There are no ugly petunias - they are all good in their own way and have long been captivated by their magnificent view of the flower water. And thanks to the experiments of breeders, there are still new and new varieties that differ in versatility and the applications in landscape design.
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Petunia hybrid description
The name of Petunia translated from Brazilian denotes tobacco. This herbaceous plant belongs to the parlor family. In his homeland - South America, this is a perennial that grows in the tropical regions, where about 35 of his species is known.
In Europe, they learned about almost 2nd century ago. The first hybrid grown as the annual appeared in 1834. Since then, beautiful funnel-shaped terry and simple flowers of bright colors, quickly won flowers in amateur gardens and parks.
Petunia hybrid was obtained by the efforts of breeders, by crossing the most different source forms. The story of each variety is so confused that it is difficult to say where it happens, and many flower activities are in no hurry to share their secrets.
Hybrids are distinguished by the wealth and variety of variations of the color. Here all the shades of the rainbow are collected, the combinations of two are not rare, and sometimes more colors. Moreover, pigments are distributed in a largest way: a contrasting border, longitudinal strips, alkali, folded into the right geometric pattern, bright stains on a white background, differently painted inside or on the edge of the whine.
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Petunia hybrid varieties
All varieties of petunia hybrid can be attributed to one of 3 groups:
- Grandiflora (Grandiflora). Flowers are large, reaching in diameter up to 100 mm, with easily damaged rain and wind soft wrenches. They better feel in protected places. In a group, several subgroups include:
- petunia hybrid large-flowered - bushes with a height of 0.6 m with smooth, 80-100 mm in diameter, flowers;
- low large-flowered - bushes grow to 0.25-0.3 m;
- baked large-flowered - bush from 0.65 to 0.7 m;
- baked low large-flowered - height from 0.25 to 0.3 m;
- excellent large-flowered - with a height of a bush 0.5-0.75 m and flowers smooth with 100-120 mm in diameter with dark veins and a wide zev;
- excellent large-flowered low - characteristics are the same as the previous one, but the bush has a height of 0.3-0.4 m;
- machorous large-flowered - flowers, a diameter of 100-120 mm, terry, the edge is like a fringe and smooth, a bush of 0.5-0.6 m.
- Multiflora (Multiflora). It has the more modest dimensions of the flowers, not so strongly exposed by weather becoming due to more elastic, rigid veins. Characteristic for representatives of this group the abundance of flowers. The flowering is earlier than in large-flowered, long.
- Milliflora (milliflora). This is a group that includes plants with small, funnel-shaped, only up to 30 mm in diameter, flowers that are resistant to bad weather.
There is another division of petunia hybrid into groups.
White petunia
These include both varieties from the Multiflora group - compact bushes with small flowers and from Grandiflora - the increasing large-flowered, forming multi-colored clouds. The group includes:
- Hybrids combined fantasy name.
- Compact, flourishing one of the first, ultra variety.
- dream Series - Little All Summer Gybrid Coloring;
- Polaris - a series of early-breathing hybrids;
- Storm - hybrids resistant to negative weather impact;
- Hit Parade - a series hitting a variety of colors and shades.
Floribunda
The group is varieties with flowers are large, steadily carrying bad weather. Their characteristics are something average between representatives of Grandiflora and Multiflora groups, successfully connect beauty and resistance to bad weather. Terry petunias are very spectacular, especially in mass landings. The best of this group can be called Sorteweria:
- Celibriti. Includes 30 hybrids 13 colors, resistant to both heat and rain. There are monophonic and 2-3-colored colors.
- Sonya orchid. Consists of 11 hybrids with charming large-scale ocher color flowers and contrasting streaks up to 25 cm high. Blooming early and continues until frosts. Heaven and rain tolerates well.
Cascading petunia
Ideal for decorating balconies, arbors, terraces and loggias. Creates a picturesque picture of long, thick shoots, aspiring and up, and on the sides, and down, completely covered with flowers. Sometimes they reach the length of 0.5 m. Such varieties have special love:
- Ramblin. Flowering among others is the earliest. The bush itself is low - about 40 cm, but the shoots are very long. Cascades from flower buds look great. The flowering period is long, and also a hybrid is not capricious at all.
- Joconda. A multi-flowered stranded plant, extremely enduring. A bush is low (200 mm), and shoots with numerous flowers with a diameter of about 60 mm, very branched. It feels well in a wide temperature range - from -8 to +40 degrees C.
- Dubble Cascade. Neat bush with bright, pleasant smelling, large terry flowers. Petals wavy. A bush, a branching tall up to 0.38 m. The color of the buds from the light pink to the dark blue, the leaves are emerald green.
Ampelnaya
Petunia shoots hybrid ampel, unlike cascading, do not grow up, they just fall down. If you plan it on the flower las, it will cover the earth like a carpet, but no less beautifully looks a hybrid that form a real floral waterfall in Kashpo. To create suspended flower clubs, the following varieties were recognized as the best:
- Avalanche. The shoots first amere, then reflected sometimes up to 0.6 m, dried down. Flowers are large bright or pastel. The hybrid is hardy, blooms long, the transplant withstands well even during flowering.
