The fragrant beauty petunia is a decoration for any garden, flowerbed, border or decorative flowerpot.
It is not difficult to care for the flower, but its shoots often stretch out, due to the fact that hybrid petunia has to be sown early, when daylight hours are still short.
And here the question arises: is it really possible to correct the situation and bring the elongated shoots back to normal?
After all, you want to get squat seedlings that will be well developed before transplanting to the main place. The answer is yes. Everything is solvable.
Basic actions
- To make petunia seedlings more stocky and strong, experienced gardeners plant them deeper about a week after germination.
- Overly elongated sprouts can be immersed in the substrate right up to the cotyledons (the initial young leaves).
- This manipulation gives the flower an incentive to develop a more squat rosette and form a lush bush.
How to deepen seedlings
The long stems of a young shoot can be covered in several ways.
- Add soil to the full height of the sprout (up to the cotyledon leaves).
- Hill up the seedling (if it was sown in furrows or deepenings).
- Carefully press a hole next to the seedling and push it deeper into the ground, for example, with a toothpick.
