Petunia Gioconda multicolor creeping cascade: reviews, photos, planting and care, growing from seeds

It is unlikely that there will be a person who would pass by this wonderful plant indifferently, without delaying even for a moment, to admire his beautiful flowering. Thanks to its simplicity in growing and nursing, it has become a welcome guest in almost every home, every garden plot or summer cottage. This is a magnificent living decoration - the bright, impressive Petunia Gioconda multicolored cascading cascading.

Reviews

Lovers-flower growers are generously sharing their experiences in breeding petunias, emphasizing their unpretentiousness and subtle elegance. In their opinion, everyone can, observing uncomplicated rules, grow this wonderful flower that will please its unique beauty during the whole summer.

A truly unique plant, capable of adapting to the most diverse climate and any soil - the Gioconda petunia is a multicolored cascading cascade. The reviews are full of praise for her unpretentiousness in the care and unusual duration of flowering. Petunia lovers recommend everyone who wants to decorate the terrace, balcony or flowerbed, pay attention to this beautiful flower.

Origin

Petunia Gioconda is a multicolor cascading cascade (reviews state this), the beginning of its history is due to South America. A perennial herb belongs to the Nightshade family and is a relative of potatoes and tomatoes. The name of the plant goes back to the Portuguese petun ("tobacco").

Petunia enjoys love and popularity all over the world. But very few people know that to its popularity, it has passed a long and difficult journey of 200 years.

Description

This flower is not grown as a room, but it is believed that the best plant for decorating windows and balconies is not found.

The leaves of Petunia are whole, sessile or on short petioles, they have different size and shape, the stems are arranged alternately. Stems branched, green, creeping, hanging or erect, depending on the variety.

Flowers in their shape resemble a funnel. They are double and simple, large and small-color. Color is famous for its variety of spectra - from pure white, light pink and yellow to bright, rich blue, violet, red. There are varieties with a colorful pattern of flowers, combining different shades. The drawing of the edges of the petal can be smooth or fimbriated.

The fruit of petunia is a box full of the smallest seeds (up to 10 thousand pieces per gram), which retain their germination for 2-3 years.

Petunia Gioconda multiflorous creeping cascade (reviews contain extensive information about the flower) is one of the many hybrids that are used in floriculture as annuals.

Varieties

Hybrids are all cultivated varieties of petunias. It is known that the first of them appeared in the middle of the 19th century. There are 4 types of petunia:

• Large-flowered (with the size of flowers in diameter up to 10 cm);
• Multi-flowered with small (about 3-5 cm in diameter) colors;
• Short, dwarfish (up to 15-30 cm);
• Ampelnye - these include the popular now surfine and petunia Gioconda multicolor creeping cascading.

Most Popular

A great variety of hybrids and varieties of petunias have won favor and true love of connoisseurs. Among them the most popular are:

• Duble Cascade.
• Gioconda.
• Ramblin (refers to the surfins).

Petunia Gioconda multicolor creeping cascade: reviews, photos

According to reviews, this hybrid is one of the most attractive varieties. Low-rise chic bush with strongly branching shoots, which are densely covered with flowers (diameter about 5-6 cm) - a real pearl of the garden. Has an excellent appearance when planting in suspended flower pots with a capacity of up to 10 liters. A huge plus of plants, which the authors of the reviews emphasize, is its ability to adapt to a wide range of temperatures that allows growing this variety in different climatic zones, and also to preserve it during the winter period.

Quite a large variety of coloring flower buds. The Gioconda happens:

• Purple;
• Pink;
• Violet;
• Scarlet;
• Bright scarlet;
• Orange;
• Neon;
• Salmon;
• White.

Of particular interest is the petunia of the Gioconda purple multicolor cascading cascade. In the presented photo you can admire the extraordinary beauty of the flower.

Customer feedback suggests that, it turns out, to grow petunia in your garden is not so easy. The Gioconda petunia is not always matching the images on the promotional booklets. The multicolor cascading cascade.

Planting and caring for the plant, according to experienced flower growers, differ in some features. Experts recommend that everyone who wants to grow in his garden or on the balcony of Gioconda should adhere to a number of simple recommendations.

