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Geraniums can be pulled from seed with some patience
Remove geraniums from seeds - this is how you do it
On the Internet, in garden and DIY stores are often cheap bags with Geraniensamen available. With it you can use your summery geranium splendor for balcony box and tub without having to buy the plants later for expensive money. With our instructions you also succeed in the Geranienzucht!
Sow geranium seed
In order for your geraniums to flower this summer, you should sow them very early in the year - at best already in January, but at the latest in early February. Use nutrient-poor and germ-free cultivation soil for cultivation.
Geraniumsamen usually germinate within 10 to 20 days.
Maintain seedlings properly
Once the seeds have accumulated, you should air them regularly, otherwise the seedlings will start to rot. First, open only the ventilation slots, then take off after a few days, the lid of the planter - first for an hour a day, later longer. In addition, you should now make the seedlings cooler, otherwise they start to fuck. Then they form only long and weak shoots, but later do not bear flowers. Ideal are temperatures around 15 ° C - so do not necessarily put on the windowsill above the heater.
Tips
Harden the young plants before placing them permanently outdoors. For this you should put out the geraniums, as soon as it is warm and sunny enough and no more frosts are to be expected - but only by the hour. Extend these times from day to day until the plants finally stay out overnight.