Bright African colors will improve any space gazania flower who managed to easily adapt to our home environment.
Choosing a place for gazania
Place gatsaniyu should be where she can swim in the sunlight. The result will be large flowers as a result of more intensive growth. African daisy, as they also call the flower with the name of gazania (gatsaniya), “avenges” small flowers for lack of lighting.
And one should not be nervous about the unrevealed buds on cloudy days or at dusk - gatsania, also called midday gold, reacts in such an amazing way to the absence of the sun. Another moment when placing gatsanii - The chosen place should not be a reservoir for water accumulation, because the flower may die due to excess moisture.
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How to choose a pot for a plant
Having small sockets, gatsania does not need a lot of space around it, and therefore does not require large dishes. When choosing a pot that is not too deep, one must proceed from the fact that a half-liter volume is sufficient for the flowering of a rosette rosette with one or two flowers.
Soil requirements
The dislike of gazania for excessive moisture determined the first requirement for the soil for planting and further care: the land in which the plant is located must always be loose. Soil for African chamomile can be purchased at the store. In preparation for planting it is recommended to mix it with sand (3: 1) and preheat it.
Important! A claydite layer is laid under the soil for drainage.
How to plant gatsanyu
There are many recommendations based on experience on how to plant gatsaniya.
Sowing Gazania
For sowing seed gatsaniya seedlings It is good to use soaked peat tablets in the period from the beginning to the middle of February. Seeds can be drowned in a pill with a simple match. Further watering of the planted seeds and the appeared seedlings is more convenient to produce through a deep pan - in this case it will not disappear and the risk of damage by pests will decrease. If the crops are placed in a plastic bag with a lock and placed on a lighted place, they will be in greenhouse conditions. Shoots can be expected in 3-5 days.
After this greenhouse should be removed, so as not to overwet the seedlings. About a month after sowing, the pills with sprouts can be moved to separate deep cups as external protection against awkward movements of the grower. If you are afraid to re-humidify, then spray the seedlings with a spray. Grown up within 3-4 weeks in gatsania glasses after transplanting into a pot can be sent to a permanent home base. This seems to be one of the options for the time-consuming process of caring for gazania seedlings at home.
How to plant a purchased sprout
To purchase a sprout in the store, you have to work hard. And it’s not a fact that the efforts spent will be crowned with success - there are not too many offers. By the time of sale, the seedlings of this flower are 7 centimeters high in pots that do not require urgent transplantation with a diameter of 7 or 11 cm or in smaller cassettes. In the future, purchased ghazania can be moved to a pot with a capacity depending on the number of outlets, and take care of it in the same way as it grew out of seeds at home.
If producers grow flowers in open ground, then transplantation must be done before the autumn cold. If, however, it is possible to acquire cuttings obtained from adult adult, then before planting in a pot, they should be rooted easily in water.
Important! Replace need to freeze.
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Even at the stage when you are just beginning to sow the seeds, it is desirable to imagine how they are carried out watering and top dressing gazanii, her trimming soil care, in which she lives.
Watering and feeding plants
The natural length of the roots provides moisture to the soil from under the ground, and the leaves are adapted to protect the surrounding soil from drying out. These circumstances determine regular infrequent watering of drought tolerant plants, which will allow to achieve abundant flowering, after which it is necessary to water even more moderately.
The most significant condition is to prevent overmoistening of the soil. It is recommended to feed up a gatsaniye by complex fertilizers. Enough once every two weeks. Strict adherence to this mode will lead to the emergence of a large number of large inflorescences.
Did you know? The size of inflorescences depends on regular feeding.
Caring for potted soil
Sandy soil (sand and clay) in a flower pot will be the most favorable habitat for gatsania. By adding organic matter and peat to it, you can ensure that there is a lot of humus and there is no excessive moisture.
Trimming gazanii
Home grown gatsania requires radical spring pruning every spring. Otherwise, it will be impossible to save abundant flowering due to the formation of new side shoots. This operation should be done in early March. All shoots without withdrawal are subject to cutting at a distance of 5 cm from the soil surface in a pot.
Diseases and pests of the flower
How difficult it is to grow gatsanyu from seeds at home, it becomes clear after becoming acquainted with its main diseases and pests that bring them. Although the plant is considered disease resistant, it is still subject to considerable risks.. African daisy attackers aphid and slugs can be very carefully collected by hand - the fragility of the flower will not allow to wash them with water. Strong-smelling garlic planted next to the flower will help avoid attacks. Also scares off the pest smell of onion, sage and parsley.
Spider mite does not tolerate insecticides, the solution of which is to spray a flower and cover it with a film for 2-3 days. Inadmissibility dampness can lead to disease gray rotwhich is difficult to fight. Prevention involves the protection of leaves and flowers from water and fertilizer when they are watered and fed. With the rot that has appeared, they are fighting Bordeaux liquid and other special preparations.
Did you know? Pests are afraid of strong odors.
Nature endowed gatsanyu with a generous scattering of such wonderful colors that the efforts to grow and care for it will echo in the hearts of home gardeners with love and satisfaction.
