When to collect marigold seeds for seedlings. How to grow marigolds from seeds on the site. Care in the flower garden

Seed collection

Seeds should be collected only from the most beautiful flowers, the properties of which you would like to pass on to the next generation. For this reason, plants should be looked at at the time of their active flowering.

It is also important to consider that marigolds can be of 2 types:

1. reed female or terry varieties (petals are formed on the periphery);
2. tubular bisexual (petals are located around the center of the flower).

Tubular marigolds form a much larger amount of seed material than reed-type flowers, since the latter require more complex cross-pollination. But I still recommend selecting terry marigolds for sowing because of their decorative properties.

Seed material ripen somewhere after 40 days after the start of flowering. After this time, the flowers will turn yellow and wither, the stems will turn brown. Seeds from the resulting seed pods should be carefully poured into a paper bag (polyethylene should not be used for their storage).

If the weather is rainy for a long time, then the selected withered marigolds must be cut along with the stems and hung upside down in a dry, well-ventilated area. Dry white paper is placed on the floor under them or a cloth is laid, where the seeds will fall as they ripen.

In Central Russia, marigold seeds are harvested from September 8-10. The appearance of the plants will help you determine the timing more accurately - the bushes and stems should be wilted.

Marigold seeds should be collected only in dry, calm weather.

Basic Rules:

• Dry ripened boxes must be carefully cut.
• The collected boxes are dried in a dry, well-ventilated place.
• Seeds are removed from dried boxes and laid out in paper envelopes, in which they are stored until the next season.

The seeds are elongated. When ripe, they have a black tint.

Marigolds, Chernobrivtsy, lights - this is what the people call Tagetes. The culture is characterized by rapid growth and unpretentious care, and therefore enjoys considerable popularity. About when to sow marigolds for seedlings and how to do it correctly, will be discussed in the article.

The size of the inflorescences of this culture, as well as the shape, are different. The same applies to colors - tagetes flowers can be either brown-red or lemon. Another feature of marigolds is that they can be grown both in flowerbeds and in containers, in addition, they can be used to “cover” bare areas that remain after the flowering of bulbous plants.

But marigolds can not only decorate the garden. The point is that they contain phytoncides - useful substances that inhibit pathogenic fungi and repel pests(even those that live in the ground). By, for example, tagetes are planted from the weevil, and by cabbage - in order to scare away the whitefish.

More marigolds are planted:

• from fusarium (together with asters);
• from a nematode (next to clematics and phloxes);
• for subsequent use as a spice or medicinal crop.

What marigolds to choose?

Seven types of marigolds were introduced into the culture, those that are most popular among flower growers are shown in the table below.

Table. Popular types of marigolds.

Prices for marigolds

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Dates of planting marigolds for seedlings

Marigolds reproduce by seeds. The latter can be sown in the ground when the frosts are over, and then, after thinning, plant the plants more freely. There is another option - to plant marigolds in the form of flowering seedlings immediately after the end of frost. As a rule, about 40-50 days pass from the first shoots to the beginning of flowering (more exact dates depend on the particular variety), which means that the optimal time for sowing marigolds is the beginning of April.

Note! It is very important that the soil for sowing is exceptionally loose and fertile. Here is one possible soil mix: 1 part compost (can be replaced with humus), 2 parts peat and 1⁄2 parts washed river sand.

Video - How to harvest marigold seeds

Step-by-step instructions for sowing marigolds for seedlings

First you need to carry out some preparatory activities. The main enemy of marigold seedlings is the black leg, from which seedlings often die. In order to avoid such troubles, the container with the soil mixture is spilled with a fungicide solution even before planting (you can use, for example, Fitosporin-M) or, alternatively, with a solution of dark pink potassium permanganate. The best results are shown by steaming the pre-sifted soil for 60 minutes in a double boiler. Thanks to this, not only fungal spores will be destroyed, but also weed seeds.

Once prepared, follow the instructions below.

Step one. First of all, you need to slightly compact the prepared soil in the container, and then make grooves about 1 cm deep. It is important that the soil mixture is slightly moist.

step two. Next, you need to distribute the seed along these grooves. It is convenient to do this using a small sheet of white paper (as in the image below). If there are few seeds, they can be spread out along the grooves with tweezers. If there are several varieties, it is recommended to take care of labels with names.

