The petunia has outgrown what to do. What to do if petunia seedlings have become very elongated? Lighting and environmental conditions
Petunia is a beautifully flowering herbaceous perennial plant, used in gardening to decorate flower beds, verandas or balconies. Can be grown both in open ground and in flowerpots, hanging planters or boxes. The flowers are large, thanks to selection, many shapes and colors have been developed; the petals can be single-colored or two-colored. Planting and caring for petunia is not difficult, so gardeners prefer to grow it as an annual crop, sowing a new batch of seeds every spring.
Petunia - features of planting and growing
Petunia seedlings are often sold in specialized stores or markets, however, if the gardener has the time and desire, you can purchase a bag of varietal seeds and grow the flowers yourself.
Requirements for soil composition for sowing petunia seeds
For successful cultivation the substrate should be nutritious and loose; it is better to prepare it yourself:
- leaf soil - 2 parts,
- rotted humus - 2 parts,
- fibrous peat substrate - 2 parts,
- fine-grained sand - 1 part.
Sowing petunia seeds
Petunia - planting and caring for it after sowing is simple, but it will require close attention from the grower. The most favorable time for sowing seeds is the end of February or the beginning of March. The seeds must be mixed with a small amount of sand and distributed over the top layer of soil in the box. Then spray and cover the box with transparent polyethylene or ordinary glass, providing seeds greenhouse conditions. It is important that germination occurs at a temperature from +20 °C to +23 °C, not lower. The first shoots will appear quickly, in 7–8 days. At this stage, the most important thing for the gardener is to provide the seedlings high humidity air, but at the same time prevent the appearance of “black leg” - a dangerous fungal disease.
The soil needs to be sprayed twice a day and the greenhouse needs to be ventilated regularly. The signal for the next ventilation will be the accumulated condensation on the glass or covering polyethylene; drops of water will need to be removed. It is recommended to periodically spray the seedlings with a weak solution of potassium permanganate; this will prevent the occurrence of many diseases. As soon as the plants have their first leaf, the covering material can be removed, the soil can be sprinkled with a little sand, and watering and spraying can be reduced to prevent excessive dampness.
Growing petunia seedlings
When growing a flower such as petunia, caring for it should be careful and careful. The stems of the plant are fragile and tender, so the seedlings for further picking are pryed with thin sticks or fireplace matches, carefully removing the seedling. This should be done after the formation of the third or fourth leaf. Seedlings are planted in small containers with a similar soil composition or in a peat tablet.
During further care For petunia, the main task of the grower is to prevent the substrate from drying out. The frequency of watering depends on the volume of the container and the air temperature. 8–10 days after picking, the seedlings need to be fed with complex mineral fertilizer. You can use “Kemira”, “Solution” and others liquid formulations. Root feeding It is recommended to supplement with spraying, but in this case the concentration of fertilizer should be halved.
Planting petunia in open ground
Petunia is planted in open ground or flowerpots in May, depending on the climatic conditions of the region. If the weather is consistently warm and the forecast does not predict night frosts, then the procedure can be carried out in the first days of the month. A few days before planting in open ground, petunia should be prepared for fresh air by placing boxes with seedlings on the balcony or terrace. It is better to plan planting and caring for petunia on a cloudy day, this will allow the plant to acclimatize faster.
Petunia prefers rich, fertile soils, so before planting in the flowerbed it is recommended to add humus and then dig up the area. Cow manure should be avoided; it promotes the active proliferation of fungal diseases.
Before removing the petunia from the container, the earthen ball should be well moistened. The bush will grow over the summer, so when planting several specimens in a flowerbed, you should maintain a distance of 40 cm. If the plant is planted in a flowerpot or flowerpot, it is important to remember that each specimen requires at least 5 liters of soil. For example, in a balcony box 1 m long, no more than 3 bushes can grow at the same time.
Features of caring for petunia
After planting in open ground, caring for petunia is almost the same as for other garden plants.
Lighting and environmental conditions
The flower prefers a lot sunlight, therefore the flowerbed should not be located in the shady part of the site. If petunia is grown in insulated containers, they should be placed on balconies or terraces on the south side.
Considering that petunia has very delicate stems and especially flowers, it must be protected from heavy rain and gusts of wind. If the plant is grown in flowerpots, then in bad weather it is recommended to bring them under a canopy or indoors. Under the influence of strong winds and raindrops, the petals may tear, which will ruin appearance plants.
Watering petunias
The flower can withstand short-term drought, but needs regular watering to maintain its beauty. If the summer is sunny and hot, then it is recommended to carry out the procedure twice a day, or replace evening watering with intensive spraying. Stagnation of moisture in the soil can be detrimental to the plant, especially when grown in a container, so it is important to observe moderation.
Fertilizer application
For luxurious flowering, petunia care must include feeding. If the flower is grown in open ground, and a nutrient substrate or fertilizer has been added to the planting hole, then the need for additional nutrition disappears. It is recommended to feed potted plants mineral compounds at least 2 times a week.
Petunia pruning
The key to lush and bright flowering is the regular removal of fading inflorescences. If you neglect this rule, then the plant will direct all its efforts to ripen the seeds, and subsequent flowers will be small and, perhaps, not so bright.
Sometimes a gardener may notice that in mid-summer the petunia bushes began to lose their decorative value, the flowers became smaller and more sparse, and the stems became too long. In this case, it is recommended to carry out anti-aging pruning, leaving stems no longer than 15 cm long for bush forms, and cutting them exactly halfway for hanging ones. Young shoots will grow very quickly and the petunia will bloom again, delighting with its beauty until the first days of November.
