In the spring and summer, you want to please your eyes with something beautiful, decorate your yard, balcony and window sill with flowers, create comfort around you and enjoy the beauty. There are a huge number of plant species. You can grow them yourself or buy planted in pots. The first place in its diversity, rich palette of color and beauty is petunia. However, in order for the flower to enjoy its appearance for a long time, you need to know how to feed petunia for abundant flowering.
Petunia: a brief description of the flower
This is the most suitable flower for outdoor decoration of windows and balconies. There are two main varieties - multi-flowered and large-flowered. There are about 25 species.
The variety of the stem depends on the type of plant: branched, upright, hanging or creeping. The bud color is the most diverse: pure white, various tones of yellow and pink, bright red, purple, blue, there are even motley drawings of flowers.
Did you know? The first species from the genus Petunias was found and described in the vicinity of Montevideo (Uruguay) in 1793. It was classified by Lamarck to the Tabakov genus and received the name Nicotiana axillaris.Irrespective of a grade a plant is loving. Loves moisture, but not an overabundance of it. If grown with seeds, flowering occurs on the 70-90th day after planting, it also depends on the selected variety.
Fertilizer features
Whichever type or variety you choose, it will always need feeding. It is especially important to know how to feed petunia for abundant flowering.
The plant is beautiful and gentle, but very voracious. Therefore, it is necessary to fertilize it. The flowers, planted in small pots and pots, need regular feeding. In small containers, the substrate quickly loses the trace elements that the plant needs. Therefore, it is important to replant the flower in large pots.
Fertilizers need as soon as the planted flower seeds, and adult plants. And properly selected fertilizers for petunia will be needed for abundant flowering. After all, our goal is a bush covered with flowers.
Fertilizer methods
There are several ways to fertilize petunia.
- Fertilizer treatment of seeds. It is carried out by succinic acid. It regulates soil microflora and petunia growth. It is a food for plants and living microorganisms. It normalizes the flora of the soil. The plant, supplemented with succinic acid, grows better and has more strength to fight various diseases. It also tolerates drought better. Overdose by this agent is not dangerous. Framed seeds do not need to be fertilized. They are already fed and protected by peat, mineral fertilizer and humus shells.
- Top dressing of soil. Fertilizing the substrate before planting the plant creates a good nutrient medium for it. And also carried out prevention of such diseases as black leg. Peat is added for drainage. This is one of the mandatory procedures, because petunia does not tolerate stagnant moisture. Immediately before making the seeds, the soil is watered with a fungicide. Can be replaced with a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
- Fertilizer seedlings and adult petunias. After diving seedlings after 14 days make the first feeding. Usually it is nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers. This dressing is carried out every other day, alternating with ordinary watering. Fertilizer with iron is used if petunia leaves begin to turn yellow, and is carried out with a break of 5 days, 3-4 times. Phosphates are used to improve the appearance of petunias. It becomes more colorful and lush.
- Foliar application of fertilizers. It is good to alternate with the root. Sold in liquid form. A weak solution is made and sprayed on the leaves and color of the plant with a spray. Foliar top dressings are actively used in the initial stages of flower disease.
Types of flower dressing
The flower is picky and requires special attention and observation. Therefore, several types of feeding. What fertilizer petunias for high-quality and less time-consuming processing, so it is - liquid fertilizers. They are the most popular of all types of dressings. Sold as a concentrated liquid. They are bred in the right proportion with water and watered the substrate.
Important! The proportion of dilution of liquid fertilizer must be maintained exactly. Failure to observe the proportion is fraught with the plant disease and even its death.Their choice is very large, and you can buy in any flower shop. Fertilizers for flowering petunias, in demand and tested by many gardeners: "Garden of Miracles", "Ideal", "Bona Forte", "Uniflor".
Dry fertilizers are also diluted according to the instructions, but are presented in the form of powder or granules. Mark "Plantofol", "Master", "Kemira Lux". Dry fertilizers, like liquid fertilizers, should be used at least once a week. Proportions are respected according to the instructions. It is possible and more frequent use, but the concentration of fertilizer is reduced by 3-4 times. Such a mode of feeding plants even more like it. 
