8 mistakes when growing seedlings at home

14.03.2024 Vegetables

Many inexperienced summer residents are inclined in all the troubles of growing seedlings at home to blame the producers for the poor quality of the seeds. They are inclined to believe that seedlings are a very easy task and they themselves cannot be mistaken. In fact, in most cases, problems with the growth of seedlings are to blame for the gardener himself.

There are a number of tips that will help create the perfect seedlings, without complaining about the producers. These tips are not all, but it is these points that novice gardeners often miss.

Content

1 Seed storage
2 Too many seedlings
3 Seedling Planting Calendar
4 Priming
5 Capacity
6 Watering
7 Lack of hardening

Seed storage

The main reason why many gardeners encounter germination is because of improper storage conditions. The temperature should not be lower than 10 degrees, and the humidity is average or slightly higher than average. And the most important packaging is either glass or paper. Those vessels that are sealed against excess moisture.

Important!

It is not recommended to use polyethylene in storage, because moisture easily passes it, and the seeds begin to churn and mold.

Too many seedlings

There are hundreds of stimulation products on the market seedlings. They are very effective, but their excessive use, illogical combination can lead to the fact that the seeds simply do not sprout. Many experts recommend using only one drug and combine it only with a stimulant of a similar composition. The use of particularly toxic drugs should be limited to one layer.

Seedling Planting Calendar

Seedlings may not sprout if the gardener is too hasty. When the seeds are planted too early, they may lack light, which will cause the irreversible wilting process to start, even if there is enough light.

Priming

For seedlings at home, you can not use rough, cold soil from the street. Seeds are quite fragile and can take root only in special, favorable conditions, which include the right soil. The soil must be nutritious and disinfected.

Advice!

At the same time, it is not necessary to buy land and you can create such land from improvised compost and earth, peat and sand. Depending on the type of seedlings, there are their own soils.

Capacity

For seedlings need a special capacity. Often, out of ignorance, gardeners pick up either insufficiently strong containers, or those that are not tight enough or indecently tight. Seeds in conditions of excessively crushed earth will not be able to germinate.

Therefore, it is recommended to use spacious containers for seedlings. Just before landing it is necessary to disinfect all the tools, so as not to bring the disease to seedlings.

Watering

Before planting, moisten the soil, and not vice versa. If you water the seedlings after planting, the water will go down, like the roots of the seedlings, so it will give sunrises much later than calculated or even die. The soil should be wet in advance, and after that you only need to carefully moisten it with a spray bottle.

Lack of hardening

Seedlings often die when planting in open ground due to the lack of tolerance of low temperatures other than room indicator.

Advice!

10 days before the intended planting in the open ground, it is necessary from time to time to take out the seedlings in the open air, on average for 1-2 hours. This will strengthen the seedlings for further planting on the street.