Step Three. Seeds should be sprinkled with the same soil mixture with a layer of about 1 cm. If the thickness is less, then at the first shoots, the seed coat will remain on the cotyledon leaves. Seedlings will not get rid of the peel, which will make their subsequent development difficult.

Step Four. Sprinkled crops should be moistened. Moreover, this must be done especially carefully so that the earth does not erode, and the seeds do not appear on the surface.

Step five. After that, the crops must be covered with a transparent lid or film - so the soil will always remain moist. The container with crops must be moved to a warm and bright place. At a temperature within + 15-20 ° C, the first shoots will appear in a week.

Note! The temperature here is very important, because if it drops below + 15 ° C, then the seeds will not germinate well. If it is above + 25 ° C, then they most likely will not sprout at all.

Step Six. When the first shoots appear, the seedlings must be aired every day, because it is during this period that the black leg is especially dangerous for seedlings. But if signs of the disease were nevertheless found, lodging plants should be immediately removed along with earthen clods, and the remaining holes should be sprinkled with fresh soil mixture. Then it is recommended to shed the crops again with a fungicide solution.

step seven. When all shoots appear together, the cover must be removed altogether. As for watering, it should be done only after the soil in the container is completely dry; You also need to ensure that moisture does not accumulate in the pan. Every 14 days, marigolds should be fed with special seedling fertilizer (such as Mortar, Agricola).

Step eight. When the seedlings have 2-3 true leaves, you can start diving.

How to dive seedlings of marigolds?

When diving, seedlings can be buried to the lower oblong leaves (also known as cotyledons), but at the same time they (leaves) should not touch the soil.

For picking seedlings, a simple one can be used. By the way, even flowering seedlings of marigolds can dive, and it is not necessary to save root clods. However, it is most convenient to grow it in cassettes. The soil mixture may have the same composition as when sowing, but it is no longer necessary to sift it. But you need to add a complex mineral fertilizer (1 tablespoon per 5 liters) and wood ash (half a glass for the same volume of the mixture). To evenly distribute fertilizer, the soil must be thoroughly mixed.

Next, the mixture must be poured into cassettes, slightly compacted and deepenings of such dimensions should be made in it so that the roots of the seedlings fit freely there. In case of too long roots, their slight shortening is allowed. During the dive, the seedlings should be deepened by 10 mm.

Spread seedlings should be carefully watered. When the soil settles, it can be added from above. In the future, you need to water regularly - after each drying of the soil mixture. Here is one of the main rules for growing marigolds: it is better to underfill than overfill. Remember this.

Planting marigolds in open ground

About 14 days before transplanting, you can begin to gradually accustom the seedlings to natural conditions. But it should be remembered that marigolds can die even with the slightest frost, and therefore planting in the ground is possible only when the threat of cold weather has passed. For example, for the middle lane, this is the beginning of June.

Note! The plot of land selected for planting should be well lit. Yes, marigolds develop well in partial shade, but they bloom much worse in such conditions.

Step one. The soil does not have to be fertile, it only needs to be loose, well-permeable to moisture and air. If the ground is heavy, clayey, it can be improved with peat and sand.

Before planting, the soil should be dug into the bayonet of a shovel, and then nitroammophoska (or other complete mineral fertilizer) should be applied. Approximate consumption - 30 g per 1 m². Then it remains only to embed the fertilizer into the soil by re-digging.

• 40x40 cm (for tall varieties / hybrids);
• 30x30 cm (for medium);
• 20x20 cm (for undersized).

Also note that the recommended planting distances are often indicated by the manufacturer on the seed bags. Therefore, they (bags) must be preserved, and the marigolds must be provided with stickers with the names of the varieties. As for the depth of the holes, it should be such that the stems can be deepened by about 1-2 cm when planting. Root systems must be placed in the finished holes.

Step Three. After this, the voids remaining around the root systems must be well filled and lightly compacted.

Step Four. The final stage is watering seedlings planted in open ground. You can water the leaves, because marigolds are not afraid of this (as well as rain).

