Petunia - a flower plant for bright decor in the photo news! Plum details. Cultivation, useful properties and variety selection How beautiful to plant a petunia

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The summer months are the time for hydrangeas to bloom. This beautiful deciduous shrub is luxuriously fragrant with flowers from June to September. Florists willingly use large inflorescences for wedding decors and bouquets. To admire the beauty of a flowering hydrangea bush in your garden, you should take care of the proper conditions for it. Unfortunately, some hydrangeas do not bloom year after year, despite the care and efforts of gardeners. Why this happens, we will tell in the article.

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There are flowers that don't need to be introduced. It is worth seeing the petunias in the garden, the design of the flower beds, and it becomes clear without words, this is the perfect summer. With its help, it is easy to implement the most daring design ideas, and for vertical gardening, it is just a godsend.

I just want to exclaim: “You, darling, are good in all your outfits!”

Lady Perfection Hispanic

She broke into the world decorative floriculture not so long ago, some 200 years ago. That's what broke in. The petunia flower looks like a sultry beauty with an admixture of common blood, eclipsed by the flower aristocracy. A strong, hardy, unpretentious plant, with the tireless care of breeders, acquired an aristocratic gloss, from a naive village simpleton turned into Lady Perfection.

Homeland of the popular annual Solanaceae family - South America, from where it spread throughout the planet, up to the Arctic Circle. The wild ancestors of our heroine were not particularly beautiful, at least they thought so until the first hybrid plant bloomed. Since 1834, the magical transformation of a modest flyer begins, the hybridization of which was carried out by eminent breeding companies in the USA, Great Britain, and Japan.

Today it is the best-selling flower, the seeds of which make up a third of the world's assortment.

What for which flower bed to choose?

Plant breeding has progressed and is advancing on several fronts.

• There was an enlargement and improvement of the flower - the result was varieties with simple, terry, fringed, corrugated petals.
• Various forms of the plant were created - tall and compact, spherical, curly.
• Improved and multiplied color. Petunia flowers come in all shades of the rainbow except for yellow and orange (which is what breeders are working on today). There are varieties of monophonic, two-color, with edging along the edge, contrasting venation, and a star-shaped pattern.

How not to get lost when choosing varieties and hybrids for the garden?

large-flowered group

Large-flowered petunias include hybrids and cultivars, the flower of which is 7–12 cm in diameter. These are also the most beautiful representatives of a large family - bright, juicy, with unusual shape petals.

Examples of sorts:

• Pikoti F1 (petals with a white border and a ruffled edge);
• Falcon F1 (flower with contrasting venation);
• Hit Parade F1 (early, full range of colors);
• Daddy F1 (saturated color with contrasting veins);
• Ensign F1 (blooms until frost);
• Red Mon F1 (corrugated edge of the petals).

Petunias of this group will look great in the design of carpet flower beds, paths, lawns, as shown in the photo of the flower bed below. By and large, these are universal flowers that are suitable for both open ground and container plantings.

Compact multi-flowered petunias

The advantage of the large group of "multiflora" petunias is a compact, branchy plant with an abundance of medium-sized flowers (ø 4–7 cm). As well as their cold resistance, resistance to wind and bad weather. Hybrids are more decorative than varieties. They are less sprawling, form a bush, similar to a flowering ball.

Among flower growers, the following series of hybrids are very popular.

• Merlin F1 (compact multi-flowered plants up to 25 cm tall, bicolored);
• Mirage F1 (with double flowers);
• Pram Time F1 (profusely flowering, richly colored flowers with wavy petals).

Compact petunias are purchased for breaking lawns in the garden, alpine slides, as in the photo below, decorating balconies, all kinds of raised flower beds.

unpretentious floribunda

And if you want a lot of flowers, and not small ones? There is an intermediate group - "floribunda". Her gramophones are relatively large, up to 8 cm in diameter, flowering is plentiful, among other important advantages are unpretentiousness in care, nutrition, heat and wind resistance.

The most advantageous varieties of this group look in bulk - in large flower beds, flowering monograms on the lawn, in the design of cascading flower beds.

