When to plant petunia for seedlings in 2019: favorable days

Petunia is an exotic plant brought from Latin America and adopted in the Eastern Hemisphere as an ideal component for decorating flower beds and flower beds. As an object of special passion for gardeners, it grows even in home collections, because it is famous for its long and abundant flowering, whimsical colors.

Features of the climate make it necessary to grow a perennial plant for only one season, but skillful gardeners easily get out of the situation, cultivating petunia for seedlings. When to plant an exotic favorite in this way in 2019, you can determine by the Lunar calendar, having compiled a simple table for yourself.

Lunar calendar and cultivation features

Growing a popular plant on a massive scale is understandable, if you remember how many variations are grown by painstaking flower growers. They managed to cross even large-flowered and multi-flowered forms, having received the famous Floribunda hybrid, which combines the abundance of flowering and the wondrous beauty of both common varieties.

Petunia seeds in difficult climatic conditions can be purchased at any flower shop or in a supermarket for summer residents. In the south and in the middle zone of Russia, where there are still no frosts in September, you can collect the seeds yourself, and many flower growers do this. This allows us to say with certainty what kind of decorative flower will grow - the desired type, shape and favorite saturated color or an incomprehensible combination and shade.

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In Central Russia and in the South, a plant can be planted calmly by scattering seeds on snow or on the surface of the earth, and many amateurs use this extremely simple way of propagation. However, experienced gardeners practice planting petunias from seedlings. This allows you to accelerate the vegetative period, very long in an exotic plant.

And the desire to bring the long-awaited time when these wonderful guests from the southern latitudes will appear on the site near the house or cottage is quite understandable. Indeed, unlike many other constituent flower beds and flower beds, they have been pleasing to the eye for quite some time and at the same time they are remarkable for their striking brightness and variety.

If you plant not in the soil, but in a seedling method, you can much approximate the flowering time (although this is a very important point when it comes to a garden, front garden, or house territory near the cottage).

The seedling method gives the plant additional positive properties - resistance to numerous diseases and pests, abundant flowering, strong stems and roots, the ability to withstand some weather and temperature changes. Grown in this way, the queen of flower beds will bloom earlier, and will finish the feast for the eyes much later. This is the main secret that experienced gardeners know, and which amateurs eventually learn about.

Climate and dates

The main reference point for an approximate determination of the dates is the weather calendar. It is possible to plant a flower in the soil only when warm weather is established, and the probability of frosts is excluded. No matter what efforts the gardener makes, the plant will inevitably die even at 0 degrees. You can process the seeds, cover the sprouts with a film, but a resident of the south is very negatively perceives the cold.

Therefore, the main guideline when in 2019 the seeds are in warm conditions depends on the moment of the onset of warm weather:

1. For example, in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the period when to plant petunia for seedlings is even further than in cold regions. Judging by the promises of hydrometeorologists, it will be possible to land in 2019 only in the first half of June. Subtracting from this period the period of seed germination and the ripening period of plants, in greenhouse conditions, work on flowers should begin no earlier than the end of March or even the beginning of April. In March, there is time for this from 23 to 29, and in April 2 and 3, 7 and 8. So, residents of the Northern capital and the surrounding area will have to carefully manage this time.
2. In the Urals, such work can be done much earlier - in the first decade of March. If there is any doubt about the given dating (according to the weather calendar or practical experience in the area of ​​residence), it is better to focus on St. Petersburg. And if the term seems optimal, then favorable Lunar calendar in the first ten days of March, 1-2, 10-12 and 15 are recognized. These are days on which other nightshade nights in this climatic zone plant this year, and since petunias are also referred to as nightshade, this is the optimal time, when to sow it on seedlings.
3. In Siberia, the same terms are recommended as in the Urals, but it is possible to postpone an important sowing week, especially in Tyumen and Tobolsk. Here, the main thing is to navigate in time according to weather forecasts. Early planting will not give the expected results, and displaced seedlings do not have the necessary advantages. Therefore, if they promise a relatively warm spring, then you can start work 1-2, 10-12 and 15. If the spring is cold and when plant petunia in 2024 moved aside for a week, then on favorable days you can record another 16, 17 and 19 March.
4. In the Volga region, the breadth of the range of possible sowing is much wider. You can engage in the landing of potential beauty from late February to mid-March. After the first two weeks of March, time can be considered lost - there is too little chance that the desired plant will grow in the required size before the start of the planting period. According to the lunar calendar, at the end of February, you can use this on February 23, 24 and 25, but in March there are still five days in which such an activity will be successful - March 1-2, 10-12 and 15.
5. In the Moscow region, Central Russia and Moscow experienced gardeners call the optimal date the first half of February. They note that just at this time, petunia seedlings can be transplanted into separate containers, and according to long-term forecasts, the air in May already warms up enough. In the first half of the last winter month, according to the lunar calendar, it is 6,7,8, 11-14 and 15th. At the very beginning of February, neither the weather nor the necessary conditions are available for landing, although 1,2, and 3 are neutral days and with a great desire this could be done.
6. In the South, you can calculate the date of seedlings for cascading and ampelous varieties, which are then sold in decorative containers for decorating buildings and balconies.But since in April climatic conditions allow landings, in the country and house territories they prefer to plant in open ground in 2019 according to the lunar calendar. Any number from 11 to 17, with the exception of April 14, is suitable for this.

This can be on special sites or information portals for growers and florists. But this is much more rational than reading the labels on the bags with seeds, where they write the average date.

A convenient table for fans of petunias, compiled according to the Lunar calendar, in 2019 indicates the following dates when it can be sown for seedlings, and when it is not worth it.

A little about the specifics of landing

Despite the unpresentable appearance and size of the seeds, they are notable for their amazing survivability and excellent germination ability - up to 70% of them are poured into the soil prepared for planting. Therefore, the seed should be handled carefully, not to sprinkle with handfuls, but try to create a small saturation. However, the percentage of death of petunia plants is higher than that of other plants, and this feature is characteristic of the seedling method of cultivation.

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Recommendations on the timing of landing in open ground can be found contradictory, mainly depending on climatic features. But, it turns out, there are differences in the choice of terms, depending on the purpose. Balcony plants in beautiful containers and pots for hanging on terraces and balconies can be planted from seedlings in mid-May.

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The air above the ground at this time is already warming up enough, and if they promise cold weather, flowers can be removed to the room or covered with a film. This applies not only ampelous, but also bush and cascade. By the time they begin to let out adult shoots and prepare for flowering, you can no longer fear that something will happen to your favorite flowers.

You can navigate not only by the official dates specified by the manufacturer, but also by the intended purpose. The ampel pots are the first to be drawn up - at the beginning of May, the cooked ones for balconies are planted closer to mid-May.But if we are talking about hybrid garden varieties, then in most of the territory of the Russian Federation they are planted on open ground in early June.