As for further care, it consists in supporting the looseness of the soil. If mineral fertilizers were applied to the soil, then one or two top dressings with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers throughout the season will be quite enough. By the way, thanks to these elements, the flowering of marigolds will be more magnificent. And if there is too much nitrogen in the soil, then the plants will grow strongly, which, of course, will be to the detriment of the formation of new buds.

Prices for nitroammophoska

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Diseases and pests of tagetes

Marigolds have a lot of "enemies", not only the black leg mentioned above. Let's get acquainted with pests and diseases in more detail.

Table. Pests and diseases of marigolds.

Marigolds are one of gardeners' favorite annual flowers. In almost every area you can find lush bushes with carved foliage and bright flowers that emit a spicy aroma familiar from childhood. Marigolds bloom almost all summer, delighting with an abundance of inflorescences.

plant description

Marigolds or tagetes, belong to the genus of annual and perennial plants of the Aster family. Upright branched stems form a bush with a height of 20 to 120 cm. The leaves are pinnate, openwork, the root system is fibrous. Inflorescences - baskets, simple or double, yellow, orange or brown. Blooms profusely from mid-summer until frost. The fruit is an achene, 1 g contains up to 700 seeds. The whole plant emits a spicy aroma. Grows best in full sun, although it tolerates some shade. The soil should be nutritious, moderately moist.

Marigolds are widely used to create flower groups, rabatok. Low-growing varieties are beautiful both in borders and in arrays, on the lawn. Planted in a pot, they can bloom for a long time in the room. The culture is suitable for cultivation in balcony boxes, containers. Cut inflorescences stand in water for a long time.

Agrotechnics of cultivation

Tagetes is unpretentious, grows and blooms in almost any conditions, but with good care, the bushes look much more decorative. It is grown in two ways - seedlings and sowing seeds in the ground.

A seedless way to grow marigolds

Marigolds are grown by sowing seeds in the ground at different times:

1. Before winter, after the onset of a steady minus. Ridges are formed in advance, grooves are made and some earth is stored in a warm place. Seeds are sown in dry soil and sprinkled with stored soil. Mulch from above with rotted sawdust, compost, leaf litter. In the spring, when the last frosts have passed, the mulch is raked so that the soil warms up faster.
2. In the spring, in mid-April - early May, marigolds are sown on insulated ridges or greenhouses. After sowing, the furrows are shed with warm water.

In early - mid-May, tagetes are sown directly into the ground in a permanent place. The seedlings that have appeared are thinned out, leaving at least 10 cm between the plants. When several true leaves appear on the seedlings, they are seated at a distance of 30–40 cm.

How to grow marigold seedlings in a greenhouse

Marigolds from seeds are successfully grown in a greenhouse. Planting dates come when weather forecasters no longer promise a decrease in night temperatures below -1 -3 ° С. The soil in the greenhouse quickly thaws already in the first warm April days.

To prevent hatching seedlings from being caught by night frost, use covering material. You can also put water containers in the greenhouse. During the day, it heats up and at night it gradually gives off heat, maintaining the temperature several degrees higher than outside.

Shoots appear in a week. Care for seedlings of marigolds consists in regular watering with warm water, loosening and weeding. If the soil has been prepared in advance, young plants do not need separate dressings. If necessary (weak growth, yellowing of the leaves), foliar spraying is carried out with a 1–3% solution. By mid-May, seedlings are ready for transplanting into open ground.

How to grow marigold seedlings at home

The most reliable way to get flowering plants in the early stages is to plant marigolds for seedlings. Like the main seedling crops - peppers and eggplants, they are sown at the end of February - in March. More exact dates depend on the climate and region of residence.

The soil for sowing marigolds is prepared in the following proportions:

• 1 part compost;
• 1 part
• 1 part of garden land;
• 0.5 parts of sand.

A layer of drainage is poured at the bottom of the tank - broken brick, expanded clay, coarse sand. Then - the prepared soil mixture. It is slightly compacted and watered. You can add a drug for fungal diseases to the water for irrigation, since tagetes seedlings often suffer from a black leg. A few days later, when the earth settles and is evenly saturated with moisture, grooves are made and marigold seeds are laid out in them.

Sprinkle with earth on top and moisten a little more. The pots are covered with glass or film and placed in a warm, bright place. The cover is regularly removed for ventilation. After the appearance of the first shoots, the film is removed and the containers are rearranged in a sunny place. Water very sparingly until the seedlings have their first true leaves to prevent blackleg disease.

