The azalea among the beginning flower growers is considered "difficult" plant because often is ill, especially during the changing of place of residence, influence of direct sunshine or after blossoming. Symptoms of disease arise promptly: in few days the leaves become covered by spots and dry up. It is possible to reanimate faded azalea - time and certain skills for this purpose will be required.
- - soil;
- - ice;
- - cold water;
- - boric or citric acid;
- - pine needles;
- - ashes or activated carbon;
- - sand
- - medicine "Zircon".
1. Get azalea from pot with the earth and lower roots in basin or bowl with cold water. Accurately and extremely carefully fingers wash out backs, trying to exempt from earth lumps so that not to damage. After the root system is exempted from substrate (on it not one hour, especially for the first time can leave), for several minutes lower azalea under flowing cold water.
2. Cut off faded leaves of plant and plant the washed-out azalea in the fresh prepared soil. Use special substrate for this species of flowers, or take universal soil and add to it a little sand and ashes (or activated carbon). Next day impose the earth in pot with ice, you make watering very cold water. Do not allow impact of direct sunshine on plant, especially if you reanimate azalea in the summer.
3. Take one-liter jar of the water which has settled within two days, add to it several drops of pharmaceutical boric acid. Water with the turned-out solution azalea several days, there will be no visible result yet. Once a week it is possible to use instead of boric acid the medicine regulating growth of plants, for example, "Zircon" at the rate of two-three drops on glass of water. If damages have affected only insignificant part of flower, try to water it, the acidified citric acid.
4. Put pot with the replaced azalea on tray with wet haydite. You hold plant on draft, it is not afraid of cold. It is admissible to put per day flower in the fridge in the hot summer. Every other day water azalea in bathing cold flowing water by means of shower watering can. If there is opportunity, lay on top layer of the earth in pot pine needles. Pay attention to sick plant more often, iron leaves, talk to him. It is considered that the azalea is very susceptible both to positive, and to negative power spirit of owners.