How to prepare seeds for sowing so that they will sprout together. Without cuts

Fiery fireworks, fellow gardeners! The sowing plant is now open!

Extensive experience, seemingly high-quality planting material, the success of the past years significantly increase the chances of positive results from sowing seeds of vegetable, berry or flower crops for seedlings. But there is a list of events that will serve as a good service for both beginners in gardening, and already seasoned summer residents. Here's a list - see what you are using or what you want to adopt.

Prepare yourself first)

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I do not mean by this loud heading a moral preparation for hard work. When planting a new plant, new cultivar / hybrid or seed from a new grower, read the official guidelines carefully. Seemingly insignificant information:

Well, I don't know when and how to sow tomatoes?

It should be remembered that the instructions are not written by fools or for fools. Yes, it's nice to know your personal secrets of growing healthy seedlings. However, for example, it does not hurt to know the growing season of each specific variety. After all, forewarned means forearmed!

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Here's what you can do with seeds:

➡ "Who's Who?" or calibration

Saline solution - no need to reinvent the wheel

The essence of the manipulation is simple. The seeds are stirred in a glass of salt water. Heavy, viable, sink to the bottom. Pacifiers spin on the surface.

From the author: It should be remembered that sometimes viable seeds can emerge. If they are very light and dry

But in 90% of cases, calibration in salt water helps to flawlessly separate the wheat from the chaff. The gardener does not have to sow dry, which saves time and space. I definitely believe that the place of calibration is to be! Do you do that? 😊

➡ Disinfection

When choosing one or another recipe, be sure to read the detailed recommendations: both the strength of the solution and the holding time are important

The point of the procedure is that the seeds are soaked in solutions with disinfecting properties: ~~who is in that much~~ garlic, mustard, Fitosporin-M. But the gold standard in the vastness of the post-Soviet space, of course, was and will be the good old potassium permanganate.

The purpose of the event is to kill bacteria and fungi, possibly sitting in the seed shell.. Such guests, if they do not impair germination, then, having developed, can destroy the seedling that has just hatched. We are sure of the quality of the planting material - you can skip this step without a twinge of conscience and move with peace of mind to the next item on the list.

➡ "Bath" with growth stimulants

There is a time - try, of course. There will be no harm in any case

Many gardeners and vegetable growers selflessly rinse their seeds in growth stimulants, germination, adaptogens. Yes, manufacturers assure:% germination will be higher.

Maybe so. But personally, I think this event is useless. I am for natural selection. Let that grow that should grow. And from a bad seed you cannot get a good tribe.

➡ Stratification

The lower drawer of the refrigerator is the holy of holies of the summer resident

And I support this method with both hands. It is worth putting a bag of seeds in the refrigerator for at least a week or two, and they think: yeah, winter. We got it in the warmth and planted it - spring has come, it's time to rise. I am sure that a low temperature is the best growth stimulator.

From the author: On the packaging of the seeds that I buy, it is written at all: store in the refrigerator before sowing. I see no reason not to obey this advice!

➡ Let's rustle! Or scarification

A clear example with date bones

Some seeds have a very dense shell. To break through such a stronghold, having demonstrated a decent percentage of germination, sometimes a gentle seedling is not able to, or it spends a lot of time on the way out of the womb to the surface of the soil. This applies to pelargonium, gatsania, sweet peas.

The solution is simple: mix the seeds with coarse sand and rub well. The sand will scratch the shell, speeding up the germination process. Another easy option is fine-grained sandpaper.

➡ Soaking bordering on germination

All the fun is ahead!

The grandmother's method has lost its relevance in the 21st century. Soak the seeds in a damp cloth or jar of water, changing it periodically. The term for each culture is different. For example, cabbage seeds withstand 20 hours, and legumes are enough 5. Cucumbers, zucchini or pumpkins are left in a cloth at all until sprouts appear. They are only good for us!

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