Azalea, landing and care at home. Azalea at home: landing, pot

Room flower, azalea, rightly recognized by one of the most beautiful potted plants grown at home.

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The colors of the blossomed azaleas are impressive with a violence and abundance of bright colors. Purple, purple, carmine red, snow-white, purple inflorescences almost completely close the leaves of a decorative shrub. Similar abundant and long blossom will not leave anyone indifferent.

At the same time, the bedroom azalia is considered a sufficiently demanding culture and often dies with inept care. What to do, so that Azalia passed in new conditions? How to transplant and care for a flower at home? Step-by-step instructions of the plant content, reviews and recommendations of experienced flowerflowers - in this selection of material.

Azalea Rooming, Plant Description

All types of azaleas belong to the genus Rhododendron family of herase. The word "Rhododendron" is translated as a "pink tree", which is explained by the presence of beautiful lush inflorescences on the plant, similar to miniature, more often pink, roses. The ancient Greek name "Azalea" means "dry", which is associated with the appearance of a plant resembling a small dryish bush.
The range of Natural Origin Azaleas applies to countries such as Japan, China and North America. In Russia, this species appeared in the early 20th century in specialized oranges and botanical gardens. In the countries of the East, the azalea flower is often used to form a tree - bonsai.
In nature, there are more than 300-tons of types of azaleas. In room flower growing, the most common is an Indian variety of evergreen azaleas.
Azalea room is a low highly branching and compact bush, reaching a height of no more than 50 cm.

Azalea leaves are small (not more than 3-3.5 cm), short-flowered and have a rather decorative appearance. They are painted in a rich dark green color and covered with poorly promotional reddish. As for the shape of the leaf plate, it can be different: from an elongated egg-shaped to a pointed lanceal.
The most spectacular azalea becomes during its flowering, which is usually as a rule, for the winter period. In general, flowering time from different varieties of azaleas are different and can also shift for the spring months. The period of the most abundant and lush flowering of azalea occurs at the age of 3-4 years.
The inflorescence of the room flower, depending on the varietality, there are different color, shapes and terrace. The diameter of the separate flower, on average varies from 3 to 5 cm, and the inflorescence can consist of both a single flower and from a group of 2 to 6 pieces. The coloration of the bunny can be bright pink, red, purple, white and even two-color. The petals of the flower are also diverse, there are very terry, weakly terry and simple varieties of azaleas. Form, Azalea flowers are most often funkone.

Varieties and varieties of indoor azalea

Azaleas are divided into two groups: deciduous and evergreen plants.

Most of the flower products are classified by Azalia in flowering timing and divide all varieties into 3 groups. Consider the most popular grade azaleas in each of the groups.

Rannetic varieties of azalea. Flowers in December - January months.

Azalea's variety "Dresden 1936" is characterized by medium terry large inflorescences of gentle, pink color. In diameter, these azalea flowers can reach about 6 cm.
Azalea's variety "Enzette" has a large (up to 7 cm) flowers of pink shade.
Azalea Vysis Shemma variety is highlighted by large (about 6 cm), widely funnel-shaped snow-white flowers with a gentle pink tint.
Azalea Azalea variety is belloltoidal semi-world bright raspberry inflorescences, a diameter of up to 6 cm.
Azalea Doberormug variety is characterized by large (up to 7 cm) terry flowers of saturated pink color with white border along the edge.
The Azalea variety "ERI" is represented by semi-world carmine-pink flowers with a diameter of about 7 cm with a white border of the wrong shape.

Fixework varieties of azaleas. Flower in January - March months.

Azalea's variety "Apollo" is one of the most spectacular and decorative. Color colors attracts attention to unusual brick-carminic patterns of weakly terry or not terry flowers.
Azalea's variety "Kunt Erven" is distinguished by chic terry flowers of bright scarlet color. On average, the diameter of such a flower is 6-6.5 cm.
Azalea Albert-Elizabeth variety is characterized by white or gentle-pink terry flowers with a diameter of up to 8.5 cm with red border along the edges of petals.
Azalea Azaley's variety has spectacular semi-world, salmon-carmine color, flowers, diameter up to 8 cm, with an intensive carmine tint in the folds of petals.
Azalea Lenopold Astrid variety is represented by terry flowers of gentle purple color, with a diameter of 7 cm with red border and corrugated petals.