In the fall, you can dig up bushes and organize planting and caring for petunias in an apartment. In this case, the plant is planted in a pot and the stems are cut off. Throughout the winter, the substrate is slightly moistened and new shoots may appear as early as February. Some gardeners cut them and plant them in nutritious soil, caring for them like cuttings indoor plant. This method is suitable for those who find growing seedlings from seeds too troublesome.
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I don’t quite agree with... “In an adult plant root system powerful, and it needs a lot of land. When planting in containers, proceed at the rate of 5 liters of soil per root."...
The root system is powerful only in terms of its fibrousness and many thin suction roots, and not in size. The volumes themselves are small. In my long-term practice, in a flowerpot with a diameter of 45 cm and a height of up to 30 cm, I place 2 pelargonium bushes, 3 - 5 petunia bushes, depending on the variety. Only approximately this number of plants (or even more) allows you to create a truly three-dimensional composition when the flowerpot is not visible.
Depending on the size of the flowers and the nature of plant growth, petunias are divided into cultivar groups:
Grandiflora cultivar group: early flowering upright varieties 25-30 cm with very large, simple or double flowers of a wide variety of colors.
Variety group multiflora: erect, weather-resistant varieties tall 20-30 cm With a huge amount small, simple or double flowers.
Variety group "Nana": erect, compact, tall varieties 20-30 cm with simple or double flowers of medium size.
Superbissima variety group: ampelous varieties with long shoots that are unstable to adverse weather conditions up to 80 cm. The flowers are very large with highly wavy or fringed edges.
Variety group "Surfinia": fast-growing, weather-resistant ampelous varieties with long shoots up to 100-150 cm and very large flowers.
Hybrids of the "Surfinia" variety group can overwinter indoors. At the end of September, the shoots are cut to 15-20 cm, all dried leaves and wilted flowers are removed from the plants and placed in a bright, cool place (temperature about 10 ° C). In winter, water very moderately. After the danger of late frosts has passed, the plants are taken out again outside or planted in open ground.
From late January to early March seeds Petunias can be sown in boxes with loose substrate and lightly sprinkled with soil. Seeds need light for germination.
To prevent waterlogging, it is recommended to add a little sand to the substrate (the sand must be washed and calcined). At a temperature of 20-22 °C, shoots appear soon (7-10 days).
2-3 weeks after sowing, the temperature is gradually reduced to 15-17°C, and after another 1-2 weeks the seedlings are planted one at a time. flower pots and further grown at a temperature of 10-14 * C.
Petunia is a perennial plant. Possible following methods reproduction.
Dig up a bush in the fall, replant it in a pot, cut off too long stems and save in winter at a temperature of 12-14 °C, good lighting and moderate watering. In February, move it to a warm and again bright place (temperature 20-22 ° C), resume watering, feed it, and it will grow. Cut young shoots with a heel and 2-3 pairs of leaves and plant them in clean sand, sprinkled with a layer of 4 cm per good land(earth layer 8-10 cm).
Water the planting, cover it tightly with film and shade it. The cuttings should be constantly watered, sprayed and maintained at a temperature of 20-22 °C. The cuttings root in 2-3 weeks, after which they are planted one by one in pots and grown further as seedlings.
And also better in autumn With beautiful bushes petunias, cut young shoots and cut them in a greenhouse. Before the onset of frost, move them indoors; these plants are queen cells. You can take a lot of cuttings from them if you wish.
Petunia cuttings are rooted in a mixture of sand (coarse) and perlite in a 5:1 ratio.
Cover the container with the planted cuttings with film. After a week and a half, transplant them into separate pots with soil. Constantly pinch new plants, above the 4-5 leaves of the main and newly grown side shoots, forming beautiful bushes.
For rooting apical cuttings usually requires the use of biologically active substances such as heteroauxin, NRV, aloe juice and etc.
The exception is terry petunias, which are easily rooted using this method throughout the growing season.
If you managed to grow beautiful varieties and petunia hybrids, transplant one plant into a pot in the fall. Cut off the long branches and put the flower on the windowsill over the winter. Don't forget to water. It will not look very attractive, but with the arrival of spring it will begin to grow rapidly. Cut the cuttings and root them in water. Roots form most easily when the bottom cut on the stem is made directly under the leaf. A plant grown from cuttings completely retains all the properties of the mother plant.
Petunia, especially Ramblins (cascading petunia), they take great cuttings and you just need to take stalk the size of three internodes. Then dip the cut in Kornevin and that's all. You can plant it in a cup of soil and keep it in the shade. Spray a couple of times Epin with urea + microelements and after two weeks they already have roots, and they bloom much earlier than from seeds. After 1 month there are already flowers.
Why do gardeners sow pepper seeds early in boxes? Everywhere it is written that it takes a long time to germinate, so you should sow it early in case the seeds turn out to be of poor quality. So that re-seeding can be done.
This applies to both eggplants and petunias. Its seeds are very small, sometimes you may not even understand that these are future plants in the bag. Dust, real dust instead of seeds.
Sowing petunias you can also start in January, but then it will be very difficult long time create for her special conditions for growth. After all, there is no sun yet.
Sowing petunias. First secret.
Place peat tablets or soil into prepared containers. It needs to be pressed down well with a spoon. First, pour water into the containers so that both the tablets and the soil open. After all, even absolutely fresh soil tends to dry out instantly as soon as it is exposed to air.
But it makes no sense to sow petunias in dry soil, especially when buying granulated seeds. As soon as the granule is on the soil, it should dissolve in the wet soil or, and this happened to me, simply fall apart into small particles. If this does not happen, then the strength in the seed will not be enough for the smallest thin leaves to shed the shell themselves. We can help, even though tomatoes and peppers are not always successful. And the petunia will die. It will rise, stand as a sprout and wither.
Sowing petunias. Second secret.
