Flower lovers will be pleased with the hydrangea room, care at home behind it is distinguished by its specificity and the strict conditions of cultivation. Culture is a multi-barrel neat bush with powerful leaves and spherical huge inflorescences up to 30 cm in size. Kohler of petals is pink, lilac, powdery, milky.
Hydrangea - room care
The smart hydrangea is picky to the content. Errors in caring at home, she does not forgive. How to care for a room hydrangea:
- Pyshnotsvetuschaya prelestnitsa loves light areas, protected from direct rays. Ideal location - 2-3 meters from the south window sill. In winter, the pot is put in a lighter place or using a fluorescent lamp.
- I like the culture of fresh air - the dwelling should be ventilated, but without drafts. In the summer, she feels great on the balcony with the shading.
- Domesticated hydrangeas need coolness. By prolonged flowering, they please in a room where the temperature does not rise above + 20 ° C.
- The most difficult thing is to reinforce the cyclical nature of the growth of culture - to look at the budding stage and watch the wintering conditions. In the rest phase, the bush throws off all the foliage. At this time, he needs a chilled place (from + 4 ° C to + 9 ° C) and minimal watering. Winter can culture even on a glassed-in loggia. The stage lasts 2.5 months, after the bush starts to bloom again.
- In addition to the coolness of the culture requires high humidity. Near the flowerpot it is necessary to place a saucer with wet moss or pebbles.
How to water a room hydrangea?
Water-loving hydrangea room at home care requires generous watering during the entire cycle of rapid growth - in spring and summer. The substrate around the rhizome should be moderately moist continuously, but its outer layer must dry thoroughly before moistening. With such care, the rhizome of culture will not decay, and the plant will not get sick.
Once in 2 weeks during the budding and germination of young shoots use mineral fertilizing for flowering specimens. From the middle of August, the feeds are suspended. In winter, the hydrangea resting room, watering is almost eliminated - it is necessary to moisten a little soil when leaving, not allowing drying. Renew it gradually, when new leaves grow. The water for the procedure is used at room temperature or at room temperature.
Pruning hydrangeas of room
Picturesque room hydrangeas when nursing and growing at home require pruning pruning. It is carried out twice a year:
- Primary pruning - at the end of flowering, before wintering. Eliminate wilted, feeble shoots to the ground, powerful - cut in half. For the winter the bush is covered with lapnik or wrapped with non-woven fabric.
- In spring, new stems, which are excessively stretched in length, are shortened so as not to weight the branches.
How to transplant a hydrangea in a room?
Transplanting room hydrangeas with care at home is required every year with an increase of a couple of centimeters in pot size. The root system of the plant is horizontal, the vessel needs wide, but shallow. To reduce the shock transplanted flower perevalkoy. At the bottom of the vessel, a thick layer of drainage is laid, then - soil mixture and the bush is fixed. A new substrate near the rhizome is covered so that the root cervix is on a level with the ground plane. After transshipment, the culture is generously watered, pealed with peat.
Soil for room hydrangeas
The soil for indoor hydrangeas is selected fertile, from leaf, turf and sand. (3: 3: 1). The flower has a unique characteristic - it changes color depending on the composition of the earth. In the neutral substrate will grow milk and cream inflorescences. A solution of ammonium-potassium alum (4-5 g / l) will color the petals in cornflower blue color, lime - will give a pink or purple color. Adding different makeup in different parts of the pot, you can get a multi-colored bush.
How to propagate a room hydrangea?
At home, the hydrangea is multiplied in three ways:
- Cuttings. Reproduction of room hydrangeas by cuttings is planned for January-February - from the basal branches are cut pieces of 7-8 cm with three nodes. The lower foliage is cut off, the upper one is cut in half. The process is buried in soil mixture from sand and peat and covered with a can of glass. Every day the seedling is ventilated, the drying of the land is not allowed. A month later, the baby will take root, he is moved to a pot 8-9 cm in diameter. By autumn, a shrub of 3-4 shoots will form from it.
- Division of the bush. The process is performed simultaneously with the transplant. The bush is taken from the container, divided into stakes so that in any one there are a sufficient number of branches and rhizomes. On each division, the roots and stems are shortened, they are placed in new containers with a prepared substrate.
- Seeds. Seeds are sown at the end of winter in a box for seedlings in such a soil: 1 part of sod, leaf soil and humus and 0.5 parts of peat and sand. Above they are not sprinkled, the container is covered with cellophane or glass. The box is vented, the soil is irrigated from the nebulizer. With the sprouting of shoots, the shelter is removed, the seedlings are broken. When 2-3 young leaves pass through the young sprouts, they are planted in vases of 7-8 cm in diameter with similar soil.