Stone roses attract attention with their original appearance. This plant is considered one of the best for growing at home. Even if the lover of indoor plants has little space, you just need to highlight a small area with good lighting. Several small roses can be planted in one large and flat pot; as a result, you will get a beautiful element of decor, which will become a spectacular decoration of the interior. In this article you can find out what stone roses are like, how to grow a plant in a room and on a flowerbed, how to care for it.
Varieties of Stone Rose
Stone rose (another name: young) is a plant that has an intricate appearance. It is not difficult to grow a flower, since it does not require special care and attention. More than a thousand varieties are known.
Stone rose - elegant decoration of an interior or landscape
Below are the most popular varieties that are grown in Russia and neighboring countries.
- Roofing This variety is best known in Europe. The flower has a spherical, slightly flattened shape, diameter reaches 15 cm. The leaves are dense, with red-brown tips.
- Mountain. The plant consists of small, aesthetic, delicately assembled rosettes. Large buds with pink tips. The mountain youngster hybrid is Brown's rose. Leaves are covered with pale yellow flowers.
- Caucasian. Grows on a stone surface. Leaves have a dark green color. The Caucasian stone rose blooms with violet or lilac flowers, reminiscent of violets from afar. This species needs to provide regular fertilizer. The plant requires a lot of calcium.
- Marble rose differs from other species in its motley color with green-pink stains, which by winter change color to red. Reminds a surface of marble. The petals of this plant are painted in a calm red color with a white frame around the edge.
- Spider Web. The most unusual and beautiful look of the young. The leaves in shape resemble cones decorated with flowers. The peculiarity of this variety lies in the cobweb, which gracefully covers the plant. Looks impressive, both in a vase and on an alpine hill.
- Runaway young. It has sockets with a diameter of up to 5 centimeters. The color of the flowers is pale green or pale yellow.
- Stone rose of Wulfen. This variety attracts abundant greenery and beautiful small rosettes.
- Russian. The plant can be found in the usual Russian forest-steppe. The rosette consists of large green leaves that are tightly collected and are located closer to the center.
Varieties of Stone Rose
The rocky rose looks very impressive and original. It can easily grow in a pot or in the garden. An elegant plant is able to harmoniously fit into the interior of the room or into the landscape near the house or in the country.
For reference! Stone rose is an exclusively popular name used in Russia and the CIS countries. Also known names are tenacious, rabbit cabbage.
Conditions for plant growth and development
In order for the plant to develop normally and delight the eye with an attractive appearance, it is necessary to provide it with appropriate conditions. Young growth requires bright lighting, regardless of the season.
It is advisable not to put pots with plants on the windowsill, which goes to the north side, to keep the flower in the shade.
Additional Information! In winter and autumn, the plant should be watered sparingly, not more than 1 time per month.
In hot weather, that is, in summer and spring, the flower is watered less often when the earthen lump dries out, on average 1 time for 10 days. Spraying the petals is not necessary.
In the winter and autumn time of the year, the air temperature in the room where the seedlings are grown should not fall below +10, and in summer and spring exceed + 22-27 degrees.
How to plant a stone rose
When purchasing a plant, be sure to read the description. You should also pay attention to the integrity of the outlet - it should be compact. In stores, roses are grown in peat mixtures, so it is recommended immediately after purchase to transplant the plant into loose and light soil for succulents.
Young sprouts of a stone rose in pots
Thinning has a superficial root system - this means that the pots should be selected shallow. For planting a succulent, a flat, wide container is suitable.
At the bottom you need to lay out a drainage layer, which includes pebbles, broken brick or expanded clay. Layer thickness - at least 2 centimeters. If you do not want to buy a soil mixture for succulents, you can prepare the soil with your own hands.
To do this, you will need:
- turf land - 3 parts;
- sand - 1 part;
- small expanded clay -1 part.
Before planting the young, you need to disinfect the soil. This can be done with boiling water (pour boiling water over the soil and cool).
Important! If the soil is not properly cultivated before planting, then the shoots and roots can be affected by fungal infections, which actively develop in the limited conditions of the florarium.
How to care for a stone rose
The most important factor in the development of culture is sunlight. The plant must receive a sufficient amount of sunlight, otherwise it will lose its decorative qualities.
