Hydrangea Flowers

Hydrangea Flowers Hydrangea macrophylla.sebenarnya scientific name comes from the Japanese, precisely on the island of Honshu, but later spread to other parts of the world and became famous in the United States, Western Europe than in his own country .. This is because these types of flowers mmudah living in various climate and also easy pengembangbiakannya. This plant likes a cool place with adequate moisture.
The flowers form a single cluster of flowers. Petals very special, because it is more dominant than the crown of flowers.

Types of hydrangeas that can change color, only certain strains, namely the colored petals of red, blue or red and blue combination. Actually, flower color change caused by factors of heavy metals aluminum on the petals and the availability of anthocyanin pigments in flower petals.  

Hydrangea  

1.Bunga red soil mixed blue at pH 4.7 to 6.1.
2. A red flower if the soil pH 6.1
3.Bunga be blue if soil pH 4.7

 

While the hydrangea white valvate not contain anthocyanins (pigment color of flowers) so it can not change color, any pH of the soil habitat.

To obtain valvate flower blue, the land where grown must have a pH between 5.0 to 5.5. If you want the color mauve, soil pH should be 5.8-b 6.0 is for the pink, pH between 6 to 6.2. In the growth period should be set at a pH between 5.5 to 6.0 If you want to be a blue petal, lived given fertilizer containing sulfur, such as ZA or KCL for lowering PH. Besides this way, it could also compound fertilizers that contain phosphorus slightly, but high potassium. If the soil is poor habitat aluminum, preferably close to the flower-shaped aluminum added to aluminum ammonium or potassium aluminum.

 

 

Listen

Read phonetically

Petal red color can be obtained by sprinkling crushed dolomite lime for soil pH rises. Or give compound fertilizer with high levels of potassium and phosphorus balance.
To measure the levels of keasam-base balance of the soil can use litmus paper, or with a solution of testers that can be obtained in the chemical store. Dry soil sample is taken and poured a handful of test solution, the results were fitted with the gradations of color on the test card.