How to properly care for a rose - a beautiful and whimsical plant?
For cultivation in a city apartment is best suited miniature roses, indoor, tea-hybrid or remontant roses. All these species are very beautiful, they have leaves with five small leaves and large flowers with a pleasant, incomparable pink fragrance.
After you bought such a beauty in a flower shop, do not rush with her transplant. The plant should get used to its new "place of residence". Place the pot with the rose on the east or southeast window. Do not forget that the rose needs fresh cool air and diffuse light, so it is not possible to place a rose near the batteries and heaters, as well as in direct sunlight. The rose will not suffer dry warm air. The ideal temperature for a rose is 10-25 0 . You can fence a rose from the battery with a strip of film, and in order to provide access to cool air, you can not glue the window where there is a rose. In winter, the rose does not need frequent watering, but it must not be allowed to dry the soil completely. Usually a pot with a rose is put in a pallet with gravel and is watched to keep the stones moist. The rose needs daily spraying of the foliage, as the humidity of the air increases.
Usually roses are cut off in winter, leaving 5 buds on each branch. If you do not prune, then the bush will later look untidy, and flowering will occur much later and buds will be small.
To properly pick up the soil for a rose, give preference to ready-made soils for roses that are enriched with all the necessary trace elements and minerals for healthy growth and lush flowering. The soil for the rose consists of a mixture of humus, earth and sand.
At a time when the rose is forming buds, increase the watering of the plant and put it in the brightest place of your house.
At the end of spring and summer, a rose is taken out to the balcony, where it feels better and pleases the eye. In order to change the "place of residence" for the rose without pain, accustom it to the bright light gradually. First, the rose needs to be put in the shade, and a week later you can put it in the light. During flowering roses do not forget to remove the wilted buds in time from the bush, as they take away some of the nutrients from the rose.
If the rose became small her pot, then you need to transplant it into a more spacious one. The transplantation is performed in the beginning of spring, before the period of active growth begins. At the bottom of a new pot, put a layer of shallow drainage, 1cm thick. Then, trying not to damage the root system, transplant the rose together with the old earth into a new pot and fill it with new earth. Soil must be well impregnated with water to look at its final shrinkage. The new pot should not be too large, it should be only 2cm larger than the previous one. After the transplant, put the rose in the shade (on the north window) for a week. One month after the transplant, when the rose begins to actively grow, start the weekly fertilizer with complex fertilizers. If it's rainy and cloudy outside, it's better not to fertilize a rose.
Cropped branches of the rose are suitable for reproduction. For this it is necessary to cut cuttings, 15 cm long with several buds. Root the cuttings in the sandy ground under a glass cap. The roots of the cuttings appear about a month later, after which it is possible to transplant the rose-baby into a small pot and put next to the mother plant.
Roses are highly susceptible to various diseases, for example, powdery mildew. To get rid of powdery mildew, it is necessary to wash the plant with a solution of soda, not allowing the solution to hit the ground. It is advisable to dip the whole plant in a soda solution as a whole. This treatment should be done several times, taking a break in two weeks. After treatment with soda, the roses will fall off those leaves that were affected by powdery mildew. Soon the rose will grow new leaves.