How to plant rainbow pink (Dianthus chinensis) seeds? Detailed planting method

Rainbow pink is a flowering plant with very beautiful blooms, and growing it as a potted plant offers very high ornamental value. This plant can also be propagated into small potted seedlings by sowing seeds. So how do you plant rainbow pink seeds? Today, the editor will share with you the method for planting rainbow pink seeds.

We can prepare a square flower pot with a rim length and width of about 10 cm, a bottom length and width of about 7 cm, and a depth of about 9 cm. Next, take out the insert card bearing the name rainbow pink, and also take out the rainbow pink seeds for later use, preparing all the materials needed.

Then pour a layer of nutrient soil into the pot, and gently shake the pot a few times to make the soil in the pot more level and reduce gaps in the pot. Then continue pouring in some potting soil to fill the space, until the potting soil is slightly higher than the pot rim. Finally, shake the pot a few more times to make the soil in the pot more compact with fewer gaps, until the soil surface is slightly lower than the pot rim.

Take out the previously prepared rainbow pink seeds from the small plastic bag, and evenly scatter about half a bag of seeds into the pot. After sowing, sprinkle a thin layer of soil over the pot surface to cover all the seeds.

After sowing the seeds and covering them with soil, water the pot with a spray bottle. The water quality should be good, such as drinking water or household water. Water for about one minute until the soil is thoroughly watered and water can be seen flowing out from the bottom of the pot. Watering must be sufficient so that the seeds can fully absorb water in the potting soil.

Finally, insert the card bearing the name rainbow pink back into the pot as a label, so we can identify the seeds after they sprout. If all goes well, in about 5-7 days you will see rainbow pink sprouts emerge. And as the days pass one by one, the rainbow pink seedlings in the pot will become denser and denser.

After a few more days, the seedlings in the pot will have grown much taller, and at this point we can thin out a batch of seedlings. This mainly means pulling out weak seedlings or newly sprouted seedlings, keeping the strong seedlings. Moreover, after thinning, the remaining strong seedlings will grow better and faster. When the seedlings spread their first pair of true leaves, it is basically exactly one week after the seeds sprouted, and at this point you can begin giving the seedlings their first fertilization.

Fully dissolve and dilute the fertilizer in a spray bottle, then evenly spray the thin liquid fertilizer on the seedling leaves and soil surface until water flows out from the drainage hole at the bottom of the pot, indicating that our fertilization has been sufficient and adequate. Next, we can witness the process of rainbow pink gradually growing up. The above is the planting method for rainbow pink seeds, and we hope it can be of some help to everyone sowing rainbow pink.