Petunia is used for landscaping and decoration everywhere. Abundant flowering and the variety of colors, you can create the most complex floral design.
This flower is used in flower beds gardens. To grow seedlings petunias from seed, be patient and follow all the nuances.
Seedlings seeds of this plant, it is desirable to sow in the early spring. It is best to use a container of soil about 10 cm tall. Be sure the bottom of the I stack drainage layer. Top poured universal primer from the store. Or prepare their own ground. To do this, mix the ground of the garden with an equal amount of sand and two parts peat.
To neutralize the soil watered his purple solution of potassium permanganate or the most ordinary boiling water
One of the common ways of planting the seeds of petunias - in the snow. When melting snow drags for seeds, and they are fixed in the soil. Absorb seeds ground in any case impossible. Without access to sunlight, these plants do not grow.
For the convenience of care for seedlings peat use any pills. The advantage is that there is no need of selection of containers. The tablets can be placed in a shallow container, from which they will draw out the water.
All the tablets should be pre-soaked in water prior to the acquisition of the right size. pour the remaining water. The seeds are laid out in the middle of each toothpick tablets. When dry tablet surface lighter therefore easily determine the need for irrigation.
With a deficit of places you can use the cassette. These are special boxes for seedlings to individual cells. Cartridges filled with soil and spread in each cell 1-2 of the seed. Watering produce a spray bottle with a fine spray.
During germination required room lighting. As the growth of seedlings lighting shortened to 11-12 hours
Watering seedlings petunias should be very careful to avoid waterlogging. It is better to irrigate in a pallet or using a spray. Also, many growers in the first weeks of growth of the seedlings produced drip irrigation at the roots using a syringe. But this method is time consuming.
Seedlings of petunia is very exacting to feeding. Fertilizer should be, contributing nearly 3 times a week. Before the advent of 3-4 leaf shoots are sprayed with a pink solution of potassium permanganate. After spraying is used for sheet feeding and podkornevuyu yellow and green solution Kristalon.
Dive petunias do in the phase of 5-6 true leaves. Dive process can not be avoided because roots very strongly grow and mature plants after transplantation for a long time sick.
After 1.5-2 weeks after the transplant petunia feeding resumed. Alternating between the root and foliar feeding every 2-3 days.
Petunia grows well and forms a large number of shoots with flowers. Florists easily control the development of the bush, carrying pinched. First flowers pinch of 4-5 leaves. Then each new escape pinch of the gardener's discretion.