Bacopa - seed growing for beginners

Exotic South African flower bakop has long ceased to be a novelty salons. Now everyone can grow this plant in his garden or on the balcony. So, the bakop is growing from seeds: what you need to know in advance, and what will you have to worry about in the process? Below are the tips of professional florists.

The modern flora market represents a bakop in numerous color solutions. This can be a scattering of classic white or lilac, pink, blue, violet, blue, red and yellow flowers. When choosing a suitable variety, you should familiarize yourself with its resistance to degeneration of color. Even bright red and blue bacups can become pure white within a few years of constant dusting.

This low plant blossoms continuously in the period from March to October with a lot of small flowers 2 cm in diameter. If a bacon was chosen for a balcony or garden, growing of seeds becomes the best solution, it allows saving on planting material. Most often, this ampel plant is decorated with fences, walls, balconies and outdoor pots, rarely you can see a bacon in the form of a carpet floral coating. An unpretentious bush can share space with other ampel plants: nasturtium, lobelia, petunia, ageratum or fuchsia.

Bacop from seeds - cultivation in steps:

1. We choose the soil. The ideal soil mixture for outdoor flower beds is ordinary peat mixed with garden soil. If the vases are needed to decorate the balcony or internal containers, two parts of humus and sand are added to the soil obtained. Roots are highly prone to decay, so to get a healthy and beautiful bacon, cultivation should be done on quality drainage.
2. Watering should be regular, but moderate, so as not to wet the tender roots. The place for the future pot must be chosen solar, without drafts. The less it hits a bakop of light, the less it will have flowers.
3. It must be remembered that for such a plant as a bacon, growing from seeds by direct planting into the ground is impossible. Be sure to drive out strong and healthy seedlings. For germination of small seeds, the number of which is more than 5000 pieces per 1 g, use the soil prepared according to the scheme. The ambient temperature should not be lower than 20 ° C. The seeds are only slightly pressed to the ground and moisturized. During germination, it is necessary to provide low humidity and light access. Bacropal sprouts will appear in 10-14 days.
4. The first picking is carried out after the appearance of the second present sheet. The second thinning and seating is already taking place in individual plastic pots or glasses. The higher the variety of the plant, the greater the distance between the shoots - at least 10 cm, for particularly tall specimens - up to 25 cm. With liquid fertilizers a young bacon is strengthened, growing from seeds is also necessarily accompanied by regular feeding.
5. Experienced growers can spend a few pinching to increase the number of future buds of bakop. On young shoots, the growth points are removed, which provokes the development of additional lateral processes and kidneys.