Indoor hibiscus is often called the Chinese rose or Chinese rose. This is a unique, beautiful, unpretentious plant, with beautiful glossy foliage and large flowers of different colors. Hibiscus care at home is simple, as the plant does not need special conditions. With the cultivation of this flower, everyone can cope.
Indoor rose begins to bloom at an early age. Depending on the variety, the height of the plant can be from fifty centimeters to two meters. Flowers are double, simple, plain, multicolor. Foliage is not only green, but also colorful. Depending on what care for hibiscus will be at home, it can be formed in the form of a stem, bonsai or allowed to grow arbitrarily. In the latter case, he himself will form a bush.
Homemade hibiscus
The genus of hibiscus has more than two hundred thousand varieties. Moreover, this includes not only shrubs, but also trees, herbaceous perennials that are common in the tropics and subtropics.
The birthplace of the Chinese rose is considered to be China and Asia. Different species can grow in gardens in central Russia. Where the plant is very common, young shoots are used for food, they make tea, dyes from flowers, and plants are used in medicine. An example is the Sudanese hibiscus from which Karkade tea is made. Indoor grow tropical hibiscus, Syrian, hybrid and Chinese. Hibiscus is the national plant of the Hawaiian Islands. There he is called the flower of beautiful ladies.
Rose Care Features
Before the plant takes its place in the room, more than one year will pass. If you provide hibiscus home care of the proper type, then this plant will delight its appearance for many years. To do this, you must:
- For planting, use a good, properly composed soil.
- Provide proper lighting.
- Observe watering regimes.
- Fertilize fertilizers on time and in the right dosage.
- If desired, carry out the formation of a bush.
- Protect from pests and diseases.
The plant needs to comply with winter and summer maintenance regimes. It does not like drafts: from them the leaves begin to turn yellow, the branches are exposed, unopened buds are showered.
Growing hibiscus and caring for this plant at home requires compliance with the rules for selecting a pot: it does not need a capacity for growth. The pot must have drainage to remove excess moisture.
Buying a plant
Having brought home a rose from the store, do not immediately put it next to other plants. First you need to carefully examine it: stems, leaves on both sides, flower stalks - they should not have pests, adhesive, stains, stains, rot.
For a room rose with hibiscus, home care begins with an examination. If even the most insignificant points, spots, cobwebs, unevenly yellowed leaves are found, it is necessary to immediately treat the plant with insecticides and fungicides.
A transplant after buying a plant is not always needed. Typically, flower shops sell plants sourced from Holland. They are planted in containers, selected for the necessary parameters, providing abundant flowering. The root system of plants at the time of sales is well mastered earthen lump. Hibiscus is planted in peat with a very high fertilizer content and with growth stimulants. If you immediately transplant the plant into a less nutrient medium, then it will simply die.
If you still decide to transplant the plant into another pot, then this is done by the method of transshipment, preserving the entire earthen lump. Of course, it is better not to do this immediately after the acquisition, but to wait until the flowering ends. During this time, nutrients will leave the soil, and the plant will better tolerate the transplant.
After flowering, the transplant is carried out only after removing all residues of the old soil from the root system. To do this, the root system is thoroughly cleaned from the old earth, but they should not be washed, as roses are painful for this procedure.
Sometimes, after transplantation, the plants show lethargy of leaves. To make the flower easier to survive stress, it is recommended to pour it with Zircon. A month after the transplant, you can trim the plant.
Landing soil
Hibiscus care at home begins with the preparation of the soil. Here, flower growers can go in two ways: buy ready-made soil specifically for hibiscus or make the composition yourself. In this case, you need: two parts of clay sod, one part of leaf humus and plain earth from the garden, some sand, vermiculite and charcoal. All components mix well.
For planting, a pot is taken two to three centimeters larger than the previous one. A transplant is carried out every spring.
A plant is carefully removed from the pot. Old dark roots must be removed. To do this, use sharp scissors or another sharp clean object. Places of cuts are treated with coal.
How to care
To get hibiscus as in the photo, home care is reduced to following the following recommendations:
- The place where the plant will be placed is correctly selected. Young specimens are placed on the western or eastern windowsill. Adults - are placed at the window. If you put the plant on the north side, it will stretch, the color of the foliage will fade, the rose will stop flowering.
- Temperature. To get a hibiscus flower as in the photo, home care comes down to observing the temperature regime of cultivation. This plant does not like heat. Temperatures are considered comfortable: in winter - 14-16 degrees, and in summer - 20-15 degrees.
- Watering. Rose refers to hygrophilous plants. In the summer, it is watered abundantly, until the earthen coma is completely wet. Water is removed from the pan thirty minutes after watering. Since autumn, watering is reduced. After complete drying of the upper layers of the earth, it is loosened and only after three days, not earlier, the plant is watered. In parallel with watering, they lower the temperature of the content: the cooler the room, the less often you need to water the rose.
- Humidity. Hibiscus loves high humidity, it must be sprayed. During flowering, this procedure is performed very carefully, trying to exclude the ingress of water on the buds. You can solve the problem of dry air by installing humidifiers, as well as placing the pot on a tray with wet filler.
