Many people like to raise a pot of rhododendrons at home, azaleas bloom on the full pot, the flowers are colorful, the flowering period is particularly long, festive and bright, placed in the home joyous, in some of the more important occasions are also decorated with potted rhododendrons.
The amount of flowers blooming is really amazing, in fact, the azalea is usually more difficult to maintain, and when he finishes a stubble of flowers or does not pay much attention when watering in normal times, it is easy to have serious dead branches and rotten leaves and rotten roots. How should you raise this rhododendron indoors?
It is said that azaleas are particularly difficult to raise, mainly because he likes a warm and humid environment, most of the azaleas sold in the flower shop are mainly Western juan, their root system is very slender capillary roots, if you do not pay attention to watering, it is easy to rot roots.
If there is a phenomenon of rotten roots and rotten leaves, first of all, prune all the rotten roots and rotten leaves, the branches are also appropriately shortened, the weak branches are pruned off, if there are still flower buds, they must be cut off, so that he can save nutrients, maintain the plant well, take it out of the pot, prune those rotten roots, no growth, brown root system, all prune it, only some better root systems can be left, some friends raise cuckoos, rotten roots are more serious, so be sure to add some carbendazim to prevent it from continuing to rot roots.
Rooting again is also skillful, you can use river sand for rooting, you can also use vermiculite perlite and the like, it is faster to plant it in this kind of plain soil to root. Keep the soil slightly moist, you can put it in a place where the scattered light ventilation is better, do not expose to the sun. Spray the plants with water every day to keep the leaves atomized.
The temperature in the room is preferably above 15 degrees, and after two weeks at most, it will slowly sprout on its branches. Slowly it will grow roots, stuck in river sand or vermiculite, and then wash away the river sand with water, and then change to the nutrient soil, the root system of the rhododendron is relatively weak, and the soil should be used to use loose and breathable soil.
Generally speaking, pine needle soil humus soil is added to the granular soil, in this soil with very good softness, the root system of the rhododendron can be fully stretched and deeply rooted, and the roots and flowering.
Usually at home to raise cuckoos, we must pay attention to the problem of watering, the surface of the potting soil dried down two or three centimeters and then watered, do not water too much watering too diligently. Otherwise these rotten roots are waiting for you.