Share tips for breeding azaleas in pots

Azalea, also known as the mountain red, mountain red, is one of China's traditional ten famous flowers. Azalea colorful, give a person a sense of elegance, very suitable for ornamental potted plants at home. Today, I will introduce to you how to raise azaleas at home.

A, pot selection

1, pot material: you can use clay pots, plastic pots, porcelain pots, pots and so on.

2, pot size: to be consistent with the crown diameter of the seedlings; in the seedling period, the pot size of its crown diameter of 3/4; into the seedling period, the azalea pot size of its crown diameter of 1/2.

Two, potting soil preparation

Azalea like weak acidic, loose, well-drained soil, mixed with the right amount of bone meal and stirred well. Can not use calcareous alkaline soil and clay soil.

Azalea ornamental picture

Three, temperature and light

Generally potted in the spring in March to April, can also be potted in the fall. When potted with soil transplantation, planting and watering in the shade. In the northern part of the culture, generally in early to mid-October moved into the indoor overwintering, placed in the room after the ventilation of the sun, the room temperature to 10 ℃ is appropriate. Out of the room in mid to late April of the following year, after the summer must be moved to a cool ventilated place to maintain. Spring, summer and fall need to be maintained in the shade, otherwise it will cause yellowing of branches and leaves, growth stagnation, and death of the whole plant. Autumn daily light time should be gradually lengthened, to the end of the fall to stop shading.

Four, watering and fertilization

1, watering

To keep the potting soil moist during the growing period, April to June blooming period requires a larger amount of water, the high temperature season in July to August need to the ground and foliage water spraying, after September should make the potting soil moisture gradually reduced, winter should be less watering.

2, fertilization

Azalea roots are shallow and fine, weak absorption ability, so fertilization should grasp the principle of "thin fertilizer, hard to apply". In February to March, should be every 10 to 15 days should be applied once to phosphorus-based liquid fertilizer; in March to April, the same fertilizer on the flowers; flowering period should stop fertilizer; flowers after about 10 days after the pursuit of a nitrogen-based fertilizer; late July, should be every 10 to 15 days to apply a phosphorus-based liquid fertilizer; winter dormant period does not require fertilizer.

Azalea ornamental picture

Five, pruning method

Azalea sprouting force, branching more and dense, should be cut after flowering over-dense branches, weak branches, withered branches, diseased branches, residual branches, cross branches, long branches. For the retained branches do not short cut. The leaves of azalea are clustered at the top of the branch, and after flowering, a section of new branch and a cluster of new leaves grow, the old leaves fall off, and then the terminal bud begins to differentiate into flower buds, and becomes a flowering branch.

After a small introduction, we now have some understanding of the azalea culture method more or less, quickly apply these tips to the home of the azalea it. More information, please continue to pay attention.