What are daisies? These are perennial plants that have elongated bright green leaves and bloom with a huge number of colorful inflorescences - red, white, pink. Terry daisy flowers. This flower is often planted in the garden, as it is beautiful in appearance and unpretentious in care. The article will tell you about growing daisies from seeds, as well as how to take care of these flowers so that they always look attractive and bloom for as long as possible.
What features of growing a plant can be distinguished?
Daisies are flowers that are called long-day plants. They begin to bloom in May and cease at the end of October. It is worth noting that they bloom only in the second year of life. Many gardeners begin to grow daisies from seeds in January, so the plant can bloom in the first year of its life.
Annual seeds of daisies are also grown from seeds, their name is Bellis annua. Such plants begin to bloom in early August and continue to delight their hosts with flowering until the end of October. Such daisies do not propagate vegetatively.
When growing daisies from seeds, the substrate for planting flowers can be used either prepared independently or purchased in a specialized store.
If the flower is propagated by dividing the bush, do not worry, this will not affect the quality of flowering.
Growing a flower from seeds (highlights)
When growing daisies from seeds, you can sow them directly into the ground, or use pots for seedlings. Remember that if you plant a plant immediately in the soil, then the temperature on the street should be within plus 20 degrees. Subject to these conditions, the first sprouts you will see after 2 weeks. Do not put seeds deep in the soil, as they are very fond of the sun. Due to this mistake, the sprouts appear late. Sprinkle the seeds sown on the soil with soil or sand. Plant and care for the plants carefully and correctly, then daisies will soon please you with beautiful flowers.
Growing plants from seedlings
This method is used by gardeners who want their flower to bloom in the first year of life. Initially, the seeds are irradiated, and only then they are planted. Each seed is planted in a separate container. This is necessary so as not to damage the rhizomes of the flower during planting. If the root system is spoiled, then flowering can not wait. Each flower is planted separately in a well prepared in advance, together with the lump of earth in which it was in the pot.
If you want to grow daisies at home, you need to pour drainage and substrate into prepared containers, and then plant seeds there. It is necessary to ensure that the soil does not dry out. If you want to create the most favorable conditions for your flowers, then plant them in small greenhouses. A transparent lid will prevent the rapid evaporation of moisture from the substrate.
When growing, it is necessary to maintain the temperature in the room from plus 22 to plus 24 ° C. After 2.5 weeks have passed, you can lower the temperature to plus 15 ° C.
If you grow plants in January, remember that it is getting dark early this time of year, so you will need to install additional artificial lighting. Seedlings should be exposed to light for at least twelve hours a day, otherwise your flowers will stretch and become pale.
Pompom daisy
These flowers are the smallest, but on one bush they can be up to forty. They bloom from April to mid-summer. They relate to a decorative look, most often gardeners prefer to grow them in separate containers, which are then put into the garden. Growing from the seeds of pompom daisies is used in landscape design, since these terry small inflorescences always delight the eye and warm the soul.
Such plants are grown by dividing bushes or cuttings. If you plant a pompom daisy with seeds, then its flowers will not be double.
If you want the plant to bloom in the second year of your life, then you need to plant it at the end of June. Caring for pompom daisies is not difficult, the main thing is that the land is drainage and not damp. Otherwise, the plants will rot and rot. These flowers are popular in regions with strong temperature extremes, as they are not afraid of winter and tolerate frosts well.
In the second year of plant life, flowers will appear in late May, which will bloom until late autumn.
Daisy Tasso
These plants have huge inflorescences. The diameter of one flower can reach six centimeters. The color of the inflorescences is white, red or pink. Growing from Tasso daisy seeds is no different from growing other varieties.
Such varieties as Monstrose, Spring Dream, Red Ball and others are also distinguished. In the first grade, the diameter of the inflorescence reaches five centimeters. The flowers are terry and has a pink color. Growing Monstrose daisy seeds takes time and effort.
Red ball - a variety of daisies with large bright red spherical flowers, the diameter of which reaches six centimeters. Gardeners prefer to grow this variety of plants in flower beds or ridges. Growing red daisy seeds from a daisy requires certain skills and patience, as does growing other plant varieties.
Spring Dream daisies are colored from light pink to red, less often - white. They bloom from early May to mid-summer, tolerate winter well. Growing from daisy seeds Spring sleep is quite popular among gardeners. Let's take a closer look at how this happens.
Highlights during seed planting at home
Seeds for planting can be used purchased at the store or collected personally. Many beginner gardeners are wondering: when growing daisies from seeds, when to plant? Sowing is carried out in the spring. The substrate must be warmed up well before planting. In order for the seeds to germinate quickly, it is important to maintain the temperature not lower than + 21 ° . It is under such conditions that you will see the first sprouts in two weeks, and in some cases an earlier emergence of seedlings can be observed.
For good growth, daisy seeds need sunlight. Seeds in the soil can not be immersed very deeply, you need to pour them onto the surface of the substrate and lightly sprinkle with sand or humus. If the seed is too deep in the soil, then it does not have enough sunlight to germinate. Growing daisies from seeds by seedlings can be done by planting one seed in each pot or planting all the seeds in one large container.
