Planting beautiful bushes with bright flowers is a great way to decorate a balcony or window. For this, petunia is very suitable. But there is no limit to perfection, so the growers try to get the most flowering bushes.
How to water petunia so that it blossoms faster?
In order to achieve early flowers in petunia, fertilizers should be introduced already at the stage of growing seedlings. It will be necessary to carry out a minimum of 3 fertilizing:
- 1st - after piquing with the appearance of 3-4 leaves, pour with nitrogen-containing complex fertilizer under the root, reducing its concentration by 2 times;
- 2nd - in mid-April, foliar top dressing with a liquid mineral preparation with phosphorus and potassium is recommended;
- 3rd - before planting in a pot or soil with organic fertilizer (for example: Mullein solution in concentration 1:10).
Depending on the growth of seedlings, they can be carried out more often, necessarily alternating with watering only with water. If the leaves start to turn yellow, then iron chelate should be used, due to which iron deficiency is compensated.
Than to water petunias, that plentifully blossomed?
In conditions of growing in a container, petunias regularly need to carry out fertilizing. After planting, it is recommended that the leaves be treated with Potato folicum containing potassium. In the future, under petunias, you should make a pink or brown "Crystal", and immediately before flowering - boron.
What fertilizers can still water petunias? Good results showed the use of "Epin", "Zircon" , the drug of prolonged action "Scotts" and iron-containing "Planton-S".
Plants planted in beds with fertile soil, especially do not need additional fertilizing. They should be well moistened and tear off the dried heads. With insufficient flowering bushes can be processed "Buton" and "Scotts".
Using the products listed in the article, than you can water petunia for abundant flowering, you will be provided with beautiful shrubs until the middle of autumn.