COMMON NAME:
► Supertunia
SCIENTIFIC NAME:
► Petunia hybrid
GROWER HINTS:
►These petunias are all special hybrids. Extremely vigorous and fast growing, they can grow to 4 feet in length in one year. New varieties come out every year. Varieties with great big flowers like Vista Bubblegum. Varieties that are really new and different like supertunia Picasso.
They grow best in full sun. In the ground they thrive in heat and tolerate cold temperatures into the high 20’s. In mild climates, some will bloom all year.
GROWTH HABITS:
► Supertunias grow very fast and make a stunning hanging basket or ground cover. Fast growing plants often put all their strength into the end of the branches. If you cut them back cut back hard and then refeed with lots of nitrogen.
SHADE/SUN:
► All petunias like sun, at least a full half day.
FEEDING AND WATERING:
► Feed heavily with a good balanced fertilizer with plenty of nitrogen
Water: Keep evenly moist. However like ivy geranium, these special petunias like to dry out ‘a little’ between waterings. Wonderfully forgiving, they can be cut back and regrown if they start to look straggly. They will appreciate extra chelated iron about 4 times a year. .
FLOWER/FOLIAGE COLOR(S):
► White, pink, red,purple, yellow, salmon; every color there is.
SEASON(S) CARRIED AT WEIDNERS:
► Spring and summer
CONTAINER OR GROUND?
► Easy as both a basket, in a big combination planter or pot or as a grown cover.
PARTICULAR PESTS:
► Like all petunias, in the west they are subject to attack by petunia/geranium bud worms in late spring, early summer. There are a number of products on the market, some are non toxic
