Annual phlox - growing from seeds, when planted on seedlings, tips for beginners

"How does one-year-old phloxes tolerate our climate, cultivation from seeds, when to plant them in open ground?" - these questions are often asked by beginning florists on the eve of the spring season. The best way to achieve early flowering is to get your own seedlings, but for this you will have to learn the rules of caring for the seedlings of this decorative culture.

Annual phlox - growing from seeds

Especially popular among gardeners is the annual flock of Drummond . The main color of its pleasant and fragrant flowers is white, pink and crimson. Breeders deduced a lot of unpretentious varieties of this plant with monochrome and two-colored petals, painted in a variety of beautiful shades. In the question of how to grow annual phlox from seeds, it is necessary to pay attention to the choice of variety. In the home gardens you can plant bushes of flower culture with different growth strength:

1. Dwarfish small-flowered phloxes of Drummond up to 20 cm high.
2. Large-flowered phloxes of Drummond up to 40 cm high.

When to plant annual phlox on seedlings?

If you are interested in annual phlox, growing from seeds, when planting them in the garden, you can try to get your own seedlings of your favorite flowers at home. Seed material of the plant is large, dense, triangular in shape. Seeds are good to withstand frost, so gardeners often practice sowing for the winter. The terms of planting annual phlox depend on the method of cultivation. With a seedless method, seed is sown in the soil in early May, and in boxes for seedlings - in March.

Sprouting seeds of annual phlox

The germination of seeds of annual phlox depends directly on the shelf life, it is better not to purchase material older than 3 years. Sprouting can be done in small rolls (cochleas) rolled from simple toilet paper and polyethylene. For the best effect in the preparatory stage, add a growth stimulant to the water. Be sure to hold the glass in the light. Grafting of seeds can be observed through the film after a couple of days. Next, fill the soil with a "roll" and return it to a bright place.

How to plant annual phlox on seedlings?

It is desirable to study well the technology of breeding annual phlox, growing from seeds, when planting them on seedlings and in open soil. On packaging, manufacturers often print a recommendation to deepen the planting material by 2-3 cm, but the results of the experiments of many florists indicate that such practices often lead to negative consequences. The best germination of sprouts is obtained when sowing annual phlox on seedlings is done in a superficial way.

How to plant a phlox:

1. Fill the container with a substrate.
2. Moisturize the earth.
3. Place the planting material evenly on top of the soil, planting phloxes should be without burial.
4. Further, the seeds are pressed slightly to the ground with a hand.
5. We always cover the container with a piece of film or a transparent plastic lid.
6. We enter our greenhouse with seeds of phlox in a warm and bright place.

Why do not annual phlox grow?

There are a lot of nuances at each stage of breeding annual phlox - growing from seeds, when planting, how to dive and pinch young shoots. Deepening of seeds is a common mistake. Grafting of planting material should ideally take place in the light in a warm and humid environment. It is required to periodically remove the transparent cover from the container and moisten the soil with seeds. Other reasons for the unpleasant problem are why the seeds of annual phlox do not germinate - the planting material has expired or it was stored under improper conditions.

How to pinch annual phloxes?

After you have dealt with the questions, when you plant the seeds and have coped with the task of growing seedlings at the initial stage, you can proceed to the stage of the formation of bushes. Helps to solve the problem pinching annual phlox. This is a popular and effective agrotechnical technique, which significantly enhances the branching of flower seedlings. Produce it by carefully removing the tip of the shoot at a certain stage of growth.

What gives nipping the shoot:

1. The shrub of the annual phlox becomes more compact.
2. For some time, growth is inhibited, so our seedling does not overgrow with early crops.
3. The stimulation of the spleen of sleeping buds in phlox and the growth of lateral shoots.
4. Correctly formed bushes bloom more profusely and look more attractive.

When to dive an annual phlox?

To ensure that the annual phlox seedlings are not damaged in the process of picking and have received tangible benefits from this operation, it is required to produce it at home growing at certain times. The exact calendar date does not exist, the process is carried out approximately 3 weeks after the emergence. It is necessary to closely monitor the growth of the bush when growing from seeds and take into account the development phase of a particular plant. The optimum moment for picking an annual is the appearance of 2-4 real leaves.

Picks of annual phloxes

If you plant seeds in a container, then you can not do without such an important agrotechnical technique, as the timely seedlings of annual phloxes. Beforehand, we prepare the containers for seedlings and disinfected nutrient substrate. Suitable is a loose, but humus-rich soil with a low acidity index. The process of picking phloxes is simple and in a short time:

1. We type in the glass substrate.
2. Moisturize the soil with water.
3. For picking use containers from under mayonnaise, sour cream, disposable cups, self-made containers of polyethylene.
4. To drain the liquid in the glasses, make a hole.
5. If there are several varieties of capacity, we sign it.
6. Use the wand in the ground to make indentations.
7. Before transplanting one-year-old phlox, the seedlings are watered in a container.
8. Spade shoots sprouts and take them out of the wet ground.
9. We divide seedlings grown from seeds, and spread the phlox in glasses.
10. Some gardeners recommend planting small flowers for several pieces.
11. Phlox transplantation tolerates well, therefore, in the presence of a large number of tiny seedlings, they can be dived even thicker, and then, as they grow, they can be segregated separately.
12. We deepen the phlox to the cotyledon leaves.
13. We compact the fingers with the soil in the glass.
14. The first day of the capacity is not set in the sun, let the shoots in the penumbra slightly adapt.
15. Watering during picking in normal conditions is enough for 6-7 days.
16. Dipped phloxes can be boldly grown in separate glasses before landing in the soil, but you need to monitor the level of substrate moisture and the temperature of the medium.