The plant girlish virgin is extremely unpretentious. Beautiful decorative flowers can not boast of this beautiful liana, but it will perfectly cope with the task of decorating. Beautiful leaves of the maiden grapes will please the bright greenery until the fall, then the liana will turn red, and in such a bright outfit will keep to the coldest.
Maiden Grapes: Planting and Care
Girlish grapes from seeds are difficult to grow and uncomfortable, seeds can be "empty" and do not germinate.
It is better to plant seeds in the fall, since in the spring a 3-month stratification will be required. To accelerate stratification, the seeds are soaked in water for several days, daily changing the water. The entire period of stratification is necessary to monitor the moisture of the sand, pecking the seeds.
It is much easier to grow girlish grapes from cuttings, this liana is very easily cuttings. Unlike reproduction by seeds, even stratified, propagation by cuttings gives almost one hundred percent rooting.
The seedlings are planted in early spring at a distance of one meter from each other. Planting of girlish grapes is carried out in square pits 50 cm deep, filled with fertile soil. Maiden grapes tolerate a small salinization of the soil, does not require particularly fertile soil, but in conditions of depleted soil the growth will not grow violently.
Care for the maiden grapes involves the installation of supports, garter and feeding of plants. This sort of decorative grapes is quite resistant to drought, but it can lose its decorative qualities. To frost, the plant is also quite stable. Adult creepers do not require additional care and easily tolerate winter without shelter.
How to grow girlish grapes?
Girlish grapes grow very quickly. For a year the plant gives an increase of 2 or 3 meters, depending on the soil and watering. Rusty can both in the shade and in the sun, but it becomes really beautiful only in conditions of excellent illumination.
If you do not care for the plant, provided it has good soil and moderate humidity, it can give such an abundant growth that the overgrown lianas will have to be unraveled. The plant starts to look like an overgrown weed, the leaves lose their aesthetic appearance. To prevent uncontrolled sprawl, it is necessary to regularly prune the girlish grapes: all the tendrils that grow in the "wrong" direction are cut. Soon after pruning, the plant will give new antennae, they are also examined and removed "knocked out" or superfluous.
With due care, the girlish virgin becomes a real decoration of the garden or the facade of the house.