Examples of sorts:

• Sonya F1 (bright purple, crimson, burgundy flowers, with venation, star, petal edging);
• Strength F1 (represented by 13 colors, not afraid of rain and heat).

Queen of vertical flower beds - ampelous group

Petunia in hanging flowerpots, planters, balcony boxes - who has not admired the photo of vertical flower beds with this weaving beauty? Ampelous varieties and hybrids differ from other representatives of the genus in the ability of branches to grow mainly downward, falling down with beautiful lashes. In vertical gardening, the annual confidently occupies the largest niche, far pushing aside its closest competitors - pelargonium, nasturtium, fuchsia, verbena.

Note! Significant disadvantage many forms of ampelous petunias (surfinia, for example) - mainly vegetative reproduction. This does not always suit people who are inexperienced in floriculture, for whom seed propagation is more familiar and understandable. Thankfully, in Lately hybrids appeared that can be obtained not only by cuttings, but also by sowing.

What can you offer lovers of weaving petunias?

• Surfinia (numerous series with large solid colors saturated color, there are terry varieties);
• Supertunia (7 varieties of purple-raspberry shades);
• Wonderwave or Fortunia F1 (bright gramophones with a dark throat, propagated by seeds);
• Conchita (abundantly flowering, medium-sized flowers (up to 5 cm), bright, with contrasting venation).

Ideas, options, photos of the design of vertical flower beds

Bright, long-blooming gramophones can decorate any flower garden, but vertical flower beds for petunias look especially advantageous, which, moreover, are easy to build with your own hands.

Alpine slide

The first option involves using climbing plant in a relief garden. If there is alpine slide, a few compact petunia bushes will dilute the interesting, but, in general, rather modest subalpine flora. Here, the main thing is not to overdo it.

Since petunia is a light-loving, heat-resistant plant, plant it on sunny side stone hill. Choose discreet colors so as not to contrast with common style flower garden.

Flowerpots, planters, hanging baskets

A simple option for vertical gardening is planting flowers in hanging containers. With their help, decorate balconies, stairs, porches, patios, gazebos, decorate walls, openings.

For such mini-flower beds, it is necessary to purchase varieties adapted to growing in conditions of a small amount of soil. This is an ampelous group, in particular, surfinia, supertunia, as well as representatives of the “multiflora” class. undersized plants have a developed root system capable of maintaining the plant at the peak of flowering for a long time.

raised flower bed

Raised flower beds provide room for imagination. This is a ground structure, towering above the level of the site. Vertical flower beds for petunias of a similar plan can be made with your own hands from improvised materials.

1. From cut car tires of different diameters. Round containers are made from them, filled with soil and placed on top of each other like a pyramid. The second option is to cut out sheet metal the bottom according to the diameter of the tire, the resulting containers are strung on a metal rod, rigidly fixed by welding.
2. From old baskets, buckets, bags. The material for the construction of the landing tank does not play a role. It is important to beautifully fix the raised flower bed, beat it with elements of garden decor. But even if this did not work out, the blooming letnik, gradually growing, forms a flowering ball.
3. From asbestos-cement or plastic pipes of large diameter. Pipes cut into pieces different heights, dig them into the soil, grouping 3-4 pieces. The inside is filled with a fertile substrate and petunias are planted. You get a beautiful multi-tiered cascade.
4. From flower vases and pots. For the base, take a flowerpot of large diameter. It is filled with soil and "pinned" to the ground with a strong metal rod passing through the center. Pots for a future petunia are strung on it, as shown in the photo below, and a raised flower bed is filled with soil.

Flowerbed-cascade or tower

A variant of a raised flower bed is a cascade of flowers. It is made of a metal mesh with large cells and agrofiber (lutrasil, burlap).

With the help of a grid, a cylinder of the required height and diameter is constructed, the inside is lined with agrofibre, filled with fertile soil. Flowers are planted from above, as well as along the side surface, making cuts in the agrofiber through the mesh cells.

Flowerbed-tree

If there is a withered tree in the garden, do not rush to uproot it. It will serve as an excellent basis for a vertical flower bed.

