Multiply gloxinia from seed or by division

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• Multiply gloxinia from seed or by division
• Where do you get seeds from?
• Multiply gloxinia from seed
• Propagation by division of the tubers
• Tips

There are two promising methods of propagating gloxinia

Multiply gloxinia from seed or by division

Gloxinia can be propagated in two ways: either pull new plants from seeds or you pick the tubers in the fall from the ground and divide them in the spring. Both methods have their advantages as well as their disadvantages. How to increase the non-toxic gloxinia.

Early Gloxinia for the garden are hardy

Where do you get seeds from?

If you already cultivate Gloxinia in the garden, you can harvest seeds from the withered flowers. You only have to leave the flowers until the seed is ripe. However, this is at the expense of a long flowering.

Getting Gloxinia Seeds on the market is not that easy. Often, however, you will find on garden file sharing or on the Internet.

Multiply gloxinia from seed

Prepare seedlings or pots for sowing in February or March. Sprinkle the seed thinly, but do not cover it with soil.

A transparent film protects the seeds from drying out. Ventilate the film regularly, so that nothing molds. Set the tubes at 22 to 25 degrees.

When the seeds have germinated and the young plants have developed two to three leaf pairs, plant them in individual pots and maintain them at about 15 degrees. Three years elapse before the first flowering of the increased Gloxinia.

Propagation by division of the tubers

Gloxinia can be multiplied very well by division. Dig out the tubers in autumn and store them in a cool, dark and dry place over winter.

Bring the tubers from the winter quarters in March and divide them into pieces. Put them in pots. It turns out then easily whether the mother plant has survived the division.

You can plant the tubers from May on, when it does not freeze outside.

Tips

Garden gloxinia are hardy in contrast to room gloxinia. They tolerate temperatures down to minus 20 degrees. However, they are very wet, so it makes sense to dig up the tubers and spend the winter in the house.