Do you want to decorate your front garden with an alpine slide or rock art with stone roses? Then you should get acquainted with the juvenile - a perennial plant from the Tolstyan family. Due to the variety of its varieties and species of flowers and forms, it is possible to compose only of it an amazing live carpet. Molodilo attracts gardeners for their unpretentiousness, frost resistance and unusual. On the short stem of the young, very thick spirally thick leaves are located, which can be covered with a waxy layer or with a fluff. The root system, depending on the species, can be almost imperceptible or powerful enough.
Molodilo: growing and grooming
In planting and care in the garden for the young, there is nothing difficult, but for some moments, you should pay attention:
- Choose a place : before you plant the young, you must choose a sunny place, because In the shade, the flower sockets will lose their compact shape and become green.
- Prepare the soil : for the young the poor, sandy or sand-impregnated soil is better suited, so that there is no stagnation of water, it will perfectly develop even among the stones. If the place of planting of the flower is young, the usual soil is located, then it must be pre-drained and mixed with sand.
- Proper irrigation : watering is only necessary during planting, then it will be natural precipitation, in fleshy leaves there is always a supply of moisture.
- Wintering : it is not recommended to cover the young for the winter, even if there is not enough snow. In the lapnik (spruce branches) shelter, only very late planted or young plants need.
- Transplantation : can be carried out at any time of the year, preferably not at the end of autumn; when root rupture is quickly restored, so problems after transplantation did not occur.
Molodilo: reproduction
Many varieties of juveniles very quickly multiply themselves from seeds and vegetatively. But to create a certain picture in the front garden, it is better to control this process.
For the reproduction of the young from the seeds, it is simply necessary to plant them in the beginning of spring, sprinkling with a thin layer of soil. At a temperature of 20 ° C sprouts will appear after 5 days, before they appear, water should be regularly, then watered to reduce. Sprinkled seedlings in the middle of summer to transplant to a permanent place.
Vegetatively grown young can be propagated with mustaches and children:
- children : every adult rosette, before blooming, in the axils of the lower leaves forms a small rosette-baby, it can be separated from the mother plant and planted in a new place;
- mustaches : in some species, instead of babies, stems grow, with a kidney on the end, from which a young plant subsequently develops. Soak the soil, press it tightly to it, the baby is getting younger, and the mustache is sprinkled with earth, and you are all flooded. These mustaches can not be cut off, but if there is such a need, then it must be done so that the mustache remains with the baby, this will be the future core root.
Molodilo: how to grow at home?
Molodilo is an amazing plant, because it grows well both in the garden and in the house.
It can be planted in a small pot alone or make a composition of them in a large one. For planting it is better to take an earthen
Molodilo is a flower, but it blooms and it gives fruit once in a lifetime. At the age of 2-3 years, at a large rosette, the stem begins to stretch upwards and overgrow with small leaves. It is a flower spike with a corymbose or racemose inflorescence at its apex. Flowering lasts about 5 days, after which the seeds are tied, and the whole plant begins to dry out gradually. It should be carefully pulled out.
Even a budding horticulturist can do breeding in his flower garden.