Primrose primrose: home care, growing from seeds

In the spring garden a special place is taken by primula - a smart primrose with playful bright caps. In nature there are more than 500 varieties of plants. No wonder that the lush bushes quickly migrated from the flowerbed into flower pots. And instead of hibernating under the snow, pleasing the eye bloom on the January window sill. In this article, we will describe in detail what a primula is common. Care at home, reproduction from seeds and transplanting plants usually do not give the growers special hassle.

How best to plant primrose?

First, let's talk about the care and reproduction of primroses in the gardens. Florists like this grassless herbaceous plant, forming a bush of dark green corrugated leaves collected in a rosette. Spring sun rays quickly arouse the primrose, and it throws off arrows with numerous flowers, among which red, blue and purple are the most common. Flower growers dream to acquire white, yellow and other rare varieties of primroses. And here comes a small problem.

The primula is long-lasting rather unpretentious, but it is rather problematic to propagate the plant by the division method. The bush grows reluctantly, and the root system is so tenaciously intertwined that it is rare to divide it without injuring it. Therefore seeding seeds for seedlings is seen as the most acceptable variant of plant breeding. Usually, with the onset of spring on the windowsills, the first shoots are already breaking through, which later, having become stronger, will be transplanted into the flower beds on the darkened sections of the garden.

Care of the primula in open ground conditions

Having grown seedlings from seeds in the spring and planting the plant in a favorable place, as usual, we will wait for flowering only with the onset of the next season. After all, the plant can only blossom 8 months after emergence. In the meantime, our eyes will rejoice those primrose varieties that have been hibernating in the garden for years. Primrose flowers do not like the open sun, so the flowerbed should be organized under them in the shade or in areas where the sun's rays are only in the morning. Also, the plant does not like the stagnation of water at its roots, reacting painfully to it. Flowering can occur even when the average daily air temperature reaches 10 degrees. After the end of flowering, no additional care is required for the culture. To cut foliage for the winter is also not necessary.

Primrose one-year

If the plant reproduces well with seeds, then there are no obstacles to the cultivation of this bright representative of the flora. How to care for an annual primrose? As a rule, care for such a plant is simple. Perhaps the most popular kind of one-year-olds in Russia is a primrose tender, with small bright pink flowers. The plant is especially appreciated for the extraordinary beauty of the luxuriant inflorescences. Gardeners do not stop even the fact that after the flowering period the bushes have to be simply eliminated as superfluous, but they again and again plant primrose seeds along with asters and zinnias. The variety does not tolerate heat and can quickly stop flowering at temperatures above 15 degrees. It should be noted that one-year-old is favorable to increased air humidity.

Back-conic primrose: growing conditions of the species

So we came to the very species that is very popular and most often lives in the winter on our windowsills. The extraordinary beauty of lush terry rosettes of inflorescences of different shades will not leave indifferent any lover of the flora. And if you take into account the fact that flowering begins with the onset of a new calendar year, then the primrose conifer goes into the category of plants that every gardener must certainly have.

Summer period of existence

The reverse conical primrose in room conditions requires special attention. Right in the pot, the plant should be taken out to the open air: to the garden, to the veranda, to the terrace. The main condition - that the foliage does not get direct sunlight. However, the space should be well lit. To flowering did not stop in the summer, you need to carefully monitor the state of the substrate, not allowing it to dry out. However, it is also not necessary to fill the plant. When there comes a period with critically high temperatures, the plant is sprayed or put the pot on a pallet with wet claydite. Contain this variety of primrose with caution, because of the possible allergic skin reaction in the hands of a person.

Growing a plant in pots, many are interested in whether or not the primrose flower often needs fertilizing . Care of the crop, in particular the addition of mineral organic fertilizers in the summer, should be carried out every two weeks. A little later, in the period from November to February, when the plant has a phase of active budding, the feeding will need to be increased and carried out weekly.

