How to water and feed Geraniums in winter. Because of my mistake, 2 bushes disappeared, now I will not allow

Fiery fireworks, fellow flower growers! Today on the agenda is winter care for our pelargoniums (they are also zonal pelargoniums).

Do you want to keep your favorite plant safe and sound until spring? I warn you against a big mistake I made many years ago.

The ideal grower's guide is to keep your plants cool. But where to get it in an apartment without a heated loggia, the author is silent. And there is nothing wrong: geraniums will perfectly wait for winter at room temperature. If you do not make the mistake that I made.

Do I need to feed geraniums in winter

In winter, daylight hours are too short for zonal pelargonium. And the sun is shining quite dimly. Our houseplants, comrades, do not like this at all.

The first wintering of pelargonium in my house, I continued to feed it in winter. It turned out that the plant received enough nutrition, but there was no other vital condition for it - the sun. The stems became long, bald and crooked.

Due to the lack of light, geranium temporarily slows down its development. She stops picking up buds and actively growing new leaves. During the winter half-sleep, pelargonium cannot be fed in the same way as in summer. But to maintain the tone, I feed it once a month and only with mineral fertilizer for flowering.

Dying leaves shouldn't be intimidating. But their appearance is a reason to pay attention to the flower.

Surely, many of us are familiar with the winter yellowing of geranium leaves. They begin to turn yellow at the tips and soon fall onto the windowsill. This happens again due to the lack of light. And only because of him.

But I thought differently before. It seemed to me that the leaves of my pair of pelargoniums were falling due to a lack of moisture in the soil and air. The heating is frying.

Tell us in the comments how your geraniums live, comrades. I'm terribly interested!

And what happened, comrades: both of those geraniums simply rotted away. In winter, let the pot dry 1 cm before watering. After all, the plant now almost does not move and does not need water. Frequent watering leads to stagnation of moisture at the bottom, from which the roots suffer.

Do you like geraniums and was the article interesting? Please put "Thumbs up" in response, flower comrade!