When to Sow Cabbage For Seedlings For Cabbage.

Cabbage is a light-loving plant, a plant of a long day, it needs a light day for good flowering and fruiting, which is at least 13 hours long. At a shorter daylight, an arrow with seeds is formed. Therefore, before planting, you need to know when to plant cabbage on seedlings.

Seeds of cabbage before planting should be prepared. Dry seeds are placed for 15 minutes in water heated to 50 degrees, then in cold water for 1 minute and then placed for 12 hours in a solution of microelements. Then remove, wash with water and put in the refrigerator for 24 hours. After this pre-planting treatment, the seeds are dried so that they do not stick to the fingers and are sown.

It is important to know how to sow cabbage properly. Seeds are sown in the prepared substrate in rows with a distance between the plants about 1 cm, and between the rows of 3 cm. Seeds of cabbage seeds in the soil to a depth of 1 cm. To cultivate cabbage seedlings, a mixture of turf, peat and sand (1: 1: 1) . Do not use old garden soil, as it can be contaminated with a black foot. In order to prevent disease, the soil mixture is sown with a solution of potassium permanganate before sowing seeds.

The timing, when sowing seedlings of early cabbage, is determined depending on the temperature and timing of transplanting the seedlings into the open ground. Seeds of cabbage germinate already at 4-5 degrees of heat. Usually, seeds of early varieties are sown already on March 5-10. The timing when to sow cabbage for seedlings for late varieties is usually already after 10-20 March or early April already right into the open ground under the film.

After sowing seeds in the soil mixture until the first shoots are maintained at a temperature of 20-25 degrees, and after emergence of the temperature should be reduced for a week to 10 degrees. In 7 days, for growing seedlings, one should keep the temperature on sunny days 17 degrees, overcast 14 degrees, and at night 9 degrees.

After 14 days, sprouts are seeded, and then, for its better survival, the temperature is raised to 21 degrees for several days. Then set the mode to 17 degrees in the daytime and 9 degrees at night. Therefore, the time when planting cabbage for seedlings is selected proceeding from the fact that she had time to fully prepare for planting in the open ground. 12 days before such a landing, the seedlings begin to be hardened, accustoming it gradually to wind and temperature, and also to the sun's rays.

In this case, hurry with the planting of seedlings in the open ground should not be, if the air temperature is still low, since under such conditions the cabbage will give an arrow with seeds in 30 days. Usually seedlings of early varieties of cabbage are planted in the open ground at the beginning of May, and for the late cabbage varieties the best time of planting is May 10-20.

After you have decided when to plant cabbage on seedlings and sow it, you need to properly care for the seedlings. Care of white cabbage seedlings is carried out even before the appearance of the first shoots. It should be after sowing 4-5 days, sprinkle the soil with water, while the box with the seedlings should be in the room at a temperature of 18-20 degrees. Already after the emergence of seedlings, you should transfer seedlings into a room in which the temperature is not higher than 8 degrees, so that the seedlings do not stretch. After another 9 days, the seedlings should be dived into pots or cups. Seedlings during picks should be buried to cotyledonous leaves in order to strengthen the root system.

Sprinkle the seedlings regularly and abundantly with water at room temperature when the soil dries. Seedlings before planting in the open ground should be tempered, for this it is two weeks placed on a balcony or in a greenhouse with a temperature of 5 degrees, and at night kept in a room with a temperature of 10-12 degrees. A week before the planting, they stop watering the seedlings, and 2 hours before planting it is watered abundantly so that it is possible to easily extract the plants.