For rapid shoots, petunias need warmth. If the house has an illuminated aquarium, then it is very good. After sowing, you need to place the containers on the top lid of the aquarium, and do not turn off the light. But be sure to place a cloth under the container in 2-3 layers, this will protect against overheating. And the sprouts will appear much faster.
I have a tank in my stoker, which always contains hot water. The heating pipe just passes through it. And since the heating is gas, the water temperature is constant. After sowing, I place the containers on the tank. But first I put a shelf on it, which was left over from an old cabinet, I put a thick rag on it, and then the containers. I grow a lot of petunias, so they stand on the tank like firewood in a woodpile. I change them every day.
Sowing petunias. Third secret.
We need to help the petunia seeds wake up. To do this, take half a liter of tap water, but not cold. If the water is chlorinated, then you need to follow General requirements, let the water stand for several days so that the chlorine evaporates. We'll use Epin-Extra in it. There is only one milliliter of solution in the ampoule, pour it all into water and shake well.
The water needs to be poured into a spray bottle and the damp soil should be thoroughly soaked with the resulting mixture.
Then you need to put in each container or cell required quantity seeds Today I bought petunia seeds in China, and the Chinese are not greedy people, they put about 100 seeds in each bag. So I definitely won’t save; I’ll put in more than one seed at a time.
The seeds were placed carefully. There is no need to press them into the ground, you don’t even need to fill them up the thinnest layer no sand needed. You need to spray it again with the epin composition from the spray bottle. But now you need to do everything carefully so that the seeds do not fly out of the cells from the jet. Under the influence of tiny drops of water, the petunia seeds themselves will go deeper into the soil, but will remain on the surface.
Further watering can be done using a sprinkler, but do it carefully. Then not a single sprout will even hang its head. Watering from a teaspoon is less convenient.
Everything seems to have worked out. It's time to close the containers.
Sowing petunias. The fourth secret.
It may be a bit of a deception, but it seems that where petunia grows in nature, there is always rotting vegetation during germination. It releases carbon dioxide. Its concentration in the air is slightly higher than the standard for these places. Petunia is passionate about how she loves him.
So we will let her breathe air with excess CO 2. Where can we get it?
Let's breathe ourselves. That's what plastic bags are for different sizes. Now you need to push each container into the desired bag and try to inflate it, like inflating a rubber balloon. Only the ball should increase in size, and plastic bag from such efforts it will break.
Therefore, we simply make the mouth of the bag with a bell and apply it tightly to the lips. And we begin to breathe, pushing air from the lungs into the bag with the container, and back. Ten breaths are enough. Carbon dioxide breathed enough into the bag. Now, carefully, so as not to let the air out of the bag, you need to close it tightly.
Twist, secure with an elastic band, and pin with a clothespin. Everyone will find their own way.
That's it, the petunia is sown, caressed, the conditions are created. Now it’s warm, warm up, wake up.
Sowing petunias. Fifth secret.
Needs ventilation. Therefore, every day we remove the containers in bags from a warm place and take them out of the bag. We are doing an audit. Is everything alright?
Usually there are no problems, the soil does not dry out. Then we close the containers again, push them into bags, and breathe. We maintain the level of carbon dioxide in the bags.
If all conditions are met and the seeds are of high quality, then almost all of them will sprout on the fifth day.
But, as soon as half of the sprouts have appeared, you need to open the containers slightly, ventilate, but keep them warm. And give good lighting. You can use fluorescent lamps. You can buy special light bulbs at pet stores, but they are a bit expensive. For some reason they sell similar ones in Tekkurila stores. These light bulbs look like regular ones. They are screwed into a regular cartridge. It looks like you can even use regular table lamp use, but install the cap so that the light evenly illuminates the seedlings.
You can't put it on window sills yet. There's cold coming from the windows. But the stand must be mobile so that the plants receive at least a little sunlight.
All. Petunia has risen. If you grew seedlings in tablets, then you should buy fertilizer. There is a special one for petunias, very expensive, but from it they grow by leaps and bounds. We don't sell this. That’s why I buy liquid, which is available in stores.
After the petunia takes hold and produces several large true leaves, you can feed it with nutritious soil or leaf humus prepared in the fall.
Today I wrote and told everything. I’ll post photos as soon as I sow them. I will try to show you how to breathe into the bag and close it.
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Seedlings of petunias and lobelia have sprouted. Oh, and I don’t like fussing with small seeds! I prefer to propagate petunia from cuttings. But what can you do if this time you didn’t leave at least a couple of bushes for cuttings for the winter.
I propose to exchange experiences in growing these slow-growing plants. It will be useful for beginners to find out who grows them and how.
Lobelia and petunia seedlings are very small. They grow slowly - and for those in a hurry like me, it’s hard to wait for them to get stronger. And there is also a risk of ruining the seedlings at the very beginning. That's why I adapted to save things this way.
Since these little ones need very little land at the beginning, I sow them in separate cells - in an egg carton.
Surface sowing, i.e. I don’t sprinkle the seeds with soil, I just cover them transparent film. And I put it on a warm windowsill - on a sheet of foam plastic. Seeds germinate in warmth and light: both lobelia and petunia.
And if I sow lobelia thickly, then petunias are now sold in granules - I arrange them in 4-5 pieces per cell. Not all of them have come up today. But they will have more room to grow.
Each cell has a hole at the bottom. The whole box is in a pallet, which is made from the lid of the same egg package. I pour water for irrigation into the pan. This way you don't have to water from above, which can lead to lodging of these small shoots. Although, you can spray it with a very fine spray bottle.
In the initial period, they all stand under a lamp - which is no more than 15 cm away.
When the first true leaves appear and grow, and the seedlings get stronger, I begin diving. Using a teaspoon or fork, I pick up the entire lump of earth in the cell and transplant it into separate glasses. At the same time, I divide the lump of lobelia into two or even three parts: it is densely sown, but unevenly. It turns out several seedlings in each glass.
