Those who like to decorate the garden with bright flowers start the sowing campaign in February. At this time they sow Pelargonium, marigolds, lobelia, petunias. We will tell the flower growers how to grow petunia seedlings at home.
How to plant a seedling of petunia
It is not too late to sow petunia at the beginning of April, seeds from a petunia the size of a poppy seed. For petunia, it is convenient to use disposable containers with lids. They can be purchased at hardware stores where disposable tableware is sold. In the bottom of the container, make a hole heated with a knitting needle so that there is a runoff of water, and in the lid the hole is needed for ventilation.
In the store you can buy an earth mixture for planting petunias, and you can make yourself from stone crumbs, vermiculite, sand, peat and vegetable garden. The mixture should be loose, do not dry out too quickly, after being easily wetted. Seedlings petunia will shortly grow in such a land, so its nutritional value is not very important, petunia needs to be fed. Soil should be neutral, if you use non-oxidized peat, you need to add dolomite flour, slaked lime, ash. Since the seeds of petunias are tight, they need to steal the soil to kill the spores of algae and pathogenic fungi.
How to grow seedlings?
Fill the container with an earthy moist mixture and start sowing. To be convenient, we take and mix the seeds of petunia with dry fine sand, or plant a few pieces of "piles", and then remove the excess. When the seeds are in abundance we use peat pills. We'll pluck out the extra seedlings and we will not dive.
Crops of petunias are marked. Cut out labels from beer cans, and then sign with a ballpoint pen. Cover the container with a lid, put them in a plastic bag and cover with a film.
We will place the crops in the conditions that are necessary for germination. For example, heat-loving petunias will quickly germinate if the temperature is plus 25 degrees. You can "wake up" the seeds, if the container is planted for two weeks in the refrigerator, and then put back into heat. If not the seeds did not rise, then this indicates a poor quality of the seeds.
Watch how the seeds germinate, in the process of growing seedlings this is a delicate moment. If there is not enough light, the shoots very quickly stretch, sometimes even a day. We need to give the shoots a lot of light and a little decrease in temperature. But the film and lids removed when the seedling throws off the seed coat, will require 100% humidity.
By the summer season on the windowsill you can grow a good sprouts of petunia.