How to grow up hanging begonia

How to grow up hanging begonia

This graceful plant with gentle small flowers perfectly looks in high flowerpots. The hanging begonia can be suspended to eaves and it will decorate your window. To begin to grow up hanging begonia better in greenhouse or the greenhouse, but it is possible both in the apartment, and on the warmed loggia.

It is required to you

  • - begonia seeds
  • - boxes
  • - pieces of glass or paper for covering of boxes
  • - pikirovochny fork
  • - sheet earth
  • - sand
  • - peat
  • - humus
  • - spray

Instruction

1. Prepare box. It is possible to take normal wooden box for seedling. Make earth mix, having mixed the sheet earth, peat and sand in equal quantities. Fill box with the earth, humidify it.

2. Carefully open envelope with seeds. Begonia seeds very small, by sight they are similar to normal dust. Evenly scatter seeds on earth surface. It is not necessary to dig in them. Just cover box with glass or damp paper. Put box to the warm, but not hot place. Outside temperature has to be 18-22 °C. Crops need to be watered periodically from spray.

3. Shoots appear in 10-12 days. They are small, and it is necessary to handle with them with care. Move box closer to light. It is more at this stage it is required from all nothing, it is necessary to water plants only. It is also best of all to do it everything of spray because sprouts very weak.

4. When there are first real leaflets, hold the first sword-play. Prepare one more box with the same earth. It is the most convenient to dive special fork. The distance between plants has to make 1.5-2 cm. If you have seeded begonias at the beginning of January, then the first sword-play needs to be made in February.

5. In month after the first sword-play make the second. Add humus to peat, sand and the sheet earth, all components have to be in equal parts. The distance between plants has to make 4-5 cm. Put boxes so that they have been well lit. Regularly water begonias.

6. At the end of April of plant it is possible to replace in hotbed. Prepare earth mix in which about 1 parts of humus, peat and sand fall on 2 parts of the sheet earth. Plant plants at distance of 10 cm from each other. It is possible to put them in pots with a diameter of 8-10 cm. If you are precisely sure that frosts will not be any more – plant begonias to the open ground.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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