I divide by eye, so the number of plants in one glass is different. After transplanting, I water it with Zircon.
In a separate “apartment” the leaves will begin to grow faster. Moreover, by this time during the day I already take it out onto the glassed-in balcony, and there is a lot of light there.
Some glasses yield 7-10 plants.
And somewhere - large group. Subsequently, pots of different sizes await them: some are wider, others are narrower.
The seedlings are in glasses and after 10 days I begin to fertilize them.
Over time, I pinch some varieties of lobelia so that they bush.
Well, then I plant them in pots. Here are three glasses with bush lobelia
I add one petunia to each glass. They need a lot more land. I do this at the moment when they have two true leaves (except for the first two cotyledons)
I plant glasses in 100 g, which I put in a common container.
Before planting in the ground or in a pot, you have to transplant the seedlings several times into larger glasses.
After transplanting, I spray and water with a root formation stimulator - Radifarm or Zircon.
During this period there is a lot of sun on the balcony.
You can feed with any complex fertilizer - after two weeks. Complex fertilizer with a predominance of nitrogen - NPK 30-10-10. For example, Plantofol. You can - Kemiroy Lux.
Petunias like to alternate feeding at the root and at the leaf (by spraying). And they begin to grow quickly.
If there are a lot of petunias, it is very convenient to plant them in cassettes - 4 by 4 cm.
At the 6th week, you can transplant from the cassettes into 200 g glasses. But since I was planted immediately in 100 g, my seedlings stayed in them longer in them longer.
And then I immediately moved to 400 ml pots.
I do the first pinching (removal of the growing point) after several pairs of true leaves appear, but only when they are properly strengthened - 1.5 - 2 months after sowing.
Usually, by this time, bush petunias have 4 - 5 pairs of true leaves. It all depends on the type and variety. I pinch off the 9-10th leaf. This is necessary in order to form side shoots and subsequently there were many flowers on every bush.
In ampelous petunias, the side shoots grow well even without pinching. In addition, in modern bush varieties, side shoots also appear on their own - without any effort on your part. So look at the variety.
By the way, the rapid formation of side shoots is facilitated by lower night temperatures. I do it in a simple way. By nightfall I turn off the battery, which is under the windowsill in my bedroom. And in the morning I turn it on again. The seedlings like it. Me too - sleep cooler
And if the temperature outside allows it, then I leave it on the closed balcony overnight.
To speed up flowering, you can spray it once with a boron solution ( boric acid- 1 year per 1 liter)
Growing petunias from cuttings
I have already been asked to repeat this topic several times.
In the fall, I leave a couple of young bushes for the winter. That is, in the middle of summer I cut a cutting from a flowering petunia bush and grow a young bush until autumn. I pinch it several times. They hibernate next to the lamp. They grow foliage.
In early February, and some even earlier, they begin to bloom. If there is enough sun, of course. They are unlikely to bloom in the dark winter. God grant we can hold out until spring when it’s dark. Petunias are very light-sensitive plants.
And in early March I cut cuttings from them.
Usually I leave two on the cutting top sheets. Sometimes four. If I cut a long branch, I divide it into several parts. Too much large leaves I halve it to avoid excess moisture evaporation. But most often, this is not required.
I bury the cuttings 1.5 - 2 cm into the soil for seedlings and water them with Zircon. And I cover it with a large transparent glass with a hole in the bottom for ventilation. I also pinch out every fifth leaf on the side branches so that the bush becomes lush.
In summer, petunias bloom magnificently both on the balcony and in the flower garden near the house. On the balcony I love cascading and hanging ones.
And in flower beds - bush terry.
Two small autumn bushes left in the house for the winter make a meter-long flower bed in the summer.
And most importantly, a lot of time is saved. They bloom much earlier than from seeds. And no picking or fussing with small crops.
But there is also a minus, of course. You will have to allocate space on the windowsill in winter for mother bushes. Even though they are small, they are still there. Well, you will have to provide additional light. Without it, they will either get sick or die altogether.
True, in the last year I have adapted to hanging them in flowerpots on lateral surface window opening to save space.
And now I haven’t left it for the winter at all. The winters have become very dark. So I grow it from seeds.
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How to plant petunia seedlings.
Then I dive and plant them in the ground in May. Many have already begun to bloom by then, so May-July is the time for petunias to bloom in my garden.
- If you want to dive more than once (which is completely unnecessary), then petunia will tolerate it quite calmly. Moreover, then don’t dive, but do the transshipment, minimally injuring the roots.
- Carefully insert the cutting into the hole up to the first leaves and press the soil around it with a skewer or squeeze the tablet with your hands. That's it, landing is done. Now we put everything on a bowl, or in a transparent container made of disposable tableware, like this one, and cover it with an ordinary transparent bag so that it does not dry out. This is done to preserve the turgor of the leaves of the cuttings.
- Then spray with a fine spray bottle warm water. Cover with glass or cling film to retain moisture, place the bowls or cassettes in a warm, bright place and observe the emergence of seedlings every day. Usually petunia germinates on the third to eighth day, granulated ones can germinate up to 2 weeks, the germination time depends on the vigor of seed germination.
- Another way is to reduce watering and at the same time lower the room temperature. This will reduce plant growth and make them more resistant to planting in the ground.
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Let it sit in pots. When it’s cold, water it less and pinch off long branches. Even with flowers, it tolerates transplantation well.
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- First, plant one sprout at a time into seedling cells measuring 5 by 5 cm, then transplant into flowerpots. 3 sprouts will feel great in a pot with a diameter of 20 -25 cm.
