The spectacular decoration of any garden is undoubtedly perennial dahlias. But their cultivation is convenient not for everyone, since in the winter tubers need to be properly saved. There are one-year varieties of these colors, called - dahlia "funny guys." They are less solemn than perennial plants, but can easily decorate any flowerbed.
Description of dwarf annuals
Grade "Fun guys" refer to the dwarf form of Georgin. Their height ranges from 25 to 70 cm. The name "Merry guys" occurred from bright and diverse color color. Such dahlias are perennial, corneelous, herbaceous plants. But the climatic conditions of medium latitudes do not allow them to transfer the cold time. Therefore, "funny guys" and other grades of Georgin are grown as annual cultures.
Plants Stems are strong enough, the leaves have a bright green color. In some cases, they can be a burgundy, which is characteristic of dahlias with dark red flowers. There are plants with simple, terry or semi-maritime petals. They are white, pink, yellow, red, lilac, burgundy.
The inflorescence of dahlia annual "Merry Guys" is a basket, inside which are placed yellow tubular flowers framed by the tongue petals. In diameter, the plant reaches 8-10 cm.
This variety Georg is one feature: the lower the bush, it blooms there before.
Using Georgin "Funny Guys" in landscape design
Unpretentious, fast-growing dahlias "Cheerful guys" can be grown even inexperienced gardeners. Of these, beautiful borders, flower beds are obtained. To dry the plants on any slopes with a solid massif. This is a great way to decorate your home garden.
In addition to individual landings, combinations of dahlias with other cultures are often used. For example, petunias, velvets, motley astrams. Plants winning look at less bright crops. Georgine "Merry Guys" on the flowerbed can become the most noticeable decoration. The successful neighborhood of annuals with sage, dolphinium and other colors of blue-blue color.
Photo Georgin "Funny guys" in different design options.
Features of growing dwarf culture
"Merry guys" grow rapidly and actively bloom for a long time. They are unpretentious in care, but have their own features of planting. The cultivation of dahlia "Merry guys" always begins with the choice of planting material and sowing method. Let us dwell on the technology in more detail.
Militarywell in one package
Seeds of Georgina "Cheerful guys" are very different. Usually there are packages with their finished mixture. Such a mix of seeds assumes the presence of a plant varieties that differ in color. It is important to pay attention to the information specified on the label. After all, from the height of Georgin will depend on the beginning of flowering. Up to 30-40 cm, simple plants grow. Terry dahlias are usually slightly higher, but their number of flowers is less.
Source requirements
For the successful cultivation of "cheerful guys" it is worth taking care of the quality of the soil. It must be fertile, neutral and not oversaturated moisture. In stores are offered ready-made compositions for this grade Georgin. But you can make a mixture yourself. For this, the fertile land is prepared from the fall, the heated sand, peat or humus in equal amounts. Before sowing seeds, the soil mixture must be calcined and treated with a solution of manganese. This will allow to disinfect it and protect the plant from different diseases.
Choosing a good place to place plants
For Georgin, a spacious plot is selected, as their bushes grow quickly and rather densely. It is important to provide plants a sufficient location. There should be a distance from 1 m between individual bushes.
The grade "Merry Guys" loves warmth and sun, can carry even a long drought. Plants will fit the place burned from drafts, which is well covered in the morning. Do not land such dahlia under the trees, fence and other designs throwing the shadow.
Lack of lighting will certainly affect the abundance of flowering plants. Also, their stems will reach the light, will become thin and fragile. Good growing "merry guys" on the gentle slopes facing south.
Planting seeds in open ground
Planting Georgine "Cheerful Guys" can occur by sowing seeds into an open ground. It is important to remember that such plants, like other varieties, poorly carry the temperature differences and are very afraid of frosts. They need to plant them at the end of May - early June. It is during this period that the threat of frosts usually goes.
To prevent different diseases of dahlia, the seeds stand for a few minutes to dip in the aqueous solution of formalin 10% concentration. After drilling, they need to carefully dry. Such landing Georgin is very simple, does not require efforts to grow seedlings, but bloom occurs only at the end of August.
Cultivation of seedlings and its landing
So that the flowering of "fun guys" began before, growing them better through seedlings. The technology is quite simple, but you need to follow some rules:
- The best time for planting seeds is the end of March or the beginning of April. As container, you can use plastic containers equipped with a transparent lid, wooden boxes for seedling. For covering sometimes a simple film is used. The packaging is filled with the soil mixture prepared. It is important that it be loose, heated in the room and a little compacted on top.
- Seeds of dwarf Georgin are quite large in size, so there should be no problems with disembarking problems. They are located to a depth of about 2 cm in compliance with a distance of 3 cm. From above, the seeds are sprinkled with a layer of pure sand or a mixture with peat and a little compacted. Next, they must be carefully pouring a little warm water (18-24 ° C). When preserving a temperature of 25-27 ° C, the first shoots appear after 7-10 days.
- When the plants reach 10 cm in height and they are formed on a pair of leaves, the need for picking will appear. Seared "Cheerful Guys" can be in a spacious box at a distance of 10 to 15 cm or a separate container for each flower. You can use special peat pots, plastic glasses, paper bags, conventional small pots.
- After picking, the seedlings need only moderately water. Annual dahlian is better tolerant drought than excessive watering. Already in May, the prepared seedlings need to gradually temper to the transplant to open ground, catching it to stay in the air. For this, the pot is in a greenhouse or to the street in Sunny warm weather.