Caring for seedlings at home is no different from the agricultural technology of growing seedlings in the open field: timely watering, fertilizing and good lighting will allow you to get the first marigold flowers in June.

Planting seedlings in open ground

The optimal distance between plants when planting marigold seedlings in open ground is 0.4–0.5 m for upright varieties. Undersized can be planted a little more often. The place should be sunny, without stagnation of air.

Plants are transplanted along with a clod of earth. Before planting, marigolds should be watered so that the roots do not dry out during transplantation. It is advisable to prepare a place for a future flower bed in the fall - bring in, ash and dig. When planting seedlings in the ground, compost, urea or saltpeter are added under each root. But you should not be zealous with nitrogen so that the plants do not grow fat, that is, they do not increase their green mass to the detriment of flowering. Spraying with a solution of micronutrient fertilizers for flowers will bring great benefit to velvet. They do this after the plants have taken root, started to grow and began to pick up buds.

Tagetes care in the open field

Marigolds are moisture-loving, but do not like prolonged stagnation of water. Therefore, watering should be moderate. After watering, the earth must be loosened. For abundant flowering several times a season, flowers are fed with infusion of mullein or liquid and other weeds.

To maintain a high decorative effect, wilted inflorescences are cut off. Thickened areas are easy to thin out with pruning, using cut flowers for bouquets.

Diseases, treatment and prevention

Due to the content of phytoncides, marigolds are less susceptible to disease than other crops. However, unsuitable conditions for them can cause gray mold disease and spider mite invasion. Infected with rot specimens are destroyed, in healthy ones, watering is reduced, sprayed with drugs against the fungus.
From spider mites, tagetes is treated with an infusion of garlic, wormwood, red pepper or tobacco dust. In case of severe damage, the plants are sprayed with solutions of the preparations "Aktellik", "Fufanon", "Antiklesch", "Fitoverm".

Plant marigolds in sunny, windy places without thickening, and the plants will bloom more profusely and get sick less.

How to collect and save marigold seeds

With good care in the open field, marigolds planted in May-June form faded and dried achenes filled with seeds by mid-August. They are quite large and resemble an arrow with a black tip and light plumage. The largest specimens are collected for seeds. The collected achenes are dried in a dry place and cleaned, freeing from the husk.

Seeds are collected only from varietal marigolds, hybrids are not suitable for this, as they inherit the characteristics of only one of the parents.

Well-dried seeds are poured into cloth bags and stored at a temperature of 1–5 ° C and a humidity of 50–60%. Under such conditions, planting material does not lose its germination for several years.

Application in medicine

A bouquet of cut marigolds heals the air in the room, repels flies. Dried petals are used as a condiment in some countries. In the Caucasus, it is known as Imeretian saffron. Leaves treat constipation, fever, used as a diuretic and diaphoretic. In large doses, marigold leaves act as an emetic. The lutein contained in the flowers reduces the likelihood of developing cataracts and improves visual acuity. Baths with tagetes infusion relax, relieve anxiety. They are recommended to be taken at bedtime for depression and neuroses. The tincture of the plant copes well with stomatitis and skin diseases.

On an industrial scale, marigolds are grown to produce essential oils.

The raw material for it is the entire above-ground part of plants. The oil has a sweet fruity aroma with a slight citrus note. It has a sedative, antifungal, hypotensive, antiseptic effect. It softens the skin well, at the same time repelling flying flies and mosquitoes. Helps heal cuts, scratches, softens calluses.

Marigold oil is a popular ingredient in many French perfumes.

Benefits for the garden

In order for the marigolds to fully show their phytoncidal properties, they are planted along the perimeter of the site, along the paths, the beginning and end of the beds are marked with separate bushes. Tagetes, planted next to cabbage beds, repels the cruciferous flea. One or two flowering bushes in a greenhouse can significantly reduce the likelihood of late blight and various rots. In autumn, the whole plant is used as green manure - they grind and dig up the ground along with the resulting green mass. This will scare away the nematode, wireworm and enrich the soil with organic matter.

Marigold bushes can be left for the whole winter. Planted in rows, they will serve as wind protection and hold snow on the site.

