Verbena - growing out of seeds, when planted on seedlings, features of care

In what conditions does verbena grow best, growing from seeds, when planting a beautiful flower in a flower bed? Having written down the answers to the above questions, even an amateur without much experience will be able to get a beautiful seedlings of his favorite ornamental plant for breeding at his dacha site.

Verbena - growing from seeds

Having decided upon the terms when to put the material in containers, we start growing verbena from seeds at home from the most important stage - the preparation of nutrient substrate. Do not forget to disinfect it on the eve of sowing with fungicides (Maxim), biofungicides ("Fitosporin"), or by roasting in the oven. Store compounds do not always have a suitable density and acidity, quality soil can be made on their own, mixing the available ingredients in the following proportion:

• 2 parts of low peat;
• 1 part of sifted leaf land;
• 0.5 parts of washed sand;
• 0.5 cups of wood ash per 2 liters of substrate.

Verbena seedling for seedlings - terms

When growing verbena from shoots to the beginning of flowering takes an average of 2 months. This plant is able to withstand cooling down to -3 ° C frost, but it is undesirable to risk quality seedlings. In the open flower bed, it is recommended to plant the seeds at the end of spring, when stable heat is installed on the street. Beginners of florists are always interested in the question: "When is it better to sow verbena on seedlings to get abundant flowering in June?" With this purpose, it is more convenient to plant seeds in the boxes from the middle of March. When sowing verbena in February, you can not do without lighting seedlings with lamps.

How to sow verbena on seedlings?

There is a long list of questions that need to be considered for beginners who want to breed verbena: growing from seeds, planting, deepening the material to the ground, how to water and dive plants. The first and most important stage in this business is the sowing of seeds. Violating the technology here is strictly prohibited, for the achievement of good results it is important to strictly follow the instructions.

Planting verbena seeds on seedlings:

1. Cultivation from seeds begins from filling the container with a prepared substrate.
2. We level the soil.
3. With a toothpick, fingers, or a sheet of paper, we evenly distribute the seeds on the surface.
4. Do not puncture or sprinkle the material with soil.
5. It is undesirable to water the land with a watering can with large holes, it is better to use a spray gun.
6. Moisten seeds with water from the sprayer.
7. Create a hothouse by covering the box with a plastic lid or a piece of polyethylene.
8. When condensation appears on the cover, we ventilate.
9. Cultivation from seeds gives the best results if the container is kept warm at a temperature of at least 25 ° C before the sprouts appear.

Verbena in peat tablets

When growing verbena, sowing seeds on seedlings, cunning modern growers use a variety. Many people prefer to use cheap and practical peat cups . They are convenient to work with a small amount of material and have significant advantages - the plant receives a good natural drainage, useful trace elements, sprouts are minimally traumatized during picking.

After how many days does verbena come from seeds?

In good conditions sprouts of verbena can be observed already on the 5th-7th day, but with poor-quality or old seeds it takes up to 20 days. Accelerates the process of pecking the treatment of the material with stimulants (" Epin ", "Bud" or their analogues). It is noticed that when planting in February, the seeds sleep longer, and in March sprouts appear faster. Increases the germination capacity of seed stratification (cold treatment). The material for this purpose is placed on a damp cloth and in a bag kept for up to 5 days in a refrigerator at a temperature of 1-5 ° C on a vegetable shelf.

Why does not verbena arise?

One should carefully study the questions of how the verbena beauty grows, growing from seeds, when planting, diving, watering and fertilizing the plant. Neglect of small nuances leads to the death of sprouts even at the stage of pecking. There is a whole list of reasons that lead to poor seed germination of this plant:

1. Using stitched material - for verbena it is 1-2 years.
2. It should be borne in mind that many hybrids initially have a poor germination rate of no more than 30%
3. Paper bags with seeds were stored in poor conditions.
4. Verbena often does not rise because of the strong penetration of seeds into the soil.
5. Drying of the soil in the container.
6. Comfortable temperature for vervain germination is from 20 ° C to 25 ° C, in a cold place they will be pecked up to 20 days.

Verbena - care of seedlings

After sowing, the earth in the boxes should be watered and covered with polyethylene or plastic lids to artificially maintain the greenhouse effect. Care for seedlings of verbena after germination has its own characteristics. For example, with the mass appearance of germs, you should immediately transfer the containers to light and lower the temperature of the medium to 15-17 ° C. Beginners often destroy weak crops, inadvertently pouring soil with shoots. Spraying of seedlings with water is carried out after the substrate dries up.

Verbena - sprouting seedling

If you have correctly learned, when and how best to plant these ornamental flowers, soon the seedling will grow up and the moment of the next important stage will approach - the verbena picks . It is produced after the formation of 2 pairs of these sheets, under this, under normal growing conditions, it takes up to 1 month. For work it is necessary to get plastic cups or cassettes, in a tank we must drill a drainage hole.

How to perform verbena picking:

1. At the bottom of the glass we put the pieces of crushed polystyrene.
2. Fill the container with a substrate.
3. Before planting sprouts, we spill the soil in the glasses with a solution of potassium permanganate.
4. We take a glass with the earth and carry out a hole in the soil to the depth of the seedling with the root.
5. We pass to the container with seedlings
6. We paddle the shovel.
7. We separate the plant from the total mass.
8. We try to grab a seedling with a clod of soil.
9. We transfer the seedling to the glass.
10. We deepen the verbena during the picking up to the first leaves.
11. Gently water the seedlings.
12. We transfer the glasses to the window or put them under the lamps.
13. The first fertilizing with universal fertilizers for flowering plants is carried out after 14 days, the following - with an interval of two weeks.

After picking up when growing ampel varieties of verbena, it is used to prickle the bushes over 5-6 leaves. Low-growth hybrids and varieties of verbena do not need this operation, branching occurs independently without additional stimulation. In the open ground seedlings of compact species are recommended to plant in 20 cm, medium and high-growing varieties - after 25-30 cm. It is desirable to put drainage from broken brick or small gravel in the holes on the bottom.