Do not wait for the summer - the plant can drive out the buds in any season. The main thing is the correct calculation of the time that it takes to grow and past the arrow. For winter flowering, bulbs are rooted in the ground in early autumn, and for spring in the middle.
ATTENTION!
In indoor conditions, the planting begins with the selection of bulbs - solid, dry, with a diameter of up to 5 cm. Before rooting, they are kept for 2-3 days in the cold, you can in the lower drawer of the refrigerator.
Pots are medium in size for several bulbs and a small one for one.
How does it bloom?
Herbaceous perennial reaches a height of 20-40 centimeters. A flower stalk sprouts near narrow linear leaves, and blooms on it flowers in the form of bellscollected in spike-like brushes called sultans.
The flowering process is accompanied by:
- emitting a delicate aroma;
- the formation of short pedicels;
- the formation of a fleshy box-shaped spherical.
There are inflorescences different color: blue and blue, lilac and lilac, white and yellow, red and pink, cream and even black.
Care after flowering
If you properly care for the plant after it fades, there is a chance that after a while you again you can observe the flowering process. So, if hyacinth has faded, what to do next with it at home, how to care?
After flowering, many leave hyacinth in a pot and do not know what to do next. However, caring for the plant after flowering is very important.
When the flowers fade and begin to crumble, peduncle cut. Leaves do not touch - let them dry without outside interference. So the bulb is better strengthened. Within a month, it is watered and fed. Further, watering is reduced, and fertilizers are no longer used.
IMPORTANT!
Leaves are removed only after they have completely dried by cutting.
What to do with the bulb if it has bloomed?
When the soil is completely dry, the bulb can gently remove from the pot and let it dry in a dark, cool place.
During the year she will gain strength and will not bloom. With proper care flowering will repeat in 10-12 months (about how to care for a plant in a pot, read). To do this, you must:
- after the onions dry, shake them from excess clumps of earth;
- clean from excess scales, roots, growths - children (on how to propagate and grow hyacinths at home, read);
- keep in a dark place until transplantation;
- two months before the expected flowering period, root the bulbs in the ground;
- feed and water well, but do not accumulate moisture near the base.
Starts from the premises small pot - for one flower or wide, shallow - for several (you can find out how and when to plant hyacinth in the open ground). When planting, an interval of 2.5 cm between plants is observed so that they do not interfere with each other's growth. They are deepened into the ground at 2/3 of their own height, but no more. The soil is used universal or for flowering. Germination occurs in a dark place, at a temperature of + 5-7 degrees.
Watch a useful video on how to treat the bulb after flowering:
Flowering time
The growing season comes early spring or closer to early summer. It takes 1-2 weeks to pasture the buds. Flowering occurs in April-May. First, blue inflorescences blossom, then pink, lilac, white and red. The latest ones are orange and yellow.
Many are interested in the question, how many hyacinths bloom at home? They delight their fragrance for long - from 1 to 4 weeks. A flower brush grows and doubles during this time.
Flowering problems and solutions
Hyacinth can not always bloom on time. This is due to the influence of diseases and pests or improper care of the plant.
REFERENCE!
The flower does not tolerate excess moisture, liquid on inflorescences or leaves. It is recommended that watering be carried out through the pan so as not to harm.
Hyacinth does not bloom with the following problems:
- keeping at rest at high temperature;
- lack of moisture or its excess;
- poor lighting.
If the reason is unknown, you can try again to dry the bulbs, clean them from rot and excess scales and put them back in a dark place, observing the necessary temperature conditions - up to +5 degrees. When hyacinth not blooming due to moisture problems - its deficiency or overabundance, watering should be normalized and prevent the root system from drying out or decaying. If there is little light, you can rearrange the pot in another place - where there is more sunlight.
Attentive care of the herbaceous perennial will provide you with magnificent and fragrant flowers, which in six months will again please their flowering.
