After how many days do carrots sprout and what affects germination?

Carrots are one of the most common crops grown in household plots. When planting this plant in their garden, everyone wants to know when to expect the first shoots to appear.

As a rule, carrots are sown in open ground in the spring. Do this immediately after the snow melts. At this time, the soil on the site has time to dry slightly. In mid-spring, the topsoil becomes crumbly. At the same time, the lower layers of the soil remain well moistened. Under such conditions, carrots grow very well.

The first shoots may appear both in a few days and in a couple of weeks. If the seeds were prepared in advance, and the soil on the site is very fertile, this process takes less time. Carrots sprout fastest if the soil is well warmed up and the air temperature is high enough.

If carrot seeds were planted in cold ground and not germinated beforehand, more than twenty days may pass from the moment of sowing to the appearance of the first green shoots.

In order not to waste your time on re-planting root crops, you need to know in advance what factors affect the germination of carrots.

Most often, carrots do not sprout precisely because poor quality seeds were planted in the soil. For sowing on your site, it is worth using material that has been stored for no more than 3-4 years. It is best to use for planting seeds purchased at the very beginning of spring or collected last year. Such planting material should be stored in a dry and cool place.

Before sowing seeds, they must be carefully examined. They should be bright, without any spots and damage. Healthy seeds smell nice. If they smell rotten or moldy, the grains should be thrown away.

It is recommended to buy seeds in trusted stores. In this case, it will be possible to rely on the fact that the planted carrots will germinate on time. When choosing planting material, it is important to pay attention to the characteristics of the variety, because it depends on how early seedlings appear on the site, and how high quality the crop will be. It is worth choosing seeds for planting that are adapted to the characteristics of the local climate.

You can speed up the process of the appearance of young sprouts on the site by properly preparing the seeds. This can be done in several ways.

• germination in the ground. This method has been tested by several generations of gardeners. 10-20 days before sowing, the selected seeds are poured onto a small piece of tissue. After that, it is carefully tied up and placed in the ground. Before sowing, the seeds are dug up and dried. This procedure allows you to soften the shell of the grains, as well as harden them well. After such treatment, the seeds germinate in a few days.

• Bubbling. This procedure is also well known to gardeners. But for its implementation, a person will need a compressor that is used in an aquarium. Carrot seeds are placed in a container with warm water. Air is supplied to it. This allows you to saturate the water with oxygen. Thus, the seeds are treated for several hours. After that, they are removed from the container and dried on paper. Seeds prepared in this way can be immediately sown in the soil. They will begin to emerge in a week.

• Zamachivanie. The soaking of planting material in hot water also positively affects the germination of carrots. This method is suitable for busy people. All you need to do is place the seeds in a cloth bag and lower it into a container of hot water. The grains must be left there until the liquid cools. The procedure is repeated 2-3 times. After that, the planting material is quickly dried and immediately sown.

• Planting with tape. This is one of the modern ways to increase the germination of carrots. When planting seeds, ordinary paper tapes are used. They are cut into strips of the same width. Each is carefully greased with a paste made from ordinary flour. Seeds are laid out on these strips. When the paste dries, the tapes are placed in the furrows and covered with nutrient soil. Immediately after planting, the rows are watered abundantly. This method allows you to reduce the time spent on planting carrots, and also increases the germination of seeds. In addition, weeds appear less often on the site after this.

• Processing in vodka. It is necessary to prepare seeds for spring planting in this way immediately before they are sown in the soil. Seedlings are placed in a bag, which is immersed in a container of vodka for 15 minutes. After that, they are washed in water, dried well and used for their intended purpose. This procedure allows you to quickly awaken the seeds. Therefore, seedlings appear on the beds almost instantly.

Affects seed germination and soil type. Carrots feel best after planting in light and fertile soil. The soil in which the seeds are sown should not be too acidic. Therefore, if there is such a need, the soil should be deoxidized using clean ash or dolomite flour. Such products are usually brought into the ground since autumn.

It is very important that the soil in which carrots are sown is light and airy. Before planting root crops, it should be dug up well. To increase the yield of carrots, the site is fertilized with high-quality mullein or the contents of the compost pit. Pure sand or peat is additionally added to clay soil.

Before planting carrots, the beds are also recommended to be poured abundantly with warm water, and then covered with a transparent film. This is done so that the soil warms up well. After such tillage, the appearance of the first shoots will not have to wait too long.

You can speed up the process of the emergence of green sprouts by filling the grooves with coconut substrate. This product can be purchased at most specialized stores.. Before use, it is poured with warm water and left for 10-15 minutes. Ordinary sawdust can also be used instead of this fertilizer. They should be well rotted. Usually, before use, they are treated with urea and left for a month in a tightly closed container. Such processing should be carried out immediately before planting carrots.

Carrots grow best in well-lit areas. In order for seedlings to appear faster, you should not place carrot beds in shaded spaces.

When choosing a place to plant, it is important to consider what plants were there before. You should not plant it where fennel, parsley or celery grew. In addition, you can not sow carrots in the same area for many years in a row. This will lead to significant depletion of the soil. Carrots grow best after beets, potatoes, garlic and cabbage.

Experienced gardeners know that the depth of sowing seeds depends on when this procedure is carried out.. If carrots are planted before winter, the planting material is buried in the soil by 4–6 centimeters. In this case, the seeds will not be afraid of sudden changes in temperature. Therefore, gardeners do not have to think about how young sprouts will survive the winter.

In spring, seeds are sown to a depth of 1-3 centimeters. If the grains are too deep, green sprouts simply will not be able to break through the thickness of the earth.

In cold regions, the first shoots of carrots appear much later than in warm ones. This is due to the fact that the plant in question is thermophilic. Therefore, while it is cold outside, the appearance of the first sprouts is not worth waiting for.

In order for a young carrot to rise faster, it is important to choose the right time for planting it. If it gets colder outside, the beds can be covered with a transparent film. At the same time, it should be remembered that such shelter must be removed in a timely manner. If this is not done, the seedlings may begin to rot and rot.

For normal development, carrots must receive a sufficient amount of moisture. Sheltering the beds with a film helps to solve this problem.

Noticing that shoots on the site do not appear for too long, the gardener can try to take the following steps.

1. Feed the plants. For this, herbal infusion or diluted manure is usually used. A small amount of wood ash can be added to such solutions. In a bucket of water, as a rule, a glass is diluted.
2. Refusal of watering. Green sprouts appear on the surface of the earth only after the seeds are well rooted. You can speed up this process by refusing to water the sown beds.
3. Use of cover. In cold regions, you can solve the problem with the lack of green shoots using shelters. It can be agrofibre, film or any similar materials.

If seedlings do not appear on the site after 30–45 days, gardeners simply sow the seeds again. This is the only way to solve the crop problem. But you can only do this until mid-June. If you sow the seeds later, the root crops will not have time to ripen before the first frost.

In general, growing carrots on your site is quite simple. The main thing is to plant it on time and not ignore the seed preparation process. If everything is done correctly, there will be no problems with growing these root crops.