Feeding petunias is a must if you want beautiful plants to bloom in the garden, on arbors in flowerpots and pots. As it grows, even during seed germination, the flower begins to deplete and lose its supply of nutrients, and therefore it is necessary to add organic and mineral substances to the soil.
Weekly top dressing for petunias is not only a guarantee of plant he alth, but also an incentive for abundant flowering. Unfortunately, very often beginner growers neglect this rule. Every lover of garden flowers wants to grow high-quality and strong seedlings so that they delight others with an abundance of bright flowers all summer long. Here you need to know one important secret. Petunias in terms of the need for mineral fertilizers are very "gluttonous" plants, and therefore it is necessary to start feeding them two weeks after picking. The sooner the flower begins to receive the missing substances, the stronger the adult plant will be. At first, fertilize once every two weeks. Feeding petunias, especially inseedling stage, should be complex, but with a high nitrogen content. Fertilizers are applied throughout the season. It is better to mix them with water for irrigation. Many gardeners scatter them under the holes, but this is not effective as most of the substances are blown away by the wind.
Immediately after picking, seedlings are watered with yellow crystal. Such top dressing of petunias is extremely important in order for the young plant to take root better. You can use any other drug that is effective specifically for rooting seedlings. Only after a few days the plant can be sprayed on the leaves with green crystal. This all-in-one growth fertilizer is just perfect for petunias. It not only stimulates the development of the shoot, but also favorably affects the thickness of the stem.
There is one more small nuance. If the volume of crops is small, then you can spray them with trace elements and vitamins. Feeding petunias is not limited to minerals alone. These flowers also respond well to the vitamin B complex. You can buy them at a regular pharmacy. The most commonly used are B1 and B12. Further, as the plants grow, they are fed up to 3 times a week. Fertilizers are still applied to the water, ideally the scheme looks like this: one top dressing and two regular waterings. It should also be remembered that the amount of watering depends on weather conditions, and it is from this that one should start in the first place.
Feeding petunias is important. This is especially true for flowers that grow in small containers onbalconies. Those plants that huddle in garden pots and boxes are also in dire need of fertilizer. They constantly need to make not only vitamins and trace elements, but also organic substances. In order for such flowers to bloom wildly and have an overgrown lush bush, it is simply necessary to feed them once a week. Fertilizers alternate as follows: once under the root, one over the foliage. Leaves are best sprayed with a nutrient solution such as Epin.
