Petunia – plant unique. Surprising adaptability to cultivation conditions, relative simplicity of agrotechnology and high decorative effect have led it into the lead among container and pottery annual plants long ago.
The petunia is used when gardening balconies and loggias, on verandahs and patio. It is planted in pots, cachepot, baskets, containers. Thanks to features of root system, the petunia perfectly grows in tanks with limited volume.
The petunia seeds breeds. Separate grades – cherenkovaniye. But survival at shanks quite low. Therefore every year seeds of this annual plant should be sowed to receive seedling. Petunia seeds - some of the smallest. For convenience of landing they are sowed on surface, having mixed with sand, or sow on snow layer.
At first seedling is grown up in box, and then dive in pots. The earth is necessary very friable and feeder. Seeds put in March and surely give illumination. Viability at petunia seeds good, but shoots so microscopic that at dense crops which is difficult for avoiding suppress each other and often perish. Therefore it is necessary to sow petunia with large supply, without expecting absolute seedling.
Temperature for shoots and growth of seedling has to be not below +22 °C. Crops need to be covered with glass or film and to remove the shelter only when on sprouts the first real leaflets appear. Shoots need to be sprayed. Shanks generally make multiple copies terry petunias. They are cut from maternal plants which contain in light cool greenhouses in the winter. After shanks take roots, transplant them on individual pots with a diameter of 9 cm on podrashchivaniye.
Blossoming of petunia of melkotsvetkovy grades occurs in 2.5 months after crops of seeds. Large-flowered blossom for two weeks later. At petunia seedling sword-play at first choose pots with a diameter of 8 cm, and only then, at the age of not less than two months, land in cachepot or constant pots. Petunia very well transfers change therefore you should not be afraid to damage it. Petunia makes of drought light, but if there is no moisture long, demands abundant watering. Does not love overwetting of the soil. Loves warmly and at all does not take out drafts. It is necessary to feed up petunia in pots often, each 10-14 days. The organic chemistry is alternated to minerals. Infusion of mullein and humic fertilizers is preferable. The soil in pot has to be feeder, consisting of the sheet, cespitose earth, sand and peat. On bottom the haydite layer for removal of excess moisture is filled. Plant seedling in pots, containers and cachepot quite closely, about 70 saplings on 1 m². Ampelous petunias need to be watered more often, in hot weather to spray and protect from wind. All grades of petunia need to be cut off periodically half.