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Petunia Seeds In A Cup® Grow Kit

Petunia × hybrida

From the first seed to the next new leaf. Explore your plant’s growing conditions, seasonal rhythm, and everyday care.

THE PLANT NOTEBOOK

Petunia care, from seed onward.

Botanical name
Petunia × hybrida
Common names
Garden Petunia
Family
Solanaceae
Genus
Petunia
Species
P. x hybrida
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Start growing

Requires full sun and regular fertilizer (heavy feeders). Prefer well-drained soil.

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Growing with your kit

The Seeds In A Cup® Methodology involves 'Probing for Nectar' – teaching how hawk moths pollinate these deep flowers.

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Propagation

By seed (very tiny, need light to germinate) or cuttings.

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Seasonal growth & harvest

Blooms continuously from planting until the first frost. Sticky stems and leaves.

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Growing conditions

Sunny garden beds and hanging baskets.

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Weather & tolerances

Highly heat tolerant; low frost tolerance.

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Pests & plant health

Budworms and Botrytis (in humid weather).

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Plant safety

Non-toxic to humans and common pets.

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Botanical features

A sprawling, tender perennial usually grown as an annual. Trumpet-shaped flowers are often fragrant at night.

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Varieties

‘Wave’, ‘Supertunia’, ‘NightSky’.

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Garden & everyday uses

Number one global bedding plant. excellent for window boxes and hanging baskets

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Native range & distribution

Native to South America.

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Conservation

Abundant globally.

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Name origins

From the Tupi-Guarani word ‘petun’ meaning tobacco, to which it is closely related.

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History

First discovered in Argentina in the early 1800s; modernized through extensive hybridizing in the 1990s.

TURN KNOWING INTO GROWING

Your next beginning, in a cup.

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