When planting roses on a closed balcony, you need to be careful about these points

soil

(Author: JavieraJoyce Source: Rose Bar)

As the saying goes, if the soil is well prepared, growing flowers is basically half successful. This shows the importance of soil preparation to plants, especially for roses planted on the balcony.

The soil for potted roses must be loose and well-drained. It is best to use culture soil made of leaf mold, horse manure soil or loess mixed with sand and sawdust (horse manure and sawdust must be well-rotted).

The environment on the home balcony is relatively dry. In order to prevent the soil in the pot from being too dry, a larger pot should be used. It is generally better to use a clay pot with a diameter of more than 20cm. Ceramic pots are not breathable and are not suitable for planting roses.

Ventilation and lighting

(Author: JavieraJoyce Source: Rose Bar)

As we all know, the biggest headache for flower lovers when growing roses on a balcony is ventilation and lighting, especially for enclosed balconies. Even some closed balconies cannot be saved even if the windows are always open...

If the ventilation is really bad, flower lovers can also use electric fans to blow on the roses, or let the branches of the roses stretch out, climb outside and put them on the window~

As for light, it is best to have a balcony that can receive sunlight for half a day. If this is not achieved, planting roses will be difficult.

Seedling care

(Author: Lily1123 Source: Yuhua Valley)

Most flower lovers buy roses online. After the seedlings have been grown, that is, after the roses start to grow, you can add some liquid fertilizer (Hua Duo Duo, Bi Wang, etc.) when watering. When the rose is in its peak growth season, bury some organic fertilizer around the edge of the pot. Huahua recommends buying compound fermented fertilizer directly, or you can make it yourself, but it must be fully decomposed before use.

In addition, when growing roses on a balcony, unless it is an open-air balcony, you should give up the idea of ​​letting the roses bloom in large patches. In order to make the roses grow strong, you should appropriately pinch off the weak small flowers and seedlings, so that the roses can supply all the nutrients to a small number of flower buds and branches.

Powdery mildew control

(Author: Yan Ying 2012 Source: Home in Shenzhen)

The outbreak of powdery mildew on roses is generally regular, with a higher incidence in spring and autumn. It is also a common occurrence on balcony roses. The reason is dry air, coupled with lack of ventilation, insufficient light, excessive nitrogen fertilizer, etc., which will lead to an outbreak of powdery mildew.

In spring and autumn, use more phosphorus and potassium fertilizers to promote the rose's own disease resistance, and then increase ventilation and light.

And use certain drugs for prevention and control. When the rose is not sick, use thiophanate-methyl once every 15 days for prevention. If an outbreak has already occurred, you can spray fungicides. Most fungicides sold on the market at 700 times the solution can be used for prevention and control. You can also use triadimefon, mancozeb, and mancozeb alternately. Pay attention, when taking preventive measures, you must spray all the white areas wet for it to be effective!

Red spider control

Another big problem when growing roses on the balcony is red spider mites. This is definitely a pain in the hearts of many flower lovers, but as long as the preventive measures are taken correctly, preventing and controlling red spider mites is not a difficult task.

Red spider mites are generally produced under high temperature conditions, so outbreaks are most common in summer. The growth of red spider mites can be significantly inhibited at a humidity of more than 70%. At a humidity of 80-90%, they basically cannot reproduce. If it is a closed balcony, you can use this method. While increasing the humidity, spray them in rotation with avermectin for the drug Aicardi. Spray every 3 days in summer and every 7 days in winter. The red spider mites can only be killed when the eggs are hatched, so continuous spraying is needed.

Other considerations

1. Roses should be pruned promptly after flowering to prevent the remaining flowers from consuming nutrients on the branches.

2. After every rain, the roses must be thoroughly disinfected. Disinfectants such as Benomyl can be used to avoid infection by bacteria.

3. The best water for watering flowers is water from the fish tank, but tap water or vegetable washing water can generally be used. Water sufficiently at one time, and do not water halfway. It should be noted that the roses should be watered thoroughly in the morning when it clears up after a long period of rain, because the balcony rarely gets rained on when it rains, and the surface of the potting soil looks wet, but in fact the soil does not contain much water. If you do not water it, the roses will be damaged by the strong sunlight.

It’s not that you can’t grow roses on the balcony.

But compared to exposure,

Planting roses on the balcony requires more effort.

As long as you have confidence, you can grow beautiful roses even on the balcony~

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