How do they grow petunia?

Petunia Gioconda a multiflorous creeping cascade, the cultivation of which is described in the reviews, requires the following:

• In the garden, she should take a place well lit by the sun.
• Despite the thermophilic and drought resistance, petunia can hardly tolerate excessively high temperature and, as a consequence, is prone to damage by a spider mite. Prevention - small spraying.
• The plant requires regular watering, during a hot time, petunias should be watered in the morning and in the evening.
• Do not allow excessive soil moisture and stagnation of water in it.
• The plant should be placed in places protected from the wind, which can break long shoots.
• The flowers are suitable for any relatively fertile soil, but most of all - loamy and sandy loamy. On the balcony for petunias, you should use the composition: deciduous and turfy ground, peat, coarse-grained river sand in a ratio of 2: 2: 1: 1.
• Once every two weeks during the entire flowering period, one should carry out top dressing with a complex fertilizer for flowers with an increased content of potassium.
• It is necessary not to allow the ovaries to form, removing the faded flowers in time, stimulating the laying of new buds.
• In order to grow a beautiful plant, it is necessary to carry out the formation of the bush. For this, shoots are plucked, than the formation of new branches and flowers is stimulated, the plant becomes more magnificent.

Cultivation from seeds

Today, during the whole season "spring / summer" in flower shops and in the market you can freely buy ready-made petunia seedlings. Some people prefer to grow seedlings on their own. Experts recommend that you buy quality seeds from trusted suppliers.

Seeds reproduce many varieties of petunias, including hybrids, which include the Gioconda petunia, a multicolor cascading cascade.

Seedling seedlings are grown in March. Timing is dictated by the desired time of planting flowers on the balcony or garden. Cultivation of seed developed seedlings lasts about three months.

The soil is pre-prepared for planting, sieved and abundantly watered. Seeds are recommended to mix with sand in order to ensure a more even distribution on the ground, then they are sown without closing, sprayed with a spray. After that, they should be covered with a film or glass.

Optimum for germination of seeds is a temperature of 20-23 degrees. Higher temperatures or lack of light leads to stretching, lodging and damage to the plant by fungal diseases.

Usually the seeds germinate for 5-7 days. Then the film or glass is removed. Water young seedlings, observing moderation and caution. The air temperature gradually decreases to plus 18 degrees.

After the appearance of real leaves seedlings must be dived in boxes, and after a month - in pots. To ensure compactness of the shoots pinch, which further stimulates the branching of the plant.

In April, it is recommended to season the seedlings, and at the end of the frosts, to land on a permanent place at a distance between sprouts of 25-30 cm.

If petunia is planted on a balcony, proceed from the calculation: no more than 3 plants are planted in a 10-liter container. A more dense planting leads to the fact that the plants are stretched, their decorativeness is lost.

Reproduction by cuttings

When propagating cuttings, mother plants should be excavated in autumn, transferred to pots, pruned old shoots and placed in a light and cool, well ventilated room for the winter.

Optimum storage temperature - plus 10-12 degrees with moderate watering.

With the onset of spring from the plant should be cut into young apical cuttings about 10 cm long. From them, you need to remove all the leaves, except for the top two. In order to improve the formation of roots, the lower part of the cut should be immersed in a solution of phytohormones, then the cuttings are planted in a loose soil with sufficient air permeability or in moist sand, they should be watered and covered with glass or film.

After cutting, cuttings are recommended to be planted as soon as possible. With cuttings this rule is common for all plants. The exception is succulents, which must be dried before planting.

The optimum temperature for rooting is plus 20-23 degrees with good lighting.

In conditions of short light day , additional illumination with the use of fluorescent lamps is recommended, prolonging the light day up to 10 hours.

It is necessary to monitor the maintenance of constant soil moisture. The roots of the cuttings are formed about a week. After the appearance of leaves, the plants are planted in small pots, with the growth of petunias, the volume of pots should be increased. Then the plants are provided with care, both for those grown from seeds.

How to deal with diseases?

Petunias are quite hardy plants, but the presence of unfavorable conditions can still cause them to develop diseases or pest damage.