In the spring, after the snow melts, dried bushes are pulled out and burned, or sent to compost.

Types of tagetes

In summer cottages, marigolds of different heights grow, differing in flowering time, size and color of flowers. Seeds of the variety and type you like can be bought at almost any specialized store.

Marigolds erect (Tagetes erecta)

The shape of the inflorescence is divided into two groups:

• clove-flowering - this group has many reed flowers in the inflorescences, few tubular ones in the center;
• chrysanthemum-flowered - the entire inflorescence consists of tubular flowers, along the edge there is one row of reeds.

Upright varieties of tagetes are among the highest. Among them are many beautiful, with large spherical inflorescences of yellow and orange flowers.

Antigua- low bushes are strewn with many flowers with a diameter of up to 10 cm of yellow-orange color.

yellow stone- a plant up to 70 cm high looks like a chrysanthemum with large light yellow spherical flowers.

golden dollar- tall bushes with large dark green leaves beautifully set off red-orange odorless terry balls.

golden light- compact plants of medium height are crowned with bright orange lights. Late variety, blooms from late June until frost.

lemon prince- from the beginning of summer to cold weather, it will delight with a combination of lemon-yellow inflorescences with a dark emerald of carved foliage. Variety 80 cm high.

Shaggy Robin- pale yellow heads really look shaggy due to tubular flowers of different lengths. Cut beautifully and unusually.

Marigolds rejected (Tagetes patula)

This type of medium height is 20–40 cm. The flowers may not be double, but no less beautiful, often two-colored.

golden head- low strongly leafy bushes are covered with many yellow inflorescences with red edges. The outer petals are wavy and bent down. The grade is recommended for cultivation in containers, pots, for beds and rabatok.

golden ball- sprawling branched bushes will delight with an exquisite combination of a golden center in a red-brown border. Blooms from early summer. The variety is good for cutting.

Queen Sofia- red-brown shades of terracotta, cinnamon and bronze fade slightly in the sun, acquiring almost chocolate tones. The inflorescences are not double, but large.

lemon jewel- the name of the variety speaks for itself. Compact strongly leafy bushes firmly hold a scattering of double bright yellow flowers.

orange flame- the variety will not leave anyone indifferent thanks to two-color spherical inflorescences with a bright orange center in a red-brown design.

Thin-leaved marigolds (Tagetes tenuifolia),

Thin-leaved varieties have thin, strongly cut foliage and small non-double flowers of yellow, orange or red. Flowering bushes resemble openwork balls dotted with many bright lights.

Golden ring- a plant of medium height with fragile shoots and small light green leaves. It blooms from early June with bright yellow small flowers with dark orange edging.

Dwarf- similar to the previous variety, but differs from it in small height. Therefore, it is recommended for decorating the edges of flower beds, rabatok. Nice and easy to grow in pots and boxes.

Lulu- the variety is characterized by abundant flowering. A sprawling bush forms a green ball, strewn with bright yellow stars.

Paprika- a lot of fiery red flowers with a yellow center will not go unnoticed in any flower bed. The variety repels pests with a strong aroma.

With such a variety of varieties, you can make an elegant one and only from marigolds, alternating different colors. High large-flowered varieties are placed in the center of the flower bed, framing them with undersized varieties of a contrasting shade. Marigolds planted in balcony boxes will fill the apartment with a delicate spicy aroma all summer long.

The most important thing about marigolds - video

Marigolds are an annual crop that many summer residents love. Bright orange-brown flowers will decorate the front garden and any empty island of land on the site. The plant is unpretentious, tolerates drought well, resistant to diseases and pests. Sometimes flower lovers are interested in how to collect marigold seeds on their own, so that next year they do not spend money on purchasing planting material.

Marigold seeds are collected from the most beautiful flowers. Look closely at the flowers during flowering. In order not to confuse anything, you can immediately designate the necessary specimens with bright ropes.

Gardeners should remember that the inflorescences of this culture are of two varieties:

• Bisexual tubular flowers. You can distinguish them by the characteristic arrangement of the petals, around the middle;
• Reed female. In this case, the petals are located on the periphery. These are terry varieties of marigolds.

