Cutting Zinnia Hot Crayon Colors Seeds

Zinnia - Hot Crayon - Zinnia elegans Annual - Right out of the crayon box of intense colors, this blend of hot shades combines scarlet red, citrus orange, and golden yellow varieties for bright summer borders and sizzling bouquets of gorgeous florist-quality zinnias. These award winners offer you densely-petaled, fully double flowers with strong garden performance. The well-branched 3 - 3.5' tall plants stand up well to both summer rain and heat, yielding armfuls of flowers for eye-catching, long-lasting arrangements. Soil & Water: Zinnias grow readily in ordinary garden soil in full sun.

Variety Details

• Botanical name: Zinnia elegans
• Plant type: Annual
• Growth habit: Upright
• Crop category: Flower seed
• Flower character: Soil & Water: Zinnias grow readily in ordinary garden soil in full sun.
• Recorded feature: Open-Pollinated
• Product format: Seed packet

Sowing & Growing

• Soil Temperature: above 50°F
• Planting Depth: 1/2"
• Germination: 7-10 Days
• Height At Maturity: 3 to 3-1/2 feet
• Sun/Shade: Full Sun
• Spacing After Thinning: 8-12"

Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for Cutting Zinnia Hot Crayon Colors and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.

For large and abundant flowers, thin before seedlings get crowded; adequate spacing and regular, even watering helps keep zinnias productive and discourages mildew.

Place Cutting Zinnia Hot Crayon Colors where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.

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