Primrose transplant: how to produce for this garden plant, and when is it better

Primrose - plants that stand out among others for their beauty and extraordinary. They could be lost among roses, tulips, peonies and gladioli, but this did not happen.

This is surprising, since primrose is a modest plant with small flowers. They bloom early with delicate golden yellow flowers, unlike others that pick up color in mid-summer. Is it difficult to transplant this beauty? Read about all this in detail in this article. It will also be useful to watch a video on the topic.

What time is better to spend: in the spring or in the fall?

Primrose grows strongly in three to four years. Due to the fact that the bushes become large, new outlets are crowding each other. The flower ceases to bloom profusely. Problems with flowering push gardeners for seating. The best time to transplant is August. Before winter, he will have time to take root and adapt to new conditions.

Transplanting garden and indoor varieties

Primrose is a plant that needs a transplant once every 3-4 years. More often they don’t do it. Before you understand the intricacies of seating, make sure the following:

The bushes grew very much, and the sockets became crowded in the area where they planted it.
The splendor and duration of flowering decreased.
The roots are exposed and there is a risk of death of the plant from the cold.

To establish flowering and cope with the strong growth of bushes, the mother plant is separated. Several young bushes will appear. Often combine transplantation with the reproduction of primrose.

TIP: The best time to transplant is the end of flowering. If the florist has missed this time, and autumn is in the yard, the plant is transplanted, after preparing the soil - a mixture of humus and peat. Before each pit, manure, sand and ash are poured into each hole.

Temperature

Primrose dislikes heat. For quick rooting and adaptation to new conditions, it is important that it is + 12-15 degrees Celsius. Only one species - the inverted one will not take root if the temperature is below + 15-18 ° C.

Humidity

Not only for flowering, but also for growth after transplantation, moist air is useful. If the weather turned out to be hot, spray a primrose or in the immediate vicinity of it put a large pot with wet pebbles or moss. Do not overdo it with watering, since excess moisture leads to rotting of the roots.

Soil and fertilizers

An excellent soil for primroses is turf land, sand and peat mixed in equal parts. Sometimes they buy a ready-made substrate for geraniums, adding 20 percent of sandstone to it, but this solution is suitable for cases when the plant is grown at home. The transplant is carried out in a wide, but shallow pot with preliminary drilling of holes and laying of drainage.

In order for the primrose to begin after the transplant, you do not need to fertilize it. Fertilizers will be needed when it takes root and an ovary appears. They are applied every two weeks for abundant flowering. For feeding, liquid iron-containing fertilizers are used - for example, chicken droppings. It is bred in a ratio of 1:15 and not in a larger dose, since otherwise the soil will be oversaturated with salts.

ATTENTION: Some gardeners insist on the mandatory feeding of primrose three times a year. In the spring months it is fed with mineral complexes, in early summer - with organic fertilizers, and during flowering - with ammonium nitrate or superphosphate with potassium to increase winter hardiness (10 liters of water, 15 g of potassium and 20 g of superphosphate).

Watering

Both indoor and garden primrose do not like to water it without measure. It is important to wait until the top layer of the earth has completely dried out and only then water it with settled water, being careful not to get on the leaves. Otherwise, it will rot.

Lighting

As in the garden, so at home they choose the brightest place where to place the primrose. It should not be exposed to direct sunlight. Light must be diffused. It is planted on the eastern or western side of the site, but not in the north, since it lacks the rays of the sun.

How: dividing the rhizome or rooting of axillary shoots?

It is not always possible to transplant a primrose by dividing the rhizome. She can only form one outlet, and the roots may not be very powerful. In this case, the transplant is carried out by rooting of the axillary shoots.

After soil preparation, the leaf petiole is cut off at the base of the root neck. In this case, make sure that the petiole has a part of the shoot, or at least a kidney. The sheet plate is cut in half. The cuttings are planted in the ground and monitor the moisture of the soil. Watering should be moderate so that shoots gradually grow and leaves form.