Along the perimeter of the crown in the internodes are attached landing tanks, better wide and not very high. Ampelous annual hybrids are planted in them. Such trees look more stylish if one plant variety is used. Who loves a holiday in the garden, plant flowers of different colors.

flower arch

Arched structures are not uncommon on household plots. This form is often used in the construction of gazebos, covered patios, driveway or alley. One of the options for decorating it is a planter with an ampelous petunia.

There are several options for attaching landing containers:

• hang baskets;
• fasten balcony boxes on the crossbeams;
• link "soft" planting containers made of agrofibre, etc.

When constructing an arch, the main thing is not to overdo it - after all, you still need to take care of it.

Flowerbed as an art object

Petunia is a fertile material for creating flower art objects. Do you think this is only available to advanced landscape designers? But even if nothing original comes to mind, you can peep.

Features of growing petunias in small containers

There is no doubt that do-it-yourself vertical flower beds for petunias are beautiful and unusual. But in order for the flower in the garden to be like in the picture, you need to properly care for the plant enclosed in a small container. And here there are secrets.

1. Choose planting material, originally intended for container farming.
2. Plant in humus-rich soil when planting. Don't forget drainage. Add hydrogel to the substrate - these are balls that retain moisture and release it gradually. Use long-acting fertilizer in case you forget to feed on time.
3. Ampel plantings need more frequent watering, because they have no connection with deep soil layers.
4. In addition to watering, practice spraying, especially in the heat. Use a fine mist sprayer to avoid damaging the delicate petals.
5. To make the plant happy bright, abundant flowering need weekly liquid feeding full fertilizer. Make sure it contains potassium.

With these simple, but important components of care, your petunias will bloom until frost, causing genuine and well-deserved admiration of others.

Ways to form a flower ball from a petunia

What we will talk about? And here's what... Main character- petunia plant, planting and care. Let's see the photo, admire it ... After all, this is the leader among the most popular garden flowers. It is rich in its multicolor, harmoniously combined in plantings with other summer flowers. Petunia is a real decoration of our flower beds, balconies, summer cottages. Lush bloom this bright plant lasts the whole season, but in addition to beauty, it is famous for the fact that it is easy to plant and grow.

Photo of a petunia, it looks great, even if there are other flowers in the flower bed:

This beautiful garden flower has many varieties. Its color shades are diverse, and the shapes are bizarre. Most often, petunia is divided into two varieties - bush and ampelous. Bush we most often arrange flower beds or plant it in flower pots. This variety is unpretentious, sown in early spring- March, April.

Petunia photo in pots on the street, photo

Ampelnaya is a flower "waterfall". It is more suitable for hanging or shaping garden arrangements. Windows, balconies, pergolas are also suitable for decorating with such plants. These varieties need to be sown earlier than bush species, approximately - the beginning of February.

Proper seedlings of petunia - how to grow

Petunia seedling photo

Most varieties of petunias are quite unpretentious. Even if with the onset of heat (March-April) you sow seeds in open field, provide regular watering, it will grow, bloom. But if you want to get lush, well-groomed bushes, then you have to try a little, “conjure” over a small seed.

How to plant petunia seeds:

1. The easiest option is to sow in a shallow container or box. Seeds fall asleep not dosed (by eye). The most important rule is not to deepen.
2. The use of peat tablets gives excellent results growing seedlings is very convenient, practical. Pre-soak each tablet, place one coated seed or 2-3 regular seeds there. does not require a subsequent dive. With this method of planting, the bushes (along with the tablets) are subsequently transplanted.
3. Seedling cassettes are also convenient, growing with their help does not involve picking seedlings. Thus, each seed is placed in an individual cell (20 or 50 ml), and after 20-30 days it is transplanted into a pot, where the petunia can grow until the first flowers appear.
4. Sowing seeds in the snow is also practiced. A layer of ordinary clean street snow is laid on top of the soil, and seeds are poured on top. When the snow melts, it soaks in, automatically pulling the seeds to the ground (to the required depth).

Whatever method is used for sowing, seedlings need the right temperature regime(+23 ... - + 25 ° С), covering with a film, timely watering.

Usually, petunia seeds are sown taking into account the variety group (March 20th), in order to get flowering bushes. If you want to see flowering earlier, then it is better to start sowing work in late January - early February.

