HOW TO GROW A HYDRANGEA AT HOME FROM SEED?

Hydrangea - a low flower with beautiful lush spherical buds and large green leaves. Suitable for growing at home and in the garden.

It can be bred by cuttings, babies, dividing a bush or growing a new flower from seeds.

Care

Care For hydrangea, you should choose sufficiently illuminated places, protected from the direct rays of the sun - the pot should not be placed on the windowsill, but at some distance from it on the stand. The optimum temperature for the plant will be for the plant - 20 ºC, no drafts and severe temperature changes. In the period of rest, coming after flowering, it should be transferred to a dark place with a temperature 7-10 ºC where it will be until about February, until the first buds appear. After that, return the plant to normal conditions.

Important! If we neglect the creation of necessary conditions between the flowering periods, then the next will come not next year, but through one.

Water the plant summer should be enough often and abundantly, at spring and autumn period - moderately, but enough symbolic moistening in the winter soil. The water is cleaned before irrigation - it is defended, filtered or frozen, and then warmed to reach room temperature.

Once a month it is recommended to water the flower with water with a small addition of lemon juice - from a calculation of about 5 drops per 1 liter. Hydrangea loves moisturetherefore, it should be sprayed regularly and monitor the humidity of the air in the room. After the appearance of buds, the plant is required regularly (once every two weeks) feed complex fertilizer. Also, the flower is required to replant once a year.

Important! When transplanting, pay attention to the acidity level of the soil - for plants with white, pink and red flowers, it should be low, with blue - high.

How to grow a hydrangea at home from seed?

Grow hydrangea from seeds at home - the task is quite difficult. The composition of the soil should contain in the same proportions humus and sheet and sod land and half the proportion of sand and peat. Seeds are usually sown in winter - in February. Crops should be covered with a small amount of soil and sprinkled from the spray gun, then covered with glass or film. From time to time crops need to be aired and moistened in their soil.

Important! It is necessary to moisten the soil regularly, not allowing it to dry.

After the emergence of seedlings, the glass or film is removed, and after the appearance of the first two true leaves, the seedlings are moved to deeper containers with a ground of similar composition. The hardened hydrangea saplings are transplanted into separate pots with a diameter of approximately 7 cm

Breeding

Reproduction by cuttings

For this method of reproduction in March, the plant separates the lower young shoots with several leaves 7-8 cm. Sheet plates should be shortened by no less than a third, and remove the two lower leaves from the shoot. The cut line should be straight and pass below the last sheet on 3-4 mm. Planted cuttings at a distance 4-5 cm from each other into deep bowls, deepening into the ground 1.5-2 cm. Covering them with glass is not recommended, as this may lead to decay. In the first 7 days, cuttings are necessary. spray often - up to 4 times a day, then less often - 1-2 times. In about a month and a half, the cuttings, together with a lump of earth, are transplanted into 7-9 cm pots.

Important! It is necessary to moisten the soil regularly, preventing it from drying out.

In May, the cuttings should pinch for bushiness. Hydrangeas grown in this way will bloom in May-June next year.

Reproduction by dividing the bush

In this way, it is possible to plant plants that give shoots from the root in spring.

Important! Be careful not to damage the root system of the main bush.

The shoot must be carefully separated from the root of an adult plant and transplanted into the prepared soil. Recommendations for soil preparation - see. "Growing Hydrangea from Seeds". Before planting, separate shoots and their roots must be shortened.

Children

When breeding by the children on the lower flexible branches of the plant, they perform a small incision. Then a small thin stick is inserted into this incision, thus attaching the branch to the ground. Place the intended separation sprinkled with a mixture of peat and hardwood and regularly watered. When kids give their roots, they are deposited from the parent plant.

Summing up, we note - the most simple The way of breeding hydrangea is bush dividingbut it requires accuracy and dexterity. Cuttings is the most common way - and at the same time the most reliable. Most plant diseases associated either with non-compliance with the rules of care, or with the defeat of insects.