Pit Azalea - Planting and Home Care

I can not help but share my admiration for this extraordinary flower. I am absolutely sure that no one can indifferently pass by the azalea stamping, drowning in magnificent luxurious flowers. I, too, was no exception.

Azalea to the cottage

In early March last year I bought this magic bouquet in a flower pot as a gift to my daughter. We admired the flowering of azalea for almost three months, and after it faded (it was the end of May), decided to take the plant directly in the pot to the dacha and dig into the ground without destroying the root lump.

The place was chosen for this bright, in the early morning and evening it was lit by the sun, and in the midday heat the flower was in a light shade. Watered azalea every day, if there was no rain. So she grew up with us until the middle of July, and then a miracle happened!

Buds began to appear, the number of which increased right before our eyes. Our delight was boundless, when at the end of July the azalea blossomed again! So I was happy with bright colors in the garden until the end of September.

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Reference by topic: Japanese Azalea - planting and care

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Transplantation of australia azalea

Then we dug out the pot and went over, again without disturbing the earth clod, in the pots of a slightly larger size. Although a flowering plant is not recommended to be transplanted, we did this and in the future did not regret it.

They took the flower home, to the city where they settled azalea on the balcony. Literally a few days later the number of blossoming flowers in azalea increased dramatically. Our joy was beyond limit!

So azalea grew on the balcony until the middle of November, until it became quite cold. We moved her into the house and put it on the window away from the heating batteries. Azalea grows, blossoms and feels fine, giving us extraordinary joy.

What should be the water for azalea watering?

By the way, I want to note that there is an erroneous, but quite common opinion that azalea should be watered with very cold, almost icy water. From personal experience I want to note that this is a great error.

Water for irrigation should be at room temperature, where the flower grows, or slightly (at 2 degrees) higher, then the roots absorb it very easily.

Over time, acidic soil from salts contained in watering tap water can become alkaline, and this can ruin a plant. In order to prevent this from happening, it is best to water the azalea with softened water. For this, it is necessary to boil it, cool it, carefully separate the upper half, and pour out the sediment. In order not to deal with this every day, I boil water at once for several watering.

Sometimes (I do this once every two weeks) it is useful to water the plant with acidified water, for this I add a drop of lemon juice or several crystals of citric acid in 0,5 l of 3 water.

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See also: Plants blooming in the home (indoors)

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Not overslept New Year

As I grew my azalea in the summer in the garden, I poured extraordinary water on it with rain water.

And on New Year's Eve the festive atmosphere in our house did not create Poinsettia (as it usually is), but a beautiful azalea, which all our family was incredibly happy! And only 20 January, the last flower fell. Now azalea is in a state of rest, but I very much hope that it will wake up again and please us with a delightful bloom.

Growing Azaleas - Questions and Answers

How to choose a healthy azalea bush? What first of all to pay attention to when buying?

Svetlana Cizhevich, Vitebsk

A healthy plant should be with dense dark green leaves without spots. The shining tops of the shoots and the yellow leaf plate with darker veins indicate ea-cleavage of the substrate and disturbance of the diet. This plant is better not to take. With slight shaking, the leaves should not crumble. It is also risky to buy a too dry or waterlogged plant, with an unpleasantly smelling substrate. Choose specimens with incompletely opened buds, without dried edges, so it will bloom longer.

Already three times she tried to start azalea. And every time the plant died within a month. How to help her acclimatize in an apartment?

Vera Soldatenkov. r Ryazan

In a room culture, azalea is not a light plant and does not forgive violations of the rules of agricultural technology. It is light and moisture-loving, requires high humidity and moderate temperature. Azalea fully develops only in an acidic substrate with pH 3,5-4,5. Soil acidity can be maintained once a month by adding organic acids to the water for irrigation - citric, oxalic, ascorbic acids (but not more than 0,2 g / l). In addition, azalea is not very salt tolerant; therefore, it is better to use settled boiled water for irrigation.

I dream of azaleas. But it stops our summer - I'm afraid the plant will be too hot. Are there any ways to help her survive high temperatures?

V. Ostrovenko. Dnepropetrovsk

It is enough to pritenyat plant from direct sunlight and do not overdry the substrate. 8 heat is allowed to leave water in the pan, you can also spray the plant several times a day. It is necessary to ensure sufficient ventilation, for example, not to leave on a windowsill with tightly closed windows.

The most important period for azaleas is autumn. Flower buds are laid, for their normal development, a temperature of no more than + 10-12 degrees is required. Therefore, it is better to keep the plant at this time on the balcony or in the garden.

Is it true that azalea can only be watered with a pallet?

