How to grow a lush and blooming petunia in a planter or box. Writing down special care points

Fiery fireworks, fellow flower growers!

Do you want to grow a gorgeous petunia? Blooming balls are very easy to achieve. You just need to know the basics of agricultural technology and move along two fronts: to provide food from the inside and to monitor the beauty of the aboveground part. I've compiled a short list to help you figure out what's what.

I have been growing petunia with varying success for many years. Previously, it grew elongated, losing its decorative effect by the end of summer. The simple rules that I will list here helped me to curb the obstinate beauty in a flower pot

The pledge of a healthy petunia, in which one flower replaces another, -

regular watering. The plant has an impressive root system that quickly absorbs moisture. And in containers - pots or boxes - its supply is catastrophically limited.

In hot and dry weather, this can play a cruel joke. I know from experience how a bush deteriorates even from one missed watering. Therefore, I regularly check the top layer of the soil with a wooden stick or finger - as soon as it is 1 cm dry, it’s as if it’s time to take up the watering can.

From the author: On the hottest summer days, I water the petunia in the morning and in the evening. But the main thing is to focus not on the schedule, but on the condition of the soil.

Yes, it's troublesome. But the result is a reward for your efforts, worth it, comrades!

Another feature of petunia care in a limited amount of soil is regular feeding. See the lush bloom of the plant. It’s not hard to guess that it takes a lot of nutrients. In the ground, a pots or a box cannot be enough by definition. Therefore, all summer petunia should be fed potassium and phosphorus:

• A new-fashioned option is to add a long-playing fertilizer like "Bazakot" to the soil during planting.
• Once every 2 weeks, use fertilizing for flowering plants, where potassium and phosphorus prevail over nitrogen in the composition.
• Add liquid fertilizer for flowering houseplants with each watering, reducing the dosage by 8-10 times.
• Spray 2 times during the summer with "Bloom Fuse" - potassium monophosphate.

And what are you feeding the petunia, comrades? Share your secrets of growing petunias in pots or boxes in the comments at the bottom of the article!

But, unfortunately, it often happens that even with the most careful care by the middle of summer, the petunia stretches, the bush loosens, and the flowering decreases by 2 times. Petunia simply grows.

And here the formative pruning. Someone may object: yes, the hand will tremble to cut the flowering lashes! It is necessary to tremble)) After all, after 2 weeks, the pots or boxes will return to a flowering state, only the plant will become more magnificent again.

All petunia shoots, including those with flowers and buds, are cut in half. That year I tried to experiment and made a choice in favor of an even more radical cropping: I shortened everything along the rim of the box. And soon I saw the balls again, not the crumbling bushes.

After trimming the petunia, a one-time feeding with nitrogen fertilizer is needed - for the speedy growth of the green mass.

Do you like petunia and was the article interesting to you? Please put "Thumbs up" in the answer - I am trying for you! Thank you, my darlings. And for fans of another beautiful flower - a peony - I advise you to look here: Why peonies don't want to bloom beautifully. I'm talking about their whims. I've already fixed my mistakes