Snow-white datura: growing from seeds

When the street is still freezing and cold, inveterategardeners are already stocked with plant seeds, planning what and where this year will grow in the garden. Most people prefer annuals, which allow each time to create a new kind of flower garden, to update it and to saturate it with bright colors, Dathur is not the last place among such plants. Growing out of the seeds of this overseas visitor does not cause any special difficulties, so the plant has taken root in our gardens.

A native datura from Central America and wasimported to Europe relatively recently, but immediately gained popularity. The flower is also called dope (because of its hallucinogenic properties). Cultivation of the datura does not imply any special knowledge. Seeds are sown in early March in an ordinary garden land, mixed with sand and humus. Then they pour a layer of earth 5 mm thick. Earthworm must always be wet. A dark place and a temperature of +20 ° C are conditions that will "appreciate" the seeds.

Datar has a good germination, becauseThe planting material retains its vitality for decades, but it still requires some care. After emergence of sprouting boxes with seedlings are transferred to a cool, but well-lit place. As soon as the seedlings grow up a bit, you can start picking. Containers for flowers need not too small, because the plant has a massive root system and rapidly increases in size.

In the open ground flower is planted onlythen, when the soil warms up well enough and there are no frosts at night (only under such conditions the datura will be taken). Growing from seed in seedlings allows you to get a strong and healthy plant that will delight abundant flowering from the middle of summer and until the coldest. To plant flowers it is necessary in meter from each other, for bushes grow big and spreading. A windless and sunny place is what the dathur likes.

Cultivation from seeds allows to update annuallyhis flower garden and admire the luxurious white and fragrant flowers. True, you can enjoy the charming and delicate smell of flowers only late at night, at night or early in the morning, during the day they either dry out or bloom, but the smell is not the same. The plant is quite unpretentious, although it responds very well to the feeding. Calmly growing on any land, sunlight and regular watering - this is all that the datura requires.

Cultivation from seeds is the main way of reproduction of this culture, although in some cases resort to cuttings. For this, the lateral or apical stems are cut off and planted directly into the ground.

Datura was grown by people for notone millennium. Initially, it was not used at all as a decoration for a flower garden (in fact this culture has medicinal properties). Therefore, the flower was actively used (and is now applied) in folk medicine. His help was used by shamans, using it in magical and religious rites, so that the datura contains many unknown mysteries and secrets. And we can decorate with this magic plant our personal plots, admire its beauty and inhale a stupefying aroma.