How to Plant Wild Azaleas
You may not know how to plant wild azaleas or the small experience of plant cultivation on how to transplant wild azaleas. Let's learn about it together.
Azaleas come in many colors, have unique root structures, and have a strong germination ability, making them good materials for cultivating excellent potted plants. For making azalea bonsais, it is advisable to choose old stakes that have been growing for a long time with naturally primitive roots for transplantation. Below is a detailed introduction to the transplantation method of wild azaleas.
1. digging Time
You can start digging in late autumn or early winter, but the best time to dig stakes is around Qingming Festival (Tomb Sweeping Day), as the survival rate of transplantation is high at this time. When digging stakes, be sure to preserve more rootlets, usually the stakes growing in stone crevices or rock edges are the easiest to survive after transplantation.
2. Soil
The cultivation soil should be loose and well-drained neutral sandy loam, and you can mix some river sand with ordinary garden soil. Chicken manure or soybean cake can be mixed into the cultivation soil as a base fertilizer.
3. Choosing a Pot
Choose the style of the pot according to the shape of the stake. If the stake is cliff-style, use a deep pot; if it's a root-exposed stake, use an elliptical shallow pot. The material of the pot can be purple sand or glazed pottery.
4. Potting
From digging the stake to potting, it is best not to exceed 48 hours. The roots need to be covered with some original soil, and you can use dry grass or film, plastic bags, etc., to keep the moisture during transportation. Trim the straight roots slightly shorter and prune the branches and leaves as appropriate when potting.
5. Care
After potting, it needs to be placed in a semi-shaded and well-ventilated area for care. If there is no semi-shaded place, you can provide some shading. At night, remove the shading to let the stake receive dew. The adaptation period to survive is about one year. During this year, you need to spray water every day, and 2-3 times a day between May and October, keeping the potting soil moist but not waterlogged.
6. Fertilizing
No fertilizer is needed in the first year after transplantation. In the second year, after it has fully survived, you can apply light fertilizer water, once every 15 days during the growing season, with a fertilizer-water ratio of 4:6.
This article shares detailed instructions on how to plant wild azaleas and the transplantation methods of wild azaleas, hoping to provide you with help in green plant management!