At the end of winter many summer residents, having missed greens and in hope for abundant summer harvest, start cultivation of seedling. Good seeds, carefully prepared soil, fertilizing, but as a result - the long outgrown escapes. Seedling is extended. What should I do?
From school course of botany all perfectly remember that it is necessary for plant for normal development: light, water, heat and availability of nutrients. Let's understand with what paragraph we do not comply for providing to seedling of comfortable life.
Light
Enough light - the main condition for plant life. In the middle of February when daylight hours still quite short, and the sun - the rare guest on our windowsill, at many summer residents seeds are already seeded and amicable shoots appear. And sometimes they so dense that plants do not give the chance each other to straighten leaflets and at full capacity to use poor February lighting.
So, mistake No. 1 - early seeding of seeds. If there is no opportunity to dosvechivat seedling - sow from the middle of March when rather street light.
Mistake No. 2 - lack of additional dosvetka. If in plant seedling which crops have to be carried out early (some grades of pepper, tomatoes, flower seeds), then the equipment of windowsills or racks special phytolamps (luminescent, light-emitting diode) - indispensable condition.
Mistake No. 3 - dense crops and late sword-play. Leaves of plants should not adjoin with each other not to reduce the area of power supply. It is necessary to transplant the grown-up seedlings in time.
Water
How often ourselves ruin the plants excessive care! Frequent watering is not that it is necessary for seedling. The wet earth contains not enough air, plants suffer, weaken. But in these conditions fungi and bacteria perfectly feel. From there is black leg, bacterial decayed also mold carpet on the surface of substrate.
Mistake No. 4 - excessive watering. Water shoots only after drying of surface of soil in container. Use otstoyanny water of room temperature, in rigid add water softeners (are available on sale).
Warmly
Excessive heat harms plants, coddles them. In order that seedling was strong, thickset, it is necessary to provide to it comfortable day (25 - 28 wasps) and cool night time temperatures (17 - 20 wasps). That was not root gnily, between container and cold windowsill it is necessary to lay heater (polyfoam, cardboard layer).
Mistake No. 5 - lack of contrast between daytime and night time temperatures. It has to be cool at night, then the stalk is not extended.
Power supply
Initially substrate for crops of seedling already contains nutrients and in their cotyledons enough. You should not begin fertilizing right after germination of seeds, otherwise it is possible to overfeed easily them that inevitably causes development. If the excess dose of fertilizers is brought, then soil becomes unsuitable for cultivation at all.
Mistake No. 6 - seedling reforage. Fertilizers need to be introduced in week - another after the sword-play (but not germinations!). At the same time it is desirable to combine it with stimulators (Epin, Zircon, Immunotsitofit) and to apply as sheet fertilizing. At apparent defect of light it is possible to use chelate forms of iron (Ferovit), spraying plants once a week.
Most often it turns out that in the analysis of conditions of cultivation of seedling almost all list of mistakes is detected in everyone. It is important to understand that all these defects are removable and, having taken simple measures, it is possible to receive strong and healthy planting stock. And it in many respects - guarantee of good harvest and high decorative effect of flower beds.