Rose - a decorative flower, praised by many poets, fanned with legends, has been accompanying people since time immemorial. She surprises with a variety of colors and flower shapes, wonderful aroma. Inspires the creation of new varieties and increases the number of fans who dream of how to grow a home rose for themselves and their families.
When and how it blooms
Very often, roses bloom in stores in the winter, disrupting the normal cycle. This is due to the introduction of drugs that stimulate flowering.
Blooming indoor roses in the interior
Having settled at home, the flower will restore the natural course of processes.
Flowering period
Some species of this plant bloom differently. The flowering period depends not only on the species, but also on what time and where it was bred.
Typically, flowering is observed in the spring and summer, because the rose is heliophyte (photophilous plant), under favorable conditions, it can bloom in winter. In the southern regions, it blooms once every three months and even more often, when comfortable conditions are created, roses will bloom every 2 months, from spring to autumn.
Small flowers of some varieties are completely odorless, others exude a strong aroma. The flower lasts about two weeks.
Additional Information. Typically, room rose flowers do not cause allergic reactions.
Care Changes
When flowering begins, roses require more frequent watering, acquisition and fertilizing once a week.
Main types
There are no special varieties intended for cultivation only at home. Usually for this they take ordinary roses with small sizes, which are grown in open ground.
The room rose of the classic version is a short bush or small tree with flowers of different shades: from white, cream and yellow to pink and scarlet, with lanceolate leaves with denticles along the edge.
Tea, small polyanthus, miniature, Bengal roses and container hybrids are most suitable for these purposes.
Tea rose is an ideal option for indoor cultivation. It was bred as a mix of several varieties of Bengal roses. Most of its varieties are created just like indoor flowers. The bushes look decorative, with dense green foliage, the flowers are delicate and fragrant.
The Chinese rose is appreciated for its decorative effect - small flowers completely cover the bush.
Bengal roses first appeared in Europe as the only flowering variety. They do not need pruning and special care, they only do sanitary pruning. They branch well and do not stretch in height. The advantages of these roses are considered to be long flowering and compact bush, some of them have absolutely no smell.
Tree-shaped room rose
Polyanthus roses are indoor varieties created by crossing branching roses. The bush on average reaches 50 cm in height, branched and dense. In some varieties, flowers are collected in brushes; there are terry and semi-double species. These roses feel great not only in the apartment, but also on the balconies.
Bushes of miniature roses are more compact, flowers are more often single or form inflorescences of several pieces.
Tip. When choosing a rose for growing a house, the presence and intensity of the aroma should be taken into account, since not everyone can tolerate strong odors that cause allergies and headaches in some people.
A wide variety of species and varieties allows you to choose a flower to your liking.
Home Care
How to care for a rose in a pot at home, worries many gardeners. Growing a room rose will require the implementation of certain rules for the maintenance and care of the flower. She loves brightly lit places and fresh air. It will be useful to rearrange in the warmer months on an open veranda or balcony, sit at an open window if the drafts that she is afraid of are excluded.
She needs open space, so you should not clutter up the windowsill much. To form a beautiful lush bush, you will need to turn the pot, exposing the light to different sides of the bush.
Homemade rose in a pot how to care for in winter? In winter, it is required to arrange a plant rest, creating conditions for the rest period. Only in this case, the rose, gaining strength, with the onset of spring will give abundant flowering.
A plant will acquire a well-groomed healthy appearance if watering and feeding a flower on time, regularly spraying, replanting, maintaining the temperature necessary for each period, carefully inspecting the plant regularly, revealing pests and emerging signs of diseases in time.
Temperature
Comfortable to contain room roses will be a temperature of 20-25 ° C. During the rest period (October-February) a decrease to 5-8 ° C is required. With the beginning of spring, when the phase of active growth begins, the temperature must be raised gradually.
This is an open ground plant, for full growth, it needs fresh air. In the summer it is useful to take it to the garden or to the balcony. The rest of the time, it is enough to arrange regular airing, avoiding drafts.
The soil
How well the indoor rose will grow, largely depends on the chosen soil. It should pass water and air well. It is better to use a store mix for roses with a low peat content.
Self-prepared soil should contain in parts:
- 4 - turf land;
- 4 - humus:
- 1- sand.
The second version of the composition:
- 1 - humus;
- 1 - sheet land;
- 1 - coniferous land;
- 3- turf land;
- 1 - sand.
Humidity
For a rose, home care requires compliance with the watering and moisturizing regimen. Ambient air should be 60-65% moist. Dryer air will cause pests. On sunny days, you should refuse to spray the leaves so that there are no burns. In the heating season, when the air in the apartment is very dry, spraying is done regularly or a pot is placed on a pallet with wet expanded clay.
Note! Watering methods alternate: 1 time - under the root; the second - pouring water into the pan. In any case, excess water must be drained from the pan.
It is necessary to ensure that the earthen lump is wet all the time. Watering is carried out when the topsoil has dried out. The frequency of watering depends on the growing season of the plant: in the summer they are more frequent, in the autumn-winter time they are reduced. If you completely abandon watering, a rose can drop leaves.
Important! For watering and spraying, it is recommended to use only settled water at room temperature.
Lighting
A room rose, like any flower, is a photophilous plant. She needs a lot of light for normal health, placement on the south window will be a good option. However, direct sunlight does not fit the rose, especially in the summer heat you need to shade it, protecting it from scorching rays.
For your information. Arrangement of roses on window sills oriented to other parts of the world will require artificial lighting in winter.
