2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Many summer residents try to grow seedlings on their own, and not buy ready-made ones. But not always and not everyone succeeds in achieving the desired results. Why not try to sow seedlings in an unusual way, "in Moscow"? This method is not only very simple and enjoyable, but also allows you to avoid a huge number of annoying mistakes made by gardeners and gardeners
How to sow seedlings?
To sow seedlings with this method, you need to stock up not only with seeds, but also with scissors, good toilet paper (the seeds will be located on it), polyethylene (ideally, not too dense) and plastic cups (they will be needed for subsequent germination).
Before you start sowing seeds, you need to make a mini-greenhouse from pre-prepared polyethylene - to do this, the polyethylene should be cut into identical strips. In this case, the width of these should coincide with the width of the prepared toilet paper.
Having spread the polyethylene strips, immediately put toilet paper on them, after which it is moderately moistened with a small amount of water. Further, on this basis, retreating from the edges at least one and a half centimeters (and between some seeds it is generally necessary to maintain a distance of four centimeters!), Tiny seeds are laid. Once all the seeds are laid, they are covered with another layer of paper and also moistened. And finally, the entire structure is covered with a polyethylene layer.
The resulting stripes are very neatly folded into compact rolls and installed in disposable cups filled with a quarter of water (it is not forbidden to attach tags with the name of crops or varieties to the rolls - they will help not to get confused). And then the cups are put into clean plastic bags and sent to a bright and warm enough place.
The seedlings stay in this state until they give the first shoots and the process of forming small leaves begins on it. And since water practically does not contain nutrient compounds, do not forget about periodic feeding of growing seedlings. Liquid humic fertilizers are ideal for these purposes: the very first feeding is usually carried out when the seeds begin to open and miniature sprouts begin to hatch from them, and it is advisable to give the second feeding when leaves begin to form on the plants. At the same time, the dosage of the fertilizers used must certainly be less than that indicated in the instructions (at least twice) - it is important to remember that the cups are still filled not with soil mixture, but with a relatively small volume of liquid. If you do not follow this recommendation, plants can easily die.
The growing seedlings are moved into pots filled with soil and continue to grow them in the usual way until they are dived into permanent sites (this is especially important for thermophilic green pets that require late planting) or are immediately transplanted into open ground. By the way, it is not so difficult to move the seedlings from paper to pots filled with soil mixture - by unrolling the rolls with seedlings, carefully cut the seedlings with scissors and immediately move them into the prepared pots.
Why is this method good?
The advantages of this method are many: firstly, due to the fact that the seedlings do not come into direct contact with the soil, the risk of infection by the black leg that causes a lot of troubles is completely eliminated, and secondly, the seedlings placed in disposable containers can significantly save space, which is often not enough in ordinary apartment conditions. Thirdly, this method is ideal for cold-resistant crops that can be dived straight into the ground after the first leaves appear on them. And finally, some crops, whose seedlings ideally should grow strong, but small (tomatoes with peppers, for example), take root much better with this sowing method!
Minuses
Such an unusual method is not devoid of some disadvantages: the rhizomes of plants in toilet paper can develop weakly, and their stems sometimes stretch quite strongly, in addition, a lack of lighting can lead to the fact that light-loving and heat-loving crops will develop much more slowly. And especially heat-loving specimens, germinated in rolls, will have to be grown in pots filled with soil until they are planted in permanent places (by analogy with ordinary seedlings). Nevertheless, the number of advantages outweighs these minor disadvantages anyway, so it is definitely worth trying to grow seedlings with this method!
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