As watered and fed petunia that all was green and bloomed

Hello, diligent growers!

We love petunia, but unpretentious annual plant is not exactly call. When growing seedlings of stage jewelry left behind (! Phew), the question arises: how to care for Petunia summer to squeeze out of the same age capricious fragrant maximum.

In this article, I read about 2 "the cornerstone" of cultivation: watering and fertilizing. Tips come in handy for petunias and open ground, and grown in boxes and pots. Knowing the simple requirements of decorative plants, will tame it and enjoy the carpet of flowers with a delicate aroma. Save the publication, in order not to lose!

Water treatments for petunias in summer

Petunia - flower is very sensitive to watering, and my long-term practice confirms this. It is worth to skip watering, bush and changes the appearance of the worse.

For example, the overhanging tabs. That is, the leaves and flowers. But the worst damage gets buds: petunia, suffering from thirst, their knocks. Therefore flowering significantly loses in decoration.

Crib on watering:

• Pour petunia soon as dried out topsoil. In hot days of this have to do in the morning and evening. Flower love "drink."
• Leite at the root, not getting on the leaves and flowers. The water leaves unsightly burns and make gramophone petunias pale. I use a watering can with a narrow spout.
• Desirably taken to defend the water temperature above 20 ° C. I pre-dial plastic bottles of 5 liters and put them in the sun.

Watering petunia preferably in the morning or in the evening.

I petunias grow on a balcony in the boxes. Side of the south-western and solar hot summer days under the direct rays of the land dries out quickly. I had earlier petunia watered 2 times a day, morning and evening. Now I decided to try a method that has heard the recommendations for growing achimenes: to mix the ground chopped sphagnum moss. He stores moisture and releases it.

"Blooming" diet for petunias

Petunia - an ornamental plant, whose appearance depends on the feedings. It turns into a flowering bulb or cascade if give the plant a sufficient amount of minerals and organics.

I will describe two variants of fertilization petunias:

• Use complex mineral and organic fertilizer for flowering plants according to the instructions. Usually annotation to an agent recommends that you use them every 2 weeks. If desired, you can alternate the minerals and organic matter.

• I fertilize a little differently. This way I've borrowed from growing Phalaenopsis. I bring fertilizing every watering, making the dosage is 4-5 times less. Using "happiness Flower" with micro and macrocells vermicompost or solution, also enriched with mineral elements.

A couple of times per season Feed the plant "fuse flowering». Because the network is now called newfangled fertilizer "Plantafol" with high phosphorus content (like about 54%). And how we ever lived without it? (sarcasm)

But I found a cheaper alternative to resources from abroad - a good old potassium monophosphate with similar composition. She recently tried it on non-flowering fuchsia, and it was all covered with buds (sure to lay out the photos). Love and petunia article helpful? Please thank "thumbs up"! It is only two seconds and one click.