Homemade roses planted in pots are also beautiful, like garden roses. Today, decorative bushes are an excellent substitute for plants in the open ground. But for potted roses special attention is needed: it is necessary to create suitable conditions for growth and flowering. This is described in the article.
Since the plant is not considered tropical, it needs moderate conditions. Leaving includes providing suitable temperature, humidity, lighting. You also need to know about the rules of watering and fertilizing the plant.
The best varieties
There are several popular varieties of potted roses that hostesses like. At the same time, everyone has features. The best include:
- The potted rose of Cordan. This flower is important to ensure careful care, and then from May to October it will bloom profusely. Its growth is not more than 30 cm, dark green foliage and classic buds (they are red, pink, yellow and white). These potted roses are planted in the open ground, creating beautiful borders. The difference from the rest of the species is the lack of aroma.
- Baby Masquerade. Bushes in height reach 30 cm. On the strong several branched shoots that form a narrow bush, there are practically no thorns. Small dark green leaves perfectly shade chameleon flowers 3-4 cm wide. First, their color is yellowish, and then goes pink and red. The aroma is preserved throughout the flowering, which is almost uninterrupted.
- Angela Rippon It is considered a miniature rose. When flowering, it is covered with small flowers 3-4 cm wide. Bushes grow 40 cm high. When growing, preventive treatment against powdery mildew and black spotting is necessary. Plants do not need pruning. Top dressing is carried out in small quantities, but often.
- Easter Morning. The variety is resistant to fungal infections. Thick bushes include straight shoots with harsh dark green leaves. Lush flowering continues without interruption.
- Fire Princess. In height, these roses reach 30-40 cm. The flower includes branched shoots looking up, covered with dark green leaves. Terry flowers have a diameter of 3-4 cm.
When choosing a plant for the home, you need to pay attention to the appearance. It should be attractive and fresh. It is important that the branches and leaves are green, juicy, without spots and dried tips. It is necessary to control that young shoots are not elongated. Roots and stems should not be dried and damaged.
If the plant is sold in a pot, then the soil should be soft, breathable. An important factor when buying a rose is the health of the plant, and not the number of buds on it.
Temperature and humidity
In summer, a moderate temperature is required for a potted rose, and cool in winter. At home, such plants are more affected by overheating and drying out of the soil. Suitable summer temperatures are between 20 and 25 ° C. But small fluctuations will be useful. In winter, roses are transferred to a cool place where it should be 10-15 ° C.
In the room where such plants are located, moist air is desirable. In a very dry environment, the bushes become infected with parasites, so you need to regularly perform spraying (every 2 days). If the potted rose is located in a cool room, then it does not need frequent spraying. And to remove dust from the leaves, you can perform a short warm shower. By the way, on a sunny day, it is better not to spray water on the flower itself, since this can serve as a spoilage of buds and the development of fungal ailments.
Lighting
A potted rose, like many ornamental plants, is considered photophilous. But you should not bring the matter to overheating of the bushes, so it is better to put them on a window facing the southeast or west side.
In order to protect the plant from direct sunlight in summer, it is advisable to put it in the open air - on a balcony or terrace. In the absence of this opportunity, the pot must be moved to another place or darkened.
Pot and soil
Flowers are allowed to be planted in containers of various shapes and sizes. The main condition in this case is that there should be so much space in the container so that the bush can develop, and the air can easily circulate. Strongly overgrown bushes need to be transplanted into a large container. When buying a pot, you need to consider the color of the flowers and the style of the interior.
In terms of capacity, the best are wooden and ceramic pots. They are also plastic, but these containers are not very reliable. The soil in them quickly dries out in the summer, which causes the wilting of buds. Clay pots are also better not to choose - they are able to quickly lose water.
It should be noted that both for the potted rose of Cordan, and for others from the above list, it is necessary to choose air- and moisture-permeable soil. The following nutrient substrate is suitable for plants:
- turf land - 4 parts;
- humus - 4 parts;
- sand - 1 part.
You can buy a ready-made mixture. It is important that the pot has a good drainage system so that excess moisture passes through the soil. But the size of the drainage holes should be such that water does not flow out of the tank quickly.
Watering
And if there are potted roses at home, how to care for them? Good watering is required, which is carried out as the soil dries. Still plants need top dressing in the vegetation phase and timely pruning. Watering is especially necessary in the summer during flowering and growth. Drying of the earth is considered dangerous, so you need to water the flower as soon as its soil has dried.
But it’s not worth pouring. Roses are sensitive to overflow, especially in autumn and winter. Therefore, when stopping budding, it is necessary to reduce watering. For this procedure, settled, filtered warm water is used.
