How much is lavender seed per jin? What is the planting time and method?

The leaf shape of lavender is beautiful and elegant, and the blue-purple inflorescence is long and beautiful. It is a new perennial cold-resistant flower in the courtyard. It is suitable for planting flowers in clusters or strips, and can also be watched in pots. Every year from May to October is the time when lavender is open to sow and raise seedlings, which has fast propagation, developed root system and strong seedlings, but has great variability, so it is a good material for seed selection. How much is lavender seed per jin? What is the planting time and method?

How much is the lavender seed per jin?

There is no specific value for the price of lavender seeds, because there are many kinds of lavender seeds, and the prices of each kind of seeds are different, including seven or eight hundred cheap, thousands of expensive.

Second, planting time of lavender seeds

Lavender seeds are small and suitable for seedling and transplanting. The sowing time is generally spring, warm areas can be carried out in March-June or September-November every year, cold areas should be sown from April to June, and sowing can also be sowed in greenhouse winter. The time of germination is about 14-21 days. The suitable temperature for germination is 18-24 ℃.

3. Planting methods of lavender seeds

(1) methods of sowing and propagation of lavender

1. Prepare the basin soil

First of all, prepare a suitable flowerpot, which should be short and wide. The soil matrix is loose and breathable, and the drainage is good. You can go to the florist to buy a special soil substrate for growing lavender, or you can prepare it with peat and a small amount of perlite.

2. Deal with the seeds

Select the seeds with uniform size, full grain and glossy skin, soak the lavender seeds at 40 ℃, cool the water for 24 hours, soak them with sulfuric acid for five minutes if possible, then wash and dry and sow the seeds.

3. Rational sowing

If it is sown in a domestic pot, only 2-3 seeds need to be sown in a flowerpot. After sowing, the seeds should be covered with thin soil, and the thickness should be 2-3 times of the seed diameter. Then water the soil gently with a fine spray pot to avoid washing the seeds away, or you can use the soaking method to soak the basin soil from the bottom up.

4. Maintenance and germination

After sowing, lavender seeds will be unearthed in about a week. In order to prevent the invasion of diseases and insect pests, 800 times carbendazim can be sprayed on the seedlings every half a month to prevent diseases. Usually there should be a certain amount of light, otherwise there will be excessive growth of leaf buds and slender stems. When 4-6 leaves are grown, they can be maintained normally.

(2) methods of cutting propagation of lavender

1. Select branches

First of all, choose a robust branch on the mother plant of lavender, which requires no heading, short and sturdy nodes, has grown for about a year and has been semi-Lignified. Such a branch is most suitable for cutting cuttings, and then the branch will be truncated to about 8cm. The lower cut of the cuttings is preferably about 1 cm close to the stem node, and the leaves of the upper part of the lower branch are removed.

2. Prepare the basin soil

Prepare the flowerpot and the soil substrate. Like the sowing method, the soil can be mixed with peat and perlite, and the pot soil needs to be sterilized before cutting. If the temperature is not suitable, you can also prepare a film cover for heat preservation and moisturization.

3. Cutting into the soil

Then insert the lavender cuttings into the potted soil, the depth is about 5 to 8 centimeters, and immediately water the cuttings once. After covering the film, it can increase the humidity and soil temperature, promote the rooting of cuttings and improve the survival rate.

4. Maintenance and rooting

Generally speaking, after 10 days of cutting, lavender cuttings will take root. When it first takes root, it will be more sensitive to the soil, so don't water it first, it's better to dry the soil a little bit. When the root system is well developed, normal maintenance can be carried out. The above is the whole process of planting lavender, after planting, do not forget the proper maintenance.