Tablets for seedlings - how to use them, simple tips

Modern tablets for seedlings are an excellent aid for growers and truck farmers. By itself, the process of growing young shoots is labor-intensive, and ready-made planting containers with a fertile substrate will help to get rid of complex work as much as possible, while achieving a high quality of shoots.

Planting seedlings in tablets

Planting tablets for seedlings - a peat or coconut fiber compressed in the form of a small washer, tightened around the sides in a thin grid. On top of each briquette there is a groove for seeds. The height of this washer is about 8 cm, after contact with warm water they begin to swell and change their size. Therefore, if tablets for seedlings are purchased for growing sprouts, how to use them correctly, one must know well.

Briquettes besides the substrate contain useful substances, growth accelerators, fungicides. When they are used, the risk of damage to plants is reduced by diseases and rot. The mixture has the optimum acidity - from 5.4 to 6.2. Briquettes are sold in different sizes - from 2.5 cm to 7 cm, suitable for growing most flower or garden crops. The choice of their height depends directly on the size of the future plant.

Coconut tablets for seedlings

Modern coconut tablets for seedlings are called briquettes, filled with coconut peat (70%), fiber and coconut chips (30%). They are impregnated with a nutrient composition, minerals, microelements and antibacterial components and represent an ideal substrate for crops with increased oxygen demand.

Coconut fiber absorbs water, while the liquid is retained inside the substrate and enters the roots as needed. It is impossible to fill seedlings grown in coconut washers. Coconut tablets for seedlings - how to use:

1. To clean the salt discs placed under a stream of water for 1-2 minutes.
2. Tablets are placed in tall containers, poured with water at room temperature until it is completely absorbed, and the remaining liquid is drained off.
3. Seeds are placed in the hole at the top of the tablet.

How to grow seedlings in peat pills?

Peat has always been used as a substrate for fertile crops. It is rich in nutrients, it well passes air and retains moisture. How to use peat tablets for seedlings:

1. The washer is put in a plastic container with a high bead.
2. Moisten the pressed peat using warm water.
3. Wait until the disks increase in volume. Thanks to the mesh, the diameter of the briquette does not change.
4. Put seeds in the middle of the puck.
5. On top of the container, pull the film.
6. Seedlings grown by this method do not need a dive .

Growing tomato seedlings in peat tablets

To obtain tomato seedlings, briquettes with a diameter of 4 mm are needed. One seed can be placed in each mold. Seedlings tomato in peat tablets - how to plant:

1. You can buy special cassettes in which peat pills are placed, or use another plastic container.
2. The disk is soaked with warm water, in a few minutes its height will increase.
3. In a special hole put the tomato seed, slightly pressing down the finger to a depth of 1-1.5 cm, and sprinkle a little peat.
4. The container is covered with a film and put in a warm place.
5. Seedlings are irrigated from the spray gun and air every day.
6. When there are shoots, the film can be removed.
7. When the central root appears from the bottom of the briquette, the seedling along with the tablet is loaded into a larger container - a 0.5-liter plastic cup will fit. For better development of the roots, the reticulum is cut from two or four sides.

Seedlings of petunia in peat tablets

Garden petunia has a pulverized small seeds, which are mixed for weighting in ordinary crops with soil. Briquettes from peat are convenient for cultivation of high-quality plants, allow to trace their germination. How to use peat pills for petunia seedlings:

1. Tablets with a diameter of 2 cm put in a container, soak, leave to swell.
2. Spread the seeds on the washers with a moistened toothpick.
3. To drip water from the pipette several times for each seed.
4. Sprinkle with petunia earth - it will not rise.
5. Cover the container with a film, put in heat.
6. At a temperature of + 25 ° C shoots will appear in a week.
7. Water for moistening the earth is added to the pallet.
8. When roots begin to break through the membrane, the plants are transplanted into pots with the ground along with the tablets.

Planting of eustoma on seedlings in peat tablets

Cultivation of lisianthus or eustoma is not possible for everyone, the seedling of this plant develops slowly and requires care. In addition, the seeds of culture are expensive, in the packaging they contain from 3 to 6 pieces. It is best to grow the seedlings of eustoma in peat tablets:

1. To buy disks in diameter of 4 sm.
2. Peat tablets for seedlings put in a container, treated with a solution of potassium permanganate, pour warm water. After swelling, the remaining liquid must be drained.
3. With a damp toothpick, put 1 ejstoma seed pellet into each washer.
4. The shell dragee with a toothpick should be broken. This promotes the germination of seeds.
5. The container is covered with a film, placed under a lamp, for germination, the light day should be 12 hours, the temperature should not fall below + 20 ° С.
6. Seedlings will appear after 7 days, crops should be daily aired, add water to the bottom of the container.
7. Plants with 2-3 pairs of leaves and well-visible roots are transplanted into pots together with a tablet.

Seedlings of pepper in peat tablets

Seeds of pepper perfectly germinate in planting briquettes with a diameter of 4 cm. But it is important to know how to plant seedlings in peat pills:

1. For seeding, the seeds are calibrated - they are taken full and strong.
2. They should be soaked for half an hour in a growth stimulant solution (Zircon, Citovit).
3. After soaking, the seeds of pepper are planted in peat tablets for seedling in pairs.
4. Of a pair of plants, the appearance of shoots leaves the strongest.
5. After the appearance of the bottom of the briquette of the central root, the seedlings are planted in a large container.

Eggplant seedlings in peat tablets

Thanks to a powerful root system, blue peaches rapidly germinate. Tablets for seedlings - an instruction for sprouting an eggplant:

1. The tablets are placed in a deep plastic container, pouring warm water, so that peat is increased in height.
2. Seeds are soaked, and then gently pricked with a toothpick to facilitate germination.
3. The tablet is laid 1 seed, drowning it with your finger, sprinkled with a thin layer of peat.
4. The container is covered with cellophane, put in a warm place, aired, irrigated with a spray.
5. After the appearance of a couple of these sheets and when the roots tightly weave the tablet, it can be moved to the ground.

Seedlings of strawberry from seeds in peat tablets

The seeds of high-quality strawberries are expensive and it is better to grow seedlings in a tablet. The method is convenient because it is not necessary to sift and steam the soil mixture and dive the seedlings. Rules of cultivation:

1. They sow strawberries in early March. Before planting, the material must undergo a 2-week wet stratification (between two cotton wool discs) in the refrigerator in a container with holes.
2. After the seeds are put in a bright warm place for germination.
3. When the seeds proklyutsya, their toothpick spread on the swollen peat tablets. They do not need to be sprinkled with earth.
4. The temperature for germination is + 20 ° C, the container is covered, ventilated and the condensate is removed from the lid.
5. After the appearance of the first leaves, the shelter is removed.
6. As the plant grows, it is transferred to a larger container. After June 10, seedlings with developed roots in the tablet are planted in the ground.

Growing cucumber seedlings in peat tablets

It is known that cucumbers - a whimsical culture and germinate them in landing discs is very convenient. Tablet for seedlings - how to use:

1. Disks with a diameter of 4 cm are placed in a high pan, filled with warm water.
2. Cucumber seeds (pre-germinated or directly from the package) are placed in the indentations, covered with a layer of peat, the depth of filling is 1.5-2 cm.
3. The box is covered with cellophane, provide a temperature for germination of + 20 ° C - + 25 ° C.
4. Watering is carried out from the spray gun.
5. When the seeds germinate, in the daytime they are opened, at night - they are closed.
6. Seedlings are kept in glasses for 3 weeks. When planting seedlings on the bed in the recesses are placed tablets with seedlings and sprinkled with earth.