How to look after indoor roses (Part 2)
After your beauty has finally felt at home in a new pot (it will take about two weeks), you should organize extranutrition. Roses can be added fertilizer in two ways: spraying or root fertilizing. Usually store fertilizers have precise instructions. Read it attentively and lower a little recommended dosage. During the spring-and-summer period fertilizing is needed once in two - three weeks, in the evening, after usual watering. In autumn and winter roses don’t require add fertilizer.
For comfortable existence of a rose in room conditions you should control temperature and humidity. During vegetation (in spring and summer) the soil should always be moderately damp, leaves can be sprayed from the bottom side with cold boiled water.
In a dormant period (in autumn and winter) roses are watered less often, soil in a pot stays dry for two - three days. Water should be a little bit colder than a room temperature. To struggle with dryness of air you may put a pot on the tray with damp stones (pebble), and moisten them as required. If the rose is located on a window sill, it will be useful to separate it from a room by a polyethylene screen; it will reduce harmful influence of dry hot air from batteries.