Growing ageratum from seeds - creating beauty with your own hands

Ageratum is a beautiful ornamental plant native to the American tropics. Ageratum, which is sometimes called long-flowered, is excellent for decorating flower beds and borders, and for creating decorative compositions from dried flowers. This plant is extremely beautiful, but due to the severity of our climate it becomes an annual. That is why growing ageratum from seeds is becoming more and more popular among gardeners.

Growing ageratum from seeds up to 5-6 weeks

• Ageratum seeds begin to be sown for seedlings 60...70 days before transplanting to flower beds. By this time, the first flowers will bloom on the bushes.
• To obtain seedlings, ageratum seeds are sown in special cassettes with 244 or 144 cells. In the second case, the period of growing seedlings can be increased by a week. Boxes are also used to grow ageratum seedlings. Ageratum seeds are not sprinkled with additional soil.
• The soil for seedlings of this flower should have an acidity of PH 5.5-5.8. In the first week, humidity must be maintained at almost 100%, then this figure is reduced to 40%.
• Growing ageratum from seeds at different stages should take place at the appropriate temperature. During seed germination (first week) - 21ºC -23 ºC. During the development of cotyledons (second week) - 18 ºC -21 ºC. In the future (up to 5-6 weeks) before transplanting the seedlings, approximately 17ºC - 20ºC.
• For high-quality seed germination, it is necessary to provide a sufficient amount of light. It is convenient to place a pair of fluorescent lamps on three boxes with sown seeds, each of which has a power of 36 W.
• Ageratum seedlings can be fertilized with calcium nitrate in an approximate concentration of 50...75 ppm.