Many flower growers keep young hyacinths in a pot at home, because this flower is very beautiful, bright, and during flowering, fills the room with a delicate pleasant aromacreating a particularly cozy atmosphere. Owners of personal plots, among other things, are thus trying to preserve the blooming hyacinth bought in winter until the fall, to decorate them with a garden flower garden.
However, many people acquire this flower in order to replenish it with a room floral collection, constantly updating it with the help of “children” formed on the bulb.
Consider all the nuances of how to properly care for hyacinth at home in a pot, but first look at the photo of this flower:
Landing and transplanting
Bulbs are planted in a pot either one at a time or three at a time. The bottom must be laid out with drainage. (2-3 cm sand layer is fine). Bulbs should not be deepened completely: they should stick out one third above the ground.
Up to 2.5 months freshly planted bulbs to be kept in a dark place at + 5-9 degrees Celsius (refrigerator is a great option) periodically moisturizing. Bulbs are transplanted (or rather, transshipped together with a lump of earth) only if the former pot becomes cramped with them.
Read more about planting and transplanting plants.
Temperature
The most comfortable indoor hyacinth feels at a temperature between 20-22 degrees above zero. Drafts are dangerous for the flower, as well as the proximity of heating appliances - this must be taken into account when choosing a place for the plant.
Watering
Hyacinths require heavy watering, but without waterlogging. Therefore, good drainage is so important: the soil should not dry out, but the water should not stagnate.
It’s also important to keep track of so that water does not fall on the buds, sinuses of the leaves, as well as the bulbs themselvestherefore it is better to refuse watering cans.
How to water hyacinth in a pot so as not to damage? Water carefully along the edge of the container.
The best water for irrigation hyacinth - rain or meltkept in the room and warmed up to room temperature.
Lighting
Hyacinth does not like shadow, therefore requires at least 12 light hours daily. As for the light source, it is not so demanding: in addition to sunlight, artificial lighting is quite suitable. To make it uniform, the container with hyacinth must be periodically rotated.
Cultivation and reproduction
Hyacinth required bulbs from 6 cm in diameter - dense, without damage, sustained in the dormant period during the summer.
Hyacinth is propagated in late summer or early autumn with “baby” bulbs that form on an adult plant over time.
Also suitable for reproduction flakes and seeds, but the latter method is carried out only by specialists.
Bloom
Hyacinth requires care and flowering. Nature provides for a hat of bright, fragrant, tightly planted flowers appears in early spring.
On one instance, up to 30 flowers can bloom - tubular, bell-shaped or funnel-shaped.
Hyacinth blooming can be artificially timed to a certain period of time - this called "distillation".
This time is affected by the time the bulb is planted in the pot, the temperature and cooling period of the bulbs, as well as the process of forcing itself.
However, in the process, the bulb is greatly depleted, therefore, to restore strength after flowering, it is planted in the ground.
Find out from a separate article.
Pruning
After the home hyacinth fades, it peduncle should be cut. After that, when grown in a spacious pot with proper care, hyacinth will begin to grow new strong leaves, thereby preparing for new flowering.
What to do in the spring?
Warmth, as well as a long daylight hours will help develop beautiful, strong colors. In the spring, hyacinth only needs water and occasionally fertilize plantswatching the temperature. For fertilizer, phosphate and nitrate are most often mixed.
We take care in the winter
After the hyacinth has bloomed, the peduncle is cut off, but the plant must continue to be watered and even fed. Once the hyacinth leaves completely fade in winter, the bulb is removed from the ground, cleaned of withered foliage and dried for a couple of days. If the bulb has well-developed “children”, they can be separated.
If the "kids" are not yet strong and poorly separated from the mother's bulb, it is better to leave them until next year.
Next, a hyacinth bulb can keep dry and cool until autumn fall on the garden plot. Or you can continue to grow hyacinth as a houseplant, but in the fall soil planting is still necessary, since it will no longer be possible to re-grow a flowering plant at home from this bulb.
