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- Seed the seeds of fat butter by yourself
- So you get seeds from the fat herb
- Pull fat weed out of seeds
- Be careful when transplanting young plants
- Tips
From the beautiful flowers of the fat weed seeds for reproduction can be obtained
Seed the seeds of fat butter by yourself
Buttercup is not only a popular ornamental plant because of its beautiful, purple flowers. It can also be used to some extent for the control of fruit flies or weeping mosquitoes. Therefore, it may be worthwhile to collect seeds from pinguicula in order to grow additional plants for the herb bed.
So you get seeds from the fat herb
If you already grow fat plants in the garden or pot, you can harvest seeds from the flowers themselves. However, the flowers of the pinguicula must be pollinated. For plants kept in the house you have to do the pollination yourself.
You need at least two flowers best of two plants. Using a soft brush, stroke each flower in turn. Repeat this process for safety's sake. In the case of fatty herbs grown outdoors, bees and other insects pollinate. The seeds form in the ovary, which pop up when the seed is ripe.
About the pollinated flowers bind a bag into which the mature seeds fall later. You can also put a bowl underneath to catch the seeds. The seeds must dry until spring, before they are sown.
Pull fat weed out of seeds
Fettkraut is one of the light germs. The seeds should therefore under no circumstances be covered with substrate.
Make sure that the seed and later the young plants are sufficiently moist, but in no case too wet.
When brushing leave in each pot only the strongest plant stand, the rest is disposed of.
Be careful when transplanting young plants
If the young plants are big enough, you have to transplant them into larger pots. Be very careful. The roots of the fat herb are very tender and delicate. Be careful not to break or tear.
Tips
Buttercup is even easier to propagate through cuttings. To do this, cut some leaves with stems in late summer and put them in prepared pots with substrate for carnivores.