Flowers of petunia grow up everywhere. Selectors have removed set of grades and hybrids. The ampelous petunia is used for vertical gardening, decorate with large-flowered terry plants beds and jobs. Flowers grow up in the seedling way and it is important to choose correctly terms of landing of petunia to seedling.
Petunias attract gardeners with variety of beautiful flowers. Besides plant not whimsical, grateful. In response to good leaving the petunia will magnificently blossom from June to late fall. That it has blossomed earlier, experienced flower growers recommend to plant petunia seeds on seedling in 10-12 weeks prior to disembarkation in soil. The daylight hours has to be rather long that seedling could develop well. Optimum terms for crops of seeds: end of February, the first and second decade of March.
Different grades of petunias sow in different terms – big ampelous petunias sow in January-February, they for accumulation of the required volume need slightly more time, than to other grades. And here melkotsvetkovy forms blossom quickly, they can be put at the end of March.
Deciding on sowing time, it is necessary to consider time for germination of seeds. At petunia seeds small, it is possible even to tell microscopic, they should be scattered evenly on the surface of soil and to close snow, but in which case to cover with earth. When thawing snow the seeds together with melt water will get to the soil and will sprout.
To cover container with glass or film and to put somewhere where more warmly, before emergence of shoots. Under favorable conditions (+23-25˚C) shoots will appear in 4-6 days. If insufficiently warmly, germination of seeds can drag on for 10-14 days. The small nuance – after crops of seeds e in which case cannot be watered, seeds can deeply go to the earth and gentle boring will not be able to break through thickness of soil.
Rare expensive grades, as a rule, are on sale in cover. On germination of pellety seeds of petunia not less than a week leaves. And it is better to plant such seeds in peat tablets, it will allow to do without sword-play. Put tablets in plastic cups and fill in with water that they have inflated. Make small deepening in damp peat and place pellety seed there. On one seed in each tablet. Close glasses film, peculiar mini-greenhouse will turn out and shoots will appear quickly.
It is necessary to notice, for those who are guided when carrying out agroworks by phases of the moon that it is necessary to plant petunia on seedling on the growing moon. In 2017 days, favorable for crops, in March 3-5, 11-13, 16, 17, 21.