If you want to grow a rose on the site, growing of seeds, when planting them on seedlings or in open ground, are topical issues for summer residents. When cultivating such a bush it is very important to take into account many significant points.
Flowers - rose stock
The ornamental stem of the rose is a shrub up to 2.5 m high, on the stalk there are heart-shaped jagged leaves. The plant from the beginning of summer to the end of autumn forms solid spicate inflorescences, located along the entire length of the trunk. Flowers form very large, up to 12-13 cm in diameter, the shape of the corolla - campanulate. Sockets are half-double, double and simple, for some varieties with ruffles and fringes along the edge of the petals.
Color stunning colors - all the tones of the reddish-yellow range, even purple, purple, violet, black and red. The inflorescence dissolves from below upwards. Actively used rose stem in landscape design, it becomes a decor for fences, walls, fences, arches, arbors, can be a hedge. It refers to the Malvian family, is the most beautiful species of the species.
What is the difference between a mallow and a stock of roses?
Many mallow (cabbage soup) and rod of a rose are considered one flower. But it is not so. They are related to the same family, but to different genera and have certain characteristics. Stock of rose and mallow - what is the main difference:
- The main difference is the period of life of culture. The stem of a rose is a two-year or perennial plant, about 80 of its types are identified. In contrast, the mallow is an annual culture.
- The height of the bush. The stem of the rose can reach 2.5 m in length, the mallow is much more modest - from 30 to 120 cm tall.
- Externally, the mallow differs from the rod of the rose by the vyemchatymi forms of the flower and dissected leaves. Its corollas have cups with five petals, on which longitudinal strips are clearly visible.
Stock Rose - Planting and Care
The decorative stem of the rose is unpretentious, caring for it does not cause much trouble. Plant it should be in the soil with a neutral reaction and filled with mineral and organic fertilizers. The rules of caring for the rod rose:
- Water the plant systematically, trying to avoid deep desiccation of the soil. To overmoist the earth is also not worth it - the rose does not like it. Water the bush under the root, trying not to get on the foliage.
- During the season, the rose is fed twice: the first time after the landing, the second - in mid-August. To make up, you need to take universal complex or phosphorus-potassium fertilizers for garden crops.
- It will be useful to compost the land with compost.
- Withered rose flowers need to be removed in order to encourage the appearance of new ones.
- For the winter, the bush should be covered with agrofiber or dried leaves.
- Reproduction of the stem of a rose is made through seeds.
Rose stem - growing out of seeds
There are three variations of growing a stock rose from seed:
- growing rod-roses seedlings;
- plant seeds on an open plot in the spring;
- plant seeds on an open plot in the fall.
Seed is best suited for seed selection of proven companies. You can take them from friends, who are pleased with the flower lush flowering on the adjacent site. Seeds of the rod of roses of their germination retain for three years, after which they are better thrown away. It is interesting that the third year of lying of the seed is the most favorable for germination, during this period they give the maximum percentage of germination. For better germination, the planting material is poured with warm water for 12 hours, so that it is saturated with moisture.
Rose stem - growing from seeds in open ground:
- Seeds should be planted in the soil shallow, 2-3 cm with a distance of 20 cm.
- In the hole put a few seeds, sprinkled, excess can then be transplanted.
- Seedlings appear after 2-3 weeks.
When to plant a rod on a seedling?
Planting the rose stem for seedlings is used for early flowering of the plant and better germination. Cultivate crops at home or in the greenhouse. When answering the question - the rose stem - growing out of seeds, when planting them on seedlings, experienced flower growers are advised to do it in February or in March. When sowing at this time, lush buds on the stems can be seen by the end of July or in August.
How to plant a rose with seeds?
This flower is unpretentious, it is better to plant it in the soil loose and breathable. For example - a mixture of two parts of garden land, parts of humus and part of sand. Before sowing seeds, it is better to shed the soil with a pink solution of potassium permanganate. Growing stock of roses through sprouts:
- In view of the fact that the flower does not like transplanting and picking , it is necessary to put roses on seedlings in individual pots of paper or peat, in extreme cases - from plastic. In a separate cup, the roots of the shoots are not exactly intertwined. Together with peat and paper cups, a rose can be planted in an open ground without disturbing the roots.
- The containers are filled with a nutrient mixture that is slightly moistened.
- In each container distribute the seeds, sprinkled with a thin layer of earth (1 cm). If the crop is still produced in a common box, then the distance between the specimens should be 3-4 cm.
How to get shoots of rose stock?
How to germinate the seed of a rose stem after planting:
- Tanks with crops are put in a warm place. Optimum temperature regime for emergence + 18-20 ° C.
- Planting tanks cover with glass or film to create a greenhouse effect.
- Good lighting is an important factor in growing seedlings. With a lack of light, the shoots will stretch out and have a pale appearance. When growing in February, it is desirable to provide additional light to the crops with lamps at first time for 3-4 hours every day.
- Appearances of sprouts can be expected in 2 weeks. When they proklyutsya, film and glass from the tanks must be removed - first for 10 minutes, then more until complete removal. Glasses put in the brightest place.
- Further care consists in watering the plant, recharge the seedlings are not required.
- Planting in the garden seedlings can be after the establishment of warm weather. Approximately this is the end of May - the beginning of June.
- A month before moving to the open ground, seedlings are hardened - they are carried to the open air. The length of stay in the street for a week is adjusted from 10 minutes to 5 hours, gradually increasing.
- For landing, a solar section is selected, not subject to the effects of strong winds. Plants are placed at a distance of 0.5 m from each other - then their flowering will be generous.
Do we need to stratify the seeds of the rose stem?
Experienced gardeners advise when planting a rod of roses stratification of the seeds yet do. It will help to get uniform and amicable shoots. In the process of preliminary preparation, the kulechka with the purchased planting material is not printed, but placed in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator. There they must lie for at least 3 weeks, this is enough to temper the seeds.
When to plant a rod rose with seeds in the ground?
Seeding of flower seeds can be made directly on a site without cultivation of seedlings in the spring or in the autumn. Stock rose, growing from seeds, when you can plant in the open ground:
- Spring planting. The culture is afraid of frosts, so the planting of the rose stem into the ground is made in late May - June, when the heat was finally established. Planted in spring, the plant does not have time to blossom for the first summer, until winter it builds up the root system and blossoms in full force the next year.
- Autumn planting. When podzimnem sowing seeds on the open area are laid in late August or September. On the cold beds it is better to cover a layer of lapnika, peat, humus. In spring, shoots will be pierced early and they will have to be taken care of - covered with frost film. The plant will blossom in the summer.