What are daisies? These are perennial plants that have elongated bright green leaves and bloom with a huge number of multi-colored inflorescences - red, white, pink. The flowers of daisies are double. This flower is often planted in the garden, as it is beautiful in appearance and unpretentious in care. The article will tell you about growing daisies from seeds, as well as how to care for these flowers so that they always look attractive and bloom for as long as possible.
What features of growing a plant can be distinguished?
Daisies are flowers that are called long day plants. They start blooming in May and stop at the end of October. It is worth noting that they bloom only in the second year of life. Many gardeners start growing daisies from seeds in January, thanks to whichthe plant can bloom in the first year of its life.
One-year-old species of daisies are also grown from seeds, their name is Bellis annua. Such plants begin to bloom in early August and continue to delight their owners with flowering until the end of October. These daisies do not reproduce vegetatively.
When growing daisies from seeds, the substrate for planting flowers can be used either prepared by yourself or purchased from a specialized store.
If the flower is propagated by dividing the bush, do not worry, this will not affect the quality of flowering.
Growing a Flower from Seeds (Highlights)
When growing daisies from seeds, you can sow them directly into the ground, or use pots for seedlings. Remember that if you plant a plant directly into the soil, then the temperature outside should be within plus 20 degrees. Under these conditions, you will see the first sprouts in 2 weeks. Do not plant the seeds deep into the soil, as they are very fond of the sun's rays. Because of this error, sprouts appear late. Sprinkle the seeds sown on the soil lightly with soil or sand. Plant and care for plants carefully and correctly, then daisies will soon delight you with beautiful flowers.
Growing a plant from seedlings
This method is used by gardeners who want their flower to bloom in the first year of life. Initially, the seeds are irradiated, and only then they are planted. Each seed is planted in a separate container. This is necessary so as not to damageflower rhizomes at the time of planting. If the root system is damaged, then flowering can not wait. Each flower is planted separately in a prepared hole, along with the clod of earth in which it was in a pot.
If you want to grow daisies at home, then you need to pour drainage and substrate into the prepared containers, and then plant the seeds there. In this case, it is necessary to ensure that the soil does not dry out. If you want to create the most favorable conditions for your flowers, then plant them in small greenhouses. The transparent cover will prevent the rapid evaporation of moisture from the substrate.
When growing, it is necessary to maintain the temperature in the room from plus 22 to plus 24 °C. After 2.5 weeks have passed, you can lower the temperature to plus 15 ° С.
If you grow plants in January, remember that it gets dark early at this time of the year, so you will need to install additional artificial lighting. Seedlings must be exposed to light for at least twelve hours a day, otherwise your flowers will stretch and be pale.
Pompon Daisy
These flowers are the smallest, but there can be up to forty on one bush. They bloom from April to mid-summer. They are decorative, most often gardeners prefer to grow them in separate containers, which are then put out in the garden. Growing pompon daisies from seeds is used in landscape design, as these small terry inflorescences are always pleasing to the eye and warm.soul.
Such plants are grown by dividing bushes or cuttings. If you sow a pompon daisy with seeds, then its flowers will not be double.
If you want the plant to bloom in the second year of its life, then you need to plant it at the end of June. Caring for pompon daisies is not difficult, the main thing is that the earth is drainage and not damp. Otherwise, the plants will rot and rot. These flowers are popular in regions with strong temperature fluctuations, as they are not afraid of winter and tolerate frost well.
In the second year of the plant's life, flowers will appear at the end of May, which will bloom until late autumn.
Daisy Tasso
These plants have huge inflorescences. The diameter of one flower can reach six centimeters. The color of the inflorescences is white, red or pink. Growing from Tasso daisy seed is no different from growing other varieties.
There are also varieties such as Monstroza, Spring Dream, Red Ball and others. In the first grade, the diameter of the inflorescence reaches five centimeters. The flowers are double and have a pink color. Growing from Monstrose daisy seeds takes time and effort.
Red ball - a variety of daisies with large bright red flowers of a spherical shape, the diameter of which reaches six centimeters. Gardeners prefer to grow this variety of plants in flower beds or ridges. Growing Red Ball daisy seed requires skill and patience, just like growing other plant varieties.
Daisies Spring Dream are colored fromlight pink to red, rarely white. They bloom from early May to mid-summer, tolerate winter well. Growing from daisy seeds Spring Dream is quite popular among gardeners. Let's take a closer look at how this happens.
Highlights while planting seeds at home
Seeds for planting can be used purchased at the store or collected with your own hands. Many beginner gardeners ask themselves the question: when growing daisies from seeds, when to plant? Sowing is carried out in the spring. The substrate must be well warmed up before planting. In order for the seeds to germinate quickly, it is important to maintain a temperature not lower than + 21 ° C. It is under these conditions that you will see the first sprouts in two weeks, and in some cases, earlier germination may be observed.
Daisy seeds need sunlight to grow well. Seeds cannot be immersed very deep in the soil, they must be poured onto the surface of the substrate and lightly sprinkled with sand or humus. If the seed is buried too deep in the soil, then it does not have enough sunlight to germinate. Growing daisies from seedlings can be done by planting one seed in each pot, or by planting all the seeds in one large container.
