Home roses are a miniature copy of the most beautiful garden flower, the garden queen. Recently, a rose in a pot has often been an alternative to a traditional bouquet.
In the very first weeks after the acquisition or receipt of such a gift, the plant, thanks to the effects of numerous stimulants and fertilizers, looks wonderful, but in the future to maintain its attractiveness is quite difficult. Of course, if you try, you can get a decent reward in the form of a bright and lushly blooming rose.
After reading the article, you can learn about how to care for a home rose so that it constantly pleases the eye with its beautiful healthy appearance. Blooming miniature roses in pots today are very popular in home gardening.
general information
It should be noted that a room rose is not as capricious as an orchid, but it can also die without proper care. This decorative bush will always bloom with lush, bright buds, if you take care of it in a timely and correct manner, protect it from direct rays of light and drafts, bathe and transplant it into a larger pot on time as it grows.
A beautiful healthy rose in a pot can become not only an exquisite design element, but also the pride of any housewife. In favorable conditions, it can bloom almost all year. The following is more detailed information on caring for a home rose.
General description of a room rose
The bush of a decorative rose has several stems covered with wide leaves of dark green color and thorns. Flowers are white, bright red, pink and burgundy. There are varieties with black and orange inflorescences.
Home rose in height, as a rule, is 1.5-2 times lower than the garden rose, and its buds do not exceed 15 cm in diameter (depending on the variety).
Kinds
Growing roses at home is painstaking work, but it is worth it. In pots, as a rule, miniature and stunted roses, represented by several varieties, are grown. Below is a brief description of some of them.
- Bengal roses are not found in the wild, therefore, most likely, they were bred specifically for growing in the home by artificial means. These are undersized (about 50 cm) bushes with small and narrow leaves. Their buds are terry, narrow, small, having different colors, except for yellow. From spring until the New Year, a plant blooms. Bengal rose does not need, like many species, at rest, and it does not drop leaves for the winter. This variety was introduced to Europe in the 18th century.
- Miniature Chinese roses in the house look great. They are a dwarf form of Bengal roses. Their distinctive feature is very small flowers (1-2 cm in diameter). Low bushes in growth reach 15-25 cm. Small, thick openwork leaves and bushy terry buds are magnificent. Into European countries were introduced at the beginning of the XIX century.
- Patio or Mini Flora. This new group of rose varieties occupies an intermediate place between miniature roses and Floribunda. A low-growing multi-flowered plant blooms almost all year. It is believed that this variety was bred by Irish breeders in the last century in the 80s. Today, the Patio rose is one of the most promising in landscape design and pot culture.
- Polyanthus roses are the result of crossing multiflowered dwarf varieties with tea-hybrid forms (late 19th century). Their height is 30–40 cm. The bushes are compact and dense very decorative. The sizes of the buds are up to 5 cm in diameter. And the color palette is the most diverse, only yellow is missing.
About growing conditions
At home, roses grow best on a lighted window sill on the southwest or south side of the house. In the summer, the pots are best taken outside, in the absence of such conditions, you need to shade the plant from the sun, otherwise the leaves and petals can get burned, and flowering will be accelerated, which affects the decorativeness of the rose. You should also rotate the pot on the windowsill about once a week in order to ensure uniform crown development.
It is not difficult to understand whether the plant is comfortable or not:
- if the leaves have a saturated green color and the buds have blossomed, then the plant feels comfortable (enough heat and light);
- if the inflorescences and leaves became lethargic, brownish spots or yellowed edges appeared, then the rose got a burn, after which the plant should immediately be put in the shade until complete recovery, and then choose another place for it with more dim lighting.
In summer, when there is a lot of sunlight, you can cover the window with a translucent curtain or blinds to soften and diffuse sunlight.
In winter and late fall, a rose needs a table or special lamp designed to illuminate flowers and seedlings. You need to turn it on for 3-4 hours so that the plant does not become sluggish (immunity decreases) and pests do not attack the rose: spider mite, aphid, etc.
Indoor roses do not tolerate frost and heat. The temperature in the summer in the room should be 16-22 degrees Celsius, and in the winter 8-12.
About pots for plants
How to care for a home rose, in what capacity should it grow? It should be grown at home in light pots. Dark ones are not suitable due to the fact that in the summer they attract a lot of ultraviolet rays, which contributes to the drying out of the substrate and the roots of the bushes.
