How to grow Impatiens. Planting and care of the garden balsam. How to grow a garden balsam

Impatiens is not for nothing is very popular among lovers of garden flowers. This is a beautiful annual plant native to subtropical. They decorate the houses adjoining lawns, flower beds, balconies and garden plots. The birthplace of balsam is considered Asia. From her handsome migrated to America and only in the 16th century it was in Europe. For more information about how to grow Impatiens, how to care for them, you can learn in this article.

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Description balsam

Impatiens garden, also known as "impatiens balsamina" received its name for a large sensitivity. Costs only slightly touch the bud and seeds immediately crumble - a flower in a hurry to give a new life.

The plant reaches up to 70 cm in height. A very thermal-loving flower may die at the slightest frosts. He has large leaves of the wrong shape, slightly pointed with small teeth. Flowers are ordinary or with Mahra, have a wide color gamut - white, purple, red, purple and others. Balzamine bloom time from June to September or to the first frost.

Garden Balzam has a few more popular names:

"Wet Vanka" - named so because of the droplets that are formed on the leaves. They appear on the eve of bad weather. For this plant, it was quite well deserved to be called a folk barometer;
"The troubles of lizzy" or "zealous liza" - so called the flower for its long blossom;
"Beautiful wreath" is the name Balzamin received for his luxurious appearance.

Unfortunately, breeders are not particularly interested in this species. In nature, there are only three grades of Balzine Garden:

tall "Camelia Floverd";
little "Baby Bush";
sharply "Tom Tumb".

Getting Garden Balzine Seeds

The easiest way to buy seeds in a specialized store. But if you want to breed Balzamin of those flowers that are already growing in your garden, you can independently get seeds from buds:

Ripen seeds in juicy boxes of green, it happens by the end of August.
Take seeds in unworthy flowers, as a well-ripe box can crumble in your hands at the slightest touch, and you lose seeds.
Boxes are folded in a dry room until full ripening.
To check whether boxes are ready to collect seeds, they need only slightly touch - the mature box will immediately reveal.

Seed Storage Rules

If it seems to you that the seeds are still not completely dry, you need to deceve them so that they do not deteriorate during storage:

Spread seeds in paper boxes.
Fold the boxes in well-ventilated dry places, away from water and moisture.
Periodically mix the seeds so that they do not mold.

Seed Storage Rules:

Dried seeds spread into paper envelopes or small boxes.
Each box or envelope be sure to sign. Specify the name of the plant, year and month of the collection of seeds.
Store seeds no longer than 8 years at a temperature of 0 - +10 ° C, relative humidity is about 60%.

Growing Balzine from seeds

Before growing balsamine from seeds, you need to germinate them:

In order for the seeds to take root and have grown beautiful healthy flowers from them, it is necessary to carefully prepare the weakness of the sooth for seedlings. The soil of two species is suitable. The first is humus, compost, turf and perlite in equal parts. The second is 1 part of the sand and peat, 2 parts of the leaf land.
Soil must be warm at high temperature and treat fungicide to kill pests and various fungi. Seed seeds better in February. In this case, by the end of April, you will have a strong seedlings, which will further give early bloom.
Before sowing, lower the seeds into a weak mortar of manganese for 10 minutes, then another 30 minutes in warm water. Moisten the earth, fall out the seeds and sprinkle their 3-mm layer of sterile sand. In order to maintain a permanent humidity and a temperature not lower than +24 - + 26 ° C, the cutters with a seedler are packaged into polyethylene packets or covered with a film.
When the first germs appear, the temperature can be reduced to + 20 ° C and provide seedlings additional lighting. With an insufficient number of light, sprouts will be very pulled and become fragile.
There is another method of germination of seeds - with the help of fabric. For this, the seeds are wrapped with a wet cloth, which is constantly wetted by water until sprouts begin to appear. After that, they are planted in the prepared soil.

Picking seedlings:

When the seedlings allow the first small leaflets, you can begin to spend the pickup. To do this, it is necessary to prepare a separate cup or a small pot of each sprout. Fill them with the same soil in which the seeds planted.
Be sure to make some small holes at the bottom of the dishes, through which an excess moisture will be published. Make small grooves in the ground.
Gently remove each seedling from the total box and transplant them into the prepared glasses.
After picking, sprinkle seedlings with water sprouts. Further moisturize the seedlings as needed if the earth is dry. When 6-8 leaves appear in the seedlings, the top pinch, then the Balzamin bush will be more lush, and the roots are stronger.

