Cyclamen from seeds - how to grow at home

Cyclamen is a popular plant that growers are increasingly growing at home. The most popular varieties are European and Persian. Indoor culture conquers with amazing flowers that will become a real decoration of the room. The Persian cyclamen variety pleases with abundant flowering in the winter months, which is undoubtedly an advantage. Below is information that will help you get acquainted with the peculiarities of growing and caring for flowers.

Description

Cyclamen (dryak / alpine violet) is considered the most spectacular representative of the Mirsinov family. Experts identify about 20 varieties of perennials. The herbaceous plant is widespread in Northeast Africa, Somalia, Iran and Spain.

According to legend, cyclamen brings happiness to its owner.

The leaf plates, painted in dark green tones, are naturally endowed with a heart-shaped shape. The foliage is located on petioles, the length of which reaches 30 cm. On the surface of the green mass, you can see a beautiful pattern of a silvery-gray hue.

The flowers of a perennial herbaceous culture are distinguished by their sharpness, curvature and amazing fringed petals, giving the impression of a flock of exotic butterflies. Flowers can be painted in various shades:

• white;
• burgundy;
• purple;
• red;
• dark red;
• pink.

The flowering period lasts 90-105 days. Depending on which variety is grown and what conditions in the room were created for it, flowering begins to delight the owner either in October or closer to winter.

Is it possible to grow cyclamen from seeds at home

It is quite difficult to grow cyclamen / dryak at home. The plant needs to create favorable conditions for growth and development. Specialists in the field of floriculture have developed a number of recommendations that will help grow alpine violets from seeds.

• Planting material needs pre-planting preparation.
• It is best to purchase soil for planting seeds in a specialized store.
• Containers with crops should be placed on a well-lit windowsill near mature bushes.
• Potted soil should be systematically moistened.

Adhering to the listed recommendations, you can grow a duck from seeds on your own.

Where to get the seeds, what do they look like

Seed material for planting is best purchased from a gardening store. Seed germination will depend not only on the producer, but also on the specific batch.

The packaging material must contain information about the manufacturer, the name of the variety of the perennial herb and a photograph of the cyclamen during the flowering period must be printed. After reading this information, you can understand how high-quality the product is and recognize the varietal belonging of the dryak.

Spectacular flowering culture

Artificial pollination method, how to get seeds from another flower

Flowers are difficult to reproduce at home. However, most growers still resort to dividing the tuber. Also, indoor crops can be propagated by seed. Seed cyclamen will not soon please its owner with flowering.

To obtain high quality alpine violet seed material, it is worth using cross-pollination. This requires a soft brush, with which pollen is taken from the flowers of some bushes and transferred to the stigma of the pistils of others. If there is only one cyclamen bush in the house, then pollen is transferred from one flower to the stigma of another. The procedure must be repeated at least 3 times.

Cross-pollination is best done in the morning on a clear, sunny day. This will allow for rapid formation of ovaries. During this period, it is advisable to feed the plants. For this purpose, phosphorus-potassium fertilizers are suitable, for which you need to combine:

• 5 g superphosphate;
• 2.5 g of potassium sulfate;
• 5 liters of water.

After completing manual pollination, it is worth waiting for the end of the flowering period and collecting boxes with formed seeds. The seed can be colored in:

• dark brown tones;
• brown-orange shades.

Each seed looks like a small deflated ball that has lost its shape. Cyclamen seeds are found in bud formations that look like round containers. They appear in places where there were flowers.

When is the best time to start sowing

When propagating cyclamen by seeds at home, it is worth choosing the right timing for planting. Florists believe that it is best to plant seeds in late winter or early March.

If containers with plantings are not taken out into a cool room, then the timing of sowing seed may not be respected. However, given the specificity of the herbaceous culture, it is still worth planting without deviating much from the time recommended by a specialist.

Cyclamens: growing from seeds and care at home

How to grow cyclamen at home so that it pleases with long and abundant flowering? It is important not only to properly plant the seed in the ground, but also to properly care for the seedlings.

Preparation of soil and material

Before you start planting seeds, it is worth preparing the seeds. To this end, you need to fill the planting material with a 5% sugar solution. The floating seeds can be thrown away without regret, and those that have sunk to the surface of the bottom of the container will be required for planting. After the seeds have been removed from the sugar solution, they must be kept for 24 hours in one of the following means:

• Epin's solution;
• potassium permanganate;
• Zircon.

Before planting cyclamen, it is worth filling the container with light soil. If necessary, you can prepare the substrate yourself by combining a small part of the leafy soil and peat or vermiculite and peat. Also, the substrate can be prepared from:

• leafy ground - humus of woody leaf plates;
• peat or peat soil;
• sand that does not contain an admixture of clay.

