They have some gorgeous colours of petunias sure is tempting to take a few little snips. I became a big fan of outdoor window boxes a few years ago, and tried several different flowers with generally disappointing results.
Thank you for the tips! BTW your window garden is beautiful!!! Oh my God! My husband is going to kill you. I think he was hoping for a break over the winter from my endless chatter about my plants. My geraniums, impatiens, and petunias are still going strong. Also, the only nice light I have is in my studio. Will they still bloom?
Maybe I can have a bunch of them blooming in pots for my holiday sale in mid-December. I did as you told and took 15 cuttings. Pink, purple and mauve with purple striped. The pink ones are doing best. Not wet.
Now another 3 show powdery mildew. The purple ones. They are sitting in a window facing west. Location: Southeast New Brunswick, Canada. What did I do wrong? I really enjoyed your tips and photos on how to take Petunia cuttings. Hopefully our UK weather will be kind to them! Kevin, your info is fabulous!
I am a very busy realtor and have a big house and yard to manage with help of course but you inspire me to enjoy it all. Your blog is the only one I follow religiously. I am going to look for that fertilizer and also going into my potting shed and finding a clay pot to use as a sacrifice for the benefit of others. Thank you. Kevin, you are a wonder and a whiz. I love your posts and I love petunias.
I love petunias and appreciate your suggestions. Your garden is absolutely beautiful and I look forward to your blog. Hi Kevin, This comment has to do with your lovage pesto recipe. Because I have a lot of Lovage in my green I made the lovage pesto and served it to a local garden club when they came for a garden tour, tea and talk. It was so delicious. I served it as a spread on crackers. When my leaves grow again I certainly will put the next batch on pasta. Knowing it took a lot of leaves I suggested they buy a couple of plants.
Mine was too well established to dig up this time of year. I am so going to do this! How do you feel about Epsom salt as a booster 1t. Per gallon of water? I discovered a pink and white petunia growing in my front garden this week. I am going to bring it in for the winter and try to give it a bit of extra love after the harsh start it has had!
Super deluxe tutorial! I love your humor, and your photos are exquisite. I am a bit late, but I am still going to give this a g with my summer bloomers. Thanks Kevin! I spend a fortune buying petunias every season. This is a fabulous idea. Hi, We gardeners learn a lot from each other, and thanks to you I now know how to start petunias from cuttings.
I have a tiny Japanese Garden, and also grow — bromeliads in containers neoregelia variety for year round colour. I have two questions about petunias.
Also, where do you get your glass shelves. I have tried to find to no avail. Click here for details. I had a glass cutting shop make the shelves for my windows click here for more details. Kevin, do you sleep? Thank you so much for the detailed direction on how to propagate petunias!
I think I can actually pull it off now! I love petunias and now I can have them around all year long! Wish me luck! Petunias in containers are more prone to leggy development. If you want to keep these petunias looking beautiful, you should deadhead them more often. Watch them closely and prune when growing too tall. Thank you Kevin Lee Jacobs for the excellent article. I researched in 6 world class propagation books and did not find this information: — i.
I will be following your instructions meticulously. It was just luck that I happened to seek out this information at the right time of year. Thank you, Kevin, as always! Yet another wonderful idea, beautifully illustrated and explained with your usual clarity and humor. I will be clipping my pink petunias tomorrow.
Always look forward to your blog entry……. Great article, very inspirational. He he. And the winter housefull of geranium cuttings in al, the windows…. I love you Kevin!!!! My fave flower is the purple petunia because of the color and wonderful smell.
Now I can have them all year round. You are a true genious. Love this idea! When the summer days are beginning to shorten and winter threatening around the corner, this almost makes winter bearable. Not only are u a great cook but an awesome plant manipulator.
Your beagle must be in awe Thanks so much for sharing. Kevin, I noticed that you use broken terracota to cover the bottom hole of a pot. I used to as well, I now use nylon screening and nothing but water leaves my pots. I had no idea petunies could be wintered over.
Love your posts. And the appetizers look yummified. Thanks for the encouragement. I have tried bringing in petunias, impatiens — messy, geraniums but never started them from cuttings. Never short on projects. I just started several planters of Wandering Jew which is a favorite and tolerates low light through the winter. Thanks again for all your tips and tricks.
Tried bringing in a petunia plant last year…. Definitely trying this method!! Usually bring in geraniums each winter, just like my Mom always did. Love seeing the cheerful flowers in the dead of winter. Never had any luck with over-wintering a lantana…. Love your newsletter! Hi Kevin, you always have such great ideas and recipes! When you say florescent lights…are they regular or grow lights?
Thanks, Nancy. Another great Sunday morning KLJ idea!! I have some gorgeous deep purple with almost black streakings to try this with.
Kevin, I love your guidelines for propagating plants. The pictures help motivate me to do as you instruct. I must tell you, the dog-treat ball dispenser you posted about a while back has been a wonderful treat for me as well as my dog.