It is suitable for nutritious, loose soil, with good water-retaining properties. Strongly acidic or alkaline soil mixtures should be avoided.

Against the background of the story about the details of growing petunias, it is still worth mentioning the possibility of acquiring already finished seedlings. The cases are different: someone simply does not have enough time to engage in this process, but they really want to have a fragrant flower.

For such cases, petunia seedlings are sold, which can be bought at the market, store, florist center, even an online store.

Petunia, care and cultivation

In the first time after sowing (the first 7-10 days), the seeds will not interfere with regular spraying with a slightly pink solution of potassium permanganate. After this period, with the advent of the first hatched sprouts, you can introduce top dressing. At the very beginning, it is advisable to use foliar means - irrigation mineral compositions. If the situation requires it, then 1 or 2 times you can apply a plant growth stimulator, such as "Epin-Extra".

Seedlings should be provided with a sufficient amount of moisture, but do not be too zealous, as excessive moisture provokes diseases. If the sprouts are oversaturated with moisture, it is necessary to stop irrigation with water. At the same time, it is necessary to moisten the soil only by watering along the walls of the containers so that the water has minimal contact with the plants.

Seedling after picking

When the sprouts get a couple of full-fledged sheets, start diving. To do this, the seedlings are planted one bush at a time in special containers or disposable 200 gram cups (very convenient). The cups are filled with the same nutrient soil that was used for sowing. After planting, the bushes are watered, covered for 1-2 days with some nonwoven fabric(for example, spunbond).

For the first time after picking, moderate soil moisture and periodic loosening are important for petunias. If the seedlings need top dressing, then it can be done 7-10 days after picking (1 time per week).

Before planting petunia bushes for a permanent place of residence, take care of its hardening. To do this, pots with seedlings must be periodically taken out to the cold (but not to frost), providing an influx of fresh air.

Planting petunias in open ground

It's time to dive

This flower loves loamy fertile soils. If you add compost or humus before planting in place of the flower bed, then the petunia will bloom more actively and more magnificently. Make sure that the place for plants is well lit by the sun. Most often, the bushes are planted around the 20th of April (in the Kuban), after the frosts are left behind.

For planting, seedlings need to be well watered so that it is convenient to remove from the pot. Together with a lump of soil, land on a flower bed. The step between the bushes should be approximately 30-40 cm. Then the plants are watered again and mulched (the next day).

Planting seedlings

Petunia aftercare includes:

• regular watering,
• soil loosening,
• getting rid of weeds.

However, the most important factor is top dressing with complex and organic fertilizers, which must be introduced on the 8th day after planting. Potassium supplements should be made every 10 days. We advise you to continue them until August inclusive. You can also use organic fertilizers, such as humus.

Registration of a summer cottage or courtyard of a house with the help of petunias, photo

The richness of colors and varieties allows you to create incredible combinations of shades, various designs. Multi-color flower beds, flower cascades, fragments of trees equipped for flower beds, even car tires- a field of activity, a source of inspiration for a summer resident.

Petunia goes well with flowers that complement each other in flowerbed arrangements (see first photo). For these purposes, you need to choose the same non-capricious, sun-loving plants (for example - Snapdragon, salvia, calendula, levkoy). When making suburban area petunias, one should not forget about sunny places, since in the shady zones it simply will not be able to gain strength, fully bloom. Well-lit, slightly shaded areas are ideal for this plant.

Some design options:

Already in itself, ampelous petunia is an ornament, how many pieces to plant in a flower pot - determines the size of the container, for example, 4-5 bushes with a diameter of 20-30 cm. With the onset of spring shopping centers start selling pots 22 cm in diameter, in which 3 bushes are comfortably located.

Flowerbed

Despite all the subtleties, nuances, it is not difficult to grow, plant a petunia - this is quite within the power of any novice grower. Attention to seedlings, appropriate care will bear fruit. If at least once you grow a lush, fragrant beauty from a small seed, then you will never refuse her presence in your dacha.

Where to plant a petunia in the garden, photo

Do not forget to feed fertilizers in time, water this amazing flower- it will delight you with its flowering until the cold weather.

Petunias bloom in the garden
And leaned down to the ground.
Decorate a flower garden with a rainbow
And it became joyful from them
Blooms such beauty blooms
What surprises people.