But temperature is not a determining factor. Do not overdry the plant and allow the soil to freeze.
In the summer, it is advisable to bring the rose to the balcony, and then put the pot so that direct sunlight falls on the flower.
For reference! Youngsters are not afraid of burns, as they are protected by a wax ball and individual fluffy leaves.
How to water and fertilize a stone rose
Feeding a stone rose is carried out in spring or summer once a month. To do this, use the same fertilizers as for cacti and succulents. In winter, do not bait.
In summer, the plant requires frequent proper watering, preferably with lower equipment, using a pallet.
Attention! Do not allow liquid to get on the leaves.
For irrigation of a stone rose, well-settled water should be used.
Periods of flowering and dormancy
The young have no rest period, it always blooms, it just slows down in winter.
In order to bring a flower to life, you need to leave it alone in a cool room. Culture blooms in most cases in the summer.
A beautiful earthen rose produces one or more flowers. If the owner of the succulent does not plan to propagate the crop with seeds, then you need to remove the flowers, otherwise the rose will begin to deplete.
Flowering stone rose
Care Mistakes
With improper care of the flower, various diseases can develop. With a lack of lighting, the plant loses its aesthetics. If there is not enough sunlight, you should use phytolamps and use them to illuminate the plant.
With a lack of moisture, the leaves begin to curl, then you need to water the flower. When the plant ages, the lower leaves begin to turn yellow - this is a natural process.
With excess moisture, the leaves become swollen and watery. If a lover of indoor plants has noticed these signs, you need to urgently inspect the roots and transplant the young leaves in another pot, adjust the watering.
Pest and Disease Control
Stone rose is extremely rarely affected by pests. However, in rare cases, it still happens that the plant suffers from a mealybug, which destroys the leaves and the root system.
Recognizing the hated pest is easy. These are colonies that look like dirty cotton wool on the leaves of a plant. You can remove the pest using alcoholized cotton pads. Or just rinse with water. If the case is severely neglected, then the soil and plant are sprayed with insecticides (in such cases, Aktaru and Fitoverm are used).
Note! When the seedlings are waterlogged or the soil is damaged by a fungal infection, it will fade. You can get rid of this infection only at the initial stages, with the help of special preparations Fitosporin or Trichodirmin, which use strictly instructions.
Stone Rose Propagation Methods
The most popular and easiest way to breed youngsters is to separate the small side daughter sockets from the mother plant. This method is preferably used in spring, as this is the main phase of the development of a stone rose. Sockets must be cut with a knife, after having sanitized the instrument. Each cut-off daughter outlet is sprinkled with activated carbon and planted in the ground.
Stone Rose Propagation Methods
Propagation by leaf cuttings:
- from the mother bush, a side leaf should be cut off, which is located close to the trunk (or you can cut off the top of the stem);
- remove several leaves located below;
- cuttings take root within a few hours;
- then the lower part of the leaf or the handle is immersed in an impregnated (moistened) mixture of vermiculite and sand;
- set the stalk in a place that is brightly lit;
- periodically need to spray the soil;
- in a month, small roots should appear, from which new sockets will later develop.
This whole process takes time (from 2 to 3 months). During this period, wrinkling and drying of the mother sheet occurs. When the small outlet gets stronger, it will need to be transplanted into a wide pot with soil for cacti.
Stone Rose Seed Germination
If juveniles are grown in stores, then problems, as a rule, do not arise. But few know how to sprout seeds at home.
First you need to plant them in the soil, consisting of peat and sand, deepen into the ground by 3-4 mm. Then you need to pour earth from the spray gun and place it under the film.
An impromptu greenhouse is placed in a warm, well-lit place with a temperature of no higher than 20-25 degrees. It is important to regularly spray the soil with water, and ventilate the room daily for 30 minutes.
Important! If everything is done correctly, the sprouts will appear within a two-week period. When the real 2-3 leaves appear, they can be transplanted into separate pots.
Roses "stone", as they are also called, are very effective indoor and garden plants that will delight the owner with their appearance and high decorativeness for a long period. Original sockets come in different colors, shapes, sizes. The plant is unpretentious, does not require special care. Busy and even lazy people love him. If you want to create a comfortable, cozy atmosphere in the house or to decorate the landscape in the garden, a stone rose will help.