We just love to watch him play with this ball. It might not be pretty, but this is okay — the plant is still alive, it has just gone dormant, focusing its energy toward the roots rather than foliage or flowers. At that point, stop watering, dispose of any remaining leaves that have fallen, and move the pot to a dark location such as your garage or basement.
No additional watering or special care is required during dormancy, just be sure that your plants are provided the correct temperature and low-light conditions in their temporary environment. Reverse the process about six weeks before the last predicted frost date in your region, gradually adding more water and placing the pot in an increasingly sunny spot indoors.
Just as you gradually reduced the light to keep pace with the waning daylight outside, you want to expose the plant to gradually increasing amounts of daylight each day. That means putting it somewhere where it will receive a few hours of indirect light and an hour or two of direct sunlight or supplemental light.
Gradually increase this over a few weeks until it can sit in full daylight. Once the last average frost date has passed for the year, as long as there is no freezing weather in the forecast, harden the petunia off for a week before putting it back outside full-time. Hardening off requires that you put the plant outside in a protected spot with indirect sunlight for an hour, and then bring it back indoors.
The next day, give it an extra hour outside. At this point, you can treat your plant as you would any petunia in terms of providing water, fertilizer, and sunlight. You can put it in the ground or repot it into a larger container.
Our guide to growing petunias has all kinds of helpful tips to make sure your plant is perfectly content in the garden. The nice thing about this method is that you get to go on enjoying your petunias year-round.
But the challenge is that your plant is going to want to go dormant. Petunias need a lot of sun to grow actively. Just remove any blossoms and dead leaves. When you do water try and dampen the whole root zone a bit of water should drain out of the bottom of the pot. It is very easy to accidentally kill your plant with kindness. Plants in lower light situations will have a tendency to stretch and become lighter green in appearance. Don't worry too much about this problem.
If you can keep your plant alive till spring you can deal with the stretched plant later. In spring when the days start to get longer you should see your plant begin to grow more vigorously or again, some plants may not grow through the winter. When this new growth starts fertilize lightly with a water soluble fertilizer. Prune your plant back if it is looking stretched and unhappy.
Your plant is likely to begin using more water at this time so be sure to keep an eye on how quickly it is drying out. Lightly pinching new growth will encourage your plant to branch. Once you start getting warm days, you may want to start introducing your plant to outdoor conditions. Moving plants outside during the day and inside at night will help harden it off. Plants are like people that first 40 degree day seems awfully cold. However, after a week of 20 degrees, 40 feels downright nice.
Gradually introducing a plant to cooler temperatures hardening off will help it acclimate to outdoor conditions. Once the threat of frost has passed, place the plant outside permanently.
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There is a continuation message thread over in the Growing Under Lights forum that tells a lot of information about Overdriving Fluorescent Lights. The original message thread that hit a message limit and was archived and then lost is still available here. Incidentally, petunias can be grown from cuttings, so you might just bring in cuttings for the winter.
That would save the mess of digging up the parent plants and bringing in all the pests associated with them.
You might want to experiment with starting your petunia cuttings before cold weather sets in, to get the technique down. I overwinter annual geraniums and plumbagos in my garage and they stay dormant, no watering or fussing all winter and after frost, fertilize and they are as good as new - hope that helps.
There are buds on my petunia's and marigolds that haven't opened yet. I would like to know if the buds will open up with the Agrosun lighting or will they stay closed until next spring.
I once overwintered a red Petunia in a south-facing window. It got a bit leggy, it did bloom early spring not profusely , but it did not have the fragrance of when growing outside. I am overwintering a Heliotrope and right now, it seems to be doing just fine. When you prairiemoon2 mentionned that it turned into a mildewed mess, did you mean during the winter or later when taken outside again in the summer?
Cuz right now we're now end of Feb. Starts showing signs of getting leggy, but I figured that was normal I also spray it with water once in a while up to times a day, sometimes none. I trimmed it a bit in Dec. I might trim it again soon, before giving it new soil and better light to prepare it to come outside in a few months Not sure though.
I have been growing zinnias indoors during the Winter for the last several years, but it took me several years of trial and error before I became successful at it. I would not recommend it for the beginner.
I grow my zinnias on chrome wire shelves, the shelves themselves measuring 2 ft X 4 ft. I hang T8 fluorescent fixtures over the shelves. This is a typical shelf arrangement. I start my indoor zinnia project in October and end it in May when my outdoor zinnia project begins. I normally grow two generations of zinnias indoors and another two generations of zinnias outdoors.
There is some overlap between the outdoor and indoor phases. Four generations a year speed up my zinnia breeding activities. It is easier to start zinnia seedlings indoors to set out in the Spring in order to get an early start on zinnias grown outdoors. Indem Sie weiterhin auf der Website surfen bzw. Mehr erfahren. Ultimate Lighting Sale.
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