A plant is not planted in open ground immediately after the preparation of the petiole. Wait until it is accepted in a pot. When 3-4 leaves are formed, the primrose is transplanted to a permanent place in the garden.

Watch the video about the division and transplant of primroses in the garden:

Caring for a flower after a transplant in the garden

Gardeners do not encounter difficulties in transplanting primrose in the garden. The plant will quickly take over and will delight if you keep the soil in the flowerbed moist, clean and loose.

To stimulate the winter activity of the flower, watering after transshipment is gradually increased. In the last warm days of autumn, the soil is loosened, and the weeds are uprooted.

Until now, disputes over the frequency of watering primroses that were transplanted in the garden have not stopped. Some gardeners for frequent top dressing, and others for rare. Well, fertilizers are better to be applied as needed, but purchased ones should be used at half the concentration than the instruction requires.

If you abuse the introduction of complex fertilizers, the plant will not bloom soon after transplanting, and it is unlikely that it will please lush greenery.

Basic rules for the care of transplanted plants:

Compliance with the water regime. The soil should be moist, but without fanaticism, as the water will stagnate, and the leaves with roots rot.
Top dressing. In the last warm autumn days, fertilize the soil with ordinary manure.
Before covering the plant for the winter under a layer of autumn foliage, inspect the root system. If the rhizome is exposed, first they sprinkle the earth, and only after that they rake the foliage on it.
If a primrose is not weeded a few weeks after transplantation, gray rot or downy mildew will hit it.

Possible diseases after this procedure

IMPORTANT: An adult plant is not infrequently affected by diseases such as rot of the root neck and stems, white rust, anthracnose, bacterial leaf spot. It also becomes a “victim” of pests, or rather slugs, beetles and spider mites. But will these pests harm transplanted primrose or not?

Often a transplanted plant dies due to peronosporosis. This disease is popularly called downy mildew. The disease harms pedicels, receptacles, leaves and shoots. Usually notice traces of the disease in the first month of autumn or spring.

The causative agent is not afraid of cold weather, winters in fallen leaves, roots and seeds. Powdery mildew develops due to severe temperature changes: at night +10, and days - +20 degrees Celsius. If it rains at this temperature outside, peronosporosis cannot be avoided.

In the fight, the main thing is to notice the symptoms of powdery mildew in time:

Appearance of shapeless or angular spots on the top of the leaves. Their color varies and may be tan, pale yellow or reddish brown.
As the disease starts, the leaves turn brown and dry.
Gradually, the affected areas merge together.
The appearance on the lower part of the leaves is a whitish coating.

Downy mildew damages leaves, making them corrugated in shape, wrinkled and curled. Damage occurs and shoots that are bent, stained and dry out.

So that peronosporosis does not harm only the transplanted plant, it is recommended to weed the flower bed, keep it away from infected crops. Also, refusing to use nitrogen fertilizers and weed control will not hurt. If the gardener, for some reason, started the garden, and the disease developed, they buy biological products - Gamair, Alirin-B, Fitosporin-M.

Another disease that can affect a transplanted primrose is ramulariosis. It is recognized by relatively large spots of rounded shape of light yellow color. As they develop, the spots change their color to brown, and then through holes appear at their location. Ramulariasis develops due to cool and moist conditions.

In order not to treat the plant for ramulariosis, it is properly watered and the soil is loosened in time. If suddenly the flower grower notices spots on the foliage, it is better to immediately remove and destroy the affected areas. After that, the bush is treated with fungicides - Fundazol and Vitaros. Not infrequently transplanted primrose dies due to gray rot.

This disease causes the fungus Botrytis cinerea Pers. On leaves and peduncles during the growth period, spots with a gray coating appear. They are weeping and rotting.

If the lesion area is large, the primrose will die. Gray rot develops due to warm autumn weather, due to waterlogging of the soil, poor ventilation and lack of light. So that gray rot does not harm primulas, they are planted in good soil.

When the first signs appear, the damaged areas are removed and the culture is treated with Fundazol and Rovral.