Late-flowing varieties of azaleas. Flower in February - April months.

Azalea Hakes variety is characterized by an unusual, saturated wine color of the inflorescence. The flower diameter reaches about 5-5.5 cm.
Azalea Sakuntala variety is highlighted by large terry flowers of blue-white color. In diameter, the flower reaches 7 cm.
Azalea variety "NIOBE" has terry white inflorescences, a diameter of up to 7.5 cm with greenish zev and red specks.
Azalea's variety "CONCINNA" is a high-resistant variety with simple funnel-shaped light-lilac flowers with a diameter of up to 7 cm with bright crimson splashes.
Azalea's grade "Professor Walters" has simple Voronkovoid flowers of a bright light-salmon shade, with a diameter of up to 7.5 cm, with whiten edges. At the same time, the three top petals are decorated with raspberry-red crap.

Where and how to buy a room Azalia?

Azalia in a pot can be purchased almost in any flower shop, nursery or on a specialized exhibition.

Buying flowering azalia, it is better to stop your choice on an instance that has a greater number of not yet blossomed buds. Thus, it will be possible to provide prolonged azalea blossom at home, which means that the flower will be able to better adapt to new living conditions.
Before buying a pot Azalea, the flower should be carefully examined for the absence of dry leaves or damaged shoots on it. These negative features may indicate the availability of diseases or pests.

Care for azaleas at home

As you know, bedroom azalia is considered quite a capricious and complaintful culture. Despite this, the plant enjoys unusually popular among indoor flower lovers. It is important initially will be correctly learned by competent flower care, and provide azaleas for the most comfortable conditions for growing.

How to care for azalia so that a spectacular flower can rejoice around not one year? Consider all the key features of the content of potted culture, azaleas, in room conditions.

Lighting for room azalea at home

The first question after buying a plant, becomes the choice of an optimally favorable room for a room flower. In this decision, it is important to take into account such a factor as the lighting of the room.

Light-loving azalea needs a sufficient amount of light. Meanwhile, the plant should not be exposed to direct scoring sun rays.
It is best to place a flower on the windowsill with an eastern, northern or west side of the house.
Lighting for azaleas should be scattered. You can also put a flower into a light half.
In the second half of the fall, during the formation of floral kidney, the plant will need a larger amount of light, rather than was previously provided. For these purposes, daylight lamps will be useful.
In the summer, the pot with azalia can be taken out into the street, in the half. For this, the flower bed is ideal under the openwork crown of garden trees. The flower pot can be picked right into the ground or leave on the ground. You should not be afraid of summer rains, they will have a very beneficial effect on Azalia.

Temperature regime for room azalea

For successful cultivation of azaleas, the temperature in the room has an equally important role than lighting. Compliance with the required temperature in the room will allow the flower culture of abundant and long-lasting flowering.

Home Azalia can not be called a thermal-loving culture. The optimal temperature in the room where the flower is located, is 15-18 ⁰C (maximum 20 ⁰WITH).
During the bookmark and formation of buds, the room temperature should be even lower - not more than 10-12 ⁰WITH.
It is especially difficult to maintain the desired temperature in the summer. Some flower products are trying to adjust the microclimate in the room with the help of an air conditioner or exhibit a flower to a balcony from the northern side of the house.
It is not difficult to maintain the desired temperature in specially equipped greenhouses, whereas in the apartment will have to try to provide the plant optimal temperature regime. Otherwise, the flower will begin to "stick" and can perish.

Humidity for room azalea

So that Azalia felt well at home, an increased level of humidity should be provided.

To create a wet microclimate, the azalia is sprayed from a finely dispersed pulverizer with cool water. The irrigation of the flower of a large sprayer is not desirable, since after that there are noticeable stains on the plant.
During flowering, the flower should be sprayed carefully, so that the moisture fell as little as possible on the petals of Azalea flowers. Otherwise, gentle inflorescences may darken and lose their decorative attractiveness.
In addition to frequent spraying near the pot of azaleas, you can put an open container with water. The question of air humidity during the heating season is especially relevant when the air in the room quickly becomes dry.
To support high humidity, you can use a deep pallet with pebbles, which pour water and where the pot is placed with a flower.