The sand is thoroughly washed and cleaned of unnecessary components such as silt or pieces of clay, shells. Sand dilutes the soil and prevents it from caking, thereby facilitating the penetration of oxygen into the soil.

Before pouring the soil mixture into the container, it is worth pre-calcining it.

Each of the components of the soil mixture should be mixed in a reasonable amount.Too much of one or another component or fertilizer can negatively affect the structure of the seeds and reduce the chances of germination.

It is unacceptable to add components to the soil that continue to support the decay process. Against this background, the process of intrasoil heat release begins, because of which the seeds can "burn out".

Duck Seeds

The container for planting should not be voluminous, since the plants need frequent transplantation. When planting seed in plastic pots, you should take care in advance to make holes on the surface of the bottom of the container with hot nails. To this end, the nail is held over the fire for about 30 seconds. You can hold it with pliers, which will make it possible to avoid burns. The bottom of the pot is pierced with a hot nail in several places.

A drainage layer is poured onto the bottom surface, the thickness of which reaches 2 cm. As a drainage, foam or expanded clay is perfect. After that, a layer of earthen mixture (about 7 cm) is poured into the pot. The soil is abundantly moisturized.

Planting seed in the ground

Below is a step-by-step process for planting duck seeds.

1. The cyclamen seed must be sown on a moist soil surface.
2. A small layer of soil must be poured over the planting material.
3. In order for the seeds to germinate, it is necessary to put the pot on the windowsill near the adult alpine violet bushes.
4. The container is covered with a layer of film (opaque). The room temperature should be within +22 .. + 25 degrees. Compliance with the temperature regime will speed up the process of seed germination. When the temperature drops below +18 degrees, the planting material will begin to rot in the soil.
5. The film should be systematically removed from the pot for the purpose of airing, and the soil mixture should be moistened.
6. Soon, shoots will appear, which are small nodules, from which shoots loops with the presence of petals unfold. The loops are painted in bright purple tones.

How to plant cyclamen in a different way? Some gardeners recommend, after planting seeds in the soil mixture, transfer the pot to a shaded room, which practically does not receive sunlight.

When seedlings appear, problems may arise. The peel of the seeds may not be removed, which does not allow the leaf to fully unfold. As a rule, after a certain period of time, the problem is resolved by itself. In some cases, you may need help. To this end, cover the sprouts with a moistened cotton pad for 60-90 minutes. After that, the seed will be well moistened. Now you can remove the peel with tweezers without damaging the sprouts.

Seedlings of cyclamen

Features of seedling care

Alpine violet seeds are slow germination. It is worthwhile to be patient and systematically moisten the soil mixture, remove the film for the purpose of airing.

Before emergence, it is worth watering the soil with a sprayer. After the moistening procedure, the soil should be moist, but not wet.

The emergence of seedlings should be expected 30-45 days after the seeds have been planted. As soon as the seedlings appear, the film is removed, and the pot is exposed in the most sunny place in the apartment. The temperature regime can be reduced to 20 degrees.

As soon as a 3 leaf plate has time to form on the seedlings, it is worth dissecting them in separate containers.For planting seedlings, you should use a self-prepared soil mixture, which consists of:

• sheet soil;
• peat;
• some sand.

After picking, it is recommended to sprinkle the tubers with a layer of soil. After 7 days, flower fertilizer can be applied to the soil. Florists recommend using:

• 0.2% ammonium sulfate solution;
• 0.1% potassium nitrate.

After a few months of growing seedlings, you can plant each bush in a separate pot. It will take 14-16 months to wait for the first flowering after the seeds have been sown.

Recommendations regarding the timing of the pick

Experts recommend adhering to the rules for conducting a pick, which are presented below.

• Carrying out 1 pick should be carried out at the moment when a 2-3 leaf plate is formed on the bushes. Several seedlings can be placed in one pot at once.
• The second pick can be done after 6 months. Seedlings are placed in separate containers filled with loose soil.

Alpine violet needs systematic watering

Possible problems when growing a flower

Cyclamen is a decorative culture that prefers moderation in everything. An increased temperature regime in the room, the use of cold or too hot water for irrigation, dry air, can provoke the development of various diseases.

• Against the background of improper watering and too low room temperatures, the flowering period can be significantly reduced.
• Too high temperature in the room and waterlogged soil, causes decay of foliage. Also, ignoring the temperature regime can cause damage to flowers by thrips. The upper part of the leaf blades becomes gray-brown.
• Against the background of high humidity, perennials can be affected by gray rot.
• The defeat of the bushes by ticks. The curled edge of the foliage testifies to the invasion of parasites.

Bright bloom of the duck

Cyclamen is an amazing plant that pleases its owner with abundant and very bright flowering. Using the step-by-step process of growing alpine violets from seeds, you can grow the bushes yourself at home.