Azalea, is a famous flower plant, planted all over the world, in China is a number of provinces and municipalities of the provincial flower, city flower, is rated as China's top ten flowers of the six. Rhododendron spring flowering, colorful and colorful, sought after by the public, some rhododendrons are cultivated into modeling bonsai, in addition to flowers can also be viewed leaf-viewing type, improve the ornamental value. So, how to cultivate azaleas at home?

Watering and fertilization

1, potted azaleas, every time you water, to see the water from the bottom of the pot permeable holes out of the water, only to be considered watering, as for the problem of waterlogging, give a reference. For example, watering around 10:00 am, in the evening, if the potting soil has been presented with no water, it can be, do not have to consider the fear of waterlogging. And in the evening, you can spray the leaves with water mist, which is conducive to the sprouting of new buds.

2, azaleas like water, often drought, it is not necessarily drought death, but certainly not good growth, not to mention how good flowers can bloom. Therefore, when watering, to master the principle of seeing dry and wet, especially in the spring growth, flowering season, must ensure sufficient water.

3, new pots of azaleas do not need to fertilize, and can not be fertilized, for example, in the period of January-March pots of azaleas, want to fertilize, at least until after May, and in the flowering period, it is best not to fertilize. To apply more phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, more thin fertilizer and diligent application, it is best to apply liquid fertilizer. Use rotted organic fertilizer soaked in water, take the fertilizer solution to water and then water the flowers.

4, everyone in the cultivation of azaleas, you can find that the root system of azaleas is very small, which is also very fragile. Drought, stagnant water, heavy fertilizer can cause fatal damage to it. Frequent droughts will kill its hairy roots, and the branches will dry up and shrivel, which is why it doesn't keep well. And with too much watering, the tiny hairy roots soak in stagnant water and rot easily. Not to mention fertilizer damage, in general, is very delicate.

Light and ventilation

1, in addition to the winter into the indoor overwintering, usually the best to be placed in the southeast side of the balcony or directly in the outdoor breeding, can have good light, but also good ventilation, to reduce the occurrence of disease. But in the flowering season, to appropriate shade, maintain 40% -60% light transmission rate is good.

2, to the summer, be careful to avoid strong light, too strong light will make the growth of azalea slow, branches and leaves yellowing, root aging and so on. In this environment, but also to do a good job of spraying water to moisturize the preparation, in the morning and evening respectively, to ensure the normal growth of azaleas.

3, into the winter, potted azaleas should be moved to indoor care, generally in the early part of October you can move the azalea indoors, the room temperature can be maintained at about 10 ℃. Low temperatures will lead to defoliation, and high temperatures will allow azaleas to bud prematurely, depleting nutrients and affecting next year's flowering. Start opening windows for air on a sunny midday during the week.

Pruning and modeling

1, raised azalea potted plants, not only to bloom beautifully, but also to have a beautiful modeling to increase the ornamental value. Can be pruned and coiled in winter or spring before sprouting. Coiling is best chosen when the root system has sprouted, but not yet sprouted before, this time, the sap began to flow frequently, the branches will be softened accordingly, it is a good time for coiling, but when coiling, or be careful, so as not to cause branch breakage.

2, pruning is also very important for azaleas. The most important pruning is pruning after flowering, as we all know, azalea is very capable of flowering, into the flowering period, basically, every day there will be a new flower open, to the best, basically full of flowers, not see the leaves. While this is pretty, it's draining the life force of the azalea. The best practice is, every time the second half of the flowering period, through observation, found that there is still about one-third of the buds, it is necessary to prune, cut off all the flowers and buds of the tree full of flowers, this is very important. You can ensure that you do not hurt the tree, and the next year you can still enjoy a beautiful tree full of azaleas.

Pest control

1, home breeding flowers, generally do not attract pests and diseases, but if the breeding environment is not ventilated, the tree grows poorly, will cause the occurrence of pests and diseases, azaleas are the same. In March every year, pests and diseases began to ravage the time, to prepare a preventive agent for spraying prevention, half a month spraying 1 time, 2-3 times will be able to effectively prevent the occurrence of pests and diseases.

2, if the pests and diseases have occurred, then it is necessary to carry out timely physical removal and chemical spraying. Timely removal of diseased leaves, capture the pests, and then spray treatment, spraying, to avoid the midday when carried out, the reverse side of the leaves, the side of the hidden places such as all to spray to, around the spraying. Especially other flowers or trees, etc., the cultivation of all plants are sprayed once, not only limited to the plants infected with pests and diseases.

Azalea potted plants, or azalea bonsai, are popular with the public, the popularity rate is also very high, even now the city green, street, landscape, parks, open spaces and other places, you can see the azalea figure. You can also see some of the old pile on the years, really beautiful. Do not wait, hurry to raise a pot of it.