Cultivation of seedlings in peat tablets

With the onset of spring, lovers are beginning to prepare seedlings. To simplify this process, save time and improve the quality of sprouts, you can sow seeds into containers from pressed peat.

More recently, lovers of lovers used to grow seed seeds from seeds. Now all of these inventions are less popular, since time and strength is spent, and the result does not always justify.

Even in demand earlier peat pots are no longer used so wide as pressed peat tablets. And although the pot is very comfortable and the germination of seeds is high, but since they are made of a dense pressed cardboard - it does not decompose in the ground for a long time. Before landing, the finished seedlings had to be a little tinker to gently cut one edge of the pot with a knife or scissors and carefully plant seedlings. Such actions often led to deplorable results, and even strong seedlings grown in all the rules, at the time of landing in the ground could be damaged. It turned out that during transplantation most of the seedlings were damaged, and this negatively affected yields.

Peat tablet for seedlings is a dry container in the form of a washer made of fine pressed wood material without a bottom filled with pressed peat. For the convenience of transporting and storage, using a special technology in the production of peat tablets, correctly selected components for raw materials are dried and pressed. When the tablets are poured with warm water, they will swell and acquire the desired shape and size. In this form, they are ready for use.

Instructions for the use of peat tablets for seedlings

Usage:

1. Pills to put in a plastic container with high sides.
2. Pour the extruded peat with warm water.
3. Wait when the discs are increased in volume.
4. To put in the center of seeds.
5. Cover the tank with a film.

The tablet also includes various additives, fungicides and growth accelerators. It is due to the cultivation of seedlings in peat pills, it is less susceptible to diseases and reinforcement.

Cylinder Ukutan in a thin mesh material that does not allow tortour to change the form during transportation, as well as during the period of growing and watering seeds. The acidity of the peat is ideal for many plants, its pH is from 5.4 to 6.2. The shelf life of the tablets is unlimited. The main requirement is to store them only in a dry place.

Peat briquettes can be sold different sizes, from the minimum 2.5 cm, to the maximum -7 cm in diameter. According to experts, the optimal size for garden seedlings is 4 cm.

To germinate small seeds, drives of smaller diameter are used, and to obtain high-quality seedlings of vegetable crops such as eggplants, peppers and tomatoes, you need to purchase the biggest briquettes.

What are the advantages of peat tablets for seedlings

There are no restrictions on the use of disks from peat, they can be grown by anything, ranging from the garden and ending with growing floral crops.

It is very convenient to use peat pills for growing gentle sprouts of petunias, lobels and such plants that do not carry pickup (for example, poppy). Since the peat is contained additives (growth stimulants), the germination of seeds will be high, which is very important for growing expensive and rare cultures, as well as seeds in the shell. Good results are marked in the field of rooting stroke and leaf cuttings. Using peat tablets, it is possible to minimize the sowing area, which is especially important when growing seedlings in an apartment.

Using peat containers can be grouped by seedlings, rearrange seedlings that uneven ride from one place to another.

Since the cost of 1 briquette is about 5 rubles, so it is not worth using them for growing a large number of seedlings, but for small volumes peat discs will just be indispensable.

How to use pills for seedlings

How to use peat briquettes:

1. Before using briquettes, they need to pour warm water. Immediately decide where the upper part. In a small recess (this is the top) seeds planted.
2. When the peat begins to swell, the cylinder will "grow" up, and its diameter will be unchanged.
3. Water should be pouring into small portions, as tablets swelling.
4. After the swelling of the peat tablet (it increases in "Growth" 5-7 times) can be started towards seed landing. Preparation takes from 20 to 30 minutes.
5. Small seeds are more convenient to place in peat with a thin wooden stick. Picker the seed with a tip and gently move to the container.
6. Large seeds easy to post manually.
7. If you need to cover the planted seeds, the special peat is additionally applied. First, seeds are sitting, they are deeply deepened inside, and the horse peat is stacked on top.
8. Seed seeds can be dried immediately or soak for 2 days in water so that they are frosted. Such seeds are gently moved by a spatula or thin wooden stick in a peat tablet.
9. Seeds in dragee after seeding are carefully moistened from the pipette (1 droplets will be enough), waiting for the shell soften, and then carefully distributed to the toothpick shell on the torp. This technique allows seeds to grow faster.

Very convenient to plant strawberry seeds in peat tablets. To pick up a miniature seed, you can use a match. Moisten the edge of the matches with water so that the seed attaches to the match - put in the deepening of the tablet. After the strawberry goes around and seedlings strengthened, it is planted into the ground along with a peat tablet.

How to grow seedlings in tablets

After the seeds are planted, pills are placed in transparent trays and put on the windowsill or another warm place. As a container, you can take a plastic transparent box from under the cake. If there are no covers, then the top is wrapped with a film to increase inside the humidity.

To accommodate peat tablets, it is more convenient to use minibars having holes for each tablet. In order not to assembled water, the greenhouses are placed on special pallets. During the cultivation of seedlings, it is necessary to constantly ensure that the pills remain wet and did not swam. Also, they must be performed periodically - open the container cover.

Important condition - compliance with the temperature regime. It is best to spawn on a western or eastern window, on the north side of the seedlings will be cold, and on South at lunchtime - too hot.

As condensate accumulates on the walls of the container, the minibars open. It is recommended to perform ventilating 1 time per day. If not to do this, then the mold will begin to appear and the rapid plants may die. After shooting, the cover can be removed. Watering seedlings need not abundantly, pouring water into the lower stand or spraying with a spray gun. Fertilizers do not need to focus.

Rules of Resets

The peculiar feature of the peat is that the sprouts do not need to dive, they are conveniently moved directly with a peat room. The main advantage of growing seedlings in peat tablets is the ability to transplant garden crops without damage. It is very important when seedlings are grown with small shoots.

If you have noticed the roots on the cylinder, then this is the first sign that the plant is time to move in broader capacity. It is undesirable if the roots begin to intertwine among themselves in the minibar and grow up because it prevents the normal growth of culture. According to gardeners, if a peat tablet is wrapped in a mesh, then it is advisable to cut it before transferring it to the root so that it does not interfere with the normal rooting of the sprout. But it can not be done if instead of the mesh peat wrap the thin layer of wood cardboard.

When transplanting the seedlings, it is not removed from peat, which is very convenient. For example, tomatoes can be deepen a little with peat, and peppers and eggplants do not require grooves.

Growing Tips:

1. For the convenience of growing sprouts, you can purchase a special device - an electric propagator. This comfortable container with transparent top and heated allows you to minimize the time to grow seedlings.
2. To not be confused with a seedler, you need to sign each box.
3. You do not need to pick the seedlings. Each peat cylinder is installed inside the pot with a soil or planted immediately into the ground. This method allows to increase the growth of seedlings.

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