I also heard that instead of watering, snow or ice is laid on the surface of the earth. Does this mean that the water should always be specially cooled before watering?

Non-development. Voronezh

In industrial greenhouses use a loose peat substrate and lower watering, with the bulk of active roots concentrated near the drainage holes. Therefore, a freshly-found plant is best watered from below. After transplanting and watering from above, a superficial root system, characteristic of azalea, is formed. In this case, the water is evenly distributed over the entire surface of the substrate during irrigation, excess moisture from the pan is drained through 15-20 min.

Specially to cool water it is not necessary (especially to enclose a snow or ice), it will lead to overcooling of roots and infringement of their functioning. But during flowering you can use small pieces of ice not only to supply the plant with soft water, but also to slow down the physiological processes, which increases the duration of flowering.

Azalea grows with me not so long ago. A friend asked to root for her a stalk, but I'm not sure of success. How is this best done?

Elena BARANOVSKAYA, the city of Smolensk

When pruning plants after flowering, there are many cuttings that are suitable for rooting. Cuttings length 5-6 cm cut with a clean knife, removing an additional strip of bark above the cut width of 5 mm, the bottom of the pair of leaves is removed, the cut is dusted with corn root. In a glass jar pour 1,5 cm claydite, 3 cm steamed substrate and deepen the cuttings on 2,5 cm. The substrate must be moderately moist, the can is tightly closed with a lid. At a temperature of + 18-20 degrees, the roots appear in 2 month. If, during rooting, any cuttings will decide to bloom, buds must be plucked.

Tell me how to transplant azalea? There are several plants in the pot - should they be separated?

Natalia CHERNOVA, town of Soligorsk, Minsk region.

To divide azalea with a fully formed coma is not desirable, it is too much stress for it.

Transplanted acquired plant after flowering. Ready soil for rhododendrons can be used by adding baking powder (crushed bark, vermiculite, coarse sand) and ground dry sphagnum. But best of all, azalea grows in a mixture of coniferous land and peat (2: 1) with the addition of a small amount of sand. They select a low • heat, with a diameter several centimeters larger than the previous one, moistened expanded clay expanded fractions are used for drainage. Before planting, the root ball is soaked in water and loosened with a wooden stick, removing loose peat. From below, the roots can be cut by 1 cm. The root neck is not buried.

Weakened plants are sprayed with epin solution (2 drops on 200 ml of water) or spilled and sprayed with zircon (2 drops on 1 L of water). The crown can be slightly trimmed. The transplanted plant is kept in the penumbra for two weeks, sprayed daily, protected from drafts and sudden temperature changes.

Azalea Growing - Contrary to Statistics

More than half of the azaleas, falling into the conditions of the apartment, die from dry air, high temperature and drying out of the earth coma - such is the statistics. I managed to please these beauties, and for more than eight years now, four sissies have been giving my family enchanting blooms every winter.

I buy bushes with a lot of unrevealed buds. At home I define a place where the air temperature is not lower than + 6 and not higher than + 16 degrees. In winter, before flowering, azaleas stand on a glassed veranda on the south side of the house, I do not hide them from the sun. With the opening of the buds I transfer to the room. In the pot on the surface of the soil I place small low blood vessels with water. Sometimes I put on ice cubes ice cubes or snow. To increase the humidity, put the pot on a pallet with pebbles or moss, which from time to time I moisten. For irrigation I use rain or melt water heated and acidified with citric acid (0,5 tsp per liter of water) or aspirin.

Sometimes grated lemon pour 1,5 l of water, I insist 5-6 hours. I pour on 0,5 l on a large pot.

I feed in the winter with liquid fertilizer for rhododendrons and azaleas in low concentrations once a month.

I replant the bushes after flowering. The first three years - annually. I take a flowerpot low, wide, plastic, with large openings for water drainage. I always put drainage from expanded clay or clay shards at the bottom.

Soil mixture is prepared from coniferous, leafy, peat land with a small amount of sand. I add a handful of dry needles, trying not to damage the roots. Azalea does not tolerate soil taken from under the oak

From May to September bushes I keep in the yard from the north side of the house. Warm summer rains to their advantage. And the sun's rays do not fall on the plant.

Reproduction of azalea

I did not set a goal to grow azalea from the cuttings. But two years ago one stalk managed to root hosts under a bush. The hosta grew in the shade, and under the leaves - darkness. The summer was hot. Cuttings planted at an angle. I added acid soil under the hosta bush and periodically moistened it. Azalea took root two months later, and I planted it in a separate pot. At the celebration, I decorate the azalea with pine branches, decorative fiber and miniature Christmas balls. It turns out elegantly and festively.

© Marina Nikolaevna Bakhareva, Vitebsk

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