Large multi-colored "bells" and delicate terry "roses" are all varieties of the popular plant - petunias. With it, you can decorate an apartment, house, terrace, balcony and even the yard. There is nothing super complicated in growing this flower, but still certain rules must be followed. Let's take a closer look at the main ones.

1. Petunia: growing from seed

Can be used as utensils wooden boxes or plastic bottles. At the bottom of the boxes you need to lay a layer of newspapers and fill the soil. With the help of an ice cream stick dipped in water, shallow grooves are made in the soil, and seeds are laid out in them. You do not need to fill them up, just lightly moisten them with a spray bottle.

After that, the boxes are closed with a dense film and set for germination under a fluorescent lamp. The recommended temperature is +20 °C. It usually takes 10 to 20 days for the first leaf to appear.

After the first sheet appears, the film can be removed and the temperature reduced to +15 °C. Seedlings should be watered no more than once every three days: so root system will work and develop better.

When the plants get stronger, they can be transplanted into cups. Petunia grown in this way grows strong and is practically not affected by cold weather. If there is no opportunity to highlight the seedlings, then you need to sow the seeds early - around January.

2. Growing petunias in tablets

An alternative way is to grow petunias in peat tablets. They help to reduce the loss of seedlings, which is important when enough high cost individual varieties and hybrids. For growing, medium-sized tablets are suitable. A couple of hours before sowing, they need to be soaked in water until completely swollen. It is especially convenient to lay out seeds with a pre-moistened match or cotton swab.

After finishing, each seed must be treated with water from a spray bottle or simply dripped from a pipette. Crops should be covered with a film and placed for germination in a warm place. At a temperature of +25 ° C, seedlings will appear in about a week.

While the seedlings germinate, you need to carefully monitor the level of moisture. Before transplanting into pots, petunias do not need to be fertilized, since high-quality peat tablets already contain a set of essential minerals.

3. Ampelous petunias: growing features

Basic condition successful cultivation is to follow the following rules:
1. Usage quality seeds from European manufacturers;

2. The use of special soil: it must be sufficiently loose and retain moisture well;

3. Compliance with the timing of sowing, taking into account the fact that the minimum period required for development young plant, is 3 months;

4. Abundant watering in the first week after sowing;

5. Maintaining the temperature at +20-+25 °C;

6. Use for illumination of fluorescent lamps;

7. Application of water-soluble mineral fertilizers.

Subject to these simple rules can be grown amazingly beautiful flower garden that will delight you until the very cold.

4. Growing terry petunias

Terry petunia can rightly be called the queen of the flower garden. The range of colors is more than diverse: snow-white, bright yellow, soft purple, pink and lilac, rich blue, deep purple with spots, stripes and a border framing the petals. Suitable for planting in pots, and for decorating a terrace, gazebo or balcony.

Those who are just starting to breed terry petunias need to know that this plant is rather capricious, does not tolerate heavy rain and wind.

Hybrids, as a rule, are not able to produce seeds suitable for propagation: out of the total, no more than ¼ will be terry, and the rest will be simple. Therefore, for reproduction will have to resort to cuttings.

After wintering, cuttings are cut and planted in containers filled with soil mixture. This method allows you to grow strong abundantly flowering plants. In the first year after planting, they will bloom in August, and the next - in May.

5. Simple beauty: do-it-yourself petunia flower bed

If funds allow, then a petunia tree can be made from beautiful pots and a forged stand. Unusual and original in their simplicity, petunias are unpretentious, drought-resistant and easy-to-care flowers with which you can decorate a garden, flower garden, front garden, yard or balcony.

Luxurious multi-colored cascades will delight you, starting with the arrival of warmth and ending with late autumn. For landscape design, this is an ideal plant, because it looks equally good both on its own and in combination with other flowers.

6. Original flower beds for your favorite flowers: the main varieties of petunia flower beds

This variety is not in vain considered a classic. You can opt for a discreet version, suggesting monochrome colors, or a brighter one, combining flowers of different shades, sizes and shapes. In any case, the composition will look impressive.

