Fans of fragrant roses can enjoy these plants all year round. After all, their more compact "relatives" occupy a worthy place on the windowsill, terrace in small pots or large containers. Potted home flowers as fragrant and beautiful as garden varieties of roses. Their buds are bewitching
and when properly maintained, they delight from early spring to mid-autumn, and maybe longer.
Many novice gardeners ask how to care for potted roses . After all, a rose does not always please with abundant flowering, it starts to hurt, dry. But such changes occur with the plant for the reason that gardeners are trying to experiment, not knowing the main features of caring for indoor roses. Therefore, proper care provides early and long flowering plants.
Conditions for the successful cultivation of decorative roses
Decorative indoor roses are grown as compact potted plants. But not all varieties are suitable for this. Most often these are tea, repair roses, they feel great on the windowsill.
Indoor roses are very photophilous.
They prefer the south or southwest side, because they need a long
daylight hours. Experienced gardeners, knowing how to care for
roses in a pot, light them up in autumn and early spring for successful vegetation with daylight.
In addition to good lighting, roses like enough moisture. In the summer, when the apartment is dry and hot, the plants should be sprayed and, if possible, taken out onto a balcony or loggia. There they will feel much better.
Watering should be done regularly, as the topsoil dries up, but without flooding the plant. Roses can not stand watering with cold water, it should be at room temperature. You can pour it directly onto the soil, or you can pour it into a sump, but then it is recommended to drain the water.
How to continue flowering roses
You can talk for a long time about how to care for roses in a pot. We will only say that the flowering of plants and its duration depends on many factors.
Firstly, fertilizer. From early spring, a room rose should be fed with special fertilizers, which can be purchased at a flower shop. There they will advise you a special stick for fertilizer. It is inserted into the ground in an upright position, its duration is 3 months. This method of feeding is most convenient.
Secondly, the formation of a bush plays an important role. In winter, the rose is provided with a rest period, it is carried out in a cool room (+ 5 ... + 9 degrees), cutting off all the stems and leaving up to 5 buds on each. In the spring, the plant is brought to a permanent, lit place. Further, as the branches grow, they go to the middle of the bush, cut off.
Thirdly, the flowering of roses depends on the duration of daylight hours. Plants dovetail to bookmark many buds.
Fourthly, in order for the buds to form faster, wilted flowers are removed, and with them dried branches, that is, a pink bush is kept clean throughout the growing season.
Indoor roses are transplanted after 2-3 years, transferring a lump of earth into a pot, the size of which is slightly larger than the former. They buy special land for indoor roses.
These simple tips will help novice lovers learn how to care for roses in a pot, and translate the basic rules into plant life. Decorative roses will delight your home with their magical flowering and delicate aroma for a long time.