The plantain ordinary grows almost everywhere, it is possible to call it one of the most unpretentious plants. Its medicinal properties all are well-known, not for nothing many medicines include extract of this grass in the structure.
Usually the plantain is considered a weed, however in the pharmaceutical purposes it is purposefully grown up, but greenhouses or special fields are not done. The plantain is not especially exacting to the soil and climatic conditions, it does not need fertilizers and frequent waterings, however, as well as to any plant, it needs leaving.
Reproduction by seeds
He breeds not only seeds which are capable to keep the resilience in the earth up to 11 years, but also root shoots. To disseminate this plant by means of seeds, just it is necessary to collect them when they ripen, and then to scatter in the right previously humidified place. The seed releases sprouts by means of which it eats minerals and water from the earth. The core of a plantain can grow one, but a large number of sprouts can appear.
By the way, in the nature one stalk of a plantain scatters up to 300 seeds on distance up to 20 kilometers, during the season the healthy plant gives 3-5 stalks. The good viability and abundance of seed material became the reason of reckoning of a plantain to weed plants.
Reproduction by root shoots
With reproduction by root shoots everything is a little more difficult. It is necessary to take pieces about 6-7 centimeters long, to make deepenings in the friable earth and on their bottom to put root pieces of a plantain. All this should be powdered with the earth and to water slightly. The first shoots have to appear approximately in two weeks, and some time they will be quite weak and vulnerable. Reproduction in such a way needs to be carried out only in the spring, and root sprouts need to be taken from healthy and strong plants with good roots. That your sprouts broke through to light quicker, water them in time and use fertilizers and baits for the officinal plantain, you can even loosen the earth near a plant, the main thing is not to touch gentle roots. Sprouts of a plantain ordinary can easily die as they very badly transfer temperature drops and a heat, besides, weeds can easily crush a young sprout. A plantain it is possible to grow up houses, at a window, following certain rules, then seeds will quicker ascend, and then they can even be landed on a bed. But it is possible to plant a plantain and in the summer, its unpretentiousness allows it to grow almost in any place and in any warm time. Remember that you should not water a plant during a heat as on leaves burns are formed and the plant can die. Besides, the plantain can suffer from parasites or simple insects so not all sprouts survive.