- Wave luck. Strong plant with large flowers, resistant to precipitation. Grows quickly and blooms continuously. Relie, shoots down down and form a ball.
- Salmon Shaideez. The shoots grow to 0.7 m. Flowers of funnel-shaped, pastel-salmon. The bush keeps the form well.
- Black velvet. Amazes an unusual color of flowers - black with a velvety tint. They are thickly covered with elegant, unusually beautiful bush with mysteriousness.
- Svetlana. Stems lush, branched grows up to 1 m. Flowers in the shape of a funnel, wave-like, bright with pink streaks.
Petunia hybrid mixture
A mixture of hybrid petunitions like a flowerbed and in suspended structures looks deliciously. Among the best varieties can be allocated:
- Carpet. The ground covers the ground with a multicolor carpet from powerful branching shoots, covered with flowers with a diameter of up to 60 mm. The hybrid is inconspicuous to the weather, blooms long.
- Picoto F2. Refers to the multiflora group. Grow up to 250 mm. It is distinguished by funnel-shaped simple flowers from 40 to 70 mm in the diameter of various colors, but with necessarily white border. Great for robot, borders, balcony boxes.
- Duo Froylen. In the mixture collected terry multi-flowered plants height from 250 to 300 mm with flowers with a diameter of about 300 mm. Color violet blue, burgundy. Plants are decorative since May and in September.
- Stars mix. A mixture consisting of large colors of all kinds of color belonging to the Grandiflora group.
- Supernya. Cascading large-flowered petunias with a unique color, long shoots. A feature is high stability and high growth rate.
Proper landing of hybrid petunia
Landing petunia hybrid is carried out both through seeds and through seedlings. Consider how to do it right.
Growing from seeds
Most often, the seeds are sown in March, in the second half, but if you organize the backlight, then the February seeding is possible. The soil is prepared loose, nutritious, consisting of sand and peat (1: 2). So that the seeds are evenly located, the upper layer is sifted. During the day before landing, the ground is plenty.
Small petunia seeds are mixed with sand, screaming without blunting, slightly sprinkled with the ground, moisturized and covered with a transparent material. They ride after 7 days at room temperature.
Granulated seeds are planted with a tweezers, having their smooth rows. So they develop better and make the picking easier.
Seedlings spray 2 times a day, ventilated. Although for the development of plants and need high humidity, but condensate from the shelter should be removed as soon as it appears, otherwise it is not to avoid the disease "black leg". In order to prophylaxis, when spraying, sometimes replace water with a slightly pink solution of manganese.
Remove the shelter with the advent of the first sheet. The soil is powdered with sand, and watering is not so intense.
Advice: Excellent option - Seeding seeds in food containers with transparent lids or peat pills, only in the latter case are needed granulated seeds.
Care for sediers
Seedlings are dive with 4 leaves. Soil in the tank where they are transplanted, should have the same composition. At the end of the transplant, the seedlings should be pouring and covering the day at 3. The sneezer should be deepened, then it forms a strong root, does not pull out and does not run, which reduces the risk of a "black leg".
The main requirement at this stage is to prevent the soil drying, it must be moderately, but constantly wet. In addition, care includes the following activities:
- looseness of the soil around the sprouts;
- feeding, both root and extracurricular nitroposses, comprehensive fertilizer soluble in water;
- acclimatization by moving seedlings for a while in a cool room or outside.
Landing in the primer
Planting petunia to a permanent place with the onset of sustainable heat. She prefers loam and sampling soils. So that the bushes are compact, and blooming was distinguished by abundance, the soil should not be fertilized, but it must be loose.
When the seedlings are planted into the container, then for intensive blossoms of feeding, on the contrary, are needed. Then Petunia from May to frost will delight with its bright beauty.
Distance between plants depends on the variety. For multi-scale series - it is 100-150, large-flowered - 200-250 mm. When plants are slightly coated in a new place, they are plugged.
Petunia flowering starts at different times after sowing. It all depends on which group the plant belongs. The varieties belonging to the Grandiflower group emit the first buds after 3 months, and the multiflora - after 2.5.
Further care, illness
So that the bushes were well branched, too long shoots shorter. If you regularly remove fading flowers, then new buds are formed faster.
The soil must be constantly loosen and water, but not allow moisture stagnation. The feeders make twice or three times a month.
When the petunias grow on the flowerbed, the diseases are torn. Most often they are caused by fungi. The most common is phytofluorosis when the stems are raging, then rot, and the petunias are hybrid, care and cultivation of which took away so much time, dies. Fight with this phenomenon by treating antifungal means.
He likes to settle on Petunia and Whew, feeding with juice of her leaves, which they dry. Helps the treatment of insecticides, slowly slows with this - the pest will be fruitful very quickly.
Another disease is bright spot. The first news is red spots on the leaves. Treat with drugs containing copper.
The enemy of petunia is both a whitebird, larvae from the bottom of the sheet. Treatment - preparations containing permethrin.
Advice: In order for petunias to grieve healthy, when buying seeds, read information on the package. They indicate the grade, flowering time, information about the manufacturer, expiration date, date of manufacture.
The choice of petunition is very large. Already experimenting with varieties, you can create a unique composition.
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