In the summer, black, brown and other dark pots need to be wrapped in white sheets of paper that reflect light, thereby preventing the soil from drying out. Both the substrate and the roots can also be covered with sheets of white paper or constantly moistened with a spray bottle.
Landing
Usually, roses are purchased in flower shops already in pots. In this case, you just need to create suitable conditions for the plant and ensure proper care. You can plant a rose yourself, using a stalk. To do this, you can use the usual bouquet of roses.
How to plant a rose at home? First, prepare a stalk, for which a stalk of a slightly brownish hue is selected, and from the very middle of it cut a stalk with three buds (about 15 centimeters long). The upper cut should be done above the kidney by 2 cm, and the bottom - 1 cm below the kidney, and always at an angle of 45 degrees. The lower leaf should be cut, and the upper ones cut in half (they will take a lot of nutrients and the flow of juice in the cuttings will not stop). The finished material must be left for a day in a solution of a growth stimulant (for example, root).
To prepare the soil, you need to mix humus, sand and garden soil in a ratio of 2: 1: 2 and warm in the oven. Put drainage at the bottom of the pot.
The appearance on the cuttings of shoots with leaves suggests that the plant has taken root. It should be planted in a pot and covered with a jar, which in the future should be gradually removed, accustoming the plant to the dry air of the room. After removing the cans, the stalk should be sprayed daily with water. The first buds should be removed so that the root system develops better.
Care
How to care for a home rose so that it does not lose its fresh pristine appearance? In the room you need to try to maintain good air humidity (within 60-80%). But it should be remembered that excess moisture can lead to the appearance of fungus in the soil, which can lead to the death of the plant. And dry air is an ideal environment for the appearance of a spider mite, which destroys the root system. It is advisable to spray water in the evening, because if you do this in the morning, moisture accumulated on the petals and leaves will attract the rays of the sun. And the latter will leave burns on the delicate plant. Next to the pots in the daytime you can put bowls with water, the evaporation of which will moisten the air for the flower.
In summer, the rose bush should be sprayed with water, the temperature of which should be room temperature. And how to care for a potted rose in winter? To moisten the leaves and soil at this time of the year, water should be heated to 37-39 degrees. Spray up to 4 times a day, moreover, the number of these operations should be reduced if the air in the room is cool or the substrate is kept moist for a long time.
It is important to note that in November-December, a rose can be placed on a glazed balcony. But so that the roots and soil do not freeze, the pot can be placed in a large container with sawdust.
Fertilizers
During the flowering period, the rose needs to be fed with complex mineral fertilizers (for example, "Ideal" containing potassium and nitrogen). Organic nutrition - Mullein (10% solution).
Before fertilizing, the soil should be well watered, so that the roots are moistened (protection against burns). After 15-20 minutes, you can make a nutrient solution. When the plant is at rest (in winter), fertilizers are not needed.
You can also nourish the tops of flowers, over the age of 3-4 years. Once a month they should be sprayed with liquid fertilizer (a weak solution is applied to the buds and leaves using a spray bottle).
About the problems: leaves fall
What to do if a rose in a pot leaves fall?
- First of all, analyze whether the plant is watered correctly. In autumn and winter, many indoor flowers are enough to water once or twice a month.
- Redness and curl of the leaves occurs with burns by direct sunlight. It is necessary to rearrange the plant in the shade, spray it with "Epin" and update the top layer of the soil.
- If the leaves are green, but fall off, then this indicates that the plant is damaged either from dry air or from irrigation of the wrong one (too often or rarely). It is necessary to remove bare shoots or better to transplant the flower into fresh fertilized soil and revise the watering schedule.
- How to care for a home rose and what to do with it if the leaves fall, folding up into tubes? This is a sign of freezing roses. Check for drafts. The reason may be waterlogging of the soil.
- Dropping the lower leaves of the bush indicates that the flower has uneven lighting and there is not enough light. Dry earth and high air temperature, as well as insufficient humidity for the plant, are also the causes of this problem.
- Very often, roses just purchased in a store are stressed and therefore discard the leaves. If only a few leaves have fallen, do not worry, but if leaf fall occurs, urgent measures should be taken. As a rule, the acclimatization of roses in a new place lasts no more than 2 weeks.
Conclusion
A delicate rose in the house is a real decoration of the interior. Compliance with the full range of care for this plant will allow you to enjoy the view of bright and luxurious buds with juicy green leaves all year round.