Abundant blooming ampel lobelia with minimal care is able to become a unique decoration of your site. It is equally well evolving, both in the open ground - on the flowerbed or as a curb plant near the garden tracks and in containers and suspended baskets, which for mobility so like flowers. About the rules of cultivation, landing and caring for a flower, will be discussed in this article.
Sowing seeds to seedlings Lobelia Ampelnaya
Successful cultivation of lobelia ampelnaya from seeds begins with the right sowing to seedlings. Since the seedlings develop slowly, they need to plant them already in February-March.
Attention! Lobelia seedlings are greatly developed both in separate small pots or plastic glasses and in common plastic height of about 3 cm.
The soil for seedlings should be lightweight, well aerated and not too nutritious. It is possible to use peat and tablets from it or already ready-made shopping grounds for seedlings of flower crops. And it is possible to make it alone from equal parts of the garden land, leaf humus, peat and sand. The optimal level of ground acidity for lobelia should not exceed the mark of the pH 6.5.
The next important stage is seeding. They are extremely small in Lobelia. To evenly distribute seeds along the surface of the soil, they are pre-mixed with dried sand or sowing through the snow. Using the second option is more acceptable, as it eliminates the excessive bay of seeds and does not require additional rehabilitation to the soil.
Important! At the top of the soil, the small planting material is not worth it - it may not climb.
To maintain optimal conditions, planting is covered with polyethylene film. The greenhouse is ventilated daily and remove the accumulated condensate.
Cultivation of seedlings Lobelia Ampelnaya
Since the seeds are seeded early, they will need additional lighting of daylight lamps for germination. Under the optimal conditions, the first seedlings of the seedlings will see in early second week. All the time the seeds take place, it is necessary to carefully follow the humidity of the soil in the container. Do not allow it to break. Yes, and excessive moisturizing will also not benefit.
Attention! Growing Lobelia Ampelny Chat, often a bug is allowed - after the seedlings crushed, the film is immediately removed. This should not be done, since the rapid shoots die within the same day.
Greenhouse is removed gradually, daily tempering seedlings. Only when seedlings reach a height of 1 cm and above, the shelter is removed completely.
Young gravel seedlings are very small, it is necessary to water her very carefully. With the method from above, often occurs the seedlings of the seedlings to the ground under the weight of water. After that, they develop worse or dying.
Watering from the syringe is optimal for small-scale seedlings. To do this, between the plants make a pencil deepening and then water is poured out of the syringe. So the soil is more evenly moistened, and young leaves remain dry. After 2-3 weeks, the plants are fixed and all precautions will become excess.
After about the month of seedlings of Lobelia Ampelnaya, whose photo you can see at the top, is ready for picking. It is not transplanted by one plant in the container, as is customary to do with other cultures, but with piles of 4-5 copies. After work, the seedlings are watered and withstand in a shaded place for several days.
Another month, when the seedlings were achieved 3-4 cm, they are plugged for better tissue. Gradually teach plants to the outdoor, pulling out a plane with landings on the street.
Landing and care for lobelia ampelnaya in the open soil
The grown seedlings are planted on the flowerbed at the end of May, taking into account several points:
- the landing of lobelia ampelnaya is carried out at sunny areas. But in the shadows, it is capable of developing well and blossom;
- soil is needed well drained and not too nutritious, but with sufficient humidity level;
- to get a flower garden, covered with solid carpet with flowers of lobelia ampelnaya, then seedlings should be planted at a distance of 10-15 cm from each other.
With the systematic and correct leaving, the lobelia ampelnaya is able to blossom to frosts. It includes:
- Feeding. Over season, the plant will need only three feeding. It is better to use an integrated organ-mineral fertilizer.
- Watering should be moderate, without bay and peas. Insufficient moisturizing leads to the death of plants.
- Not too abundant bloom can be stimulated by pruning the shoots half.
Care of Lobelia Ampelnaya in Containers
The one who grows Lobelia in Kashpo will perhaps appreciate the method without dive. For this, the seeds are planted at the end of April directly in the container where the label will increase in the future. After that, covered with a film and put on the brightest windowsill. For the seedlings in Kashppa, they take care of the same way as behind the seedle. Available in the open air of the Vases is not up to the end of May, or even later.
Behind the plants in the hanging pots are harder. The soil in containers dries faster. And the earth does not have a lot of nutrition, since the volume of the pot is too small.
Easy the care for container lobelia will help introduces a small amount of hydrogel or vermiculite into the ground. They will delay moisture and help to relive the plant dry season.
To replenish the nutrient elements, regular feeding will be required once every 2 weeks throughout the growing season. When choosing fertilizers, give preference to minudging with the predominance of potassium sulfate.
Using Lobelia Ampelnaya in Landscape Design
Thanks to the color and species diversity of Lobelia, frequent guests at the household plots, in stylistic gardens, on the Alpine slides. They decorate flower beds and flower beds.
It looks great and in compositions with other colors, such as Edelweiss, Pelargonium, Mokha, Petunia, Surfinia, Rudbecia.
When growing lobelia ampel, in suspended baskets, an excellent companion can be alica, ivy or a boat.
The plant looks beautiful in stony gardens - raging, curtains form colored carpets on the background of stones.
With proper and regular care, the bright label will decorate your garden from spring and to late autumn.