Each of these species has its own characteristic features. So bisexual tubular flowers give a lot of seeds, they are self-pollinated and have good germination.

Terry varieties need cross-pollination. Therefore, they give less planting material. But such varieties of marigolds are more lush and attractive. If you want to get a beautiful flower bed, then you should collect just such seeds. If quantity is important, not quality, seeds of bisexual tubular flowers are suitable.

From the time the flower has blossomed to the full maturity of the seeds, about 40 days pass. You need to know when to collect marigold seeds for seedlings and not miss this deadline.

You can start collecting seed material at a time when the inflorescences darken and become dry, in mature specimens the stem becomes brown. Usually this time falls on the end of August or the beginning of September.

Full ripening of marigold seeds on bushes is possible only in sunny and dry weather. If the summer is rainy, it is constantly damp and cloudy outside, then the seed material should not be left on the bush. Otherwise, the seeds will rot and lose their ability to germinate.

In order to prevent damage to the planting material, on a sunny and warm day, the flowers are cut off along with the stems and brought home. Cut stems are collected in small bunches and hung upside down in a dry and well-ventilated place.

It is important not to miss the seed collection period, otherwise you may see already empty seed calyxes. Seeds from these flowers fall off quickly after ripening.

How to collect seeds

On the forums of summer residents, you can often see the question of how to collect marigold seeds at home? It is not difficult to do this, even a novice amateur grower will cope with a similar task. To collect the seed material, you only need to prepare a small plastic bowl. If the buds are harvested raw, then scissors are needed to cut them.

Collection from the bushes

Dry seed pods are torn off by hand and placed in a bucket. After that, it is enough to pull the seeds out of the box at home and scatter to dry.

You can make your job easier. The seeds are carefully pulled out of the seed pods with your fingers, without tearing them off. In this case, you do not need to spend extra time cleaning the seeds.

If the seeds have dried out at home on the stems, then a sheet of white paper is covered under the hanging bunches. As they mature, the seeds fall onto a paper sheet, after which they are harvested.

To shake out the rest of the seeds from the seed pods, you can crush them a little with your fingers or tap the bouquets on a table covered with paper.

How to select good seeds

Not all seeds collected from marigolds have good germination. It depends on the degree of maturation, drying and storage conditions. Select seeds of approximately the same size. Then they are immersed for 2 hours in a saline solution prepared from a tablespoon of salt and a liter of water.

After this time, good seeds sink to the bottom, and unsuitable seeds for planting emerge. All the gardener needs is to throw out the floating seeds and dry the ones that have fallen to the bottom.

Dry them on cotton cloth or white paper. Planting material is periodically mixed so that it does not rot.

Storage

The collected marigold seeds are stored in paper envelopes or cotton bags. They must indicate the date of collection of planting material.

Store flower seeds in a dry and cool place, away from sunlight. Best suited for storage is a nightstand on a veranda or loggia, where the temperature in autumn and winter does not exceed 10 degrees Celsius.

The shelf life of marigold seeds is 3-4 years. At the same time, the germination rate of seeds that ripened in the house is no worse than that of the seed material collected from the stalks. It should be borne in mind that seed germination decreases every year.

Every year, bags of marigold seeds are sorted out and those that are not suitable are thrown away.

Is it possible to collect seeds after frost

Here look at the appearance of the seed pods. If they are wet and frozen, then nothing good will come of this idea. If the boxes are dry and frosts are weak, then you can try to collect planting material.

Marigolds adorn household plots and front gardens. To get full and beautiful buds, you should properly collect the seed material. Do this at the end of summer, in dry and sunny weather.

If you collect marigold seeds and grow them, you can get a flower of longevity. That is how the Chinese call it, and the ancient people of the Maya considered it a magical plant and used it in witchcraft rituals.

Bright, colorful marigolds will decorate any flower bed, as an independent plant or in combination with other flowers, fill the nearest space with a tart aroma. In addition to external beauty, marigolds have medicinal properties, and in cooking, the petals are used as a spice.

How to collect marigold seeds for seedlings

Because of its unpretentiousness and beauty, the flower has many admirers. It is called differently in every country. In Ukraine - Chernobrivtsy, in England - Marigold. Spain is considered the birthplace of marigold. It was there that the flower was named after the god Tadis - tagetes, from there it spread throughout the world.

