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- Sow Ranunculus correctly: instructions and tips
- Sowing instructions - step by step
- Isolate the young plants and repot
- The best time for sowing
- Sowing - recommended?
- Tips
Seeds for sowing can be collected after flowering
Sow Ranunculus correctly: instructions and tips
A compact habit, colorful flowers and a modest character - what more could you want? Ranunculus is now available in various designs. There is something for every taste. Do you feel like pulling your own plants with possibly completely new properties from seeds?
Sowing instructions - step by step
It is noteworthy that the seeds are light germs. They should therefore be covered with very thin earth or simply pressed. Well suited for sowing are seed boxes or pots. Put the seed pot outside! The seeds need relatively low temperatures to germinate.
Then it says: Keep wet and wait! For 1,000 plants about 1,400 seeds are needed (germination rate). The germination temperature should be between 10 and 15 ° C. If the temperatures are higher than 16 ° C germ inhibition occurs.
Here's a hint for a quick germination:
Isolate the young plants and repot
Once the young ranunculus have 4 pairs of leaves, they can be spotted or repotted. Plant them in a well-drained substrate with a pH between 5.5 and 6.5! The pot should be about 10 cm in diameter.
The best time for sowing
It would be ideal if you sow the seeds in the field - whether from their own harvest after flowering or purchased - in mid-September (at the earliest in August) or place them in a seed pot on the balcony or terrace. Sowing can take place until the end of October. If necessary, the seeds can be sown in early spring.
Sowing - recommended?
Much faster and easier, in contrast to the seeding of the seeds separating the Brutzwiebeln of the mother onion. The bulbs are separated and implanted at intervals of at least 15 cm to each other. Keep wet and Schwupps: Have you received new Ranunkelpflanzen.
Tips
Do not put the frost-sensitive young plants outside in autumn, but only in spring! Otherwise there is a risk that they will freeze to death.