Petunia belongs to those plants that love to drink and eat well. If you show inattention to the "blooming lady", then she loses her shape and beauty. How to avoid mistakes in care?
Factors affecting the abundant flowering of petunias:
- Strong immediately quickly adapts to a new place of growth during transplantation. The frail and weak needs extra food and time for the sockets to become "grown-up" and get buds.
- Sufficient food area for "living". One plant needs about 4, 5 … 5 liters of nutritious loosened soil. When growing petunias in pots and pots (boxes), this factor must be taken into account. Small sockets densely planted in containers will not give full bloom, but will fight each other for survival and stretch out.
- Dense does not allow roots to develop, therefore, for good flowering, loosening materials (peat, vermiculite, etc.) are introduced into heavy soils.
- - an important condition for abundant flowering. Petunias are plants with a good appetite. In their diet should be both mineral and organic fertilizing, which alternate between watering with water. Petunias are fed every 7 … 10 days. When growing flowers in closed containers, strong fertilizer concentrates should not be given, such dressings will lead to poisoning and salting of the soil.
If petunias are slightly behind in growth, then they can be supported with solutions of humates. But it is necessary to apply such humic dressings only a couple of times per season, and then at the beginning of growth.
Trace minerals also matter. A mixture of soluble fertilizers with microelements for flowering plants (there is a great range of them on sale), applied to the leaves using a fine spray, will always be beneficial. Especially after prolonged rains, breakage of branches from the wind, pruning. When chlorosis appears on petunia leaves, they are sprayed with a solution of iron chelate.
- Qualitative. Petunias require regular watering in the absence of rainfall. Although they put up with small flaws of the owners. The "waterlogging" of plants, which leads to decay of the roots, is unacceptable.
Planted in pots and pots and grown in very sunny places, petunias always need careful watering. Water them after each drying of the topsoil. With frequent watering, the soil is eroded and the roots are exposed. They should always be mulched, add fresh soil.
- a necessary flowering factor. But in places where there is half a day of sun and half a day of shade - the best place to pour a bright color from flowers. Being in the sun, the flowers fade and their color will not be so saturated.
- gives an impetus for further flowering. All types of petunias require regular sanitary inspections.
