Cornflower cultivation report

In the spring, I will endure and remember.

I’m Kiku, the fairy of cornflowers. It is called “Yaguruma no Kiku” (who?). In late autumn, when many flowers “flower out”, the seeds were lonely sowed, and when I thought that they had sprouted, I was tossed by the heavy rain and strong winds of the typhoon, and if I thought that I survived with breathlessness, what I am waiting for after that Long, cold, harsh and spicy winter days … Oh, I’m like I was born to have a hard time. However, the tough roots, leaves and stems that have endured the harsh environment grow rapidly in spring and produce many flowers. If you want to feel a life like enka, please raise me.

Weekly cultivation report of cornflower

9/1 start
Seed planting
Kiku
It’s just an arrow wheel, and the seeds look like arrowheads. The cornflower seeds, which are characterized by a beard like an arrow feather, are large and sturdy, and the germination rate is stable.
9/8
Germination!
Kiku
The other side of the arrow feathers pop open, and Futaba opens quickly. As a standard autumn planting, I germinate quickly and grow fast for a while until it gets cold. Be prepared to withstand the frigid season.
9/15
Futaba!
Kiku
Futaba is surprisingly cute enough to beat me. It’s the first and last nasty face before we prepare for the tough and harsh winter that we’re about to visit.
9/23
The true leaves spring up!
Kiku
The innocent and cute Futaba and the sword-shaped true leaves that make you feel the battle against the coming severe cold are lined up. If you compare the feelings of an adolescent girl, who has two conflicting personalities, with cornflower leaves, it might be like this.
9/28
The true leaves become vertically long and have a “like” shape!
Kiku
A true leaf that grows into a sharp shape like Kunoichi’s dagger, as if something had come to mind. The mind gradually becomes sharper without even realizing it.
10/5
True leaves grow!
Kiku
In October, the mornings and evenings began to get colder, and preparations for a lonely and painful battle had already begun. In order to withstand the cold wind, we have to increase the number of leaves and create a steamed bun.
10/14
The true leaves are slurry! In the state of Japanese sword
Kiku
Half of the leaves were damaged by the typhoon. But look at the beauty of each of the surviving true leaves, which has become sharp like a Japanese sword. The tough season is just around the corner.
10/27
The true leaves are thick
Kiku
A Japanese sword-shaped true leaf that slips through the strong winds of the coming typhoon and catches the cold wind of midwinter. Increase that number and increase survival.
11/3
Hair begins to form on the leaves and the cold-resistant mode
Kiku
I’m actually pretty hairy. Cold and windproof white fluff that can withstand the frost on the cold midwinter morning begins to form. The season is November. There is no peace anymore. Love is also a seal.
11/17
True leaves increase in all directions!
Kiku
Early winter when the midday sunlight is already twilight. Heal the body that was hurt by the typhoon alone, and the taut leaves that look like spearheads finally enter the winter.
12/1
Furthermore, the true leaves are densely packed
Kiku
When you hear the voice of December, focus on increasing the number of leaves and storing white hair on the leaves.
12/15
Growth stopped
Kiku
When the end of the year is approaching, I will enter “hibernation” before the full-scale cold comes. It waits for spring while collecting a small amount of sunlight from the leaves that grow in large numbers like a Japanese sword without producing any stems. Oh, I think I was born to endure the pain.
12/31
There is a film on the leaves! Finally preparing for wintering
Kiku
New Year’s Eve. With a strict readiness for next year, spider filamentous hairs will grow on the surface of the leaves. A sword brim-shaped protrusion is also attached to the base of the blade. Now! And again, I … the words hardship, patience, patience, and patience look great. It seems that he was born to endure, really.
1/12
Hibernation, and fully armed
Kiku
Its appearance, with its whole body solidified like armor, is like a sea urchin. And the surface of the leaf is densely filled with white hair. So far, the reason for choosing this frigid season to live … can only be said to be karma. Destiny is no good.
1/25
Buds appear!
Kiku
A black, small, hard dent appears. However, there is a long and painful journey from here to flowering.
2/２
Stems begin to grow
Kiku
Perhaps it’s past the cold, but it suddenly starts to grow even though it’s a marbling morning. Farewell to the sea urchin shape. The vegetation freezes, now in February.
2/9
Thick stem, start growing vertically
Kiku
The stem, which just begins to grow straight as it rises to the heavens, grows in thickness and pushes up the hard, small buds.
2/15
The buds are big and high
Kiku
The buds, which look like small black spheres, move away from the leaves and the thick stems move away from the cold surface. White hair also covers the stems, protecting ourselves from the cold and dryness.
2/22
Color appears in the bud
Kiku
Before March, a faint bluish-purple color shines in the middle of the bud. The color of hope that lit up for the first time in a painful life. It’s such a cold morning that makes you want to believe in tomorrow.
3/8
The blue of the bud is big and vivid
Kiku
Its growth is too slow, but it changes its color to blue and continues to grow while observing the timing of flowering little by little.
3/15
Flowering
Kiku
7 months after seeding. That and this until spring, which was too long, runs through my body like a running horse light. Almost all are painful memories. The flowers that have endured every day below freezing are just cold blue. Enjoy the blue of the soul that permeates.
3/22
And complete flowering.
Kiku
It’s been two months since the bud was made. After 7 months of hard work from seeding, the moment a beautiful ball-like flower blooms, you will feel something hot in your eyes. As the name suggests, you can even feel the beauty of a flower that looks like a car with countless arrows stuck in it.
3/28
Bud disorder bloom preparation
Kiku
As if the hardship until the first Rin was a lie, many buds appeared as a signal of this flowering, and preparations for blooming at once began. Courage the first time, love from the second time. That may be my way of life for cornflowers.
4/11
And it blooms all at once
Kiku
A lot of cornflowers bloom and smell like a long winter, a hard time, and a time like this. No matter how hard it may be, there is no night without dawn. Cornflowers tell us that spring is sure to come. It is the true value of horticulture.
How to Grow Cornflowers from Seed
From How to Grow Cornflowers from Seed（LearnHow2）

One thing! Cornflower cultivation point

Very strong, good germination rate, no need to take care of growth. It is particularly cold-resistant and can withstand below freezing. It is generally sown in autumn and blooms in the spring of the following year, so it provides a few greens in the midwinter garden where the greens are scarce. The type with a long length is easy to fall down due to the wind, so it is recommended to reinforce it with a support. It doesn’t get used to the heat and humidity, and the flowering season ends before the rainy season begins.

育成難易度：★★☆☆☆