2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
In recent years, "okoloda" manufacturers have constantly delighted us with new products: various greenhouses, pots for seedlings, potting soil, almost magical, in which, according to the assurances of manufacturers, everything grows almost on its own, all kinds of eco-pots with double walls and water supplies. Peat tablets also belong to such miracle helpers
Horticultural shops offer a variety of peat tablets to choose from. How not to be mistaken and choose the right one? To do this, you need to know at least a little about peat tablets.
What are peat tablets?
Peat tablets are well-compressed peat, sometimes wrapped in a special mesh. The tablets are produced in different diameters, from about 2 to 7 centimeters. The final size of our miracle pot depends on the initial diameter.
Pros of peat tablets
When germinating expensive seeds, the tablets will help not only to neatly germinate the seeds, maintain the necessary moisture, but also help in creating the desired climate. For example, grown and matured plants can be placed in a cooler room or outside for hardening, and weaker ones in a greenhouse or in the sun, while avoiding unnecessary transplanting of seedlings.
In addition, peat tablets have a delicate structure, which will allow plants with the most fragile root system to grow unhindered, and when planting in the soil, the plant does not need to be removed from the resulting peat pot. The plant is planted right in the ground. This allows you to avoid injury to the roots, diseases that arise when transplanting seedlings into the ground.
Another undoubted plus is the absence of the need to apply fertilizers when planting and growing seedlings, since the tablet initially contains the necessary supply of nutrients.
I also consider it important that peat tablets do not have an expiration date. This means that you can not worry that you bought too much and use them as needed.
Another argument in favor of peat tablets: they do not absorb excess moisture, which means that with sump watering, you can not be afraid of excessive soil moisture and the death of seedlings for this reason.
What size of tablets should I prefer?
Currently, stores provide a choice of peat tablets of different diameters, from 2 to 7 centimeters. The most optimal is a tablet with a diameter of 4 centimeters, since its final size is perfect for growing the most delicate seedlings, and for professional rooting of cuttings, and for germinating expensive seeds of rare plant species.
What to look for when buying pills?
When buying, try to choose pills in a mesh, despite the fact that uncoated pills are cheaper. This is due to the fact that when peat swells, tablets without a mesh will turn into a shapeless lump, respectively, they will additionally have to buy glasses or other containers. When swollen, tablets in a special mesh retain the shape of a cylinder, they do not need additional containers and after swelling, it is enough to simply put them in a tray or in special cells for seedlings.
Another important point: when buying, be sure to pay attention to the structure of the pressed peat. Some not very conscientious manufacturers fill tablets with cheaper peat with a coarse fraction. What is the danger of such pills? The fact that the coarse peat fraction has poor air permeability, which leads to poor development of the root system, as well as damage to seedlings with a black leg.
In addition to the above, you need to pay attention to the acidity of the peat tablets. This information is indicated on the packaging. For planting flowers and seedlings of vegetable crops, you need to take tablets with neutral acidity, and for conifers, for example, with increased.
In the next article we will talk about planting seedlings in peat pots and caring for them:
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