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Lush terry flowers of gillyflowers of various colors of pastel colors are collected in racemose inflorescences. Appreciated for a very gentle pleasant fragrance. The most popular of the summer.

Any kind of gillyflowers during sowing gives terry and non-marble flowers. The latter is used for seeds, terry - for cutting. In the so-called Quedlinburgian gillyflowers, the swallowing can be determined in the cotyledonous state according to the color of the leaflets: they are light-green in terry ones, - in the case of non-marbles, they are much darker.

Levkoi is propagated without seedlings and seedlings.

Seeds can be sown early in the spring, as soon as the soil allows, since shoots of gillyflowers are cold-resistant. In autumn, a full mineral fertilizer with a predominance of phosphorus and potassium is applied to plowing. In spring, the soil is cultivated, harrowed, if necessary - plaited and sown under the marker by hand or by sowers. The seeding rate is 1.5-2 kilograms per hectare. In a small amount sow on ridges, in grooves.

With the last thinning of the shoots, the plants are left at a distance of 15 centimeters from each other.

The seedling culture of gillyflower is simple, but sometimes it is complicated by the appearance of a black leg, to prevent which seeds and soil, just as it does for asters, are etched with formalin.

Seedlings dive as early as possible, preferably in earthen pots or cubes, as levkoi badly tolerate transplant. Planting seedlings can, already in the first half of May, without fear of frost. Flowering gillyflowers from the middle of June. The timing of flowering can be regulated by applying different seeding times. When cruciferous fleas appear, the plants are dusted with wood ash.

As a rule, trefoil inflorescences are used for cutting in gillyflowers, among the same non-march seeds are used to select testes in order to increase sweating in the coming year.

One of the methods of increasing the terry is based on taking into account morphological features. So, low no-growth compact bushes with short pods pressed to the stem, which have small, weakly expressed "horns" at the ends, or do not have any at all, give more "double" offspring.

The second method of increasing the terry is based on the timing of flowering of the testes: remove non-growing plants that blossom before terry, during the first four to five days from the beginning of their flowering.

Such groups and varieties of gillyflowers are most suitable for cutting: single-stem mammoth exceltsior( white), mammoth violet;Pyramidal gigantic - cream-pink, apple-tree color;Repaired Dresden - Aurora, Victory;Large-colored late and nvezlinburgbeke of different colors.