- "Merry guys" perfectly tolerate landing into an open ground. If there is a danger of frosts, in the first week it is better to cover with geotextiles overnight. Seedlings can be started at the end of May for the southern regions and in early June - for the Northern. The distance between the plants is usually from 20 cm, as the bushes are quickly growing. It is recommended to add 1 teaspoon of nitroposki to each well, a handful of humus and some ash. The root system of seedlings is rather fragile, so when transplanting it is easily damaged. Plants need to be placed extremely carefully. To protect the root system from drying out the surface of the earth under the bush is desirable to climb sawdust.
It is important to remember that the seedling grown in a separate container is growing faster and it turns out evenly. At the first stage, the differences are difficult to notice: plants planted in a large box are also developing. But closer to the end of April - the beginning of May, Georgina in individual pots begin to actively grow and already in the first weeks of June they will be seized with buds. The backlog of plants lined in a spacious container is about 3 weeks.
Blossom and feeding of dahlia annotors
For the entire life cycle, the plant is usually faded 3 times. 2 weeks after disembarking into open, Georgina should be fertilized with an ammonium nitrate or a cow. Next, the feeding is needed already during the appearance of the first buds. It is better to stop the choice on a potassium salt and superphosphate. The last time under the plants are organic fertilizers during abundant flowering.
It is important to remember that the "cheerful guys" overwhelmed by nitrogen will not be able to blow full force.
Flaw the first buds of this variety are beginning in July, about three months after sowing. The dahlia "Merry Guys" bloom before the onset of autumn frosts almost continuously, their buds are revealed one by one. The abundance of flowering depends on how correctly the bush is formed. The higher the plant, the later the buds will begin to bloom.
If the dahlia is still low, then during its growth, it is necessary to pinch the main (above 4 pairs of leaves) and side shoots. In the sinuses of the leaves will appear steps, and the bush will grow into width. The annuals necessarily remove and flowing inflorescences. To extend the life of Georgians, when temperatures decrease, it is recommended to cover them on the night with nonwoven material or film.
Features of watering plants
For the care of dahlia "Merry guys" are very simple and unpretentious. They require a lot of sun, regular weeding weeds and periodic feeding. But these plants can die, so it is important to pay attention to the abundance of irrigation in different periods of their life cycle.
For the root system, the oveute can be fatal. It copes significantly better with a long drought. Young seedlings are watered no more than once for 7 days. You can increase the abundance of soil moisture in the first weeks after disembarking in open ground. It is advisable to control soil drying on very hot days. Additionally, plants spray from the pulvizer.
As soon as multiple buds begin to appear on Georgins, watering should be reduced to moderate. Since August, soil moisturizing is stopped completely or reduced to a minimum. During this period, the plants need the least in water.
The reproduction of dwarf Georgin "Fun guys"
Modifying "merry guys" can be seeds or tubers. The first option has one significant disadvantage: the generation of plants next season usually does not give the exact repetition of the variety. Seeds can grow different in height and color of dahlias. Cornklubni give the opportunity to fully pass the features of the variety, but not always well saved.
Collection and storage of seeds
When the period of completing the flowering of dahlias occurs, leave the strongest bushes for collecting seeds. After completely drying the inflorescences, they are neatly separated from the petals and are additionally dried by naturally. The collected seeds are placed in paper bags. If the planting material is kept at room temperature, it can be stored for several years.
From one package of purchased seeds at the end of the season, you can get a large amount of planting material for further breeding. But plants from it will not always have accurate signs of the bushes liked.
Features of winter wintering
For breeding "fun guys", the tubers are important to maintain them correctly. After the onset of the first frosts, the dahlias liked to dig together with the land of the earth. Faded stems and small roots are cut off, and the tubers themselves are disinfected by a strong heatman solution. To the remaining hemps you can bind labels indicating the color of the plant.
For several days, tubers leave for drying together with the ground. It is not recommended to delete it, as the soil forms crust and will not give roots to dry. Next, the tubers are collected in wooden boxes, pre-unlocked with dense paper, or cardboard boxes. You can completely float them with sand or peat. Save tubers at a temperature of about 8 ° C, the basement or fruit separation of the refrigerator will fit well.
Periodically, the planting material is checked for rot and mold. Usually completely rided tubers are well saved while compliance with the temperature regime. You also need to ensure that they do not dry. Moisturizing tubers are preferably every month with the help of a pulvizer.
Cultural culture from Cornklube
In the spring, tubers get out of the storage location, inspect, with the help of a knife remove spoiled areas, processed with phytosporin or sprinkle with coal powder. If the landing bush is too large, it is separated by several pieces. It is important to take into account that at each part there are 1-2 Cornflowers and as many live kidney.
Looks out the material right into the ground in May, focusing on the labels with flowers. Purchased seed mixes do not allow to guess with plants color. And the separation of tubers in colors allows you to form the desired patterns. In addition, dissolved buds in this case is observed for 2-3 weeks earlier. Landing bushes are sprinkled to the level of sprouts. It will stimulate the formation of new roots, on which new Cornklubni will appear during the development of George.
This method of reproduction of "fun guys" confirms their many years of nature, accurately preserves the colors of the initial plants. But with a repeated repetition of such a cycle, the tubers will begin degenerate. In the future, it will be necessary to use the reproduction of the seed.
More about growing annual dahlias in the proposed video.
In order to make the garden bright, there is no need to grow perennial plants. Unpretentious "fun guys" is the best option for those who wish to make their flower beds with beautiful and elegant, but does not want to spend extra forces and time.
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