Rosa room and patio at home: care and maintenance
Before a small bush of roses in the pots, no woman can stand. Rose at home grows well and can delight every spring with luxuriant flowering. But how to care for these small bushes, not everyone knows. The country of the Soviets will tell you, how to care for a home rose.
Home rose is no different from garden, only its size. If you have experience in caring for roses on yourdacha, you can easily cope with the cultivation of this plant at home. If there are no such skills, do not despair, because create favorable conditions for growth and flowering is easy enough.
If your plant is provided with proper care, then a rose at home can bloom from the very spring to the end of summer. This is due to the fact that on the bush constantlythere are new buds that blossom as the previous ones wither. But for your plant to be strong and beautiful, it will need to provide some conditions.
Rose home: care
To ensure a good growth of the plant, a moderate temperature is required. Best of all, they grow at a temperature of 14 to 20 ° C. This temperature should be maintained from spring to autumn. In winter, the rose has a rest period, so the temperature should be reduced to 5-8 ° C.
To ensure the proper care of home roses, Do not forget about frequent watering. Roses are very fond of a lot of moisture, butthey do not need too much watering either. When the plant blooms or is in the stage of active growth, water the rose as the soil dries up. In winter, watering the plant can be reduced. In this case it is desirable not to forget about the plant for the whole winter, and water it from time to time. Watch the frequency of irrigation. In winter, let the soil dry for a couple of days, only then you can water the rose again.
Domestic roses love moist air, so plants are recommended to spray, if the apartment you have too low humidity. It is desirable to spray roses from the bottom of the leaf. Sprinkle roses can be up to two times a day.
For good flowering and growth of a roomy rose, large amount of sunlight. All roses are photophilous plants,so they need to provide a long enough light day. Since in the spring the rose begins to grow actively, a short light day will not be enough for it, so it may be necessary to illuminate the daylight lamps.
A rose at home can not stand not only drafts, but also any air movement. Try to put it in a place where it will be exposed to air movement as little as possible. If there is no such place, you can protect it with a damper that will protect the rose from drafts.
In addition to all of the above, it should be separately noted that a home rose loves nutritious soil, so you will need to constantly fertilizeplant. You can do both foliar and foliar top dressing. During the flowering of the plant, it is recommended to feed the rose once a week. It will also be necessary to loosen the soil from time to time to ensure access of oxygen to the roots.
A house rose should be cut twice a year. Autumn pruning is carried out to formbush and laying new growth points. Strong branches are cut so that there are 5 kidneys left on them. On weak branchlets, you can leave 2 kidneys. In spring, the rose is cut as the flowers or leaves wither. If you remove the buds in time, you can prolong the flowering period of the plant, as its forces will go on forming and blossoming new flowers.
Growing of domestic roses
Home roses can reach 50 cm in height. It should be remembered about such features of growing roses, as their transplantation and reproduction. Transplant home roses in the fall only as needed. Transplant a rose follows the method of transshipment,so as not to disturb the earthen lump around the roots. For a rose, do not take too large a pot, but only 2-3 cm wider and 4-5 cm higher than the previous one.
In early spring, it is possible to propagate a rose with stem cuttings. For autumn breeding, roses can beuse the branches that you cut for the winter. In this case, the branches are cut off, leaving 3-4 live kidneys on them. Prepared cuttings should not be longer than 15 cm. To cut roots, they should be placed in water for a couple of weeks. When they form well-branched roots, they can be planted in the ground.