- Priming. It should be light, nutritious, neutral. With self-compilation of land, peat is not used.
- Top dressing. In spring, fertilizers with a high content of potassium and phosphorus are applied. The rest of the time, a comprehensive balanced fertilizer is used for flowering crops. The nitrogen content should be minimal.
- Transfer. Until the age of four, a plant is transplanted every year. As the flower grows, the interval between transplants increases to three years.
Bush formation
To get hibiscus as in the photo, home care involves the formation of a bush. It is most correct to carry out this procedure after flowering. During the formation, all shoots parallel to the trunks and directed inward to the flower are removed. Slices are made at an angle, directing the outer edge of the bevel to the top of the crown.
Pruning is carried out in two steps, giving the plant the opportunity to recover. If you immediately remove all the shoots, then this can trigger the development of diseases. You can watch how to trim correctly in this video.
What to do if the rose does not bloom
Hibiscus flower home care is simple, although there are times when a plant refuses to bloom. Usually this is due to a violation of the rules of the plant: warm wintering, too much pot volume, improper watering, not proper feeding. To stimulate flowering, you must:
- In October, cut off all the old shoots, leaving three eyes on each.
- If the pot is too large, then the plant needs to be transplanted into a smaller container.
- In winter, the plant should rest. To get room hibiscus as in the photo, home care is reduced to observing the rules of wintering: the temperature should be about sixteen degrees. Lighting should be limited, watered only if necessary.
- With the beginning of March, watering is intensified, the land needs to be thoroughly loosened.
- In the spring, the pot with the plant is put in a warm place, the first top dressing is carried out.
Propagation Features
You can propagate seeds and cuttings, the latter method allows you to get the same sort of hibiscus. Care and reproduction of new plants at home is practically no different from adult care: it also needs to be watered, transplanted, monitor lighting and humidity levels.
Growing plants from seeds
Growing hibiscus from seeds is not easy and very troublesome. If the seeds are purchased in a store, then the likelihood of their germination may be low. The seeds obtained from their plants sprout best.
To obtain healthy seedlings, you must:
- Prepare the ground. Peat with sand is used for planting seeds. The container is filled with this mixture.
- Seeds are sown with a seeding of 0.5-1 cm, the soil is moistened. From above, the crops are covered with glass or a plastic bag. The container is placed in a warm place where the temperature is constantly maintained at 25 degrees.
- After the appearance of the third true leaf, seedlings are planted in separate containers.
When growing seedlings from seeds, the plant blooms after a year, but more often after two.
Propagation by cuttings
Propagation of roses is easier and faster carried out by apical cuttings. They quickly give root and grow. For successful rooting, you can take cuttings obtained by pruning hibiscus.
Home care involves cutting cuttings up to eight centimeters long. The cut sections are treated with a solution that stimulates root formation, for example, “Kornevin”. Then the cuttings are rooted in water. You can plant them immediately in the ground. In the latter case, the container with cuttings is covered with a jar or other container. After the appearance of signs of growth, the shelter is removed. Usually the roots appear within a month, and after four - the first flowers bloom.
Growing problems
Sometimes flower growers are faced with the problem of yellowing, drying of leaves, with falling buds. There are other problems when growing hibiscus. Caring for this plant at home in winter and summer requires following simple rules, otherwise it can become sick and die.
Yellowing of the leaves may indicate dry air, chlorosis of trees, the presence of pests, and root disease. If the leaves begin to fall, then this may indicate low humidity, stressful situations, too damp ground, the presence of pests.
With a lack of nutrients, the tips of the leaves begin to fade. When twisting the leaves, the plant is infected with aphids or other pests. Falling buds indicates a lack of potassium, heat or damage to the plant by gall midge.
Pests of roses
Of the pests, the plant is most often affected by a spider mite. To get rid of the pest, it is necessary to increase the humidity level by washing the plant with soap and water, and also treat the plant with “Lightning” or other means.
Less commonly, a whitefly strikes a rose. Signs of the appearance of the pest are stickiness of the leaves, yellowing, the presence of white moths on the plant. These insects are difficult to fight. Adults are caught with sticky traps, they must be treated with Aktara bush or another drug three times a day.
Common diseases
Of the diseases typical of the plant, bronzed leaves and tracheomycotic wilting are distinguished. For the first type of pathology, yellowing of the leaves is characteristic, the appearance of small tears on them. The leaves themselves are coarsened, wrinkled. If this pathology is detected, diseased plants are destroyed. You can try to isolate the plant and carry out treatment with fungicides.
Tracheomycotic wilt is characterized by drying of the tips of the hibiscus shoots. Gradually, the fungus covers the entire plant, and it dies. To save the rose, it is necessary to remove all the affected branches, be sure to carry out multiple treatments with fungicides.
With proper care of the plant, you can get a beautiful bush or tree that will delight for many years with its abundant flowering. Moreover, the older the rose, the more abundant it blooms.