Illustrated step-by-step guide to sun flower (moss rose) cuttings, easy to understand, worth saving

I just love perennial moss rose, love how little care it needs. Love how brilliantly it blooms in summer. Let me share a few of my own little tips on growing moss rose; they may be wrong, and growing methods may differ from region to region. No hate please, I hope we can all exchange ideas~!

It is almost June now, and it can already stand on its own.

The day of planting:

Two months later (the sun was blazing, the phone photo came out a bit pale... the colors are a little off)

In two months' time, under the sunlight, with ordinary soil mixed with a large amount of coal cinders and some fertilizer. And it blooms just like this, brilliantly. Calling it the most brilliant flower of summer is not an exaggeration at all.

So.... how do you grow perennial moss rose well? How do you propagate a big patch in the shortest time?? Below, I will share my tips.

First, the perennial moss rose cuttings we get usually look like this.

I will use the needle-leaved type as an example to explain briefly.

First, you need to prepare the soil. Whether you are growing in pots or in the ground, please water the soil first. (Moss rose is very tough and has low soil requirements. But it must be loose)

A cutting about 10--15C long.

Cut it into small 3 cm segments

Then insert the small segments directly into the already moistened soil.

Just like this, first water the soil --- then insert the cuttings. Not insert the cuttings and then water....!

Then place it directly in a sunny spot, that is, once the cuttings are inserted, they can go straight into the sun.

Until it sprouts new shoots, just keep the soil slightly moist, do not water too much. It has not grown roots yet; too much water will make it rot.

In about a week, it will basically have grown new shoots.

In about a month, it is already a full pot.

Moss rose grows fast. But its flowers only last one day. So, to get more flowers, you must keep pinching off the tips.

Only by constantly pruning and pinching off the tips will it branch more. More branches naturally means more flowers.

For example, as follows:

A needle-leaved moss rose, lacking care, has grown very, very long. For a branch that lacks vigor, just prune it.

Find the side shoot on the branch.

Pinch it off in front of the side shoot. (If a branch has no side shoot, just cut it in half in the middle)

The branch that was pruned off.

Pinch it into small segments and continue inserting cuttings (you can insert them back into the original pot, this way it fills out more easily)

The perennial broad-leaved moss rose is grown the same way. But by comparison, broad-leaved moss rose generally branches more strongly; as long as it has bloomed, occasionally cutting off the spent flowers is enough, and it will keep growing new branches. And it blooms very abundantly and grows quickly.

The problem of overwintering perennial moss rose:

Perennial moss rose does not mean it truly cannot be killed by freezing in winter and will burst back on its own the following spring. In fact, it still dies quite easily in winter.

I am in Guangzhou. In the winter of 2015 --- early spring of 2016, I was very careless and left all the moss roses outdoors, and as a result, of more than ten varieties of moss rose only 4 were left, and then I had to buy them all over again.

So when the weather turns cold, you must move it indoors or to a warmer place, and try not to water it. If you grow it in the ground, plant a little of each color in pots, so you can move them indoors, and it will not happen that a sudden cold wave wipes out the whole lot.