Top dressing
Caring for a potted rose involves feeding. Since the water in the pots evaporates quickly, it is often necessary to feed the earth. In spring and summer, this should be done every 2 weeks, alternating mineral and organic nutrients.
Standard fertilizers are used for color crops. Before use, they are dissolved in water. It should be borne in mind that flowers do not respond well to dressing in cloudy, cold weather. It is not worth a month to fertilize newly purchased or transplanted plants. Sick bushes should not be fed.
Pruning
As can be seen in the example of Cordan's potted rose, caring for these flowers involves timely pruning. It includes the removal of yellowed, dry leaves and wilted flowers during the growing season. This procedure makes the plant formed, and budding will be early and magnificent. The flowers need to be cut to the first leaf, eliminating weak stems.
You also need to trim before hibernation, shortening the stems to a height of 10 cm. 4-5 buds should be left on the branches. Crop shoots are used for reproduction.
How is reproduction performed?
It is important not only compliance with home care. A potted rose (Cordana or any other variety) must be propagated correctly. For this, the method of cuttings is used. It is advisable to perform this procedure from May to September. Lignified cuttings (10-15 cm long) are cut from a faded shoot by secateurs. Then they are placed in clean warm water.
On the handle should be 3-5 kidneys and several sheets. The first roots occur after 3 weeks. Developed cuttings are planted in a prepared substrate. Small plants (200-300 ml) are used for planting young plants. To root the cuttings, a heteroauxin growth stimulator is added. The first buds must be removed. If planting is performed before hibernation, then next year there may be rapid growth, flowering.
For any varieties of this beautiful plant, including the potted rose of Cordan, home care has its own characteristics, depending on the time of year. This must be considered in order to grow beautiful and healthy flowers.
Spring
At this time, the rose has new leaves and twigs. The plant should be watered more abundantly and fed using mineral fertilizers. Use liquid from bird droppings or mullein. In spring, the plant should not be deficient in moisture or light. Sometimes in the evenings you need to spray the flower with cool boiled water.
When the rose outgrows the pot, it is transferred to a large container, avoiding trauma to the roots. After spring frosts, at a steady warm night temperature, you can transfer the pot to fresh air. To accustom bushes to the bright sun is necessary gradually. For this, the flower is placed in a shady corner and only after 10-14 days it must be transferred to a sunny place.
Summer
Summer care involves regular watering, spraying, fertilizing, removing wilted parts of the plant. In order to prevent overheating in the summer, it is necessary to monitor the condition of the flower. It is necessary to inspect it in order to timely identify diseases and pests.
After growth, the bush is transshipped into a spacious container. If the flower located on the window is lit only on one side, then it reaches for sunlight. To ensure uniform lighting, you must regularly turn the pot. Using this procedure, it will be possible to prevent the development of a one-sided plant.
Autumn
The plant must be moved to a room and placed on the south window. After flowering, it is prepared for wintering: it should be watered less often and gradually complete top dressing. Before wintering, the bush is trimmed. 5 buds are left on the shoots, the leaves are not eliminated.
Trimming should be done in the evening. If you skip the procedure, then the next summer the plant blooms later and not so abundantly. In addition, the bush will have a sloppy appearance. If pruning was not performed in the fall, then this must be done in the spring.
Winter
At this time, the plant does not grow and does not bloom, it only discards the remains of the leaves. In winter, it should rarely be watered and sprayed. When the earth has dried, the flower needs to be watered only after 2-3 days. The temperature should be from 15 to 17 ° C. You can transfer the flower to the windowsill.
There should not be heating and household appliances near the bush. If the apartment has central heating, then the following protection options are used:
- a flower is placed between the frames;
- in autumn, it is not necessary to seal the window where the rose will be located during the winter;
- part of the window must be fenced with polyethylene;
- the container should be placed on a stand with wet pebbles or gravel and make sure the stones are wet.
Likely diseases
The cause of diseases of potted roses is considered improper care:
- very high temperature;
- high humidity;
- inadequate ventilation.
Miniature roses in an enclosed space may have the following ailments:
- Leaf spotting is a fungal affliction that manifests itself in the form of small dark formations on the leaves. Gradually they turn yellow and crumble. Spotting appears at high humidity. During watering, do not allow water to get on the leaves. Painful sheets should be removed. To eliminate the ailment, antifungal soap or fungicides are used.
- Powdery Mildew With this ailment, white powder appears on the leaves, stems, buds. Young leaves change shape. The disease appears due to frequent temperature changes. To eliminate it, fungicides are used.
Thus, leaving az potted roses does not cause trouble. Growing this plant allows you to create your own flower mini-garden. At home with roses there will be a cozy atmosphere.