Shrub rose in a pot: growing and care at home

The popularity of bush roses for home growing is growing every day. The flower is not so demanding on care, it can take root almost anywhere, as long as there is sufficient sunlight and a timely supply of moisture and nutrients. The bush rose is an ideal ornamental plant that will complement your home collection of violets, azaleas and impatiens.

Despite the fact that to the garden bush rose Amateur gardeners have virtually no complaints, but at home such a simple but incredibly beautiful plant behaves a little differently. In this case, it would be inappropriate to use your knowledge in caring for a garden rose - only a number of requirements in home and garden cultivation will coincide.

Content:

• What you should know about home bush roses
• What should you avoid when caring for your home rose?
• What season to plant, how to choose soil and prepare for planting?
• Activities for growing and caring for plants

What you should know about home bush roses

Optimal temperature conditions, lighting and watering

Like any other light-loving plant, a flower pot with a rose should be placed on the south side near the window. It will be absolutely wonderful if the plant receives not only access to sunlight, but also to fresh air.

Low temperatures will destroy the plant.Therefore, if the double-glazed window is thin enough, and the windows are covered with frost, during the winter season you should move the flower resident to another window or to a cabinet next to it. Fresh, nutritious soil is the key to a healthy flowering plant.

It is not worth transplanting a plant from one pot to another. Unless there is an urgent need. In order not to disturb the rose again, you should initially choose a spacious pot or wide container.

Systematic feeding. The event should be carried out no more often than once every 5-7 days. During the flowering period, you may need to feed the plant a little more often than usual (for example, reducing the single dose, but increasing the number of times per week). Plant growing season (the season when the intensity of growth and development decorative roses are enlarged).

What should you avoid when caring for your home rose?

Cold water. To water a bush rose at home, you can only use settled water at room temperature. Are there any small pests? Urgently open your home first aid kit for caring for your home potted flowers.

Did the rose begin to wither or grow poorly during the growing season? It is worth understanding the situation - perhaps the plant is sick and cannot cope without human help.
Negligent attitude towards the root system of the flower (the reason could be, for example, the frequent migration of the rose from one pot to another).

Dry air, infrequent watering and direct sunlight at high temperatures outside are harmful to such a flower. The rose is a noble and grateful plant to its owner. The average flowering time (depending on the variety and some factors) is from a month to six months.The average height that domesticated roses reach is half a meter in height (excluding the root system).

What season to plant, how to choose soil and prepare for planting?

Before transplant plant for permanent residence, adaptation stages should be carried out. This is necessary, first of all, so that the flower gets used to the surrounding atmosphere - the humidity of the room air, lighting, and different soil. If you rely on advice from the lunar calendar, roses are transplanted for permanent residence in the fall on the waxing moon.

You can speed up the adaptation period in the following way - use the earthen ball in which the root system of the flower was located when it lived in the garden plot. Thus, the likelihood of damaging the roots is significantly reduced, and the plant does not have to get used to the new, bagged soil.

Useful note: As a supplement, it is recommended to use a complex fertilizer, which is mixed in advance into the resulting mixture of three ingredients.

How to choose a pot for a bush rose?

The minimum diameter of the pot should not be smaller than the container in which the rose temporarily lived before the final transplant. The height of the walls of the pot should not be less than 7 cm. Useful note: a pot that is too deep or too large is not needed for a fragrant flower.

Preparatory stage for transplantation:

1. Rinse the prepared rose container - do not use detergents.
2. To wash the pot, use only a brush.
3. Soak the ceramic pot for several hours - maybe overnight.
4. Prepare expanded clay drainage.

If in a pot Initially there was no provision for a drain hole, so make it yourself.

Care immediately after landing

After a day has passed after the transplant, the new resident can be sent to the balcony (if the weather is warm, sunny outside) or to the windowsill and provided with access to fresh air.

If there is insufficient air humidity, in addition to timely watering, it is necessary to spray the rose leaves with a sprayer in order to prevent the plant from drying out or dying. Fertilizers must be applied to the soil once a month. The use of mineral fertilizer will have a beneficial effect on the health of your home rose and its flowering period.

Activities for growing and caring for plants

Wintering

Rose is a heat-loving plant. Therefore, the minimum heat temperature in the room should not fall below +150C. Depending on the variety, the minimum temperature is determined with errors. Be sure to monitor air humidity. To overwinter roses, you need to choose a place that is as far away from electrical appliances as possible.

When and how to prune a bush rose

Time for circumcision bush roses - late autumn. For pruning, use a well-sharpened knife or pruning shears. The growth phase of the moon for the owner of a bush rose indoors should become a law - all key actions for replanting and caring for the flower are carried out during this period.

Note: If you do not prepare the rose for winter (do not trim the bushes), the beauty may not please you with flowering next year at all. Reproduction of decorative roses at home.

Tips for propagating bush roses

Most domestic rose combs are propagated using the classic method of propagating ordinary garden roses - cuttings. Rooting of cuttings is carried out in the spring and summer. This is necessary so that the root system of the rose has time to get stronger.

According to experts, the best option for propagating roses is to separate the shoots of the plant along with the buds. The average cutting size should not exceed 15 cm.

As you can see, a bush rose at home is no different from the average indoor flower - in terms of care, propagation, and replanting. The main thing is to choose the right one variety for growing. And then the garden beauty will delight her with flowering not only on the site, but also indoors.

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