How to feed petunia to get abundant flowering?
Petunia, of course, is not the queen of flowers, but the titlesshe is exactly worthy of a princess. Bright beauty reveals the buds, not ceasing, from spring and to the coldest. The number of colors strikes the imagination, and many flowers can envy the vitality of life. How to grow strong sprouts and how to feed petunia to get richly flowering bush?
Pet-seed petunias begin to sow in the endwinter, in February. Seedlings are very vulnerable: they can be killed by chlorosis and a black leg. Therefore, the substrate for seeding is used sterile, consisting of a mixture based on peat. Ground before sowing spill fungicide or dark pink solution of potassium permanganate. The first two weeks, shoots do not need to be fertilized - care is reduced to accurate moistening of the soil as it dries. Here it is important to observe the balance: do not over-dry the earth, but do not over-moisten.
The first fertilizing
In phase 3-4 of the present leaves, shootsfall into large containers, it is time to fertilize the plants. How to feed petunia for the first time? To accelerate the rooting and better engraftment of seedlings, it is necessary to pour petunias under the root means "Crystalon" (yellow) or other universal fertilizer.
How to feed the petunia again? It depends on her habituation. If the sprouts are well established, the next feeding is done in a week. The leaves of the plant must be treated with a finely dispersed sprayer with a complex fertilizer with a predominance of nitrogen. As petunia seedlings grow, nitrogen-containing fertilizers must be replaced with compounds with a predominance of potassium.
Care of seedlings
In order to provide the flowers necessaryenergy of growth, seedlings should be fed regularly: up to 3 times a week. What you can feed petunia to is organic fertilizer (Mullein infusion diluted in a 1:10 ratio) and liquid complex flower fertilizer containing all trace elements in the composition.
Top dressing is always alternating with watering with simple water. It is advisable to use such a scheme:
- Simple watering.
- Organics under the root.
- Simple watering.
- Mineral fertilizers by sheet.
Water for irrigation should be clean and settled. In sunny weather, watering and feeding are conducted in the evening to avoid burns to the leaves.
How to achieve early flowering
If the bushes have grown enough and formed, you can accelerate the flowering and make it lush and long with special fertilizers.
What is better to feed petunia? Excellent drugs such as "Scotts", which has a prolonged action, pink or brown "Crystal", have a well-defined formula and no foreign impurities, and iron-containing "Planton-S".
For the prevention of chlorosis (yellowing of leaves)it is possible to carry out top dressing with ammonium nitrate or iron chelate. In order to make the bushes strong and compact, calcium fertilizers such as "Zircon" and "Epin" are used.
Petunias, planted in open ground, needminimum care. If the land is fertile and nutritious, all the necessary substances will be produced by the plant itself. Flowers planted in pots and ampels are deprived of this advantage. Even the most nutritious soil is depleted as the plant grows and develops, and rains wash out the microelements from the soil. Therefore, petunia at home requires fertilizing the entire season.
On sale there are granulated fertilizersprolonged action, which can ensure a uniform supply of nutrients over time. They are very convenient for use in suspended flowerpots, when care of plants is difficult.
