Autumn Beauty aster decorate any autumn bouquet or flower bed, and will please the eye of the gardener to the most frosts. Nothing complicated in the cultivation of seedlings asters not only need to fulfill certain conditions.
To get a strong seedlings asters necessary to prepare the container for planting seeds. Capacity can be any, but it is necessary to pay attention to the presence of drainage holes in the bottom of the container, in the absence thereof it is necessary to make these holes a sharp awl, to facilitate the pre-glow or it can be used soldering iron.
In gardening stores now sell special mini hotbeds containers for growing seedlings with a transparent cover, which is very convenient to use. Then, the bottom of the vessel to lay drainage layer.
As the drainage you can use the expanded clay. Absorb prepared in advance over the ground drainage layer. Aster seeds are quite large, so you need to sprinkle the seeds on top of a layer of soil or sand. Better on the surface of the soil to make a few borozdochek at a distance of 4-5 cm, which facilitate care for seedlings, hoeing, watering. Striae shed water enriched vermicompost for sprouts.
This is followed by carefully sow the seeds in moist furrows, planting carried out so that the seeds do not crowd each other.
Until the soil surface is not closed, it is necessary sprinkle the seeds of a solution, "Alpin" or "zircon" instructions according to preparations 4-5 drops per 1 liter of water.
These drugs are used for successful germination of plants, and for the prevention of fungal diseases. The last thing to do is to hide a container with crops with plastic wrap or lid close mikroparnika. Remove to a warm place until germination.
The most favorable germination temperature 23-25 ° C. Around the fifth day of the first shoots to appear. If it does not, you may have purchased substandard seeds or soil. Then, after the germination capacity must be installed on a lit place, such as a window sill, you can use additional lighting if necessary.