1. Fungal diseases. Appear with thick sowing, excessive watering, improper selection of soil (too heavy). Seedlings can die from the development of radical decay. It is recommended that:

• Remove the diseased plant with part of the land adjacent to it;
• All the remaining flowers should be treated with fungicides;
• When watering, do not over-moisten the soil and do not allow moisture to stagnate in it.

To fungal diseases also include powdery mildew (white coating on leaves and flowers). The cause of this - sudden changes in temperature and humidity. To measures to combat it include: removal of affected fragments of the plant, processing it with sulfur.

For the prevention of fungal diseases should be:

• To choose for sowing of not heavy ground (PH <6);
• Before sowing the land is steamed;
• Sowing and planting plants is not too dense;
• Adhere to the temperature regime;
• Do not allow excess nitrogen fertilizer content, as well as stagnation of water in the soil.

2. Yellowing of the leaves. Causes:

• Violation of the temperature regime, as well as the watering regime;
• Pest control (spider mites, aphids, whitefly);
• Development of true chlorosis (lack of iron).

Methods of pest control include:

• Spraying and washing the leaves with water or a weak tobacco infusion, pollination with ground sulfur (in air), treatment with ready-made systemic insecticides (from spider mite);
• Treatment with a solution (1: 1) of nicotine sulfate in soapy water (from aphids);
• Drug treatment with permethrin (2%) every three days (from whitefly);
• The introduction of preparations containing iron (from true chlorosis).

The new "champion"

Petunia F1 Gioconda a multicolor creeping cascade is a newly introduced hybrid, according to reviews, which is a serious competitor to surfions - the recognized champions of abundance of flowering. It reproduces exclusively vegetatively.

The withdrawal of this variety is considered a revolutionary breakthrough in breeding. This is the first petunia in the world, giving a staggering amount of flowers.

It is a plant with well branching, powerful shoots of 20 cm in height that can cover the soil when grown outdoors up to 1 m in diameter.

Variety F1 - Gioconda Petunia starred multicolor creeping cascade (reviews confirm this) - adapts to the widest range of temperatures: plus 8-40 degrees Celsius.

If grown in containers, the volume of the latter should be sufficient, and fertilizing should be done weekly to maintain the beauty of the plant.

You can carefully consider the photo hybrid F1 (Petunia Gioconda star multicolor creeping cascading).

The reviews contain information about the optimal conditions for growing the plant. These include the provision of an 11-hour light day and maintaining a temperature of 20-22 degrees. Under these conditions, according to the authors of the reviews, the plants remain blooming throughout the year. According to reviews, the variety is excellent for seedling production.

The plant is very strong, flowering begins at the initial stage of its development. The diameter of the inflorescence reaches 100 cm, the flower in diameter - 6 cm.

You can plant seedlings from February to April. It must be superficial. Growth of seeds occurs in the light. February crops need additional illumination. Shoots usually appear on the 5th-6th day. With the advent of 1-2 real leaves, it is necessary to hold a pick. In late May, the seedlings are hardened and planted in the soil.

To ensure abundant and long flowering plants, the soil must be watered in a timely manner, regularly weeded, loosened and fed with mineral fertilizers.

Users recommend

One of the phenomenal features of the Gioconda F1 declared by the manufacturer is its ability to adapt to a drop in temperature. The hybrid is positioned as an extremely hardy variety: the minus air temperature does not kill the plant, but only slows its growth.

Users confirm the phenomenal stability of the Gioconda F1 to the aggressive effects of adverse conditions. So, one of the most popular varieties - Petunia Gioconda F1 salmon flowered cascading - has received many enthusiastic reviews. According to the testimony of flower lovers, the plant not only looks good next to other varieties on the flower bed, but also does not lose its decorative qualities during autumn frosts to minus 3 degrees. Users strongly recommend this variety for decorating flower beds, gardens, balconies.

The Gioconda Petunia Hybrid is a sure competitor to the best ampel varieties. When growing it in flowerpots and hanging baskets, everyone notes the uniformity of distribution on its branches of flowers, forming lush beautiful garlands. Phenomenal features of the new Gioconda varieties - frost resistance, year-round flowering and others - are invaluable qualities that open up new interesting opportunities for gardeners.