Stevia: growing and care at home from the seeds. How to buy seeds of stevia in the online store of Aliexpress and when to sow on seedlings?

The article will tell you about how to acquire stevia seeds and grow it correctly at home, or in the ground.

How to buy stevia seeds in the online store of Aliexpress?

Stevia is a perennial plant with a number of beneficial properties and a pleasant sweetish taste. It can be grown not only on the site, but also on the windowsill in the apartment. To do this, you need to buy seeds, the choice of which is in the online store Aliexpress.

What can I buy in Alyekspress:

• Seed grass
• Stevia tea
• Stevia tablets
• Stevia powder
• Grated stevia
• Decorative stevia
• Stevia extract

Large selection of seeds and preparations containing stevia

When planting stevia at home on the windowsill?

The stevia propagates with seeds, but before you start growing it on your windowsill, you should know that only 7% of the seed is planted. In order for the grass to grow well, you should follow all the rules for caring for the stevia.

First of all, prepare the soil. The grass is covered with light sandy, but fertile soil. Buy a ready-made soil collection can be in the store, and you can yourself. To do this, they recruit land from different parts of the garden and add sand.

It is important that the earth has a neutral reaction, since in acidic soil the plant is not accepted. To plant seeds on the windowsill, you should choose a suitable container in advance, with a depth of up to 5 liters.

IMPORTANT: If you plant not seeds but cuttings( seedlings), each germ should be deepened into a separately excavated hole.

If you grow stevia on a window, or on a balcony, you should choose the place where most of the sun, but not direct rays. Excess of scorching sunlight for it can be detrimental. It is also necessary to know that stevia very much loves moist air and does not survive dryly.

For cultivation of crops, the container is often tightened with polyethylene to form a kind of greenhouse. When the sprouts give the leaves, then this polyethylene should be periodically removed for several hours a day, increasing each time this period.

For mature stevia should be looked after as for other domestic plants:

• Loosen ground
• Water as the soil dries
• Moisturize from

spray IMPORTANT: The soil must be loosened carefully because the stevia root system is very tender and easily damaged. Know that the roots are not deep.

Stevia loves not only moisture, but also warmth. The ideal temperature for her is 21-23 degrees, and the humidity is 75-80%.If the conditions are slightly worse, then the development of stevia will be slowed down. Spraying is best done twice a day: morning and evening. Every decade, the plant should be fed with organic universal fertilizer.

If the soil is covered with a white coating, these are mold fungi. Their presence is very unfavorable for stevia. In this case, the soil should be watered with a weak solution of potassium permanganate. To grow the plant in the growth of the leaf, every two months it should be plucked( i.e., shortened).Then the bush will be lush, and the leaf will be large.

Cultivation of stevia on the windowsill

How to sow stevia on seedlings?

Grow seedlings from stevia seeds should be correct:

• Select the stevia seeds, those that are not empty should be soaked for a while in warm water and then dried a little.
• After drying, the seeds should be spread evenly over the previously prepared soil.

IMPORTANT: It is strictly forbidden to press seeds into the ground, they should be scattered easily and neatly. It is desirable to cover with a glass or polyethylene container with soil and seeds. The first sprouts can be seen if all the conditions are favorable, within a week.

Stevia seedlings

Stevia seedlings care at home

It is possible to keep stevia on a window sill or loggia( glazed warm balcony) until about mid-October, depending on the weather conditions. It is important that the air temperature is not below 10 degrees. Know also that at this time of the year stevia can not be allowed to bloom.

IMPORTANT: If you plant a plant in the spring and watch it constantly sick, it is quite normal for stevia, but it's bad if in August it did not stop to hurt.

Seedlings should grow in a humid land with a high sand content. Cuttings can feel good at home if they take root. If you have a site, then plant the seedlings in the ground should be around the end of May, or in early June.

How to care for seedlings:

• Cover the plant at night if the room is cold or there is a threat of frost.
• Less loosened soil
• Moisten the soil
• Moisten the foliage of the
• plant. Do not allow the tops of the stevia and sinuses to dry out, where the leaves grow.
• Do not moisten too much soil so that the seedlings do not rot.
• Feed the plant every two weeks( use mineral fertilizer, universal).
• Seedlings should not be above 75-80 cm, if growth is going on - cut off the tip.

IMPORTANT: The stevia leaves can be torn and eaten when the plant reaches its height of more than 30 cm.

Home-grown stevia

Stevia: growing outdoors

How to plant seedlings in the soil:

• Plant the seedlings very carefully, so as not to damage the root system, together with the ground.
• In the ground it is necessary to make in advance depressions and in them to plant seedlings.
• Pour a little seedlings in the ground and apply a little ground.
• Spray the plant from the
• atomizer. On top of the ground around the cuttings, sprinkle mulch, it will prevent the stevia roots from drying out.
• Each shank should be placed far enough apart( approximately 40 cm).
• Also between the rows of cuttings should be a distance of approximately 50 cm.

Stevia in the soil

Stevia diseases: description and treatment of

It is interesting that stevia is a unique plant that is very rarely subjected to damage by pests. Most often stevia suffers from a "black leg", which appears in young cuttings. Avoid this, you can only fully adjust the mode of watering and lighting.

IMPORTANT: Before planting cuttings in the soil, it is desirable to shed the soil with a weak solution of margongzovka - this will eliminate the fungus. Instead of potassium permanganate, you can also use a precursor.

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