In order for the seeds to “break through” through the soil more actively, they are irradiated with red light with a wavelength of 660 nanometers before planting. This will require special equipment. After the seeds are planted, the pot or container is covered with transparent plastic wrap or glass,which are removed in two days. It is allowed to cover the container with black polyethylene, due to which the necessary temperature conditions are maintained inside the pot, but it is important to remove the polyethylene after two days, as the plants need light.
Sowing seeds in open ground
Daisies are flowers that are fairly easy to grow from seeds. They can be sown in almost any soil. However, it is not recommended to sow seeds in alkaline and acidic soil. As a flower bed, you must choose a plot in the garden, which is well lit by sunlight. You can not plant seeds under various trees and shrubs - daisies in this case may not even bloom. In addition, you need to take care of the drainage of the soil. It is necessary to clear the soil of other plants and their roots, debris and stones.
Today, in specialized stores, among the presented set of daisy seeds, you can find coated ones. These seeds are covered with a special shell that nourishes the seed and protects it from pests and diseases. But it should be remembered that if you planted such seeds, you will have to take care of frequent watering. If the plant does not receive enough moisture, the shell will not dissolve and the sprout will not sprout.
How to plant, we figured out, but the question remains: when growing from seed, when to plant daisies? Seeds are planted in open ground at the end of March, but it must be remembered that the temperature should be from plus 15 ° C. Seeds during planting are scattered on the ground, sprinkled with peat and sand. Do not bury them, such seeds most likely will not sprout. After the seedssprinkled with sand or peat, the flower bed is covered with a film that creates a greenhouse effect. The film must be removed after 3 days. It is undesirable to allow the earth to dry out. If you did everything right, then the first sprouts will please you in about two weeks.
Plant picking
After the first leaf has appeared, you can pick. The sprouts that look the strongest and strongest should be selected. Between them leave a distance of at least 5 cm, all the rest are removed. If daisies were previously planted at home for seedlings, then the sprouts are planted in the ground at a distance of 10 cm between them.
Caring for outdoor seedlings
After the sprouts have sprouted and are actively growing, do not forget to constantly moisten the soil. The lack of moisture is bad for plants, but its excess is also undesirable. Periodically, the soil should be loosened between the flowers, and water should be poured under each bush. If the daisies do not get enough moisture, they will not please you with abundant flowering, and there may also be no doubleness of the inflorescences.
For the rapid growth of the plant, it is necessary to apply fertilizer. Daisies love mullein and bird droppings.
Caterpillars and slugs often eat the root system of daisies, resulting in the death of the plant. To combat such troubles, the drug "Hom" is used. In addition, plants suffer from powdery mildew or gray rot. Due to the disease, the leaves become covered with a white coating or rot. In this case, the plants are treated with the preparation"Topaz". For the winter, so that the daisies do not freeze, they are covered with fallen leaves, humus, peat or snow.
Growing daisies from seeds at home
Daisies grown at home on the windowsill look very nice. The easiest and easiest way to do this is to dig up the flowers from the garden bed and plant them in a pot. This procedure is carried out in early autumn. The soil in which the flower is planted must be fertile and loose. It is advisable to add sand and humus to it. They put a pot of daisies near the window, where the flowers will receive the necessary amount of light and will be able to bloom by the beginning of winter.
In the case of growing daisies from seeds at home, the plant will bloom only in the second year. Daisy seeds are planted in a pot or container in early spring. At the same time, the seedlings are placed in a well-lit place and watered evenly. If you planted seedlings in a common container, then after the appearance of true leaves, it must be planted. But they are planted not by one sprout, but by several. After the rosettes appear, the flower is looked after like any other indoor plant. The first year there will be no flowering, but in order for it to appear in the second year, at the end of autumn, the pots are placed in a cool place and watering is reduced to a minimum. They put them on the windowsill at the end of February and then water them in a normal rhythm.
How does the plant bloom?
Daisy blooms in different ways, depending on the variety. Most of them please the eye with bright colors from late spring to late autumn. ATflowering stops at the end of June and resumes again in the last month of summer. In order for the bush to always look aesthetically pleasing, you must remember to remove dried flowers.
Reviews from housewives and amateur gardeners
Probably every woman likes the double flowers of these magnificent plants, but many of them highlight the need for regular watering among the disadvantages. If the daisy is not watered, its root system dries up, the plant weakens and turns yellow. This state of affairs is not suitable for those who live in the city and come to the dacha only on weekends. In the dry season, with such a rare watering, the plant will die.
Daisies are often grown at home. Many women decorate their window sills and balconies with these delicate flowers, and some find their use in folk medicine, preparing decoctions from daisies to treat bronchitis and kidney diseases.
If you grow these plants, following the rules given in the article, then everything will definitely work out. Daisies are not the most picky flowers, so they are easy to grow at home. Do not forget to approach the matter with love - talk to seedlings, praise them, take care of them, and then small sprouts will surely turn into a big strong plant with beautiful multi-colored flowers that will delight you and your loved ones.
