Growing roses

Roses are a very difficult crop to grow and demanding. Roses, for example, love space. Firstly, a separate plant is not constrained and attracts attention, and secondly, crowding on the windowsill contributes to the defeat of roses by diseases and pests. Roses require compliance with regimes, and if you cannot comply with them, then your rose will live on strength for a year. Roses do not tolerate dry air and high temperatures, especially in winter, from this the leaves grind, dry and crumble, buds do not form or flowering for a short time. Roses love when the soil breathes, so you need to loosen the earth in a pot more often...

The best time to root cuttings is June, July, not spring. During these months, cuttings take root quickly. Moreover, many young roses have time to bloom in August - September. But in winter, a lot of such roses die, since their root system is still small and weak. In addition, the shoots and wintering buds, which will have to bloom in the spring, do not have time to ripen well. Spring cuttings (March - April) are much more difficult to root, but these cuttings are more prepared for the first winter. With proper care, they are strong, have a well-developed root system and do not die during the winter...

It must be said that many diseases affect primarily young and weakened plants, plants for which are not carefully and not properly cared for.
Powdery mildew (the causative agent of fungi of the genus Oidium, Sphaeroteca, Microsphaera, etc.) is a common fungal disease. This disease not only weakens and depresses the plant, but often leads to death. It manifests itself in a characteristic white (flour-like) coating on the leaves, mainly on their upper side, then on the stems and buds. Contributes to the disease poorly ventilated room, excessive fertilization and crowding of plants. Control measures. Affected shoots, leaves, buds are removed from sick plants, the plant is treated with fundazol, topaz, etc...

One of the most common. This rose is not demanding. It bushes well and blooms profusely, the flowers are odorless. Flowers are medium in size, semi-double, red to dark red in color. Bengal red rose does not lose leaves for winter and can winter in rooms, flowering can continue until the New Year (but artificial lighting may be needed) Resistant to powdery mildew. It does not tolerate short and medium pruning, it can die if it is strongly pruned, so only weak or sick shoots are cut from it...

How to care for roses: after purchase and in winter. How to deal with tick and other growing secrets.

Roses are loved by everyone both in bouquets and on windowsills, but how often those who took up their cultivation and breeding face problems. There are many questions, but there are three, the answers to which are of interest to everyone :
How you fight the tick on the roses;
How your roses winter;
What do you do with the rose you just bought.
We conducted a survey among flower growers who have been growing roses for several years, and here are the answers we received...

After buying a plant, I try to immediately (well, or within a week) transfer the plant to a slightly larger pot. The pot must be necessarily with drainage holes. I pour drainage (small or medium expanded clay) on the bottom of the pot with a layer of 2.5-3 cm. I take the purchased soil (I try to choose a special one, for roses, or a universal flower one. I prefer Vermion or Seliger Agro). I pour some soil into the pot, then pull the rose out of the purchased pot (without destroying the earthen lump) and put this "lump" in the new pot, so that the purchased layer of land is slightly below the level of the new pot...