How to make a pink hydrangea blue and vice versa: Cottage trick

All hydrangeas - great plants for the garden. A Hydrangea macrophylla also changes color, umbrellas colors: it depends on the growth conditions. By making small adjustments to the characteristics of the ground, the gardener will change colors: from pink to blue and vice versa!

What will hydrangea - blue or pink - depends on the degree of blue pigment production plant. And this in turn affects the content of aluminum in the ground. Moreover, when the soil is no longer a sufficiently acidic, aluminum, a transition to a form that is not absorbed hydrangea, and blue pigment no longer produced.

I hope everyone understood mechanism. On it we will play, juggling hydrangea flowers!

How to make a blue rose

Although blue hydrangea looks unusual, surely someone wants to make it pink. Why not take a look at the plant in different color options?

Especially interesting will come out "interim" results: for example, the effective gradient transition, two colors on one bush, delicate lilac coloring.

that move the blue reduce the amount of blue pigment, it is necessary:

• Change the acidity of the land under the hydrangea in neutral. Optimum pH - in the region of 6.0-6.5. Come to the aid funds to liming, a favorite of them - dolomite flour. I use every year!
• Use a fertilizer high in phosphorus, but not potassium. The fact that it is the phosphorus reacts with the aluminum: tandem forms compounds practically inaccessible for plants. And there is no aluminum - no blueness.

For example, a spring suit fertilizer NPK 25:10:10 index. During set hydrangea pink buds have used potassium monophosphate or superphosphate.

How to get the blue color of hydrangeas

And vice versa: to make hydrangea blue or blue, gardeners need to stimulate the production of the corresponding pigment plant:

• Increase soil acidity. For example, mixed into it and the acidic peat use softwood mulch. Light Version: periodic passages weak solution of citric acid: 1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water (standard bucket).

• Do not abuse the phosphorus fertilizers. Otherwise, the hydrangea will not be able to absorb a sufficient amount of aluminum.
• Hydrangea treat additional aluminum to result was brighter. For example, the company Bona Forte is a special tool bag "Rainbow". And, you can use potash alum (available at pharmacies). More precisely, their 0.5% solution.

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