Reading gardening reference books, sometimes it is possible to face such council "… when there will be the second couple of real leaves, make sword-play …". With the real leaves more or less clear, and here what is sword-play and how to make it? It is worth understanding, write all instructions for gardeners and gardeners about importance of sword-play.
After germination, seeds in landing capacity represent confused mix of gentle green sprouts of the different size. At the same time, landings very uneven: somewhere it is dense, somewhere it is empty. And it is clear, difficult to demand it from the person of accuracy of the landing machine if seeds are hardly visible with the naked eye. Nobody will land similar mash on beds, here is how time at this stage and is carried out sword-play. Young seedling is replaced from total capacity on separate glasses. Will be in these glasses of plant until disembarkation in soil. If there is a lot of seeds, then for holding sword-play select the strongest and healthy sprouts. And if some very valuable hybrid grades are exposed to sword-play, it is worth using all ascended plants. In advance prepare tanks in which sprouts will change. Just make in the earth of pole peg or even finger. Approximately in two hours well spill seedling warm water. It will allow to take out seedlings from the earth easily and without damages. Besides, the watered plants have the best turgor of leaves and easier transfer stress. Holding sword-play, each plant is accurately taken out from the earth, shake the excess soil and shorten root approximately on third. Backs are very small and thin therefore they are often just prishchipyvat nails. Then the plant is placed in new glass, fill up landing hole and slightly condense soil. The shortened back will begin further is abundant to branch and forms good fibrillose root system. The developed root provides active development of seedling in separate glasses and is very necessary at change to the open ground. At the first stage of growth seedling is always a little extended. To compensate this shortcoming, on the new place of plant land more deeply, sprouts dig in to the earth almost to the most cotyledonous leaves. Such landing provides more active growth of additional roots. Only seedling of pepper does not need similar deepening. Young peppers land on the same depth as earlier. However, pepper is practically not extended at the very beginning of development, but it endures deepening very painfully. The plants breeding very small seeds and having gentle shoots, for example, petunia can pass sword-play not once, and twice or three times, depending on thickness of shoots. So, the sword-play of seedling is very important stage in carrying out landing works. It allows to select the strongest and healthy plants, to create for young sprouts favorable conditions for development and to provide further convenience of movement of seedling to the constant place. By the way it is possible to dive not only garden and garden cultures. Many fans of cacti who are growing up rare specific plants from seeds carry out the procedure of sword-play with young shoots.