Blue rose: photos, are they in nature, what are the ways to get such a flower, including how to grow it at home and what to do to color it?

In specialized flower shops you can find roses of the original color, close to blue.

What kind of flower is this? We will tell a lot of interesting things about blue roses and show how they look in the photo.

Do they happen in nature or is it the talent of breeders or a good example of the achievements of the chemical industry, or maybe there are some other secrets? The article will help to understand these issues.

What do they look like?

If a rose is colored with chemical compounds, its color can vary from celestial and cornflower hues to saturated blue.

Obtained by hybridization, the so-called blue rose has no intense blue, and its color can be described more as a deep shade of lilac.

Photo

The photos below show light and dark blue roses.

Do they exist in nature?

There are no pink bushes with blue flowers in nature. Blue-violet roses, which we have the opportunity to admire today, were obtained thanks to the efforts of breeders.

Breeding History

For the first time, blue roses were bred in Japan in 2008. This was facilitated by the discovery of an American scientist who in 2004 isolated an enzyme that has the ability, when interacting with bacteria, to color them blue.

According to the results of a series of experiments geneticists managed to form a persistent gene that gives the rose a blue color. The result was enhanced by hybridization with iris genes.

What is the name of the artificially bred variety?

The blue rose obtained in Japan through genetic modifications went on sale under the Applause trademark. At the moment, these roses are absent from collectors and are not registered. Suntory Flowers' website, a sales company, shows photographs of blue roses showing flowers of a subtle purple color. For flower growers, the purchase of such a rose for the purpose of growing is not available.

Can I get home?

Adapted varieties for home cultivation do not exist. Blue rose seedlings are intended for growing only in the open. Using special methods at room conditions, you can give any grade a bluish tint. But this will only give a temporary effect.

How to grow out of the ordinary?

Inventory

At home:

Capacity for solution.
Ink.
Wooden or plastic stick.
Paint.

For open ground:

Copper sulfate or objects made of copper.
Potassium permanganate.
Food colorings.

Which grade to choose?

For outdoor cultivation, you can choose a variety with the petals closest to the blue hue - Rhapsody in blue. You can also choose any variety with maroon flowers. Through some manipulations, it is really possible to get a flower with a deep blue color of the petals from it.

At home, any kind of room rose with white petals is suitable for transformation.

Blue roses are almost always available in large flower shops, They can also be brought to order. The cost of one flower in Moscow is approximately 250-270 rubles, in St. Petersburg 230-250 rubles.

Landing

Landing is carried out when the soil warms up to 10-15 degrees.
Inspect the root system of the seedling, cut off the damaged roots, and cut the healthy ones by 1-2 cm so that a healthy white core is visible. This will help the plant more easily take nutrients from the soil. Too long roots need to be shortened to 30 cm.
Inspect the shoots. Remove too thin and broken. Cut very long branches to a height of 30 cm. Leave the strongest shoots, cutting them to five buds at an angle of 45 degrees.
Lower the seedlings to the root neck for three hours in a solution of a growth stimulator.
In open ground, the place for planting roses should be protected from the wind and well-lit. In the case of indoor cultivation, a rose container is best placed on the south windowsill.
The soil for roses should be slightly acidic. If the soil available on the site does not meet this indicator, it needs to be corrected; for planting in the pot, you can use purchased earth mix for roses.
For planting in the garden, a pit for seedlings is made 40-60 cm wide and 50 cm deep, compost is poured into the bottom with two tablespoons of ash, fertile soil is poured on top. For a room rose, drainage is laid at the bottom of the pot and a little soil mixture is poured.
Roots of a garden rose in a mixture of clay and fertilizer and place the seedling in the center of the pit, spreading the roots. Cover the pit with earth and carefully compact it around the plant. Carefully place the room rose in the center of the pot, cover the seedling with earth, slightly not reaching the edge of the pot.
Water the planted rose abundantly.

In order for the roses to begin to acquire a blue hue, in the process of planting, you need to bury any objects made of copper near the root system. For a potted rose, small, for a larger garden. For this method, the original color of the rose should be white.

Care

The most important step in caring for a rose bush, in which it is planned to make the flowers blue, is watering. It is in it that the technology for creating non-standard coloring is concluded.

So that the petals of a white rose acquire a blue tint, regularly moisten the rose with a solution of copper sulfate. It is important to remember that this method is suitable only for garden varieties.

In order to get a blue flower from a rose, the grade of which initially implies a burgundy color, you need to water it with a solution of potassium permanganate, observing the proportion - a few crystals per glass of water. This should be done at the very beginning of the formation of buds.

If you increase the amount of potassium permanganate, you can get almost black flowers.

Rose is a thermophilic plant, so the temperature +25 degrees is the most comfortable for her. It can tolerate high temperatures, but this threatens the burnout of flowers.

Once every two weeks, special nutritional formulations must be added. Top dressing will help the plant develop harmoniously, gain green mass and bloom profusely.

When will the buds turn blue?

Acquire a persistent blue shade of roses will begin two weeks after the start of staining manipulations.

What if they do not turn blue?

If the pigment was applied using food coloring, you can try the composition of dyes of another brand.

If the rose does not turn blue after manipulating with copper sulphate or potassium permanganate, in no case should the dosage be increased.

This will be detrimental to the root system of the rose. If you still can’t get the blue color, but the idea of becoming the owner of heavenly roses doesn’t leave, can be cut and sprayed with water-based spray paint on the petals. It turns out a great decorative effect.

How to paint the petals yourself?

Paint

The best choice for the procedure is food coloring.

The composition is diluted according to the instructions.
The solution is applied by irrigation at least twice a week.
To make the plant easier to tolerate manipulations throughout the staining, it must be regularly fed.

Ink

To achieve the desired result, the original color of the rose should be white.

Ink must be dissolved in water so that the color of the liquid is a tone darker than the desired color of the petals.
The resulting composition must be irrigated according to the usual schedule.

Ink stains can adversely affect the aroma of buds.

In ancient times, a blue rose, in view of its inaccessibility and mystery, was a symbol of belonging to the royal court. Today interest in the prickly beauty of the sky color does not wane, but, of course, an abundance of techniques can be considered a pleasant moment, with the help of which it became possible to possess such a, albeit not natural, miracle from the world of flora.