Watering azaleas at home

Watering significantly affects the growth and development of Azalea shrub. The demanding azalea needs regular soil moistening in compliance with a number of rules, namely:

Watering the flower is systematically carried out as the soil drying. With proper moisture, the soil substrate in the pot must always be slightly humid.
The approximate scheme of watering room azaleas: once every two days, in small portions, which, as the shrub grows, gradually increase. Watering is carried out on top, and excess water from the pallet is drained.
If it happened so that the earthen com in the pot is dry, the pot with a flower put in a container with warm water for 2-3 hours. During this time, the plant will fill the required amount of moisture.
During flowering, irrigation rates increase. At the same time, it is impossible to allow moisture in a pot in order not to provoke the roots. For this, water that flows into the pallet is constantly poured.
Watering water uses soft: resistant, rain or tamu. The water temperature must match the room.
Some flowerflowers in winter practice applying a flower pot of snow or ice to the surface of the soil. But such procedures are appropriate only in conditions of cool greenhouses or greenhouses; In the conditions of residential premises, such a drop of temperature will adversely affect the blossom of azaleas.
So that blooming was abundant and long, Azalea bush once every 2 weeks watered "acidified" water. To do this, add 2-3 drops of lemon juice to the water. Such a procedure will help preserve the most affordable soil acidity for azalea.
Loose the soil after irrigation is not worth it, as it is fraught with damage to the gentle roots of perennial.

Fertilizer room azalea at home

For feeding azaleas, only special mineral fertilizers intended for this type of plants are used. Perfectly established itself, for example, such a thingioned drug as "Azalea".
Fertilizer, intended for "nutrition" of room azalea, in no case should contain chlorine.
During the Bootonization of Azalea, the use of phosphorus-potash mineral complexes is appropriate ("Kemira-Lux", "Uniflor-Bud", "Superphosphate") at the rate of 15 g of fertilizer on 10 liters of water.
In the spring-summer period, the plant Azalea feed once a week. In winter, the number of feeders are reduced to once a month.

Pruning and pinching room azaleas

The room shrub needs forming pruning and pinching of shoots. These activities will ensure the development of a lush compact cooking of home azaleas.
Crop the azalia is needed annually, in the spring (in May), specially intended for these purposes by the secateur. At the same time remove weak and, on the contrary, too long the shoots of Azalea, which thicken the bush and prevent the formation of Azalea buds.
Young closures of room azaleas pinch, leaving no more than 4-5 leaves. In addition, new shoots appearing near generative kidneys are also deleted.

The formative type of trimming can be carried out by 2 ways: in the form of a mini-treary or bush. To form a "church", leave the strongest and even escape from which the future trunk will be formed. The rest of the shoots are removed. As soon as the size of the barrel reaches the desired size, its top pinch. Further, the tree will branch, so it needs to be periodically turned and pinch the side shoots to get a beautiful spherical crown.
When the plant is flashing, all the faders and seed boxes should be cut. Such an agrotechnical technique allows you to extend the flowering period and preserve the vitality of the flower.
During flowering, the pot with azalia can be rotated and transferred to a new place, the plant is absolutely indifferent to, of this kind, movements. The only condition, on the observations of many flower water - to return the pot of Azalea to the previous place after his flowering.

Diseases and pests of room azalea

Potted azalea may be attacked by pests or amazed, typical of rhododendron, diseases. Culture diseases most often appear due to improper care of the room plant, namely: with insufficient watering, poor lighting, elevated air temperature in the room.

When azaliyeic moth appears on the plant, the leaves begin to turn into the tube, shrust, dry and fall. The greenhouse whiteflink also parasitates on the leaves of azaleas, and often the carrier of viral diseases. When azalea tick appears on a bush, the leaves begin to "deteriorate". They fold in the form of a "boat", boil and shuffled; Then the cuttings and kidneys of the plant are damaged. Special insecticides are used to combat pests. With minor zones of the lesion, the treatment of soapy solve will help.
As for diseases, the appearance of mildew, gray rot, rust, mosaic, or the development of fusariosis is possible on the indoor plant. To get rid of these "troubles" it will be necessary to use chemicals.

