How to transplant a rose after purchase

Briefly about purchased roses

People do not always buy flowers themselves, much more often they are given them, these are both ordinary roses and flowers in small containers. Ordinary flowers fade quickly, if you are presented with flowers in a pot, they can delight your eyes with their flowering for a long time.
Despite the long-term storage of such flowers, their life can be extended by transplanting. Fertilizers are often added to plants in production, and they can damage the plants. Next, you will learn how to properly care for and how to transplant a rose into another container after purchase.

When do you need to transplant plants

There are several reasons for replanting roses in a different pot. Since in factories special mixtures and fertilizing are added to the soil to the plants, which are necessary to preserve the decorative effect of flowers, it is impossible to leave roses in the same ground, it will harm the plant. Such fertilizers are needed for the plants to have large flowers and stay in the flowering period for a long time. When, when transferring it from the store to home, specific fertilizers cease after a short time, the decorativeness and beauty of roses quickly disappear.

In shop pots, plants are often cramped, since the roots cannot develop due to the small size of the containers. To understand whether there is enough territory for the plants, you need to look at the ground. If the ground quickly becomes dry, and the plant gradually withers and turns yellow. Indoor flowers are transplanted, in particular, due to a lack of territory. If the plant is sick, turns yellow and somehow still shows its not very good health, it is also recommended to transplant it.

Important! Typically, plants are transplanted within fourteen days of purchasing the plant. The plant needs to get used to new living conditions. Before transplanting, it is necessary to sanitize and check the plant for diseases and the presence of insects.

What to do when you bought a rose?

Several operations required after you have brought the plant from the store:
All packages, labels, films must be removed urgently

Check roses for aphids, mites and other pests, inspect plants and make sure there are no diseases

In order not to force the plant to waste the forces it needs, it is necessary to carry out sanitary pruning. Removing old leaves, cutting off all buds

Roses must be washed with soapy water, it is better to wash it off the plant using a shower

Plants need preventive treatment against insects and diseases, as well as a slight increase in immunity. It is quite simple to prepare the solution, five drops of phytosporin are diluted in one liter of water, then the mixture is sprayed onto the plant.

It will be better to cover the plants with polyethylene, fixed on the legs.

Such a greenhouse must be ventilated every day, gradually increasing the ventilation time, then the shelter can be completely removed.

Such preparation of the plant usually takes about ten to fifteen days, then it is ready for transplantation.

How to transplant a rose after purchase: the best period for planting

It is best to transplant and plant plants either with the onset of spring, or closer to the end of the summer period, at other times of course it is also possible, but it may not coincide with the biorhythm of the plant.When you are presented with roses in pots for some holiday by dates far from favorable transplant periods, transplant it without delaying for six months. The roots and the plant itself will be able to prepare for transplanting if the above recommendations are followed.

Often people who are just discovering flower growers in themselves wonder after what intervals of time roses will need a transplant. If you have purchased mini roses, then you will not have to transplant more than once every three years, the root system of such plants does not grow much and the roses will be quite comfortable. When buying large enough plants, it should be borne in mind that you will need a large container for it and will have to be transplanted once a year, possibly with reproduction.

How to transplant a rose after purchase: transplant during the flowering period

As with any type of transplant, the flowering period has its own characteristics. What to do when the purchased plant blooms or has already opened beautiful buds. The following is a detailed description of the required actions:
- It is necessary to release the plant from the original packaging
- Wash the roses in a solution of water and soap
- Carry out sanitary pruning of plants, remove dried shoots and cut off absolutely all blossoming flowers
- Next, you need to carry out preventive spraying against pests and diseases
- Create a comfortable plastic shelter for the plant
- After two weeks, start preparing a new place for transplanting roses there

New buds and flowers will appear quickly enough if you properly process the plant, feed it and cut off all the old flowers. After such treatment and transplantation, the plant will bloom much more beautiful and decorative than it was when you just bought it. When a plant is transplanted, together with the flowers that were at the time of purchase, in the new land, all the nutrients necessary for the plant can go to the flowers and the plant will die.

How to transplant a rose after purchase: necessary items

It takes a little preparation to transplant roses, but it doesn't take much effort. You will need:
- New land - you can buy it at any garden store or market
- Pot - the best materials are ceramics and plastic, the pot should be large enough and comfortable
- Pruner - required at the time of sanitary pruning, can be replaced with simple scissors
- A bucket with heated moisture - needed to rinse the rhizomes from the remnants of store soil

When you can't find a special primer for roses, you can buy one for violets or a generic primer. You can also make the soil yourself. Humus plus turf and sand are mixed in a ratio of four to one. After mixing, it is necessary to make sure that it is loose and able to conduct water near the ground.

If you choose a plastic pot, you will need to make drainage holes in it. The water should not turn into standing water; drainage holes will help prevent this. It is best to avoid pottery, as it is not possible to make drainage holes in it, and this is important for roses. In this case, drainage is made from fractions or expanded clay.

How to transplant a rose after purchase: transplant

As mentioned, a plant needs fourteen days to adapt to a new climate. When you have decided on the day of the operation, water the soil and after half an hour take out the rose along with the roots and earth from the store pot. Further actions will not require special knowledge, everyone will cope with them.

Rinse the roots with warm water, remove all the soil remaining on them with your hands. If the roots are dried out, the plant most likely will not be able to last long. The washed horse system is wrapped in napkins to dry and prevent the negative effects of drafts.

The finished container is filled by three centimeters with expanded clay (drainage), then filled with prepared soil to the middle.

A small hole is also needed.
The rose is moved to a new pot and carefully covered with earth, two centimeters should remain to the top edge of the pot. the earth is carefully rammed.
It is preferable to put the pot on the north side. Watering is carried out to the roots and warm boiled / filtered water.

There will not be any special problems with the growth of plants if all operations with the plant are carried out correctly. A rose garden can be created in your apartment in a couple of years.

How to transplant a rose after purchase: how to properly care

In fact, the plant will need regular watering, sanitary pruning and feeding. Growing recommendations:
In the warm season, watering should be quite frequent, in the autumn-winter period, they are reduced. Water the plant when the top layer of the earth is completely dry.

You can water roses only near the roots, preferably with warm and purified water.
In summer, mineralized fertilizers are used every seven days, during watering. In the fall, the amount of fertilizer should decrease, every fifteen to eighteen days.

The room with plants must be ventilated periodically.
Sanitary pruning should be done before winter, with about five buds remaining on all branches.

Roses should be inspected in a timely manner and responded to signs of disease or insects. When recognizing the spread of pests on the plant, it will be necessary to properly treat the plant.