The tagete is a type of plant with a bright color flower that blooms during the warm summer months. Probably we recognize by its characteristic intense color. It comes with some flowers with a strong yellowish or orange can grow up to 30 cm. Its smell is usually very fierce, especially in the evenings.
Flowering tagetes (or more Carnation ) occurs during the summer months-late fall. However, flowering also depends on the climate issue, since some can withstand all year long without any problem.
It is a kind of very decorative annual herbaceous plant with leaves that remind us of daisies, can be single or double. They are plants that can quickly be grown in the garden, and they do not need much care.
Tagetes species
Tagetes erecta
Called “erecta” because it has an upright and by the presence of several branches that can grow up to a meter in height (between 30 and 100 cm) porte. This type of Tagetes is characterized by cut leaves a deep green color.
Moreover, the flowers are lemon yellow, with a diameter of 5 cm. However, it was found that some specimens can reach a diameter of 15cm.
Another peculiarity of flowers is that they have what is known as florets; They are nothing more than some developed petals that grow up outside. Many people describe them as petals, but they are not really. Bloom varies slightly from Chinese carnation conventional, moving in the range of time from July to October.
Tagetes Poetic
This variation is slightly smaller than the previous one, having a size rarely exceed 40 cm. Its leaves grow along the stem alternately, marked by a bright green color. However, the flowers are rather solitary, having a diameter ranging from about 4-6cm.
Comply with a decorative function, as they are very aesthetic because of its marked yellow. This key moro blooms between the months from July to September, producing flowers simple and very distant from each other.
Tagetes tenuifolia
It is a flower that comes directly from Mexico. It grows annually may develop to reach 60 cm high. It is characterized by having a thin twig with leaves of light green.
Also, it blooms between July to September, giving rise flowers that can grow to 3cm wide.
Within this classification, we can find different hybrid groups: Group I Africa, French, African French, and Signet.
Tagetes Lucida
Finally, this small perennial plant grew annually and rarely able to exceed 50 cm (moves at the height of between 30 and 50 cm).
It has small flowers with a maximum diameter of 1.5 cm, with colors ranging from golden yellow to yellow-orange.
Tagetes Care
If you’ve already decided and wants to grow marigolds, then you have to follow these carefully.
Irrigation
Watering is essential in this plant. You must ensure watering at a rate of 3 times a week. The problem is that its roots are compact, so you do not have much capacity to retain water.
We can learn the symptoms of the plant to determine when it lacks water. For the tagete is present shaped incline, we indicated that water must be added. The ideal way would be that the plant is kept upright, as this will mean that the risk is correct.
Plantation
We recommend choosing how a tree planting site or a planter. It can also be a good idea to plant marigolds among the vegetables of our gardens.
The advantage of doing so is that this plant can ayuntar roundworms (nematodes) that quickly end up with many of the vegetables that we planted in the garden.
Another advantage of planting in the garden is that we help give a new touch of color, getting a result of more aesthetic.
We must plant them in full sun. They may also have some shade. Even they can come in handy if they receive the sun can be too intense. Now, the problem that is in the darkness for too long is that they can grow excessively, and this at the same time will make your flowering and the intensity of the colors of the flowers are reduced, so you have to take care.
Type of land
The Tagetes plant requires planting in cold, nutrient-rich soil. Experts recommend gardeners make a mixture of potting soil with mulch. The resulting mix depends on the quality of the original land. The idea is to adding substrate to the blend until we can see that the result is spongy, besides having a characteristic turbid color. And this is precisely us indicating that it is a land rich in nutrients.
As long as we maintain correctly, the plant can stand in the garden between 3 and 5 months without our having to make any changes on the ground.
Troubleshooting
As it grows, we have to eliminate those flowers that are wilting. Thus avoiding moisture with irrigation, the whole plant can rot. It will also come out with new flowers, and these always have a more beautiful look.
We will have to pay attention to certain pests, how can it be that of the whitefly, leaf miner, red spider mites, caterpillars, in addition to diseases such as Alternaria and Botrytis, although these are not too common.
