Should i start zinnias indoors

Burpee Recommends: Introduce or attract natural predators into your garden such as lady beetles and wasps who feed on aphids. You can also wash them off with a strong spray, or use an insecticidal soap.

Leafhoppers: Leafhoppers cause injury to leaves and stunt growth. They also spread disease. Burpee Recommends: Remove plant debris. Use insecticidal soaps. Consult your Cooperative Extension Service for other insecticide recommendations. Japanese Beetles : Burpee Recommends: Hand pick early in the morning into a bucket of soapy water. Plants are shorter than is characteristic for the variety and the flowers are much smaller: When zinnias are overcrowded they can become stunted and produce smaller flowers.

Always follow the spacing recommendations for each variety. Spider Mites: These tiny spider-like pests are about the size of a grain of pepper.

They may be red, black, brown or yellow. They suck on the plant juices removing chlorophyll and injecting toxins which cause white dots on the foliage.

There is often webbing visible on the plant. They cause the foliage to turn yellow and become dry and stippled. They multiply quickly and thrive in dry conditions. Burpee Recommends: Spider mites may be controlled with a forceful spray every other day.

Try hot pepper wax or insecticidal soap. Check with your Cooperative Extension Service for miticide recommendations. Should I start my zinnias indoors or outdoors? Zinnias may be started indoors or directly in the garden. If you have good conditions for growing them indoors such as plant lights, a heat mat for germination, then you can get a head start by starting them indoors. But zinnias are easy to direct sow and bloom fairly quickly from seed so direct sowing may be a better option for some gardeners.

Can I grow zinnias as a houseplant? Zinnias require full sun and hot temperatures to grow well and may not perform well in many homes. Shorter varieties may be tried in a warm sunroom during the summer. How do I condition my cut zinnia flowers? Bring a bucket of water with you to the garden when you cut your flowers and put them in the water as soon as you cut them. This will allow them to take up water through the freshly cut stem. Cut on an angle to give more surface area for the water to be taken up.

Keep them out of the direct sun. Do I need to stake my zinnias? Taller varieties may benefit from staking, especially if they are in a windy area. Why are my zinnias tall and thin with much smaller flowers than expected? If zinnias are planted too closely together they will produce tall plants and much smaller flowers.

Always follow the recommended spacing on the planting instructions. The store will not work correctly in the case when cookies are disabled. Learn more Ok. Learn About Zinnias. Posted in: Zinnias. How to Sow Zinnia may be grown from seed sown early indoors and transplanted outside after frost, or sown directly in the garden after frost, or from potted plants. Raise the lights as the plants grow taller.

Incandescent bulbs will not work for this process because they will get too hot. Most plants require a dark period to grow, do not leave lights on for 24 hours. Thin to one seedling per cell when they have two sets of leaves. Starting Zinnias indoors. Email Save Comment Featured Answer. Like 1 Save. Sort by: Oldest. Newest Oldest. Like Save.

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I grow all my plants indoors so wondering how to grow this one in a pot. Any tips would be helpful. Thank you! Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL 5 years ago. I start mine indoors around 6 weeks prior to planting-out date. Related Stories. Orchids are the exotic aristocrats of the flower world and can make themselves comfortable in almost any home. Growing delicious herbs and vegetables starts with knowing your goals and when you want to plant. Set out some seed and grab your field guide.

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Then I switch to one-quarter teaspoon per gallon for maintenance. Zinnias are heavy feeders, and in containers you can expect to have to feed them every two or three days.

Be on the lookout for deficiency symptoms. You might need to add some soluble Calcium, like Calcium nitrate, if your water supply doesn't contain some soluble Calcium. My Premier ProMix has a little Calcium in it, but only enough for about three weeks of zinnia growth.

Also, be on the lookout for Boron deficiency symptoms. Good complete nutrient formulas contain some Boron, but apparently zinnias like twice as much Boron as orchids. I use a little Boric Acid powder purchased from a drugstore. I make a stock solution of one-quarter teaspoon Boric Acid per gallon, and add one cup of that stock solution to each gallon of complete nutrients for the initial treatment and half a cup per gallon for maintenance.