Azaleas landing and transplantation at home

Experienced flowers are recommended immediately after the first flowering, transplant the plant. The young copies of Azaleas are transplanted, as a rule, once a year, adults - once every three years. Before planting, all dry shoots and faded inflorescences are removed.
Azalea planting pot is not deep, given the surface location of the roots of azaleas.
The soil for azaleas should be "sour", with a pH of about 4 - 4.5. You can purchase a ready-made soil substrate or prepare it yourself. For this, 2 parts of the rewinders are mixed, 1 part of the moss and 1 part of the sand. The "heather" is ideal, which is harvested on the site where herasskiy plants grow and, as a result, a semiconduble layer of organics is formed.
For landing, a mixture of coniferous ground with peat is also used (in the 2: 1 ratio) and a slight addition of river sand. If the soil mixture is prepared independently - after mixing it should be disinfected: rolling in the oven and shed a weak solution of potassium permanganate (manganesey).

The landing of Azalea seedlings in hydroponics, on special nutrient solutions and the total lack of soil is also practiced.
Azalea transplantation can be carried out by 2 ways: "Transshipment", to maximize the preservation of the natural community of land around the roots and, on the contrary, without preserving the soil, with pre-washing of roots. The main thing in the process of work is not to damage the thin roots of azaleas.
The method of "transshipment" is considered the simplest, as it does not require interference in its root system. However, this technique does not allow full renewal of soil and inspection of the roots.
As for the 2rd planting method, before the procedure, the pot with azalia is watered, then the plant is carefully removed and lowered into a container with warm water to rinse the roots and separate the old soil. In the water, the roots of the plant leave at about half an hour. After the "water procedures", the roots must be carefully examined to remove if there are rotten areas.
For planting azaleas in a new flower pot, 1,5-2.5 cm of the drain layer made of ceramisit or small rubble is poured onto it. The plant is placed in a pot, sprinkle roots and tightly fall asleep with a soil mixture to the root neck, which should remain on the surface.
Watering after planting a shrub is carried out no earlier than in 3 days. Additionally, it is possible to add a solution of the root growth stimulator to the soil of transplanted azalea. Fertilizer's application is permitted no earlier than 2 months after the renovation of culture.

Azalea reproduction at home

How to propagate azalia at home? There are several ways to breed this beautifully blooming shrub.

Shining:

Semi-hydraulic stalks are used as a material for reproduction of azalea.
The procedure for the workpiece and rooting of cuttings can be carried out, starting from March and ending with August.
For reproduction of azalea, semi-respene cuttings are 6-8 cm long long. Green shoots, as well as highly weird, are not suitable for this procedure.

Separations of shoots are treated with a solution of stimulator of the root formation. After processing the cutlets deepen into the soil substrate to a depth of about 2 cm.
The substrate for rooting cuttings should be with an acidic reaction of the medium (coniferous soil, peat), as well as when planting azalea seedlings.
Sliced \u200b\u200bcuttings are covered with glass jars or cropped plastic bottles, imitating "greenhouse conditions" and providing better shoots of shoots.
The temperature in the room where the cuttings are planted, should be about 23-25 ⁰C. In addition, shoots need to regularly water and ventilate. The cuttings are rooted about 3-5 weeks.
Successfully rooted cuttings are transplanted into a flower pot. Young shoots that appeared on cuttings, it is better to pinch to start forming the future krona bush.

Bust division:

Adult azalea bush, which can be divided into several parts about 3-4 years.
For this, the bush is carefully removed from the pot and divided into several parts, trying to injure the fragile roots of the plant as little as possible.

Seeds:

The seed method of reproduction is considered the most complex and time consuming.
Most often, this method is used by flower-breeders engaged in the removal of new varieties of flower culture.

Problems in growing room azaleas

In the process of care for room azalia, some problems that will require immediate interventions are possible. From the right solution to the resulting dilemma will often depend on the life of the flower. Consider in more detail how to save Azalia in a particular situation.

Azalea is poppy

If the azaleas fall out of the leaves, the reason can be an excessive hit by a sunny bush, insufficient watering or low air humidity. Another reason for which the leaves begin to dry and fall, may be the use of substitable water plants (hard, cold).

Azaleya drier

Azalea can dry during the damage to the plants insect pests or infection with the disease.

Azalea Zhelethet

One of the reasons for the yellowing of the leaf of azalea can be clay in the ground or clay impurities in water for watering.

Azalea Bad Flowers

Azalea's weak blossom can be due to the non-appropriate parameters of the temperature regime in the room.

Thus, grow azalia at home is not easy. Capricious and demanding potted culture needs special attention and close popping. But the result in the form of a spectacular blooming bush is worth it! In addition, once learned to care for a capricious flower, then the process "will go like oil".