Most interesting, large and double flowers - in hybrid petunias. With such plants can not collect seeds to plant them next year, and the purchase of new seeds or seedlings are expensive.
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But experienced gardeners know how to save and of grafted petunia.
why cuttings
Cuttings - is a simple and effective method that allows you to reproduce petunia year round. Unlike seed method in which there is a risk that the seeds do not germinate, cuttings has such advantages:
- a large amount of plants that will have genetic similarities;
- possibility to choose the strongest shoots for grafting;
- the rapid development of the root system and early bloom (a plant will bloom at 3 weeks earlier than when planting seed method).
Gardeners know the situation of occurrence of spontaneous mutations in terry petunias. The plant develops normally, but at some point there is a whip with flowers of a different color, shape and size. In this case, propagation method allows to keep the flower variety in pure form without mutations.
To get quality planting material, you need to know when to hold cuttings, and how to contribute to the plants take root.
The method
With the arrival of autumn frosts choose plants that want to preserve until the spring, remove the flower buds, cut the tip, leaving the whip length of 15-20 cm. If uterine bushes growing on a bed, they dig into the vessel and planted with soil treated by means Intavir pests and diseases of drugs or Rodmigold Topsin-M. Plants kept in a warm, bright room. The optimum temperature for them is + 16 ° C. To ensure sufficient light bulb is used. Until the end of the winter the bushes trimmed, watered, fertilized. In February, spend cuttings and perpetuate cuttings.
The stages of the method of propagation:
- Found on uterine bush strong young shoots and cut them (escape length - from 8 to 15 cm). On this escape must be present 3-4 pairs of leaves. Lower pair is removed, freeing up space for the formation of the root system. The remaining leaves do not touch.
- The container is laid peat tablets and poured warm water for swelling. Water should not be too much - to comply with the proportions necessary to strictly follow the instructions supplied with the tablets. The resulting ukorenitel stalk was placed, with the first internode (stem portion between two adjacent pairs of leaves) to bury 1 cm.
- After the landing of cuttings using the package form for them teplichku and place flowers on the windowsill future. For the proper development and establishment of seedlings it is necessary dosvechivat lamps at night. Teplichku plants aerate and periodically humidified peat tablet. However, watering should be moderate, otherwise the cuttings will rot. A week later, when the cuttings will be thin roots, with a pill remove the mesh and planted the plants in cups.
So simple and inexpensive way you can get a lot of new plants for spring landing. And in the fall - to repeat the grafting procedure. The mother bush is not re-planted.
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