Boric acid powder dissolves very slowly in cold water, so I heat a cup of water in the microwave, pour that in an empty water bottle, add the quarter teaspoon of Boric acid powder to the hot water, swish it around until it dissolves, and add that to the gallon jug and fill it up to create a gallon of stock Boric acid solution.

Discard the water bottle. You don't want to drink any of the Boric acid. Some water supplies have plenty of Boron and Calcium in the water, so it can be helpful to have access to an analysis sheet for your water.

I have to add both to our well water. Some kind of communication glitch created a duplicate of that message. I think I will try to edit away the duplicate. Hi everyone, was reading old post about zinnia's indoors. Am bnow trying it with zinnia's buut im going to wait till febuary to try this. I am close to Houston Huntsville and next year, I think I'm going to start them in pots outside and skip a step.

This year, I started them on my back porch using the winter sowing method. They are only about 18 days old at this point. I transplanted them on about the 10th day, left them on the back porch for 3 days and then put them in the full bore sun.

They are looking pretty good. Thank you again! The photos were particularly helpful as was the growing time line! Indem Sie weiterhin auf der Website surfen bzw. Mehr erfahren. Ultimate Lighting Sale. Bathroom Vanity Sale. Bestselling Chandeliers and Pendants. Sign In.

Join as a Pro. Houzz TV. Houzz Research. Shop Featured Holiday Categories. Home Decor. Holiday Decor. Christmas Trees. Holiday Lighting. Gift Cards. Do you start zinnias from seed indoors? Donna 9 years ago. Email Save Comment Featured Answer. Hi Donna, In addition to what Trishcuit said, I do indeed start zinnias inside, because I grow some of them as an indoor gardening project.

Like 4 Save. Sort by: Oldest. Newest Oldest. Trishcuit 9 years ago. Like Save. Related Discussions Where would you start with this cookie cutter kitchen??

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So, the cost to paint just the kitchen? Not only did I hate that they were white Plus I liked the idea of a shallower fridge. RUG- I hated the tile, but now that I have more furniture in the space, and an area rug, it's just fine for now. Had this vintage fabric that I love and had them professionally reupholstered.

I'll probably work that into my budget before the holidays. Hope you like the next pics and if you don't, just keep it to yourself! It comes down Jan 2. I usually host a New Year's Day brunch so I like for all of the decor to stay up.

I'm from Detroit, and we always left everything up and on through New Year's Day, Like nkhavec, I work in education and need to have everything down, put away, and the house back in order before going back to work! I think they know when they're being photographed. I take out my camera, and my dog sits up and starts posing. He is shameless. And he does tend to herd people, nipping at their ankles. I think he might be spoiled.

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But that's it for her. She's really healthy, but that cat does nothing but eat, sleep, travel to the litter box, cry to go outside in the yard; cry to come back in; and then do it all over again. Aside from that, my cat is pretty stationery. I was in the industrial cleaning biz for 15 years and hired a service to clean some of the most important windows at the GM Tech Center. He used Dawn and a squeegee. The rags were only used to dry his squeegee. Sadly, my own windows are a mess from years of bug spray which they claim will rinse off with a power washer.

It doesn't. We quit the service 5 years ago and the windows are all still hazy. It's something to do with the pyrethrum and I've asked around - yep, it's bad for windows but you can't help to get the overspray when they spray your entire house. When I clean my windows I use Dawn, cleaning vinegar, and a nice squeegee and only a towel to dry my squeegee. You don't go up and down or from one side to the other. You go in a big hairpin turn type of swiping with the squeegee.

It's hard to describe, but, it's how it's done. Yes, it's time. I haven't cleaned mine since spring, mostly because I haven't been here much. Our windows at our vacation home are bad as well, right now. I've been there as much as I've been here. Donna Original Author. Hi, Zeedman.

The pictures are fantastic! Hi Donna, "So are you saying that you keep the heat mats going under the seedlings the whole time they are indoors? Like 1 Save. Hi Donna, I read your linked thread with interest.