I have never grown a Gardenia. However, I can tell you that there is only one flower bud visible on your plant and no more. Top tip for buying any flowering houseplant is to always buy one full of buds, not in full bloom. That way it will bloom longer in your home. I have no idea what DAP is but a plant is not going to need any kind of additives within a week of purchase. And nothing you can add to it will make it produce more buds quickly. In general plants take weeks or months to make flower buds. Does that pot have any drainage holes? If you need to transplant your Gardenia into a container with holes. As to watering, again, although I haven't grown a Gardenia, watering a little every day is not a suitable technique for any potted plant. You need to ascertain whether the plant needs water (feel down in the soil if you can't tell by eye) and then water thoroughly until water runs from the bottom of the pot.

can you do no better for a potting media??? .. it is a water management system. that really helps proper watering ....perhaps your location limits such ...

just stop with any more additions.. other than proper watering ...it will flower.. when its ready to flower.. and there is nothing you can do to speed it up ...

and if you repotted it.. the transplant itself.. can delay that.. until its roots settle down ...

if you look to the new growth ... it looks like it is doing rather well ....

but only if i can convince you to stop trying to love it to death ...

there arent many plants that flower consistently and heavily .... all year long ... there is a cycle .. and there will be times when it has no flowers ... so just be patient ... [if there are tropicals that do.. i will stand corrected, as i am not well versed on those]

ken

Don't know what kind of Gardenia yours is, but Gardenias run the gamut from super-tropical to subtropical. Likely the tropical ones can bloom year-round given the right conditions of high humidity with good light. The subtropical ones tend to bloom more or less in summer, unless they've somehow been forced into bloom under greenhouse conditions. But these can be difficult to grow in a dry heated home. Better in a bright cool room (55 to 65 degrees F). These will bloom in their own time and you probably cannot force them, under house conditions, to bloom any earlier. Patience.

The OP is in Mumbai with temps between 23 & 32c and the plant appears to be outside on a balcony.

Hi guys,

Thanks for your replies. Yes the plant is outside n receives a good amount of direct and part shade sunlight all throughout the day as its kept in the southwest facing window.

The plant came in with this potting medium but I can change it if some1 cold tell me about a better 1. The ceramic pot has a hole at the bottom.

May be you are right... May be it's should give it a bit of room to grow and florish itself. I'll try not to love it that much I'll update u guys in some weeks about my gardenias growth.

This gardenia blossoms year round. At least this is what the guy said from where I had purchased it. I have some other plants to accompany this gardenia. Have a look at it :)

Happy Gardening...

This was before I reported them :)

Gardenias don't bloom year-round. They usually have a season, for instance my gardenia brighamii blooms through june and the first part of july. Don't fertilize this plant..... ever. I wouldn't worry about the potting medium right now, but when you re-pot it I would consider mixing the native soil, about 3 handfuls of peat moss, some compost, and some bark fines. Then loosen the roots, remove any encircling or j-hooked roots, place in the new container and fill with soil. Also, you don't say what climate you are in.... and floral_uk is confusing me because I am not sure what 32 degrees celsius is.... but here 32 is freezing and the gardenia would need to be inside or planted in the ground. Btw, when you re-pot you can prune the branches back a little to encourage it to look fuller and achieve a formal shape.

Logan, Ginger says where s/he lives. You can Google the climate in Mumbai. As for my 'confusing' you with Celsius temperatures, what an astonishingly egocentric and ethnocentric view of the world. Celsius is used throuout the world. Maybe you should Google that too. You seem quite comfortable dispensing advice while at the same time happily admitting you have no idea about the OPs climate.

I was giving advice about a potted gardenia that will be kept containerized. Yes, celsius is used all around the world, I know that, but we don't use it here. Our thermostats are in fahrenheit, so is the weather, my oven (although it is from 1962), my refrigerator, and there are probably other things that I can't name off the top of my head.

Oh, and I googled it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Mumbai

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CASMAI_enUS724US724&q=celsius+to+fahrenheit&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPouy_6pTRAhVIbiYKHX6PBWEQvwUIGSgA&biw=1366&bih=631

Logan - good that you've checked the climate of Mumbai and taken the opportunity to learn a little more about the world outside Caldwell. Most of humanity, including the OP and I, uses Celsius. I don't think the calibration of your fridge is going to change that.

Regarding your advice to never fertilise a containerised Gardenia ..... "Gardenias require high nutrient levels from six weeks after potting; use a high nitrogen liquid feed every week in spring and summer. Over winter, feed with a balanced fertiliser with trace elements at five or six-week intervals." RHS Advice on growing Gardenias.

Ok. I don't containerize my gardenias (sometimes they get a little cold damage, but nothing too drastic) so I am just speaking from experience. The first shrub I ever planted was a gardenia (I didn't know it was supposed to be a houseplant LOL) and it has taken off and done wonderful. The reason I say don't fertilize is that the only houseplant I have ever fertilized is my flamingo flower (anthurium andraeanum) out of about 37 houseplants that are doing wonderful.

Hi guys...
be it Celsius or Fahrenheit both are units of temperature. let's not deviate from the topic please.
I am from Mumbai, India and the temperatures mentioned are bang on. The high / low is 32 C / 23 C with a humidity of around 40 % which is 90 F / 74 F.
It is rightly mentioned that gardenias require fertilizers as the same was mentioned by the person whom I purchased the plant from. Also from what I have researched is that it loves acidic soil and likes chelated iron.
Thanks for the replies guys. I appreciate it :)
I will keep u guys updated once it blooms again. it's losing the old leaves now and new growth is spurting up :)

Hi, Logan. There's a cheat sheet for moving between Celsius and Fahrenheit. You just have to remember 4 numbers. 20 deg C= 68 deg F. And 30 deg C equals 86 deg F, the reverse of 68. If you can remember those 4 numbers, you can move through both temp scales fairly easily, because the difference between 86 and 68 is 18. So, 40 deg C = 86 plus 18, or 104 deg F. Subtraction works as well. 10 deg C equals 68 minus 18, or 50 deg F.

its always so interesting to read posts from other countries and climates, and it helps to be able to ballpark the scale differences quickly.

20 deg C equals 68 deg F

30 deg C equals 86 deg F

The difference is 18

Curious thread. I'm going to posit that DAP might stand for diammonium phosphate. Which would be a very high in N and P fertilizer, obviously.

Logan the entire rest of the world, including Canada, uses C so we are the odd ones.

Yeah, I know. Google converted it for me ;). The only fertilizer that I would even think about using is maybe slow-release fert or maybe just some compost.

super .. that new growth and additional buds.. sure makes the thing look happy ....

be careful with going overboard on too many additions .... you can always add more if you see some problem .... but it is very hard to recover if you overdo it ...

i guess this was a lesson in patience .... we initially mentioned a cycle .... so it seems about 6 weeks [C... lol} to go from cycle to cycle ... the cycle MIGHT also be regulated on some level by the seasons ....

congrats

ken