2. Creative accent: a flower bed with a coniferous center

This design method will give the composition a geometric conciseness and completeness. Flowers can be used in several shades. This, for example, can be pastel shades closer to the central part and deeper and more saturated at the edges. Juniper, cypress or thuja are ideal as an accent when decorating a flower bed.

3. Towards the sun: rules for designing a raised flower bed

It is designed using vertical walls, due to which the structure rises above ground level. In most cases, she does not have a day, so the plants develop in the same way as in the case of planting in open ground, without lacking minerals.

4. Miracles in a pocket or mini-flower bed

Such mini-beds will perfectly fit into the design of a small courtyard paved with tiles or decorative stone.
Best friends. Petunias blend well with other species. ornamental plants, so picking up companion flowers for them is not difficult. Ideally, marigolds and coleus are suitable for this, but the scope for experimentation in reality is much wider.

By the way, using the rule from ascending to descending and reducing the height of plants from the center to the edges, you can achieve an unusual effect of raising the flower bed above the ground.

5. Something about cascades

Since petunias grow equally well both in open ground and in pots, when using them, you can create an original airy multi-tiered flower bed. To do this, you need to fix containers with flowers on a wooden screen.

They can be arranged both symmetrically and in a free order. petunias also look good in high vertical flower beds, which are not so difficult to make. You only need metal carcass from rods, bag and earth.

6. Apply arcs

If you make a frame from arcs, you get a fabulous top of petunias.

7. New life old things

Since petunias are unpretentious, if desired, unnecessary things can be used as a flower bed - car tires, baskets, backs of the old metal bed, barrels and even old shoes. This method of planting will give a second life to things and make the garden unique.

And you can cut a dense rubber band and arrange a flower bed

Petunias also look organic in a flower bed, for the protection of which a sidewalk border is used, as well as in a gravel garden, where sections with flowers alternate with gravel.

7. Preserving beauty: the basic rules for caring for a flower bed

However, beautifully designing a flower bed is only half the battle. In order for plants to delight with lush flowers until the very cold weather, they need to provide proper care. However, there is nothing complicated about this. First of all, do not allow the soil to dry out. During the hot months, abundant watering should be done in the morning or evening to prevent sunburn.

In addition, petunias are well-known "gourmets", so you need to take care of timely feeding. Suitable for both organic and mineral fertilizers. During growth, the petunia needs nitrogen, and in the process of flowering - potassium and phosphorus. By following these simple recommendations, you will enjoy an oasis of beauty in your own yard or front garden until the very cold weather.

This class can be called successful combination large and multi-flowered petunias. They have graceful, large flowers of a wide variety of colors that are resistant to cold weather and rain, so growing petunias does not cause much trouble. Such plants are ideal for decorating flower arrays and large flower beds.

Ampel

She is loved by phytodesigners for her long, flexible liana branches, which are completely covered with luxurious flowers. Plants easily tolerate life in the open. IN landscape design ampelous petunia is used to decorate the shores of reservoirs, slides and create bright flower beds.

Surfinia

Petunia hybrid is distinguished by elongated, plastic and hanging shoots with powerful growth. They can grow up to 2 meters. The blooming petunia of this species is good - its chic flowers are large, look rich, with a bright, saturated color.

Growing petunias (step by step photos)

So that the flower does not give you an unpleasant surprise in the form of a complete rejection of seed germination, let's find out how to grow a petunia. For you, 4 steps on the way to a beautiful, healthy plant:

Step 1: seed selection

Every plant starts with a healthy seed. Important nuances:

• To ensure that you get what you want color scheme, choose concrete form, mixed varieties of petunias rarely meet the expectations of the owner.
• It is much more convenient to sow coated seeds (they are covered with a dense shell consisting of growth stimulants and nutrients).

Would you like to learn how to harvest petunia seeds by hand? Each of her flowers pleases with beauty for 5-6 days, then fades and forms a tiny box where the seeds are stored. After their maturation, the boxes open and can easily crumble. Collect the seeds very carefully and do not miss the moment! But:

• Most modern petunias are hybrids. Therefore, be prepared for surprises from seedlings grown from collected seeds. They will actively develop and grow, but their flowers will become smaller and paler than those of the mother plant.

