Primrose - growing out of seeds at home

As a rule, these flowers in pots prefer bouquets in cellophane. Demand will increase especially on the eve of the women's holiday. Entrepreneurs often bet on this flower, because it is easy to sell, even if it does not have time to blossom in March, and will start to please the eye during the purchase of seedlings in April. But even ordinary floriculturist to grow primrose at home while observing the rules will succeed.

How to grow an evening primrose by March 8?

So, if you have set yourself the goal to please the familiar women for the holiday, we will start working in the beginning of summer. The whole process, how to grow primrose from seeds, we'll look at in the step-by-step instructions below:

1. In the period from June to July we begin to prepare our planting material and soil. For work perfectly fit both standard boxes of 40x60 cm, and cassettes for forcing seedlings.
2. Pleases the moment with the selection of soil, because you can grow primrose from the seeds of the house in ordinary peat. Other gardeners recommend taking a conventional flower blend and adding a little vermiculite, about a third of the total mass. You can replace vermiculite with large river sand. It is important to provide acidity of about 5.5 pH.
3. Since we have a task to grow the primrose by March 8, the rate of seed germination is the most important moment. For this, it is necessary to provide a temperature of about 10 ° C. Some sources give up to 18 ° C, others recommend about 20 ° C. Leaving more or less will cause slow germination. But they all recommend keeping the humidity at 100%.
4. The technology of growing primroses from seeds at home is simple: the soil is poured into a container, then the seed of the plant is transferred one by one with a moist toothpick. Further plantings are covered with a film and placed on the eastern window. Before transferring the seeds to the surface of the soil, it is desirable to treat it from a pulverizer with a growth stimulator.
5. To grow the primrose from the seeds, you have to turn on the air conditioner, since in the summer it will be quite difficult to keep the window 20 ° C.
6. In three weeks you can expect the first shoots. In that period is very important to constantly air the planting, monitor the soil: it should not dry out or become too wet.
7. With the advent of two real sheets of film completely removed. Further watered from the spray, but now with the addition of a growth stimulant.
8. Dive will be after the appearance of the fourth leaflet, around September. And in October we make a second transplant and send it to a cold hotbed to make a bud. A month later, we moved everything into a warm greenhouse at 8 ° C and lighted up the planting.
9. With such growing from seeds in December, the plant will start to expel the buds at home, and it will be necessary to feed the primula with fertilizers for flowering. All the top dressing is done on the sheet.