How to plant a sunflower

How to plant a sunflower

Sunflower, hearing his name alone the beauty of this flower has appeared in the shadow of the audience. Judging from its beauty, certainly a lot of the activists, fans, and lovers of this beautiful sunflower. Unfortunately, most people misperceive that this flower is difficult to cultivate. Opinions about the difficulty of planting sunflowers also make many parties are reluctant to try it.

How to Plant Sunflowers

In fact, sunflower is one type of flower that is easy enough to be planted and developed. There is no special technique in cultivating sunflower. However, there are certainly some things that should be given special attention if you want to plant this sunflower. Here's a list of how to grow a good sunflower we learned together:

How to plant the first sunflower is certainly no different from planting other plants, which is how to choose the right seed. Sunflower seeds obtained from sunflower seeds that we know as kwaci. Selection of seeds is important, because it will determine the sunflower that you will cultivate later. Some popular types of sunflower are velvet queen, evening sun, and mammoth gray. The three types of sunflower has its own advantages. If you want to have sunflowers that grow in several color variations such as yellow and orange you should choose the evening sun seed. But if you like different things, you can choose velvet queen seeds because the sunflower produced is red blood. Then as the name suggests mammoth gray, sunflower has a very large size and can reach up to 2 meters high. If you are interested in it, of course you have to choose the seed.

The second way in planting sunflower is in preparing the planting medium. The media planting from the sunflower is the soil. Sunflower has no special requirements for soil conditions. However, it is advisable to choose loose soil to facilitate the process of water absorption. Because of the possibility to grow very high, this plant is not suitable to be planted indoors. Planting the seeds to the planting medium can be done by placing a tapered part of the seed (kwaci) to the planting medium. But do not plant all the seeds, leave a little bit of the top to keep them on the surface.

The third way is to ensure the temperature of the seeding site must be at least 25o after four days there will be shoots appearing. This should be supported by adequate irrigation and sunlight. Watering should be done twice a day and the sun should cause the minimum temperature as mentioned earlier for six consecutive hours.

The fourth way after the shoots appear, protect shoots by using plastic bottles. This effort is done to protect the sunflower babies from external threats such as cattle feed or damaged by rain.

The fifth way is the provision of fertilizer. Maximum fertilizer giving can be done after sunflower is more than one month, with signs of popping leaves. Use suitable fertilizer and be able to support the growth of flowers, such as manure, TSP fertilizer, and NPK fertilizer. However, fertilizer should be done according to the age of the plant. Suppose that at the age of one month, suitable fertilizer is NPK fertilizer. Meanwhile, after approaching two months already can be given TSP fertilizer. The dose given should also be appropriate to his age. The sixth way is to weed and select. After the age of 3 months, will appear flowers will flower around the sunflower leaves. Consider where the strategic buds and which are not. If less strategic is better pruned to accelerate the growth of other buds. The less buds, the more nutrients that will be obtained by each bud and certainly the plant will grow more quickly.

And the end of the hour is coming, when the sunflower blooms

So are some ways of planting sunflowers that we can learn together. Of course not difficult is not it? Sunflower will decorate your garden and make your environment more comfortable and colorful. Do not hesitate and try to cultivate your own sunflower plants!