Stage 2: sowing

Petunia is sown at home in early March. Tiny seeds do not go deep into the ground, they are scattered over the surface of moistened soil. Top cover with glass or newspaper. It is good to use a mixture of soil and hydrogel soaked in a nutrient solution as soil (you can take Kemira). In this case, the seeds will receive additional nutrition and the necessary moisture.

Advice! For containers for sowing seeds, use food containers with lids. They make excellent mini-greenhouses. The containers are easy to ventilate and moisten, and the seeds feel great in them until the seedlings appear.

Step 3: Pick

As soon as the young flower sprouts, it must be planted very carefully in separate containers (dive). Plastic cups or containers after yogurts are suitable as cozy houses.

Step 4: care

Let's learn how to care for a petunia. Light is very important for the plant, so take care of the additional lighting of the seedlings. If the young sprouts do not receive the necessary lighting - petunia leaves, and she herself will become weak and stunted.

Temperature conditions for petunias

No less important factor than light. Before the first shoots appear, we keep the petunia at + 23-25 ​​° C. After the emergence of sprouts, the temperature regime changes (at night + 15 ° C, in the daytime + 18-20 ° C). Harden off the plant with daily ventilation (start with 10 minutes, gradually increasing the time).

Watering petunias

Petunia should be watered very carefully, observing the measure (excess moisture and drying out of the soil is harmful for petunias). Take clean and settled water.

Advice! When watering and fertilizing an adult petunia, carry out all procedures in the evening in sunny weather. Then you don’t have to think why the petunia turns yellow. Its leaves may turn yellow due to sunburn, when plant care activities are carried out in the very sun.

petunia fertilizers

In order for the petunia to bloom richly, its leaves should be sprayed 2 times weekly with the following preparations:

1. "Crystal green". The additive is designed specifically for flowering petunias (1 teaspoon per 5 liters of water).
2. "Uniflor micro". The healing agent also increases the immunity of the plant. It is better to use it in liquid form (½ tsp per 10 liters of water).
3. "Plantafol". Actively stimulates all physiological processes in the flower (10 g per 5 liters of water).

Regular feeding of petunias begins when 2-3 true leaves grow at the flower and continues throughout the growing season. mature plant needs additional nutrition, which is introduced 2-3 times a week.

Advice! To make petunia flowers more saturated in color, use fertilizer for petunias "Flower Aquarin". The tool is used every 10 days (2 tsp per 5 liters of water).

Pruning or how to pinch a petunia?

For a beautiful, neat and lush form, pinch the petunia, removing a few small leaves from the top of the plant. But this focus does not work with ampelous species flowers (stubborn ampelous petunias will stubbornly grow in length, and branch weakly).

If you do everything right, petunia seedlings will be ready to move to their permanent place of residence by mid-May (subject to consistently warm weather). At the same time, plan the distance when planting multi-flowered forms of 10-15 cm between the bushes, for large-flowered ones about 20-25 cm.

Dangers, diseases and treatment of petunia

A beautiful plant can get sick. Basically, all petunia diseases occur due to illiterate and poor care of the plant.

One of the dangerous diseases fungal infection"Black leg" affects seedlings from the first days of life. The disease begins in the root zone of the stem and quickly spreads throughout the plant. Affected areas become watery, darken and die.

To combat the disease, use spraying of petunias with medicinal preparations containing oxadixyl, metalaxyl or mancozeb (Profit, Ridomil Gold, Ridomil MC) at the rate of 20-25 g of the drug per 10 liters of water.

"Grey rot" begins its destructive action from the stems and leaves of the flower. At first, light brown spots appear, similar to a rash, soon they are covered with a fluffy coating (these are fungal spores). The affected parts of the flower begin to rot, especially petunia in the open field.

Regular treatment of the flower with special substances will protect your plant from possible troubles.

Important! For the treatment and prevention of petunia, it is useful to treat it weekly with copper-containing preparations (Oxyx: 20 g, Cartocid: 50 g, honey oxychloride: 40 g). The product is diluted in 10 liters of water.

The same substances are used to prevent and treat another dangerous flower disease - late blight, in which the root of the plant begins to rot, which leads to the death of the entire bush.

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Have a beautiful garden!