- I know the secret of how to grow petunia seedlings at home. More precisely, I always thought that there was no secret here, until a neighbor began to complain that her petunia seedlings were not growing at all. They don't sprout for her. Then I began to ask how she sowed petunia seeds, then I realized what her mistake was. She buried small seeds in the ground. This is by no means possible. Most likely they won't rise that way. Petunia seeds are small.
can be planted in February and until early March. Its seeds are very small; just sprinkle them on top of the ground without covering them. You need to cover it with glass or a salafan so that the soil does not dry out quickly. Our seedlings will be very small, each one needs to be planted separately for independent growth.
Petunia can be planted now. It has very small seeds, so they are simply sprinkled on damp (watered) soil; you cannot cover the seeds with soil. The pot of seeds can be put in a plastic bag or covered with a napkin, but so that there is access to air and the soil does not dry out. In such conditions the seeds will sprout quickly. At first, the seedlings will be very small; you need to let them grow, only then transplant them into another container.
The dive is carried out once; if the container is small, transfer it to a larger container.
- Or, like in the photo, cover a small glass with a stalk of surfinia with a half-liter bottle.
- Condensation on film or glass can be removed by tilting the bowl to the side. When shoots appear, the film is removed gradually, revealing more and more every day.
Feeding plants contributes to the development of more strong seedlings and she doesn’t stretch as much, feed her every 10 days.
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Dive into cassettes and then into separate cups. The plant is kept in a small volume until the roots fill the entire container, and then transplanted into the next largest pot or container.
- Elite terry petunia seeds are sold in granules, and sowing such petunia is much easier. You can sow immediately balcony box at a distance of 10-15 cm from each other and do not replant the flowers anymore. However, it happens that terry petunia seeds do not germinate and most often this happens because they are buried in the ground. Do not do this. The seeds are already in the shell, you just need to put them on a properly prepared soil mixture and moisten so that sprouts appear.
- Petunia should be planted for seedlings in February-March. In this case, you need to focus on the weather forecast in your region. If you live in middle lane, it is better to plant in March or at the end of February, so that the seedlings do not outgrow.
- I always plant in late February-early March. If the winter is warm, then at the end of February.
I keep them together first. Then - they grew up, I dive. And then on permanent place I'm planting. That is, the essence pick is ONE.
We ventilate the cuttings every day for 10-15 minutes. We put it under the backlight, if there is one, for 12-16 hours a day, or on a bright window, but not under direct light Sun rays. It is better to shade the glass with fabric, newspaper, tulle, mosquito net or place cuttings between plants with large foliage. They will provide light partial shade for rooting cuttings. Everyone chooses the conditions themselves. In winter and spring, be sure to place the cuttings under lighting. 
If it is possible to use lighting, then it is best to illuminate the seedlings for the first 7 days for 16 hours, then up to 30 days for 14 hours, and after about 12 hours, taking into account the increasing daylight hours. How to feed petunia seedlings.
It is necessary to reduce the temperature. You can take it out onto a glassed-in loggia; if it gets frosty, set up a mini-greenhouse. For example, from transparent cake containers.
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- Petunia seedlings need light almost around the clock; you will need to provide not only daytime supplementary lighting for the seedlings in gloomy weather, but also leave dim light at night;
- Organic-mineral liquid nutrition Ideal.
- The advantage of the second method is that it saves space and is easy to water and fertilize.
To properly grow petunia seedlings at home, you need to know how to plant petunia seedlings. Properly sow petunia as follows:
In March I sow bush petunia, and I sow cascade petunia in February, it needs more time to start blooming in full force. Now I’ll look at the lunar calendar and add it.
Last year I tried to plant it for sale, but I was tormented - I needed too much space.
I dive when transferring 2 times. And for the first time with roots in pots with a diameter of 3 cm. When there are 7-8 leaves, I take them out of the pot and cut off the roots with scissors for easier replanting. Some of the first batch have already been planted, the second batch is just sprouting.
As soon as the roots of the cuttings have appeared and entwined the entire soil in a transparent cup, you can open the film and grow the petunia further, as common plant. New intensive leaf growth will let you know that everything is fine.
- Watering seedlings can be done in different ways: with a spoon or a small syringe, a sports bottle with a drinking spout (it turns out weak pressure), immersing pots or bowls in a cup of water poured no more than 3 cm for 1-5 minutes.
- It’s good to spray the seedlings with “epin”; this allows the seedlings to adapt well to unfavorable conditions.
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Remember that an excess of one or another element, and especially a trace element, can cause poisoning of the plant, so carefully read the instructions for use before feeding petunia.
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In my experience, if the seedlings are not picked, then all the flowers will turn out small. So if you need it just for yourself, plant it in a large bowl, but then dive and plant it in pots, or in large flowerpots at the beginning of summer. Then the flowers will be good.
Dasha Khikhtenko
For me, too, once is enough, already at the dacha I transplant it immediately into place.
If you need to pinch the growing point for further tillering, you can do it. Usually, over 5-6 sheets. Transfer from a small glass to a slightly larger one is done as the volume is filled with roots.
Petunia seedlings photo by Olga Mokhova (Lobelia)
Overgrowing seedlings is bad because it stretches too much, and more mature plant it is more difficult to tolerate transplantation. On the first point, in addition to feeding, it is worth buying a lamp for additional lighting. They are labeled accordingly, sold in supermarkets of building materials and goods for the home and garden; in Ukraine we bought them at Epicenter; in Russia, to be honest, I don’t know.
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When the roots of the plant fill the entire clod of earth, transplant the petunia into a larger container;
Hedgehog
How and when to feed petunia seedlings
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How to grow lush petunia
Tane4ka
water and press down the soil on top so that it is smooth, dense and moist;
Olga
Elena Mango
Petunia is a wonderful flower. So much beauty, it blooms almost all summer long.
