Petunia Ampelnaya is the favorite of summer houses and gardeners. Her elegant elongated falling shoots with colorful bright colors resemble an extraordinary beauty of a floral waterfall, from which it is impossible to take eye. Ampel petunia is an annual plant from South America. Thanks to its diverse color range, the plant is used for landscaping balconies, terraces of restaurants and cafes, sites and decorations of the Alpine slides, embody the most incredible design solutions.
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Ampel petunia is simultaneously unpretentious and exquisite. Any room decorated with her becomes elegant and attractive and always causes admiration. Unusually beautiful looks ampel petunia in Cachepo, creating a colorful summer atmosphere.
Ampel Petunia, varieties
Amploral petunia varieties are very diverse, differ in appearance, shooting length, as well as growth and adaptation to adverse weather conditions. Of all the variety of varieties, it's not so easy to make a choice, all varieties of petunia are beautiful in their own way. In order to facilitate the choice, the flowerguards were conditionally divided by ampel petution into two types: ampels are real and semi-lipped petunia or cascading.
Petunia ampel and cascade difference:
- For ampels, beautiful drop-down shoots are characterized, which resemble a colorful chart of flowers.
- Seedlings of ampels develop horizontally.
- Cascading petunia begins his growth up, as young shoots are growing, under their own weight they tend down. From cascading petunia, extraordinary balls are obtained from the color of the right form.
- In cascading petunia, shoots significantly shorter.
The most beautiful and common varieties of petunia
"Avalanche" is a variety with high decorative properties with a long flowering period. It is often used for the decor of balconies, arbors, loggias. Growing, hanging shoots form a spectacular flower avalanche of bright juicy colors. Petals can be painted in different colors: white, red, saturated orange, blue, purple and pink.
"Shock Vave" is a grade cascade petunia, a hybrid form. It has small terry flowers (diameter 3-4 cm) and shooting an average length of up to 70 cm. Its feature is that it blooms earlier for 2 weeks of other ampel hybrids. "Shock Vave" easily multiplied with cuttings.
"Velvet" is ampel petunia with velvet petals and foliage. This is a wonderful honey, which attracts a huge amount of bees, so gardeners often plant this grade in the gardens, where there are not enough pollinators. The flowering period is quite late. The grade needs to use the growth regulator and pinch, so that the flowers are larger.
"Opera Super" is unpretentious in the care of a hybrid from the F1 series. It can easily be grown in the apartment at any time of the year. It is growing rapidly even with an insufficient amount of light and watering. Requires timely pruning to form an attractive decor element. It grows remarkably on balconies, balconies, hanging shoots up to 1.2 meters long. Buds are small and simple.
The "Snow Queen" is a hybrid with luxurious snow-white colors, fragrant fragrant, which creates an atmosphere of purity and airiness. Stems reach lengths up to 80 cm.
Explorer is a common variety cultivated by gardeners with a variety of colors. This variety has strong long shoots up to 1.5 meters, which are not afraid of strong gusty winds. Flowers are large, possessing the wax structure, protecting the rain grade.
Easy Wave Red - hybrid ampeline petunia with a length of the stems to a meter. Flowers have an intense bright red color, remarkably harmonizing with greens. Easy Wave Red looks especially festive and solemnly.
"Catherine" is a charming hybrid variety with bright salmon flowers with streaks on petals. Color diameter up to 6 cm.
Svetlana is an elegant magnificent grade with long runs up to 1 meter. Emerald leaves are located in turn. The flower has a 5.5 cm wave funnel shape in diameter with bright pink veins.
"Black velvet" is a handsome man and a favorite of ampel petunia with spectacular large inflorescences of black. Petals velvety, in diameter up to 8 cm. The bush is lush, high up to 35 cm. Deep black color is most advantageous with other bright petunia varieties, creating contrast on them.
How to grow the seedlings of petunia ampelnaya from seeds?
The cultivation of petunia ampels at home requires attention and preparation: it is necessary to provide seedlings lighting and favorable temperature for their growth. Before starting the cultivation of Petunia seedlings, you should decide on the variety and type of petunia. For the decor of the balcony, the arbors will suit ampels, and cascading looks great in the flower beds.
For seed planning, prepare a container with a substrate soil and sand. The soil must be high-quality, fine fractions with a high-quality peat content. Before landing, small petunia seeds should be mixed with dry sand (1: 5) and distribute evenly in the soil mixture in the prepared container. Petunia seeds can be clean or in a shell. Clean seeds will faster and cheaper at cost, but are not protected from diseases and mechanical damage, as in the shell. The shell is the natural protection of seed from adverse factors, facilitating the process of sowing. Petunia is recommended in February or early March. Since in the winter period is not enough sunlight, indoors where seedlings will grow, organize additional lighting. After seeding, the seeds are moisturized from the sprayer, and then covered with transparent glass or film, maintaining the room temperature up to 25 degrees.
When the first shoots appear, the film or glass is cleaned, watering the soil should be reduced, since young shoots are poorly tolerated. For cultivation of Petunia, complex fertilizers are used in the form of feeding with nitrogen fertilizer several times a month.
Picking ampelnaya petunia
For rapid growth and sufficient food, plants produce its pickup. In this case, petunia is placed in a separate container, the transplant contributes to the formation of a stronger root system. Pication is at the same time an important and difficult point when caring for seedlings. Young shoots are very fragile, so it is assumed to the procedure with extreme caution. Piciation is made three weeks after shooting young shoots when the first leaflets appeared on them. Moisten the soil well and carefully and remove the seedlings with a wide stick, for example for ice cream, while keeping the lumps of the earth on the roots.