General rules for the maintenance of plants in pots

We know that in a natural environment there is no more unpretentious flower than a primrose. Care at home and keeping in pots will require florists certain knowledge, skills and patience. Some common points that need to be considered when cultivating potted plants:

• The soil should not contain an increased concentration of mineral salts.
• Flowering is possible only with good lighting and steadily low air temperature.
• Withered castings and inflorescences prevent the development of new shoots. In this regard, the dried out elements are removed in a timely manner.
• Winter conditions: an illuminated place with an air temperature of +15 degrees.
• Transplant is possible only after the flowering period ends. At the same time, drainage is necessarily placed on the bottom of the pot.
• The plant is susceptible to damage by gray rot. In this connection, fertilizers with a predominance of potassium and phosphorus are preferred. Treatment for the destruction of spores is carried out with a solution of soap and copper or 1% of the composition of boric acid.

Primrose primrose: growing from seeds. Terms of sowing

It is believed that the optimum time for seeding primroses is the period from November to December. We remember that at an adult plant budding begins at this time. It is not critical if you sow seeds at other times of the year. Seeds will be distinguished by increased germination, if they are kept at a temperature of 15-20 degrees and sufficient humidity before sowing. Shoots can be expected already on the 10th day after laying in the ground. As soon as the seed broke through the soil and gave rise to a sprout, the air temperature and humidity in the room should be reduced. This is done gradually. The process of picking up to a constant landing in a pot (the period from March to April) is carried out twice.

Soil Formation

What features has in its structure a substrate for planting such a plant, like primulae vulgaris? Home care is not possible without well-drained soil. You can use the purchased ready-made ground for geranium, mixing it with sandy soil in a proportion of 5: 1. To create a substrate, clean river sand is also suitable. If you prepare the land yourself, then for planting and keeping primrose take in equal parts deciduous, peaty and soddy soils. After mixing the substrate, also according to the scheme 5: 1, add sand. Primula primrose should be kept in a spacious, not very high pot. In addition, do not forget about the layer of drainage from the balls of expanded clay.

Reproduction by the method of acceleration of axillary shoots

This type of reproduction is inherent in plants with a weak root system, forming only one rosette of leaves. We are looking for the base of the root neck and separating a good stalk with a kidney and a piece of shoot. Sheet leaves will interfere with rooting, but you can not completely remove them. Therefore, we will only shorten them by half. The stalk should be placed in a substrate made up of deciduous soil and sand (preferably, if it is coarse-grained river sand) at an inclination. You need to make sure that the kidney is in the upward direction. Penetration of the cuttings into the earth to a depth of 1 cm will be enough. All the conditions of processing cuttings during rooting should coincide with those in which an adult primrose flower is contained . Care for these vegetative components is carried out in light, moderately warm and humidified room. Of course, like an adult plant, cuttings are contra-indicated by direct sun rays.

Pests that damage the primrose

Sucking insects are very fond of the soft juicy leaves of rosettes of such plants as primrose common. Care at home and protection from parasites consist in the timely taking of effective measures. Aphids, thrips, spider mites reproduce well in conditions of high temperatures. If you deprive them of the conditions of optimal existence and development, you can partially relieve the primrose from sucking parasites. In the event that pests have nevertheless penetrated the plant, special preparations such as "Carbophos", "Decis", "Actellik" are brought into the pots. Radical measures to control pests can help prevent twisting and deformation of leaves, as well as wilting and their complete drying.

Excessive top dressing can cause yellowing of the edges of the leaves. Primula does not like increased soil acidity. If the leaves began to turn yellow, iron sulfate is usually added during watering.

The most beautiful plant species

On the spectacular species that migrated from the flower beds to the windowsills, we already talked a lot, and also learned how to care for the primula. Of the many varieties of this beautiful plant, the following are particularly revered:

• Primula earflies - is grown in greenhouses and has velvet flowers of unusual colors: cream, yellow, white, maroon. It differs from other species with thick, compacted foliage.
• Primula Chinese - a hybrid, reaching a height of 35 cm, with jagged leaves and a yellow eye in the flowers. Likes the coolness, can be grown in pots.
• The primula is a shiny - resistant primrose with pink, white, orange and red flowers, which can be blossomed one by one, without forming inflorescences. The leaves are covered with hairs.