Marigolds should be chosen for decorating plots for many reasons:

• the flower is unpretentious, it is easy to grow it;
• does not oppress neighboring plants;
• he has a good survival rate, tolerates heat;
• strong smell repels flies, mosquitoes and other insects;
• a beautiful combination of shades of the plant makes any flower bed festive.

The most beautiful marigolds are selected for seed collection so that the next generation of flowers will be just as attractive.

Tubular

Bisexual - the petals are crowded in the center of the marigold. They are self-pollinating, have high germination rates, while the plant is not very large and lush. A large amount of planting material is formed inside it, with which large areas can be planted.

Reed

Same-sex, belong to the female sex. The petals are located at the edges, beautifully surround the entire marigold. Very bright, lush, double flower, but it requires cross-pollination. It forms few seeds, but the most beautiful, bright and fluffy marigolds grow from them.

collection time

Marigolds belong to the genus of perennial plants, they can be left for self-gardening. In this case, the flowers will have poor germination, they will become undersized and not as colorful.

Full maturation of the plant begins 1.5 months after flowering, at which time the collection of marigold seeds begins. It lasts from August to October, depending on weather conditions and on the degree of ripening of the flower.

The ripening time is determined by the color of the marigold: it has a withered stem, a dried gray calyx, and brown petals.

Marigolds bloom gradually, which makes it possible to collect seeds within 2 months. If the collection of planting material begins after frost, this will affect the quality, there will be poor germination.

The quality of seeds depends on the following rules:

• different types of Chernobrivtsy are planted at a distance to avoid cross-pollination and changes in the decorative differences of the variety;
• you need to remove unhealthy flowers from the flower bed;
• watering and feeding marigolds must be stopped after flowering, otherwise this leads to increased growth of the stem, and the petals will not form well;
• too dense planting of flowers limits the access of the sun to the base, which leads to the development of fungal diseases and infection of the planting material.

Important! You need to choose dry weather for collecting seeds, because insufficiently dry seeds will begin to rot and lose their ability to reproduce.

The size of the seeds depends on the variety of marigold:

• in erect, terry - the largest;
• in rejected ones, with many bright flowers - a smaller size;
• in thin-leaved, with openwork petals - a small amount of light seeds.

How to collect marigold seeds

It is necessary to take fully ripened seeds, unripe ones can deteriorate during storage. Ripe ones have a stick-shaped form, one edge is black with a fluff.

If the damp climate persists for a long time, you need to cut off the withered marigolds, along with the stem, and hang to dry in a dry, ventilated area. A clean cloth or paper is spread under them; after ripening, the seeds will crumble there.

To collect marigold seeds, you must:

• scissors;
• a large sheet of blank paper;
• any capacity;
• paper bags or canvas bags.

The flower calyx is cut from the central stem. They should crumble easily in your hands. They are kneaded, the seeds are taken out and a thin layer is scattered on a clean sheet of paper. Leave in a dark, dry building for 3-4 days to dry.

Calibration

For a good harvest, you need high-quality planting material, so strong, healthy seeds should be selected for sowing. To separate the weak and empty, they are placed in a 1:20 saline solution, left for 30 minutes. During this time, healthy grains will settle to the bottom, and unviable grains will float. They are carefully removed.

Dry material is scattered in paper bags or canvas bags and stored until sowing. It is dried according to the type of plant, an appropriate inscription is made on the packages.

Important! You can not collect seeds from diseased marigolds, they can transmit the disease by inheritance.

Seed storage rules

The main condition for storage is to prevent dampness of planting material. It is permissible to keep the seeds in bags or containers where air will be provided. The storage room should be dry, dark and cool. Do not store near heating appliances.

If there is no suitable room, it is better to keep the seeds on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. But sometimes you need to get them out and dry them in the air.

Conclusion

The plant is not capricious: if you collect marigold seeds correctly, then from mid-summer to late autumn they will decorate flower beds and lawns, pleasing the eyes of the owners.

Possessing medicinal properties, flowers will always be available for first aid. Dishes prepared with the addition of flower petals acquire an exotic taste. Phytoncides and oils contained in it make the skin young, tender and clean. In addition, marigold is one of the few plants that has no contraindications.

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