Growing Balsamin Chenkah

Not everyone has enough patience and time to grow balsamine from seeds, but there is no possibility to buy a lot of finished seedlings. In such cases, you can buy one flower in a pot and discharge it. It is possible to carry out shirts in winter and in the fall. To balsam the garden, grown by the drawing method, gave lush flowering, it is necessary to take into account the following:

You will need shoots with a length of 5-6 cm, on which there are at least 3 leaves.
To begin with, put the pot with a flower in a dark place. When the twigs stretch, cut them with a sharp knife or blade and put in glasses with water to root. See that the leaves are not in the water, otherwise they will begin to rot.
Three days after 7-10 cuttings will be allowed root and will be ready to transplant into the ground. Support the temperature indoor at least 20-22 ° C and provide good lighting. Do not overdo it with watering the earth so that the roots of seedlings are not rotten.

Balzine Transfer to Outdoor Soil

Unlike most pending plants, Balzamin is not capricious and the cultivation will not make it difficult. In order to grow a bush, gardener will not need special efforts. When choosing a landing place, consider that:

Garden Balzamin feels good with any neighbors. He patiently refers to Begonias, Fuchsia, Verbena and absolutely not against the neighborhood with Ageratum.
Better Balzamin grows on the eastern and western sides.
The main conditions for the cultivation of Balsamina are the absence of stagnation of moisture, constant dampness, drafts and frequent cold weather.
Balzamin prefers to grow in loose nutritious soil with reliable drainage from the ceramisit.
The heat and acidic soil does not like the plant. Under these conditions, it ceases to bloom, the leaves fall out and flower fades.
When you decide on a place to land Balsamine, do not forget to easily fade up the soil by humus.

Preparation of seedlings

Already by the beginning of May, seedlings will be ready for landing in the ground. But not always weather conditions allow you to do it before June. To flowers reliably arrive at a new place and beautifully bloomed, the seedlings need to prepare a little:

Start reducing the temperature in the room where the seedlings lived.
Gradually, count the seedlings to the street conditions - take the cups with flowers on the balcony or outside, if there is such an opportunity. Start with 10 minutes, increasing time every day for another 10 minutes.

Rechazzle seedlings on flowerbeds

The soil is ready, seedlings too, you can start falling on colors:

Moisten the land well in which seedlings grew 2-3 hours before the start of transplant.
Make the groove in the ground at a distance not closer to 25-30 cm from each other.
Feaf out every recess by humus and add some water.
Gently, not to damage the roots, remove the seedlings from the ground and transfer it to the soil deepening.
Miss the land around each flower and inspire it to protect the soil from overheating and keep moisture in it.

What a balsamine, grown from seeds, can be viewed in the photo.

Garden Balsamine Care

Balzamin is very unpretentious, and for him it is quite easy to care. But still there are some recommendations for caring for this beautiful flower:

The most important thing is to water the plants in time. From the lack of moisture within 2-3 days, the leaves immediately begin to fade, turn into the tube, then completely faded and tremendous. In no case do not water the flowers in the afternoon when the sun is in the zenith itself. Do it in the evening, after sunset. Well, of course, if it rains, an additional watering plant does not need.
Be sure to remove the filled flowers from the stems, then your colors will grow more actively and longer.
Feed flowers with fertilizers every 15 days, then they will delight you with a brush color for a long time. As feeding, use the complex fertilizer of potassium with nitrogen.

Diseases and pests of Balzamine

Like any other plant, garden balsamin is subject to some diseases:

Mosaic cucumber - damaged flowers cease to grow, the leaves become wavy, covered with yellow spots and holes. Damaged leaves need to turn off. As a prevention, an active struggle against the tool, which transfers the virus.
Ring mosaic - leaves as it should be trees, crack and covered with stains in the form of ring fingerprints. The flower gradually fades and eventually dies. Affected leaves need to be removed.
The bronze of the leaves - slows down the growth of the leaves and causes their deformation, after which they wrinkle and fall. The plants affected by the virus are removed.
Viral mosaic - the leaves are covered with yellow spots and acquire a wavy shape. For prophylaxis, plants are treated with a tool against Tly and TRIPS, which will deal with this virus.
The web tick is ticks its web on the bottom of the leaves, which gradually eats. For the prevention of plants is treated with soap, and the affected leaves are removed.

As you can see, growing and care for a balsamine is not such a complex process. Most importantly, it is worth considering - Balzamin is not at all arrogantly, but does not carry out frost and direct sunlight. When growing a flower from seeds and a cutter, it is necessary to withstand the temperature and light mode, regularly moisture seedlings. After planting plants, it is impossible to forget about the timely watering and fertilizer of Balzamine, as well as to carry out disease prevention. If you adhere to all recommendations, Garden Balzamin thanks you with beautiful bloom throughout the summer.