Iron Hybrid Stock (Sakata)

🌸 Stock Early Iron (Matthiola incana) – Sakata Seeds

Scientific Name – Matthiola incana
Colors Available – Deep Pink, Rose, Blue, Yellow, Pink, Purple, Cherry Blossom, White

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✨ Features & Benefits

🌼 Tall spikes with uniform, vibrant flowers
💐 Excellent fragrance & long vase life – ideal for cut flowers
🌱 Strong stems, rain & heat tolerant compared to local varieties
🎨 Popular in gardens, bouquets & professional floriculture
🌿 Suitable for both open field & greenhouse cultivation

🌍 Regions – Widely adaptable, suitable for North Indian plains, hills, and other cool climatic regions

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🌿 Plant Habit & Growth
• Height: 45–60 cm
• Growth: Upright, strong stems with compact flowering spikes
• Usage: Cut flower production & ornamental garden display

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⏱️ Best Sowing Time
• October to December – for winter flowering
• February to March – in cooler regions for spring blooms

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🍄 Disease Management

Damping Off
• Symptoms: Seedling collapse
• Control: Drench soil with Copper Oxychloride @ 25 g/10 L or Carbendazim @ 20 g/10 L

Powdery Mildew
• Symptoms: White powdery growth on leaves
• Control: Spray water-soluble sulphur @ 20 g/10 L, twice at 10-day intervals

Leaf Spot
• Symptoms: Brown lesions on leaves
• Control: Spray Mancozeb @ 2 g/L

Botrytis Blight
• Symptoms: Grey mold on flowers
• Control: Maintain spacing, spray Mancozeb @ 0.2%

Fusarium Wilt
• Symptoms: Yellowing & wilting of plants
• Control: Crop rotation + Carbendazim @ 0.2%

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🐛 Pest Management

Aphids
• Symptoms: Yellowing & curling of leaves
• Control: Spray Monocrotophos 0.05% or Phosphamidon 0.02% at 10–15 day intervals

Thrips
• Symptoms: Silvering of leaves & distorted growth
• Control: Yellow sticky traps (20/acre) + Spray Fipronil @ 1.5 ml/L

Mealybugs
• Symptoms: Cottony masses on leaves & stems
• Control: Spray Dimethoate @ 2 ml/L or Fish oil rosin soap @ 25 g/L

Red Spider Mites
• Symptoms: Yellowing leaves with webbing
• Control: Spray Abamectin 1.9 EC @ 0.5 ml/L or Fenazaquin 10 EC @ 2 ml/L

Hairy Caterpillars
• Symptoms: Severe leaf defoliation
• Control: Spray Carbaryl @ 2 ml/L

Leaf Miners
• Symptoms: Tunnels in leaves
• Control: Remove affected leaves + spray appropriate insecticides