Victoria Shovkun
I don't pick her at all. I’ll plant it in a tablet, as soon as the roots appear, I’ll put it in a glass and cover it with soil. Plants develop without damage to roots, without stress. And without unnecessary hassle, which is also important.
The seedlings begin to outgrow. What to do if it’s too early to plant?
By spring, the cuttings may not go into hibernation, but continue to grow. This shouldn't scare you. We cut off the young branches that have stretched out due to lack of light in winter again in February, using them for cuttings, and the cut young plants will give new greenery that will grow and bloom all spring and summer.
Initially, the term picking did not refer to planting seedlings, but to pinching the tip of the root. Removing the central growth point promotes the formation of lateral roots and a stronger root system, which ultimately increases the viability of the plant. Because the roots often break off themselves during this action; in practice, the term has lost its original meaning.
Very good way slowing down the growth of any seedling is a common plant pick. Any seedlings, whether flowers or vegetable crops, if they are grown on windowsills, they suffer from a lack of light and therefore begin to stretch out. I usually do this: after the plants have sprouted and the first two true leaves have already appeared, I pick them up, that is, I transplant them into fresh, good soil less often so that the plants can grow freely. By the way, the density of the seedlings also contributes to stretching. The seedlings will grow as you grow, the thicker and stronger they will be. Then, after about 2-3 weeks, with moderate watering, the seedlings will fully adapt after transplantation and begin to grow and develop well. It is at this time that it is especially important to apply the following method of gentle picking. What does it mean? You must first loosen the plant well, trying not to damage the roots, and carefully pour fresh soil under the root of each plant, right under the very neck of the plant. After this, you need to water the seedlings generously and you can forget about it for several days. Then try to water regularly, but very little, practically sprinkling the ground. You need to constantly ventilate the seedlings, opening the window briefly, but try not to catch a cold. It is best to ventilate a couple of hours after watering, which also slows down the growth of seedlings. This will allow you to get a strong healthy seedlings that will make you happy abundant flowering, and vegetable crops have a good harvest.
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if you notice that the seedlings are too elongated, add a little soil mixture;
Petunias that grow in flower beds in the garden, I practically do not feed them with anything, I only add them when planting. nitrogen fertilizers in granules. Another good way to feed petunia is with an organic infusion. If you water tomatoes and cucumbers with organic matter, then water petunia at the same time.
To grow lush petunia bushes you need to shape the plant. Typically, non-hybrid plants are stretched to make them bushy by pinching above the third pair of true leaves. Some varieties are excellent bushers themselves. It happens that seedlings overgrow if they were sown too early, as well as with a lack of light, which also leads to the shoot stretching. sow the seeds evenly from above,
Irishenka
It depends on what region you live in. The closer to the south, the sooner you need to sow seedlings.
One drawback is to grow through seedlings. But if you don't waste time, you can get good seedlings petunias
I not only don’t pick it up, but I sow it immediately in small togfa pots so as not to damage it during planting. And if suddenly everything has sprouted, then I pluck it out with tweezers
Julias
Petunia should be picked at the stage of the first pair of true leaves, or at the cotyledon stage. But the plants should not be elongated from lack of lighting; when picking, they should be buried along the cotyledon with a toothpick or pencil. We make a hole in the soil or tablet in advance, pry the seedling with a lump of earth with a stick, hold it only by the leaf, even if it breaks accidentally, the trunk and growing point will remain intact. We immerse the roots in the hole, you don’t have to let go of the leaf, we press the soil around the stem with your fingers or a stick.
Pensionerochka
Sowing dates.
angren
starts to outgrow
dolfanika
to grow expensive and rare varieties, use peat tablets.
Petunia can be grown both in a flowerbed and in a flowerpot. And since there is not enough soil in the flowerpot, and I plant petunia thicker than necessary, then nutrients for petunia you need more. Therefore, I always feed petunia in flowerpots and balcony boxes with Kemira liquid fertilizer or any other that is sold in gardening stores. Liquid fertilizers are absorbed quickly. I water it about once every 2 weeks.
IrinaMZ
Most favorable days To plant petunias in 2016, seedlings can fall on both the waxing and waning moon. Here higher value has a sign through which the Moon passes.
Cover the plantings with glass and put them in a warm place.
No, it’s not time, otherwise it will outgrow and it will hurt. I plant cascade every year at the end of February.
Irina8
The most favorable time for planting petunias is the end of February - beginning of March.
Dolynn
Which soil to choose? What pots are suitable? How many plants should I plant in one pot?
Lyudmila Savelyeva
Esther
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We propagate petunia by seeds.
Edited by: Marina Mityaeva (Asio Otus)
In order for bush and terry varieties Petunias have branched better, then you need to pinch the growing point. It is better to pinch lower, so the bush will be more magnificent, but you can pinch at least 3 internodes, otherwise the plant will not have the strength to grow. If you pinch petunias above the 6th node, then it will take a long time to grow shoots and not necessarily evenly.
In central Russia, the usual time frame from sowing petunias to planting them in open ground is 10-12 weeks. For flowerpots, boxes, and flowerpots, the deadlines are increased by 2 weeks. Planting time for hanging varieties is mid-February, bush varieties mid-March. Sow strictly within these periods, adjusted for the climate of your area (region, country).
It happened when the seedlings began to outgrow, but it was too early to plant them. I did this: I removed all the seedlings from the windowsill and moved them to the floor in the coldest corner, closer to the balcony door.
At first, petunia seedlings will grow quite slowly, do not worry - the plants are forming a root system. After about 1.5 months, the above-ground part of the petunia will develop no less actively.
Method of sowing petunia.
If you decide to properly grow petunia in large quantities, then you need to prepare fertilizing very carefully. sowing petunias for seedlings in February 2016 - from February 9th to 19th;Sprouts will appear in about 2 weeks. Petunia emerges slowly, so be patient. As soon as the first shoots appear, remove the glass from above. During seed germination, spray the soil with a spray bottle and maintain sufficient humidity.