The next step is the transfer of a seedling into a glass or a different small container with a moistage soil, in which it is necessary to make a small well in advance. The transplant is carried out with a lump of land and tamper. The first days, the cups with a seedle should be kept in a well-lit place, otherwise, with an insufficient number of light, shoots will begin to stretch. The optimal room temperature is at least 22 degrees. 2-3 days after a transplant, ventilate the premises, creating conditions for quenching young shoots. It is worth noting that in the first months of growth, the formation of the root system occurs quite slowly, and the plant is reluctant. After six weeks after shooting, their active growth begins.
Landing petunia ampel in open ground
When freezing, in May, the plant can be made on fresh air, the soil is recommended good to moisturize. Vasons can be transplanted much earlier, but if the temperature decreases, the room should be shown. Before transferring to the ground, the seedlings should be ordered. To do this, take it out of fresh air within 5 days. It is necessary to plant a plant at a distance of 20-25 cm, given that the bushes grow pretty quickly. The root with a lore of the Earth must be moistened, the soil in the container where the petunia is transplanted, must be moistened, is pre-closed by peat or humus, which will keep moisture and retain the roots.
Forming ampeline petunia how to pinch
A luxurious Cascade Cascade Petunia is achieved by pinching, which is held twice. Upon reaching the top of the stem is 10 cm, when the shoots are fixed enough, they will raise the power and start stretching, it should be deleted. The growth of shoots can slow down and will begin to form lateral shoots. The result of such an important manipulation is abundant flowering, lush bushes destroyed by large bootons. The next parting is performed when the length of the shoots is reached at 15 cm. Cropped shoots can be put into the water where they will be allowed roots and can be planted in boxes or pots. So that the stems grow strong and do not break, the level of land in the tank or pot should be at the level of the edge.
Reproduction of cuttings
Petunia can be multiplying with cuttings that are cut slightly at an angle. On the shoot should be a few top healthy leaflets. The cuttings put into the water into the warm room, the roots will appear in a week, and petunia can be resettled into the ground. The reproduction of staring has a disadvantage - petunia flowering begins not earlier than 25-35 days.
Petunia Ampelnaya, Care
In order for petunias as long as possible with its bright bloom, it is necessary to care for it, to build up the green mass and the formation of buds, minerals, microelements and nutrients are needed.
If you want to get a lush bush with abundant bloom, then you should take care of regular support for petunia. Since the beginning of the summer, the plants should be made by complex liquid fertilizer for blooming. The first feeding is made approximately a week after planting the plant in the ground, for this, ready-made comprehensive fertilizers with a balanced composition and potassium content are used. The following feeders are held once a week.
Ampelnaya petunia grows remarkably in lungs, loose, fertile sampling and drifting soils. There is a ban on the fertilizer of soil with fresh manure, it will lead to a fungal disease of the plant. The optimal fertilizer of the soil is the introduction of a reworked manure, overloading foliage. When pulling out shoots, their trimming is recommended for half, thereby ensuring the enhanced growth of side new shoots.
With the onset of cold weather, drawers, pots with petunias are entered into the room where their growth and flowering continues. In winter, the feeding stops.
Ampelnaya Petunia diseases
Although Petunia is rarely susceptible to diseases, there are some common diseases:
- On the leaves and buds, a commerce and wet rot in the form of light brown spots appear, which over time are covered with a gray fluffy bloom. Infection comes from excessive humidity and decrease in temperature below 14 degrees, as well as in an excess in nitrogen fertilizer.
- Another danger that seesing the petunia is a wave. With a small amount, it is enough to wash it off from the plants with a jet of water, with abundant infection requires treatment with Tlima.
- With sharp fluctuations in humidity and temperature on the leaves and colors of the plant, a white flask appears - a mildew, which is removed, and the affected areas are treated with gray.
Petunia Ampelnaya: landing in Kashpo
Ampelnaya petunia looks in suspended porridge, which will decorate the balcony, loggia, gazebo. For one Cushion of Petunia, choose a 3-5 liter kashpo. The soil should be light, loose and waterproof, it can be purchased in a specialized store or prepare yourself, mixing the soil with peat and baking powder in proportion
(3: 3: 0.5). Watering petunias in Kashpo is needed in the morning and in the evening, and after sunset, spray a bush with water, it will save the plant from the spider tick. Regularly remove the tagged flowers, thus the decorativeness of the plant is maintained: new buds are tied up and their long blossoms occurs. The flower does not endure the convergence, so at rich rains it is recommended to put them under the canopy.
Useful tips when growing in kashpo
- Do not combine in the composition of the petunia variety with different growth force. Stronger shoots will be angry with weak, slowing their growth and flowering.
- Do not plant a plant with a different flowering period. Pick the varieties requiring the same conditions for growing. It is permissible to grow in one cass of up to four types of petunia.
- Beautifully looks at the composition when stronger and tall shoots are located in the center of Kashpo, and cascading and ampel varieties hang along the edge.
- Cache or pot should provide water outflow.
- The scene must be protected from wind, rain, it should be well lit. Under such conditions, Petunia will abundantly bloom. In the shade, the plant slows down its growth and stops flowering.
Today there is a huge selection of a wide variety of ampel petunia varieties. Each variety is unique and attractive. Rail luxurious floral cascades in the porridge, in the drawer on the balcony or a gazebo in the country, it is completely simple and under the power even a beginner flower.
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