Light germs or dark germs?

What is meant by light germs?

Light germinators are seeds that need light to germinate. If you cover them with too much soil, they will not germinate or only very sporadically. As a rule, the seeds of the annual summer flowers that seed themselves are among the light germs. The reason for this is very simple.

The seeds ripen and fall to the earth. In the next year, new plants should develop there without anyone doing anything. They just germinate on their own. Most of the time the seeds are still on the ground, maybe a little earth has blown over them. If darkness were required to germinate, as with the dark germs, very few seeds would germinate.

When and where is best to sow the spider flower?

It is ideal that Spider flower sow in a heated greenhouse or on the windowsill. Then you can count on relatively early and long flowering from July to late autumn. Sprinkle seeds on already moistened Potting soil, then they are not so easily washed away during the subsequent watering.

During germination, the Seeds be kept moist and warm. This is easy to do in a mini greenhouse or if you stretch a transparent film over the growing container. However, make sure that there is regular ventilation, otherwise the seeds and later the seedlings could rot. The germination temperature is 18-20 ° C. If it is too cold for the spider flower, then it is a long time coming.

The essentials in brief:

• Light germs
• do not cover with soil or only cover it very thinly
• Hardy seeds
• needs warmth to germinate