Any petunia is planted in the second half of March. It's still early. It will stretch out and take root poorly. Even in the south it is too early to plant seedlings. Now they are planting in greenhouses only for an early harvest.
In May, this wonderful flower will delight everyone with its luxurious blooms.
Petunia seedlings are very tender and fragile. It needs to be planted when 3-4 leaves appear. Convenient to seat in disposable plastic cups(200 ml) one petunia. You can use commercially available, universal soil. Make a hole in the soil with your finger, water it, insert the plant into this hole, and carefully press it down with soil so that the entire stem down to the leaves is deepened. Only leaves should remain on the surface. After such a picking, the petunias begin to bush. By the time you plant in open ground in May, you will have pretty, almost blooming petunias.
Read about how to grow petunia in the main article on the site, and you can also ask questions in a thread on the forum.
By pinching bush eptunia petunias in a timely manner, we get even seedlings and in the future a bush. But it should be noted that we are not talking about elongated petunias (these are plants grown in low light conditions).
As a rule, petunia sown at this time has a fully formed flowering bush by mid-May; hanging varieties bloom a little later, but all seedlings have decorative look already by June. For getting good quality petunia seedlings need lighting, so if this is not possible, then you need to focus on more late dates landings. Overgrown seedlings take root worse, break more often and require more care.Petunia picking.
Naturally, I installed fluorescent lamps and pinched the tops of all the plants (peppers and tomatoes). Thus, the seedlings stood for about three weeks and did not grow anymore. however, it was quite strong.
Picked up one thing at a time?..pinch so that it bushes..it will bloom, no problem..you will admire the flowers.
Pinching petunia seedlings.
Prepare one part per million of fertilizer; to do this, dissolve 1 g of fertilizer in 1 liter of water and obtain a concentration of 1000 ppm.
Growing petunia from seeds at home has such a peculiarity that the seedlings grow on a thin stalk and die. Most often this happens due to improper excessive watering, lack of light or nutrients. Therefore, while the sprouts are small, spray them from above with small drops or water them from below, into the cups. Keep containers with seedlings near a south window, where there is more light.
Transshipment of petunia seedlings.
Create additional lighting. If it outgrows, plant it at home in a flowerpot, which you will then use for the street.
Planting in the ground and in flowerpots
Every year I grow this beautiful flower.
Petunia cuttings.
I'll tell you how I replant petunias. Seedlings grow in cassettes and in peat. tablets, mostly exotics. I usually cut mineral water eggplants into bowls and trays all winter; the bowl should be large, at least 0.5 liters, since the water must drain, there will be stagnation and there will be a black leg. I buy soil in a store for flower seedlings. If the pitunia is in a peat tablet, I remove the top shell from it and sprinkle it with earth up to the first leaf. I water it with vitamins. If the seedlings begin to outgrow, I put them on the northern windows.
I dive 2 times, first in 200 ml cups, then in 500 ml, and already in open ground or a container for permanent residence)
Tramping varieties do not need to be formed; their tendency to grow is genetically inherent, but experience recent years shows that this does not prevent her from growing the same lush mass of lashes. You can pinch at the very beginning of the growth of lashes (side branches), which stimulates the formation of additional stepsons and future tillering of the bush. A little later, when the side shoots grow to a length of about 15-20 cm, you can use the cut cuttings for rooting and obtaining additional seedlings. But the side cuttings will not produce the same lush and wide petunia bush, because... the cuttings continue to grow sideways and branch worse. Therefore, it is better to plant rooted cuttings in a flowerpot, 3-5 pieces each.
Therefore, if it is possible to keep the seedlings for April May glass loggia, V winter garden, then it is better to start sowing in the first or second decade of March.
When transplanting into a greenhouse, no difficulties occurred, absolutely all the plants took root, the harvest was no narrower than in previous years.
rejoice! Mine barely started after the transplant. and summer is coming - she still doesn’t look great
At the stage of planting and picking, use a weak solution of 25 - 75 ppm (for this, a solution with a concentration of 1000 ppm is diluted another 40 times).
In April you can plant petunia only if you did not have time to do this earlier; the 8th, 9th, 10th and 12th are suitable for this.
In order to properly grow petunia seedlings at home, you will need to replant them and pick them up when replanting. Flower seedlings are picked when two true leaves appear and transplanted into:
if you want to hang a flowerpot with flowering plant, then it’s time to plant, I don’t like petunia, but I’m planting balsam, I’ve already sowed it
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When to plant petunia and when will it bloom?
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In my peat tablets grew until planted in a permanent place. The roots, however, came out of the mesh. But usually everything works out. If you don’t pull it out of the cassette, but just cut it, then there will be 100% survival rate.
Annet
The grown seedlings are transferred to larger size pots, if the roots have already completely braided the entire previous volume. Usually they follow a scheme for increasing volumes of 100g-200g-500g-1000g (if necessary for hanging varieties).
Or you don’t have to take the seedlings out into cool loggias or greenhouses, but start sowing petunias on the 20th of March, followed by planting the grown and hardened seedlings directly into the garden.
Olesya
In general, I always try to plant seedlings later than “recommended”; if you plant one seedling at the beginning of March, and the second at the end, then on the day of planting the plants are practically no different, that is, the younger one catches up with the “old one”. So don't rush into planting.
Elena Lyakh
What is the temperature outside? Mine has been growing on the balcony for a long time. Moscow region. I’ve already planted lobelia in flowerpots at the dacha, I think I’ll put petunia in the same place this weekend. They are not afraid at all, especially if not on the ground, but somewhere higher. As a last resort, you can drag a flowerpot into the house or throw a piece of lutrasil. Marigolds and impatiens are sissy, but petunia is ok low temperatures transfers.
