How to care for and manage Chinese roses
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How to care for and manage Chinese roses
Many friends enjoy cultivating Chinese roses. Well, it can be said that gardeners who grow flowers on their balconies will consider planting a pot of Chinese roses more or less.
This is because Chinese roses are beautiful with many flowers, and they are easy to buy.
However, if you think that growing Chinese roses is a worry-free task, this may disappoint you.
There is a kind of beauty of Chinese roses that only exists in pictures.
When you cultivate them yourself, it's not the same story... It will not only make you feel overwhelmed but also leave you confused (why do others' Chinese roses grow so well and bloom beautifully, while mine are thin and don't even bloom a single flower?), eventually leading to disappointment.
Carefully nurture your Chinese rose potted plant
In this article, let's talk about how to nurture your beloved Chinese rose potted plant.
【Tools preparation】
Pruning shears (special for Chinese roses)
Special compound fertilizer for Chinese roses
Potash fertilizer
Root protection material
【Time preparation】
Planting: Spring and autumn
Watering: Follow the principle of "water only when dry and water thoroughly when watering"
Pruning: Early spring
Fertilizing: Spring, summer, and autumn
【Pruning rules】
Pruning Chinese roses correctly is not easy and requires time for training and accumulation of experience.
Different Chinese roses should be pruned with different methods, and pruning does not seem to be a skill that can be completed by following 1, 2, 3 steps.
Next, gardeners need to judge for themselves how and when to prune according to the pruning rules.
Nine pruning rules for Chinese roses
1. Prepare clean and sharp pruning shears.
2. The pruning cut should be more than 1cm away from the bud eye (located at the leaf axil), slightly slanted to avoid damaging the bud eye.
3. If not needed to bear hips, the faded flowers can be cut down to the second fully mature leaf (cut diagonally).
4. In spring, completely cut off the frozen branches.
5. For shrub Chinese roses, the most important thing is to allow several clusters of main branches to grow freely, as the flowering lateral branches grow on these main branches.
6. After each flowering is over, carefully cut off the bottom old branches.
7. For varieties that bloom multiple times, in addition to the main branches, the lateral branches should also be shortened.
8. After pruning, the Chinese rose should have no horizontal lateral branches left, and the remaining branches should be layered and spaced appropriately from each other.
9. Strong-flowering Chinese roses need to be cut short in spring.
Tip: Strong branches can be left with 4-6 bud eyes, while weak branches should only be left with 3-4 bud eyes.
【Fertilizing rules】
1. If the potting soil prepared for Chinese roses is rich in humus and nutrients, you only need to fertilize the Chinese roses 2-3 times a year.
2. In March and April, you need to bury compound fertilizer in the soil.
You can choose either inorganic or organic fertilizer as long as it does not contain chlorides.
3. Apply the same fertilizer a short time before the main flowering season (organic fertilizer) or at the end (inorganic fertilizer).
4. Applying potassium fertilizer again in September can make the trunk stronger and more frost-resistant in winter.
Tip: As for the amount of fertilizer, the special Chinese rose fertilizer already contains all the appropriate proportions of nutrients.
【Dealing with the rootstock branches】
Wild Chinese roses have more vigorous vitality, while domesticated Chinese roses will bloom the flowers that people prefer and hope to get.
Therefore, grafting a satisfactory Chinese rose scion onto a vigorous wild species rootstock is a technique that gardeners should boldly try.
When planting, you can see a slightly swollen part at the lower end of the Chinese rose wood, which is the grafting point. In many cases, there will also be young branches growing from the rootstock below the grafting point (also known as wild branches growing young branches).
These branches usually have more vigorous vitality than the grafted variety and therefore require more nutrients, so they should be removed as soon as possible, otherwise, they will rob the nutrients from the scion branches of the Chinese rose.
Tip: Carefully remove the soil around the wild branches and cut them off as deeply as possible.
Important tips
1. Before buying Chinese roses, be sure to choose varieties that are relatively vigorous and have strong disease resistance.
2. The care of Chinese roses starts with fertilizing in spring, followed by pruning and cutting branches, and after dealing with faded flowers and diseases, it is necessary to do earthwork in late autumn.
3. Carefully nurturing Chinese roses will reward us with colorful flowers and fragrant scents.
The above is the related content on how to care for and manage Chinese roses, for reference by green plant enthusiasts, hoping to solve your problems in green plant management.