Geiger is a plant that gardeners use with great pleasure to decorate their plots. Its leaves are simply amazing with a variety of colors. They can be white, red, green, cream, gray, purple. Therefore, with the help of geichers, making your garden mesmerizingly beautiful is very simple, it is only worth wanting it.
Cultivation of geyheers from seeds
You can propagate Geicher in several ways, but we'll talk about how to grow it from seeds. To do this is easy enough if certain rules are followed.
Shelf life after seeding 6 months. Therefore, be careful when buying, check the time. Planting seeds Geichers carried out in a wide container height of 6 cm. Make sure that the container under the landing was with drainage holes.
The soil for geochera must be loose. In the soil that you have prepared for planting, add sand and mix well. Before the seed is planted, this mixture of minutes 7 is heated in an oven or microwave oven. Lightly moisten, loosen and smooth well. Since the seeds are very small, they do not need to be deepened in the soil. After sowing, cover with glass or film and take it out into a well-lit place. Sowing is in late March - early April.
It takes about three weeks to germinate. For all this time the seedlings need airing, but be careful with drafts, the Geiger does not like them. After emergence of shoots, the glass should be raised, and if covered with a film, then it can be made holes. When three leaflets appear on your seedlings, they can be placed at a distance of 5 cm from each other.
In May, when it is already possible to plant the geycher in the open ground, in the garden, where there is half-shadow, dig holes and dig in containers with seedlings. So shoots are much faster and better strengthened.