How to transplant geranium from the street into the pot?

Geranium - a fairly common houseplant, which can be grown not only on the windowsill, but also in the open ground. However, with the onset of cold weather, it must be transferred to the room. Yet it is a houseplant, and it can not survive winter frosts.

If you plan to plant indoor geraniums on the street for a warm season, then you need to know when and how best to transplant geranium back from the soil to the pot.

Geranium in the garden

In the fresh air this gentle plant feels excellent. Of course, at first, after transplanting into the ground, it will be a little "sick" - some leaves may turn yellow and fall off. But then it will acclimatize and please with abundant flowering. Clear air geranium very much.

Bushes of geraniums in the open ground grow very well, which is impossible in pots. Geranium well tolerates any temperatures, but prefers not too hot summer and penumbra. Plant geraniums better in places where there is no stagnation of water, otherwise it can lead to the development of dangerous diseases, for example - "black leg."

On the street, it can grow before the onset of cold weather. While the temperature does not drop to + 2-5 ° C, you do not have to worry about geraniums. But then it must be transplanted into pots. You can arrange her winter hibernation, cutting off and putting in a cool room, or just put in the house. Upon returning to the house, geranium will again strongly ill.

In general, geranium does not tolerate transplants, it should be done in extreme cases - if the pot is small or you want to multiply it. And to the question whether it is possible to transplant a blooming geranium, the answer is rather negative. This can lead, if not to a complete cessation of flowering, then to its significant decrease.

How to transplant geranium from the street?

So, we will learn how to correctly make a geranium transplant back from the street to the pot. On the eve you need to water the plants well - you can even with some excess. Then gently dig the bush together with the clod of earth and we pass it into a pot of suitable size.

If the bush grows and does not fit into its previous pot, you can take cuttings from the plant and grow a new, young plant. Or divide the bush into several and plant them on several pots.

Then the geranium again turns into the category of houseplants. When moving from an open ground to a house, the withering away of a part of the leaves is a completely natural and inevitable phenomenon. So, the plant adapts to new conditions.