Marigolds can make colorful additions to any flower bed or garden. Marigolds "Tagetes erecta", commonly called African marigold, Aztec marigold, American marigold, and french marigolds, is native to Mexico and Central America. Compact flowers, ranging in color from pale yellow to deep orange and rust, marigold make a spectacular addition to pots, baskets and borders or simply scattered throughout the garden. To get the longest growing season from your marigolds, start the seeds indoors before transplanting seedlings outside. marigold seeds should be started six weeks before the expected date of the last frost in your area.
The Benefits of Reppoting Marigold Seedlings
There are many benefits of transplanting marigold seedlings, and it’s a great way to ensure your seedlings grow strong and stay healthy.
Transplanting seedlings in single pots will gives them more room to grow. If seedlings are pot-bound for too long, it can stunt their growth.
Transplanting seedlings into pots will also give them plenty of room to mature into small plants by the time they’re ready to be planted into the garden, and this will gives them a much better chance of success.
Growing marigold seedlings in single pots will also help increase airflow, which lowers the risk of mold growth, and they won’t be competing with each other for light and fertilizer.
Transplanting Marigold Seedlings Indoors
Growing Marigolds from seeds is easy, and transplanting seedlings indoors is not particularly difficult. With some simple indoor steps, you can have your marigolds seedlings well on their way to impressive outdoor blooms.
Carefuly remove each seedlings with a spoon or other implement, it allows you to get right under the roots of the plant without disturbing them too much.
Carefully place the seedlings in the new pot, and fill in around it with more potting soil. You can fill the container right up and press down gently around the plant so that it is securely planted.
Water gently each of them, to fill in any air pockets around the roots.
Good lighting is necessary When growing seedlings of marigolds indoors . In insufficient light, the seedlings will stretch out and be weak, and your seedlings will fail to thrive once they are transplanted. This will invariably affect flowering. So If you are using the light from a south-facing window instead of grow lights, turn your pots daily to help straighten out seedlings, which will tend to lean toward the light.
Water seedlings daily with a spray bottle to prevent water logging and alleviate the risk of damping off.
About a week before you want to transplant your seedlings, start hardening them off outdoors to acclimate them to their new growing conditions.
Watch How to Transplant Marigold Seedlings Indoors Video
Now that you know how to transplant Marigold seedlings indoors, you can start growing these wonderful flowers it's so easy. If you have any tips for growing Marigolds, we'd love to hear them - please share them in the comments below.
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