How to reanimate an azalea at home

A common question among gardeners: azalea dries and sheds leaves, what should I do? If you want to grow an azalea at home, you should know how to resuscitate a plant for ailments.

Causes of death of azaleas

Care failures leading to plant death are often associated with:

• soil composition;
• temperature regime;
• watering and fertilization;
• lighting.

Culture reacts quickly to improper care

You can determine the cause of the disease by observing the flower:

• The plant withers - low temperature, excessive watering.
• The cause of yellowing is sunburn, lack of nutrition;
• Why azalea dries - insufficient watering, lack of complementary foods.

When to revive an azalea

The diseased plant is carefully examined. If the leaves begin to fall off or turn yellow, the flower is at the initial stage of the disease. If the tree has dropped its foliage, it urgently needs treatment. How to reanimate an azalea at home? For salvation, it is important that a small part of the plant remains alive:

• the rhizome is not dry or rotted;
• the stem remained green;
• surviving sprouts or buds.

How to save an azalea if all the leaves have fallen? The root should be examined. If he is alive, the plant will form new shoots.

In what situations the flower can no longer be saved

The flower cannot be restored when:

• putrid gruel has formed in the roots and inside the stem (it is useless to save);
• the roots or stem are soft, wilted (the flower may fall altogether);
• the structure of the stem in the section is porous;
• all twigs and stems have withered or withered.

It is possible to improve the state of the culture in case of pest damage only by treatment with insecticides.

Instructions for resuscitating a flower in various situations

The measures for the treatment and restoration of the plant are individual for each case. How to reanimate an azalea? The standard solution is to make adjustments to the grooming procedure.

Azalea withered

Azalea dried up, how to revive a home bush? The algorithm of actions is as follows:

1. Cut off all damaged parts, treat the cut sites with activated carbon.
2. Transplant the flower into a larger pot in decontaminated soil.
3. Water abundantly during the first days.

What should you do if the azalea is dry? After watering, a bag with several holes is put on the flower for a period of 30-40 minutes. This creates a greenhouse effect that helps the azalea recover faster.

Dying home rhododendron

The flower is infested with pests

If the green part is affected, all damaged parts of the plant are removed. In the shortest possible time, the culture is processed with appropriate preparations. If the lesion occurs in the soil:

1. The plant is removed from the pot.
2. It is cleared of soil as much as possible.
3. Fully processed - roots and green part.
4. Transplanted into new soil (disinfected).

The plant was poured

At the first symptoms of overflow, a plant transplant is performed:

1. Remove the flower from the pot and remove the old substrate by rinsing the roots with warm water.
2. Examine the roots of the plant, if there is rot, cut it off.
3. Treat the sections with a biological fungicide (trichodermin, discor).
4. Transplant into new soil (decontaminate the pot and substrate).

After transplanting, the flower is not watered for 3-4 days, after which the original watering regime is gradually restored.

Azalea is frozen

The first thing to do with the flower after freezing is to warm it up:

1. Bring in a warm room, without sudden changes in temperature and drafts.
2. Cover the green part of the flower with a bag, creating a greenhouse.
3. Place the pot in a container of warm water for 30-40 minutes.

An hour later, the bag is removed and the greens are sprayed with a biostimulant (Epna solution). In order not to lose the roots, over the next 2 weeks the plant is watered with root.

Azalea can freeze even on the windowsill

Preventive measures

The main preventive measure against the death of an azalea is to create comfortable conditions for its growth and flowering. Proper watering, lighting, temperature conditions and timely feeding are all that a plant needs.

Detecting problems in a timely manner and taking the right measures will allow the affected flower to be restored. But it is better not to bring the azalea to a painful state by regularly observing and caring for it.