So that the seeds “break through” through the soil more actively, they are irradiated with red light with a wavelength of 660 nanometers before planting. This will require special equipment. After the seeds are planted, the pot or container is covered with a transparent plastic wrap or glass, which is removed after two days. It is allowed to cover the container with black polyethylene, due to which the necessary temperature regime is maintained inside the pot, but it is important to remove the polyethylene in two days, since the plants need light.
Sow the seeds in the open ground
Daisies are flowers whose seed cultivation is fairly easy. They can be sown in almost any soil. However, it is not recommended to sow seeds in alkaline and acidic soil. As a flower bed, you need to choose a plot in the garden, which is well lit by sunlight. You can not plant seeds under various trees and shrubs - daisies in this case may not even bloom. In addition, it is necessary to take care of soil drainage. It is necessary to clear the soil of other plants and their roots, debris and stones.
Today, in specialized stores, among the presented set of daisy seeds, you can find dragee. These seeds are covered with a special shell that nourishes the seed and protects it from pests and diseases. But you should remember that if you planted such seeds, you will have to take care of frequent and watering. If the plant does not get enough moisture, then the shell will not dissolve, and the sprout will not sprout.
How to plant, we figured out, but the question remains: when growing from seeds, when to plant daisies? Seeds are planted in open ground at the end of March, but it must be remembered that the temperature should be from plus 15 ° C. Seeds during planting are scattered on the ground, sprinkled with peat and sand. Do not bury them, such seeds are most likely not to sprout. After the seeds are sprinkled with sand or peat, the flowerbed is covered with a film that creates a greenhouse effect. The film must be removed after 3 days. It is undesirable to allow the land to dry out. If you did everything right, then the first sprouts will please you in about two weeks.
Plant pick
After the first leaf has appeared, you can pick. The sprouts that look the strongest and strongest should be selected. Between them leave a distance of at least 5 cm, all the rest clean. If daisies were previously planted at home on seedlings, then the sprouts are planted in the soil at a distance of 10 cm between them.
Outdoor seedling care
After the sprouts have sprouted and actively grow, do not forget to constantly moisten the soil. Lack of moisture affects plants badly, but excess moisture is also undesirable. Periodically, loosen the soil between the flowers, and water needs to be poured under each bush. If the daisies do not receive enough moisture, they will not please you with abundant flowering, and there may also be no terry inflorescences.
For rapid plant growth, fertilizers must be applied. Daisies love mullein and bird droppings.
Caterpillars and slugs often eat the root system of daisies, which leads to the death of the plant. To combat such troubles, the drug “Hom” is used. In addition, plants suffer from powdery mildew or gray rot. Due to the disease, the leaves become white plaque or rot. In this case, the plants are treated with Topaz. In winter, so that the daisies do not freeze, they are covered with fallen leaves, humus, peat or snow.
Growing daisies from seeds at home
Daisies grown at home on the windowsill look very nice. The easiest and easiest way to do this is to dig flowers from a garden flower bed and plant them in a pot. This procedure is carried out in early autumn. The soil in which the flower is planted must be fertile and loose. It is advisable to add sand and humus to it. They put a pot of daisies near the window, where the flowers will receive the necessary amount of light and will be able to bloom by the beginning of winter.
In the case of growing daisies from seeds at home, the plant will bloom only in the second year. Daisy seeds are planted in a pot or container in early spring. In this case, the seedlings are placed in a well-lit place and evenly watered. If you have planted seedlings in a common container, then after the appearance of these sheets it must be transplanted. But they plant not one sprout, but several. After the rosettes appear, the flower is looked after, like any other indoor plant. The first year of flowering will not, but in order for it to appear in the second year, at the end of autumn, the pots are placed in a cool place and reduce watering to a minimum. Put them on the windowsill in late February and then watered in a normal rhythm.
How does the plant bloom?
Daisy blooms in different ways, depending on the variety. Most of them delight the eye with bright colors from late spring to late fall. In late June, flowering stops and resumes again in the last month of summer. In order for the bush to always look aesthetically pleasing, one must not forget to remove dried flowers.
Reviews of housewives and amateur gardeners
Every woman probably likes the terry flowers of these magnificent plants, but many of them highlight the need for regular watering among the shortcomings. If the daisy is not watered, its root system dries out, the plant weakens and turns yellow. This situation is not suitable for those who live in the city and come to the country only on weekends. In the dry season, with such rare watering, the plant will die.
Daisies are often grown at home. Many women decorate their window sills and balconies with these delicate flowers, and some find it used in traditional medicine, preparing decoctions of daisies for the treatment of bronchitis and kidney diseases.
If you grow these plants, following the rules given in the article, then everything will surely work out. Daisies are not the most finicky flowers, so they are easy to grow at home. Do not forget to approach the matter with love - talk with seedlings, praise it, take care of it, and then small sprouts will surely turn into a large strong plant with beautiful colorful flowers that will delight you and your loved ones.