The wonderful mallow flower has been a favorite of amateur gardeners for many years. Stockrose, thanks to its decorative beauty and varietal variety, can make any garden original.

Planting and grooming basics

Stockrose is a rather unpretentious plant, but certain conditions must be observed. It is characterized by resistance to drought, cold, and most pests and diseases. Flowering occurs profusely, ending in late autumn. Mallow is a perennial flower, but in the first year it does not give flowers, and in the third year the flowering intensity decreases. Therefore, stockrose is grown as a biennial or annual.

Landing

To grow stockrose, the planting site should be on the south side of the site. It is necessary to provide the plant with good sunlight, no winds and drafts. It is recommended to find a place on a hill, since the accumulation of snow during wintering leads to waterlogging, decay of the stockrose roots.

Important! Mallow is afraid of stagnant water and needs good soil drainage. For abundant flowering, fertile, loose soil is needed, therefore humus, river sand, mineral fertilizers, especially nitrogen, are added.

In late spring or early summer, they begin sowing seeds in prepared holes. The seeding depth is 2-4 cm. The optimum distance between the stockrose plants depends on the size of the flower growth and ranges from 25 to 40 cm. A denser planting of seeds with subsequent thinning is allowed. Seeds covered with soil are watered. In good weather, seedlings of stockroses appear on the 10th day; under unfavorable conditions, germination of seeds can occur only on the 20th day.

When to plant a rose stock

In the first year, the stockrose rosette is formed. The next year, a tall peduncle grows. The spike-shaped inflorescence consists of double, semi-double or simple flowers of various colors. Large stockrose flowers (up to 15 cm in diameter) begin to bloom from the bottom of the plant. When one tier fades, the buds of the next tier bloom. Stockrose pleases with magnificent flowering until late autumn.

At the end of flowering, stockrose produces seed pods, each of which can contain from 20 to 40 seeds. They must be collected at the stage of yellowing, before the seeds begin to spill out. The dried boxes are left to ripen at home.

Care

Strong winds can easily break a fragile stem with heavy buds and flowers. A fence or a net usually serves as a support for a stockrose, you can tie the stems to pegs. Weak sprouts of mallow need constant protection from weeds, so maintenance consists in weeding and loosening the soil regularly.

Watering stockroses should be regular but moderate. Do not allow excessive moisture or drying out of the soil. It is best to water the mallow in the evening, as its delicate leaves are easily burned by the scorching sun.

Biochelate universal

Top dressing of fertile soil is not required. Poor soil in a month is mulched with peat or compost. The stock-rose is fed every 2 weeks with preparations: "Biochelate universal", "Agricola for flowering plants".

Perennial stockroses are pruned for the winter, leaving a stem no more than 20 cm high. Delicate varieties of mallow are vulnerable to severe winter frosts. In the fall, you should take care of the shelter of the plantings for the winter with fallen leaves, coniferous spruce branches.

Diseases and pests

Mallows are quite resistant to diseases and pests. But stockrose does not tolerate prolonged damp weather - powdery mildew, rust, and the mosaic virus appear. It is necessary to take preventive measures of protection, promptly respond to the first signs of the disease.

The following drugs are used against diseases and pests of stockroses:

  • from rust - Bordeaux liquid;
  • from viral infections - "Trichodermin", "Mikosan-B", "Fito-Doctor";
  • from aphids, spider mites - Fitoverm and other insecticidal preparations.

Garden slugs are harvested by hand from beer traps around the stockrose. Infected with rust, mosaic virus, mallow leaves must be cut and burned.

Growing stockrose from seeds

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Many are engaged in breeding varieties of rose stock, cultivation is carried out in three ways:

  • using seedlings;
  • spring planting of seeds in open ground;
  • autumn planting of seeds in open ground.

Note! It is important to have good seed, free from spoiled and dried seeds. The germination capacity of stockrose seeds lasts for 3 years, after which they become unsuitable for planting.

It is recommended to grow seeds that are 2 years old. They have maximum germination. Stockrose seeds are pre-soaked for half a day in warm water, you can add growth stimulants "Epin" and "Kornevin".

Mallow seeds can be propagated both in spring and autumn. Autumn planting is dangerous due to the destructive effects of winter winds and frosts, but flowering occurs earlier. The next summer, the mallow blooms.

Growing stockrose from seeds

Stockrose seedlings do not tolerate transplanting well, since they have a long, fusiform, fleshy taproot. Therefore, it is recommended to sow seeds in separate cups (paper, peat, coconut). The soil mixture is prepared from 2 parts of earth and 1 part of sand and humus. A stockrose seed is immersed in the soil and covered with a centimeter layer of earth.

After spraying stockrose seedlings with water, the pots are placed in a common container, covered with foil and placed on a sunny windowsill. The optimum temperature for seed germination is 23 degrees. The film can be opened 2 weeks after germination. Additional illumination of the sprouts is desirable. The shoots of the stockrose are thinned out, leaving a distance of 2 cm between them.

Terry mallow varieties do not always retain their characteristics when planted with seeds, and some varieties do not produce seeds at all. If you have experience, you can propagate hybrid varieties of stockroses by cuttings. When harvesting in spring, young shoots are cut almost at the root, in the summer, stem cuttings are cut. Places of cuts are treated with charcoal powder, dried, planted and watered, preventing the soil from drying out. A sign of a rooted cuttings of a stockrose is the appearance of leaves.

Landing dates

Stock rose - growing from seed, when to plant?

Planting time depends on the type of plant:

  • an annual stockrose seedling, grown in a pot since February, is planted in open ground in mid-May;
  • perennial seedlings can be planted in August or September.

Home cultivation of seedlings begins from January to March. Planting seedlings in open ground is carried out in July-August, but this year you can not expect flowering. Planting stockroses in a greenhouse under a film begins from late April to early May, when there is no threat of frost. At the end of June, stockrose seedlings are transplanted into open ground.

Mallow

The timing of planting mallow largely depends on the region. Seeds are planted in open ground at the end of May - for the Moscow region, at the beginning of June - for Siberia and the Urals. This is done until mid-summer. In the second year, early flowering of the stock rose can be expected. It is necessary to sow seeds before winter in the Moscow region and the Middle Lane in late October or early November.For Siberia, the date is shifted to mid-October, when the temperature does not exceed +5 degrees.

Tips from experienced florists

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You need to properly care for tender mallow, listen to the advice of gardeners:

  1. When watering the stem-rose, avoid hitting the jet on the central part of the outlet.
  2. To increase the survival rate of seedlings, you need to harden them. 7 days before planting in open ground, the seedlings are left in the fresh air.
  3. Seedlings of stock roses need additional lighting. You can buy phytolamps or use daylight tubes.
  4. Do not plant mallow in the shade, because of this, its flowers fade and grow worse.
  5. It is recommended to cut withered stockrose flowers with sharp scissors to provide more nutrition to the blossoming buds.
  6. It is better to eliminate a flower heavily affected by rust so as not to provoke an infection of all seedlings.

Stock-rose is able not only to please the eye with its beauty, but also to heal. Mallow roots have an expectorant, enveloping effect. Most of its varieties are eaten raw, boiled and stewed. The dark red stockrose flowers are used to dye wool and wine.