Transfer
The purchased plant must be replanted, changing the soil and container. Sometimes in the purchased pot there are several bushes that need to be planted. The soil intended for forcing the flower contains substances that stimulate growth and flowering, which squeeze all the forces out of it. Plastic containers are often chosen small, in which the root system becomes crowded in a short time.
Rapid drying of the soil, wilting, yellow color of leaves, stems and buds indicate that a transplant is necessary. It is performed by transferring the flower to a new container with a complete replacement of soil with fresh.
When a flower becomes diseased, if it begins to dry, it does not bloom for a long time, provided that the maintenance rules are followed, a transplant is also required.
Rose transplant after purchase
How to transplant a room rose purchased in a store after purchase? Before transplanting, you should cut off all the flowers and buds that are on the bush in order to focus the plant's strength on the growth of the roots.
Step-by-step transplant process:
- Carefully remove the rose with the earthen lump from the old pot.
- Inspect the roots, entwined with a lump, healthy roots - yellowish or white.
- Dry, rotten and blackened roots, if there are not many, are removed.
- At the bottom of the new pot lay a drainage layer of expanded clay.
- A layer of prepared soil is poured, compacted.
- Install a bush with a lump, fall asleep and compact the soil for fixed fixation of the plant.
- Watered.
If a newly purchased plant is transplanted, it is imperative that they be treated against pests with Fitoverm and against Fitosporin fungi.
Pruning a room rose
A room rose needs spring pruning. It is carried out when the growth of the buds begins, because the formation of buds is on new shoots.
Usually, after flowering, they also trim the bush. If you do not prune, abundant flowering cannot be obtained. With the help of a correctly trimmed, an unbroken beautiful bush will be formed. When cutting a branch, it is necessary to leave 4-5 buds on it. The faded flower is cut off at the level of the first leaf, at the base of which there is a bud turned outward. Thin and weak shoots are also cut.
Additional Information. Be sure to remove the branches growing inside the bush.
Possible problems in growing
Mistakes made while caring for the rose make her feel unwell. Often worried about the lack of flowers on the plant, the main purpose of which is to bloom and smell.
There are several reasons for this:
- The most common is the absence of a rest period;
- Insufficient lighting;
- Unsuitable soil composition;
- Lack or lack of nutrients in the soil;
- Unsuitable pot size.
A weakened plant is attacked by pests and diseases.
The plant dries up
Rose dries in a room that is too hot. You can save the situation by moving the flower away from the heat source or by placing it in a tray with wet expanded clay, not forgetting to moisten the soil. It is useful to spray the leaves.
Quite often, the pet dries, and the leaves begin to fall off due to decay of the root system caused by excessive watering, which leads to waterlogging of the soil, or the use of cold water. Too dense soil does not have time to dry before the next watering, which also causes rotting of the roots. You can solve the problem by cleaning the roots of the old soil and removing rotten roots, they are soft and transparent, and the remaining ones should be washed in a weak pink solution of potassium permanganate (potassium permanganate). Then half an hour to withstand the roots in a solution of fungicide "Fitosporin-M", then dry in air for 2 hours. Transplant into another container with fresh, loose and nutritious soil.
Foliage turns yellow
If the leaves turn yellow, the cause may be waterlogged soil in the pot. To restore the flower, watering is stopped for a while, only spraying the leaves.
If there are signs of acidification of the soil, the flower is transplanted into a substrate for roses, purchased in a store.
Note! It is useful to feed a yellowing flower with complex fertilizers, for example, Bona Forte or Greenwold.
Other
If a newly acquired flower begins to shed its leaves, it will respond to environmental changes. It is enough to find him a corner on a warm-lit window sill without drafts to return to his former living appearance.
Withering of flowers and buds, blackening of leaves and their falling can indicate a fungal infection, invasion of pests or freezing of a rose. That's why the flower brought from the store is not placed where the home green pets are located, arranging a two-week quarantine.
Stains on the leaves appear due to too high temperature and high humidity, very dense soil in the pot, thickened plantings. Brown spots grow, parts of the plant die. The affected areas should be removed immediately, the entire plant should be treated with a preparation containing copper or sulfur.
Breeding methods
How to grow a home rose? The rose propagates by seed and with the help of cuttings. The first method is used by breeders to breed new varieties. It is easier to grow a rose yourself from the cuttings. This method not only preserves the varietal characteristics of the parent plant, but also gives an instance adapted to the conditions of the house.
Cuttings
Cuttings are harvested from the branches remaining after trimming. Choose from healthy, well-developed branches of the cuttings with 3-4 buds up to 15 cm long, the lower cut should pass clearly under the bud. Remove the buds and lower leaves. Prepared cuttings are placed for a day in a container with a solution that stimulates the formation of roots.
Rooting can be done in several ways:
- Place the cuttings in a container of water, install in a well-lit warm place.
- Make a depression in the potato tuber, insert the stalk. Plant the tuber in the sand, leaving a small part above the surface, cover with a glass jar. Do not forget to water and ventilate.
- Plant the cuttings at an angle directly into the prepared soil (humus + peat), sprinkling sand on top. Cover with a jar.
Cuttings in water
After the appearance of the roots and leaves, the cuttings are transplanted into separate pots.
Planting cuttings in potato tuber
Despite the capriciousness and demanding care of a room rose, its popularity among professional gardeners and amateurs is constantly growing. Along with hibiscus, oleander and hydrangea, the rose is one of the leading places in the ranking of the most popular flowering house plants.