Long-lasting fertilizers are easy to use. They are granules (superphosphate, nitroammofosk, "Etisso"). They are introduced into the substrate before planting the petunia and dissolve with time, which feeds it. But their disadvantage is that it is difficult to regulate the degree of plant recharge. If the flower has an unimportant appearance and it seems that it is not enough to feed, then with the introduction of additional fertilizers there is a chance that the flower will disappear. Therefore, long-lasting fertilizers are not particularly in demand. For beginning flower growers it is better to use other types of dressing.
How to feed petunia for abundant flowering
On average, petunia bloom time begins from June and lasts through September. Depending on the variety, it happens that the budding period lasts longer. And, of course, it is important to care for her and timely feeding. If the seeds are sown in pots in late February, the flowers may appear in early April.
Learn more about growing flowers such as gaillardia, Shabo carnation, vatochnik, kosmeya, gazania, bleaching center, daisies, safflower, datur.For abundant flowering of petunias, they should be fed throughout the entire period of growth starting from the second week after planting. They should receive complex fertilizers.
A plant that does not receive the required amount of water throughout the growth, is not able to fully bloom. What kind of fertilizer loves petunia, so this is necessarily a large amount of phosphorus and potassium. Phosphorus improves the growth rate and enriches the stem and leaves with microelements. With its lack of leaves darken, and sometimes acquire a bluish tint. Lower leaves darken and fall. When these signs appear, feed the flower with phosphorus. Potassium is the main petunia dressing for flowering, it promotes flowering and fruiting. 
The buds of the flower, fertilized with potassium, become saturated and bright. Longer stored on the plant. Potassium is used immediately before flowering. It inhibits plant growth. It is very important to prevent an overdose, otherwise the flower will die. Nitrogen fertilizers are used in the seedling phase.
Check out the list of drugs that will be useful to you in the care of the garden: “Aktofit”, “Ordan”, “Oksikhom”, “Kinmiks”, “Omite”, liquid biohumus, “Fundazol”, “Bud”, boric acid.To increase the foliage fertilizers are applied in the same ratio of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus (NPK 10-10-10). When flowering is expected, use potash-phosphate fertilizer. "Kemira Lux" (16-20.6-27.1) is one of the best fertilizers in terms of composition, which makes feeding flowers for abundant flowering. In this fertilizer there is an excellent ratio of trace elements needed by petunias to start flowering.
"Agricola" is already used for flowering plants. Its composition is 15-21-25. When forming the plant and after pruning, "Agricola" is used with the composition of 24-10-20.
Did you know? Top dressing for petunia at home is carried out with a solution of boric acid. A solution in the ratio of 1 g of boric acid to 1 liter of water is applied over the sheet. This supplement is carried out once.
What else besides top dressing? Secrets of abundant petunia bloom
In addition to fertilizer for petunia for abundant flowering, there are other manipulations and secrets to care for it. They are also very important to perform. After all, the plant may not bloom or flowering will be scarce. 
Having a powerful root system, the flower needs space. Therefore, it is necessary to replant it in time to a larger volume. Usually when calculating 1 plant per 5-liter container filled with substrate.
Watering should be very frequent, especially in hot weather. Produced in the morning and in the evening. This plant loves moisture, the top layer of the earth should not dry out. But it does not tolerate stagnant water. When stagnation can develop diseases (black leg). Therefore, we need good drainage, preferably peaty.
Important! The plant is very fastidious and ordinary hard water from the tap will not bring much benefit. What to water petunia for abundant flowering, so it is water with an acidic pH. It can be made independently, having acidified usual water.For a plant to have abundant flowering, you need a lot of light. It is better to choose a balcony or a window from the south or south-west side for its breeding. You can also use artificial lighting.
Pinching promotes abundant flowering. But it is important not to overdo it, excessive pinching delay flowering.
It is important to shoot faded buds. When they are cleaned bloom increases. Properly and timely caring for the plant, you get a wonderful result. Using petunium dressing and performing the necessary manipulations for flowering, you will rejoice at the beauty that is in your home. Having an idea about the features of care, you will not have problems in growing a flower. Listen to the needs of your pet and get great gratitude.
