What to do with a potted room rose after purchase?
Recently, the queen of garden flowers has been expanding her domain, and today you will not surprise anyone with blooming roses on the windowsills. Small compact bushes, strewn with charming delicate roses, feel quite comfortable in an apartment, if you pay a little attention to them.
What is the correct care for a purchased rose in a pot? After acquiring a beauty, you need to pay attention to the following points:
- conduct a thorough examination of the bush and assess its general condition;
- transplant the rose into nutrient soil, changing the pot if necessary.
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Preparing the rose for "home living"
After bringing a flower home from the store, you should inspect it well for pests so as not to put the rest of your pets at risk of infection. In addition, remove all dry leaves and faded buds. If the flowering has already ended completely, it will not be superfluous to immediately trim the bush, leaving up to 5 buds on each shoot.
For prevention diseases and to protect against harmful insects, treat the rose with Fitoverm and Previkur.
After inspection and processing, the bush must be left alone for two weeks - during this time it adapts to the home climate.
Transplanting a flower
At the end of the adaptation period, you can start transplanting the purchased roses... Most often, in flower shops, plants are in temporary pots with shipping soil, plus they are still fed with fertilizers all the time to continue flowering. A flower brought home must be transplanted into fresh nutrient soil.
You can buy ready-made soil mixture in the store immediately when buying a rose, or you can make it yourself by mixing:
- in equal parts humus and sod;
- adding 0.5 parts of sand.
It is better to choose a flowerpot for a rose in the form of a cone extended upwards. You should not take too large dishes - it is enough if there is a distance of 3 cm between the walls of the pot and the bush (in a large pot the earth will dry out for a long time and sour).
Gently remove the bush, free it from the old soil, smooth out the twisted roots and place in a growth stimulant solution for 10 minutes. Plant the treated rose in a new flowerpot, covering it with fresh soil.
In order for the bush to transfer the transplant better, cover it with a cap for a week. Ventilate periodically.
Further care of the rose
After a week, the cap can be removed and the rose can be taken care of as usual, namely:
- water after the topsoil has dried:
- once every two weeks, feed with a mineral complex (the first fertilization can be done no earlier than a month after transplanting the purchased flower);
- regularly remove dry flowers, shorten shoots every spring to stimulate branching and flowering.