Pansies Cultivation of seedlings

A plant with a boring right name, Vitrokka violet is affectionately called "pansies". His name is associated with an ancient legend, which has survived to this day. Once a beautiful and faithful girl, Anyuta spent her fiancé on protecting her own side. A brave guy left, and even disappeared. And the faithful Anyuta could not stand the grief and turned into a beautiful flower. Here and now, as before, are pansies along the road and look into the distance, waiting for the return of a good guy ... That's such a sad story.

The plant of pansies according to the legend has the property of bewitching love. It is enough to squirt the flower juice on the eyelids of a sleeping man and wait until he wakes up - and everything, fall in love forever. When parting, the flower is given to the Poles and the French, and in England the indecisive young man can simply send a flower to the girl with a viola and write his name on a piece of paper - and everything, a confession of love is ready.
Here is such an interesting flower - pansies Growing seedlings allows you to get abundant flowering in the first year, although by nature viola is a two-year-old. Usually, if seeds are sown in the garden, pansies grow small bushes that are transplanted in the fall to a permanent place, and in the spring, after wintering, the plants begin to bloom abundantly.

To early in the spring blossom pansy growing seedlings need to start in February or early March. Sow the seeds of pansies better in a greenhouse or in a room in flat boxes with loose wet and necessarily fertile soil. Crops need to be covered with a little bit of soil and above it is a layer of snow. At room temperature and with sufficient humidity, shoots usually appear after one to two weeks. Do not forget that at an air temperature above 25 degrees and in conditions of insufficient humidity shoots may not appear at all.

As soon as the first shoots appear, the air temperature in the room with the violas needs to be reduced somewhat, and the trays with the seedlings must be exposed to bright light - this is especially important. Good for these purposes is a glazed loggia or a spacious veranda, only for the night you need to move the chutes to the house to avoid freezing. In April the sprouts are dived, and the pansy plant can be planted permanently in May, so that the lovely flowers will please us with their gentle smiles.

It is said that with this method of cultivating violets the plants even bloom longer, but the flowers are smaller, and the color is not as abundant as in a two-year-old culture. This statement is debatable, and only personal experience can confirm or deny it.

When cultivating pansy flowers, growing seedlings is not the only way to get flowering plants. Many florists on homesteads practice a regular samosev, which, as a rule, is quite abundant from year to year. But the flowers are not so large, as if growing seedlings.

Although if you compare samosov flowers of pansies, growing seedlings targeted has similar features. In order to obtain larger flowers, the plants obtained by self-sowing, which is similar to the seedling method, simply need to seed more freely, so that the distance between them is 15 to 30 centimeters, depending on the variety and the specific size of the bush. That's when some plants will not interfere with each other and will develop well. Varietal characteristics of violets during self-sowing are completely preserved.

Of course, to get beautiful large flowers of violas during the summer, you need to ensure proper care, which consists of watering, fertilizing, morning spraying, removing fading flowers and pruning sprouting shoots.

Pansies are used for flower decoration in quality as a curb plant, they are planted in boxes on balconies and in street vases and on alpine hills - all the options for using them are simply impossible to enumerate. The popularity of viols is explained by their extreme unpretentiousness - they can be transplanted even during flowering! And in the open ground violas can be planted even immediately after the snow falls, which will prolong the flowering of the garden plot ...