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Tenweeks stock "Royal mix"
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Tenweeks stock "Royal mix".
Very fragrant, double and large inflorescences. The cuttings stand in water for a long time!
Plant height 40-60 cm.
In the past, Matthiola incana could be seen in almost every garden, now it is less common: somehow it went out of fashion ...
And indeed, there is something old-fashioned, refined, belonging to the classic, regular, park style in this plant. And if you are nostalgic for the noble and beautiful antiquity and the spicy, amazing (just some kind of sultry) aroma, then Matthiola incana is your plant.
All the varietal diversity of garden forms of Matthiola incana are divided by flowering time into: summer, autumn and winter. Thanks to extensive breeding work in different countries, the summer Matthiola incana has the greatest varietal diversity (more than 400 varieties).
Very fragrant, double and large inflorescences. The cuttings stand in water for a long time!
Plant height 40-60 cm.
In the past, Matthiola incana could be seen in almost every garden, now it is less common: somehow it went out of fashion ...
And indeed, there is something old-fashioned, refined, belonging to the classic, regular, park style in this plant. And if you are nostalgic for the noble and beautiful antiquity and the spicy, amazing (just some kind of sultry) aroma, then Matthiola incana is your plant.
All the varietal diversity of garden forms of Matthiola incana are divided by flowering time into: summer, autumn and winter. Thanks to extensive breeding work in different countries, the summer Matthiola incana has the greatest varietal diversity (more than 400 varieties).
* Double varieties and hybrids of Matthiola incana are not only more beautiful than non-double, they also retain their decorative inflorescences much longer. If a simple flower with 4 petals blooms for about 5 days, then a double flower with 50-70 petals blooms for 2-3 weeks.
All modern varieties of Matthiola incana are propagated by seeds, sowing them in mid-March in seed boxes in a greenhouse or in warm hotbeds.
* Seeds of valuable varieties can be stored for up to six years.
When grown from seeds, Matthiola incana can have simple or double flowers. However, simple flowers of this plant form seeds after flowering, and double asexual flowers do not have seeds.
Growing seedlings.
The boxes are filled with turf soil with the addition of river sand (5:1). The development of the root system is promoted by adding one part of well-weathered or high-moor peat.
Matthiola incana develop better in slightly acidic, close to neutral soil (pH 6-6.5). Humus, previously used soil is not suitable for sowing, where there may be an infection of the "black leg" pathogen. When sowing, carefully monitor the seed sowing rate (no more than 1.5 g of seeds are sown in a standard seed box). They try to grow all the shoots, since the cost of Matthiola incana seeds is one of the highest compared to other annuals. Before germination, the temperature is maintained within +16+18 °C. The temperature is reduced to +12 °C during the day and +8 °C at night.
Picking begins in the phenophase of two or three true leaves. Since Matthiola incana have a taproot system, they do not tolerate transplantation without a lump.
Plants are pricked out into peat-humus cubes or pots measuring 6-7 cm. When picking, plants are planted under the cotyledons at a distance of 4x4 cm. The pricked out plants are watered abundantly in sunny weather (the first 2-3 days), shaded, and then taken out to greenhouses. Watering is done rarely, but abundantly in the morning or afternoon hours. Closely monitor the ventilation of the greenhouses. Properly grown in greenhouses, Matthiola incana seedlings tolerate short-term drops in air temperature to -5 °C, which allows you to start planting them in open ground in early May.
When sowing in open ground, early and mid-early varieties of various groups of Matthiola incana bloom in the second half of July. Late varieties bloom in the second decade of August. When sowing early and mid-season varieties in the ground at the end of April - first half of May, flowering shifts to the second half of August - September. With these sowing dates, late varieties have time to reach the budding stage.
