it would be hard to cut the stem. But plz believe me, if you don't cut the stem right way, the disease is going to spread to the other stems and finally to the base of the plant. Eventually, your plant would die and neither you and me want this. So, from next time plz be careful while watering. Plz let me know if you have any questions and I would be glad to help you. If you like, you can also send me a few pics of your plant to my email id gardeningupbeat[at]gmail.com and I would be able to give you more accurate solutions. Thank you :-)

@@GardeningUpbeat i have sent you a mail with the pictures.. Can you please have a look and help me

@Pragya Hazari, replied to you, plz let me know if there is any questions. Thank you :-)

@@GardeningUpbeat Sir the leaves of my gerenium are full of brown spots which is spreading all over the leaves please help to get rid of this spots.

@Mithulal Biswas, Thank you for your question. The best time to grow is October-December. They don't like Summer. But still, there is a taller variety of Geranium which can be grown even in Summer. Just need to protect it from too much direct sunlight.

@@GardeningUpbeat thank you sir

Most welcome n I would appreciate if u don't call me Sir 😊

@@GardeningUpbeat thank you for your suggestion....

@Ravi Kumar, Sorry to say..but Plz avoid using Cocopeat as it holds the water for much longer time. Geranium is very sensitive to wet soil and it's better to avoid any component that's going to reverse the case. Instead, please feel free to use either Perlite in potting soil mix or use more sandy type soil. Thank you and sir is totally not required! Happy Gardening :-)

Ty sir...

@Sonam Palmo, Those were bought from Nursery at that stage :-) They pull out seedlings at very early stage and then transfer to those tiny pots so that they can sale them :-) For one seedling, price is Rs. 20! Bit costly :-(

@@GardeningUpbeat thanks. 🙏🙏🙏

@Jennyfer Syiem, Sure we can and I would try to do a video about it very soon :-) Thank you for watching :-)

@Mubarika Gul, thank you very much for watching my video from Gilgit. Gerenium ka roots sad kr khrab q hoty hain - Aap, pani thoda kam interval me dijiye..Pani tanhi de jab soil sukha sukha lage. Ye problem jyada pani dene se hota hai. Aur, sandy type soil use kijiye hamesa.

@Sini C Louis, They do survive in Summer but blooms well in Winter. Thank you :-)

@Pratistha Sah, thank you for your question. I got the seedlings from Nursery. From seeds also they can be grown but it takes bit more time and since the seedlings were available in Nursery, I just decided to grow the seedlings. Plz let me know if you have any questions and I would get back ASAP! Thank you :-)

@@GardeningUpbeat thankyou for reply .I have one question i have some rose plants but in some of them when the buds come they are not in proper shape or colour is also black type and after flowering the flower also not look good also my flower petal fall away very soon.I use NPK 19:19:19 .Please tell me some fertilizer for rose plant for good flowering and plant growth.Once i used Rose MIx also but i haven,t seen good result.

@Pratistha Sah, most welcome :-) That's a common problem found in Roses. They are not in proper shape because pests are eating the buds (mostly the outer petals). Can you plz tell me if can see see tiny holes in rose buds? If YES, it's 100% because of pests such as budworm, leafcutting bee etc. You can use Neem oil to get rid of them. But if it doesn't work, you can use chemical pesticides such as Rogor, Roket etc (1 mil in 1 liter water) and apply in the evening. As a care, plz stop overwatering. You can let the top soil dry out a bit before watering. When we water more than necessary, we can find many problems in our Rose plants. For the fertilizer, please watching this video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u4TCSVYq4FU.html Plz let me know if you have any question and I would get back ASAP! Thank you!

@@GardeningUpbeat thankyou ....

@Pratistha Sah, most welcome :-)