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After the sprouts have grown and before planting they are fed with fertilizers with a concentration of 150 - 200 ppm, here fertilizing can be done with each watering.
Favorable days for picking petunias are the time of the waxing moon; in March, these days occur from the 10th to the 22nd. Try not to pick plants during the Full and New Moon.
BERGENIA
separate pots or a large container, with a distance of 2 cm between sprouts, if you plant flowers in a flower bed;
Vita Milkin
Good website for petunias:
Lelya Casanova
in March
Galina
I already planted it two weeks ago. It has already sprouted for me. I planted thickly, this is probably wrong. I just poured all the seeds into one pot, then I’ll plant them, although it’s probably better to plant 5-7 females in one pot, it sprouts well. I hope it will bloom in May. If it stands in the sun, it is sun-loving; it will not bloom in the shade.
Svetlana Klochkova
When transplanted without a clod of soil, the plant slows down in growth. Sometimes this technique is specially used if the seedlings outgrow.
Olga
Petunia seedlings are planted during the main planting dates for all annuals in your region. In the south of Russia it is May 1-10. In the middle zone May 25-June 10, if there is no threat of return frosts. Petunias intended for growing in flowerpots, boxes, pots and hanging baskets can be planted a few days earlier. If the temperature drops, take it into a greenhouse, house, any room or cover with covering material.
How to properly transplant petunia seedlings into pots?
Petunia seeds are sown in bowls with substrate (soil), peat or coconut tablets, in cassettes. The substrate (soil) should be light, neutral (
Mila Juju
Any seedling grows when there is little light, warmth and enough water and nutrition. This means that in order to slow down the growth of seedlings, it is necessary to deprive it of what makes it grow intensively. To do this, we first provide light, i.e. let's highlight even a simple one fluorescent lamp, even an expensive special lamp for plants, as long as there is enough light and at least 10 hours a day, even if it’s sunny outside. Then we lower the temperature. To do this, we can even take it out onto an unheated but glazed balcony, or at least fence it off from the room with a film covering the entire width and height of the window, and inside this “hut” we open a window or set the window for micro-ventilation and monitor the temperature so that it does not drop below 15-18 degrees. Then we reduce watering. Water only when the soil in the pots becomes dry. If all these three conditions for seedlings are created simultaneously, the seedlings seem to freeze, stop growing in height, their stems turn purple and gradually increase in diameter. Well, in conclusion, you can use plant growth retardants, such drugs are now available. I used this one last year, it’s called Atlant, but most likely there are others. After using this drug, the seedlings no longer stretched upward, but began to increase in diameter and began to get fat. And any cutting off of the roots of tomatoes is a barbaric method; the yield suffers primarily from this.
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It can also be replanted with flowers. If the ends of the shoots are stretched out, pinch them off. 
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When to plant petunia seedlings?
I really like how the petunias grow on the balcony. Everything immediately becomes so alive. To plant petunias on the balcony, you need to adhere to the correct flower planting scheme and leave the distance between the sprouts at 10 - 15 cm, so that there is room for side shoots. You also need to prevent the shoots from stretching - pinch them so that the bushes grow lush. It is best to plant climbing or hanging petunias on the balcony; they hang very beautifully. And of course, you need to feed petunias on the balcony throughout the season and remove faded inflorescences.
VVarVara
Miniature double petunia "Minifamous Double Blue calibrachoa"
dolfanika
balcony box or flowerpot if you plan to grow ampelous petunia, with a distance between sprouts of 10 -15 cm.
http://www.flowersweb.info/forum/forum3/topic103300/messages/?PAGEN_1=28
Alena Solnechnaya
(I usually plant in the early days), and the seeds do not need to be covered with soil - they need to be pressed a little into the soil and watered on top from a sprinkler, and covered with glass. Within a week, shoots are already appearing.
If we talk about central Russia, we plant petunia seeds at the end of February to mid-March. Petunia begins to bloom at the age of 60 days. Flowers are propagated by seeds, because petunia does not tolerate long and severe frosts.
GK
in theory, twice, shoots and then again, but often the ideas do not coincide with our capabilities. Such a small petunia in a cassette is still large, it will be difficult to water so as not to overwater or underwater
Nilama
Petunia is taken from cuttings, like all plants. A young branch about 5-6 cm long with 3-5 nodes is cut, i.e. buds with leaves. Lower leaves cut with small scissors or plucked out with a fingernail. We don’t touch the top ones, but you can simply cut them with scissors crosswise in half or diagonally. The lower plucked buds will go into the ground and become future roots, and the upper ones will continue to grow and give life to new branches and lashes.
To prevent the seedlings from overgrowing, it is necessary to lower the temperature and increase the light. If the weather permits, then take the seedlings out to the balcony or loggia for the day. There is a drug called ATLANT, you can try treating plants with it. On pepper and eggplant plants, pinch the tops to encourage side shoots and stunt the growth of the central stem. The same can be done with petunia seedlings. But I don’t grow cabbage seedlings at home, it’s a useless task, no matter how hard you try, the seedlings turn out thin and frail. I plant it under film in the country in April. Even if it doesn’t grow as beautiful as they sell on the market, it takes root well.
jarptica
Pinch it. It will bush and be lush.
You can plant petunias not in pots, but in a long balcony box by mixing them with other annual flowers. For example, on one balcony box, plant petunias in the first row, and other flowers in the second row: marigolds, viola, nasturtium. Flower arrangements from different colors look more interesting.
If you want to grow ampelous, double or large-flowered petunias at home, then when picking they need to be transplanted into pots with a diameter of 10 cm.
Daria44
Check out Petunia 2009 on the forum - there’s a lot of interesting stuff.