"The cock comb" or tseloziya comb – bright effective flower, has the unusual inflorescence reminding cock crest. Breeds seeds, demands the minimum leaving.
How to receive good seedling
Tseloziya – plant thermophilic, does not transfer even the slightest frosts therefore grow up her in the seedling way. Seeds sow at the beginning of April in containers, sprouts at temperature of +23 °C appear for 4−5 day. Seedling grows strong at good illumination, but it should be protected from hit of direct sunshine. At lack of light the seedlings will be sickly, extended that will badly affect blossoming therefore additional illumination is recommended.
Watering is required moderate, when overwetting roots or shoots can decay "the black leg" will strike. That it did not happen, you loosen the earth more often, strew surface with wood ashes. The grown-up seedling needs to be thinned out.
Landing and care for "combs"
On the constant place "combs" land in June when the threat of frosts passes, it is possible to be guided on national sign − as from poplars down will depart, frosts will not be. Tseloziya badly transfers change that once again not to disturb her, it is possible just to expose containers with seedling on bed. Allocate to flowers the solar place with fertile, friable, low-acid soil. It is prepared since fall − dig over, introduce complex fertilizer – 200 g on 1 sq.m if soil heavy, add sand, at the rate of 20 kg on 1 sq.m. When landing take seedling from container carefully, together with earth lump. Put plants in the prepared lunochka, it is abundant water, filled up with soil and condense it. Plant plants at distance 15 см−20 cm (undersized grades) and 30 см−35 cm (high). After change "the cock comb" needs regular waterings, loosening. Feed up tseloziya mineral fertilizers of times in 10−15 days. Nitric and organic fertilizing leads to the powerful growth of stalk and foliage, but reduces blossoming. At the correct leaving "comb" blossoms from July to October. Small flowers are collected in the effective massive inflorescences painted in yellow, red, orange coloring. The decorative effect to plant is given also by leaves of different shades: dark red, bronze, purple. The exotic, bright plant will decorate any flower bed. Tall copies will perfectly look in the center of bed, they are well combined with other annual plants. Dwarfish types use in registration of borders. Flowers are good not only on bed, they for winter bouquets which are cut off prior to maturing of seeds approach and dried up in the dark room, they long keep saturated color and form.