The soil
Hyacinth in a pot requires a special attitude when caring at home for the soil. The composition of the earth for hyacinth can be different, the main thing is that not sour. A sand-peat mixture or compost mixed with sand is suitable. The top layer of hyacinth soil is also sprinkled with sand with a 1-centimeter layer to prevent rotting.
Some gardeners grow hyacinths without soil: in vases filled with water with mineral fertilizers dissolved in it.
Benefit and harm
Poisonous or not hyacinth flower? For some gardeners, indoor hyacinth care is a concern that all its parts are poisonous when ingested.
If your house has small children or pets, make sure to place the flower in a place inaccessible to them, or refuse to grow hyacinth.
Hyacinth, however, can be beneficial. In particular, it is believed that his smell has aphrodisiac properties, and also normalizes the activity of hormones, relieves stress, has a beneficial effect on the central nervous system.
Also hyacinth used in perfumes and cosmetology, but before using these funds, consultation with a specialist is necessary, since hyacinth oil is a potent substance.
Diseases and Pests
If you decide to plant hyacinths in your home pot, how to care for them at home is an important question, if the plant is not properly maintained, the plant will become ill.
When caring for a home flower, hyacinth leaves may turn yellow due to inappropriate temperature conditionsas well as due to drafts. Lack of lighting will cause the leaves to fade.
If a opal buds, The reason, most likely, was improper watering or moisture on the flower. Signs of decay are caused by waterlogging. All this can be easily corrected by changing the regime of hyacinth care.
Appearance black dots on leaves and mucus around the bulb speaks of a more serious disease - yellow bacterial rot. It can not be cured, you can only destroy the infected plant.
But the disease can be prevented: for this you need to observe the measure in watering, and before planting, hold the bulb in a preparation containing phosphorus.
Among the pests that are dangerous for hyacinth are the stem nematode, root mites and aphids. You can get rid of them with the help of special drugs, but you need to use them strictly before buds.
Now you know what a hyacinth flower is, how to care for this plant at home. Hyacinth grown and taken root in a home pot is ready to be planted in a garden flower garden. And in order to decorate the house with a new blooming hyacinth, you can use its onion “baby”.
Based on the widespread opinion, about 30 species of hyacinths are found in nature, however, some attribute everything to one species, including many varieties. Be that as it may, garden hyacinth comes from eastern hyacinth and its varieties.
Varieties and types
In natural form eastern hyacinth it is a bulbous perennial up to 30 cm tall, with shiny or matte belt-shaped leaves up to 20 cm long in bright green color and fragrant bell-shaped flowers of various colors. Flowers form inflorescences-brushes of 12-35 pieces. The flowering period begins in the last spring days and lasts 10-15 days.
One of the most commonly accepted classifications of hyacinths is their separation precisely by the color of the flowers. For example:
Pink hyacinth - it is most likely resistant to weather conditions hyacinth fondant with pearl inflorescences up to 20 cm long and large 4.5-centimeter flowers.
Early pink variety — hyacinth pink pearl - with an inflorescence in the form of a cone, it has a dark strip on the perianth and is distinguished by elongated (up to 7 cm) bracts, reminiscent of leaflets in their shape.
Of these varieties, it should also be noted:
- hyacinth tea pink with apricot-salmon shade of flowers and a rich odor.
- hyacinth anna maria up to 25 cm tall, with a cylindrical 10-centimeter inflorescence of a soft pink hue, flowers up to 3.5 cm in diameter, blooming for 15 days, starting in the middle of April.
White hyacinth is represented by varieties
- with white up to 22 cm tall cylindrical inflorescences;
- - up to 35 cm long, fragrant and, most importantly, resistant to diseases, which makes it easy to care for even an inexperienced novice in floriculture, and several others.
Blue hyacinth includes such varieties
- Delft Blue the variety is characterized by a height of up to 23 cm, spacious inflorescences up to 12 cm in length, large blue 4-centimeter flowers and early flowering - from mid-April.
- Aida very spectacular due to overall, very fragrant and unusually lush inflorescences, consisting of star-shaped flowers of a dark blue hue, iridescent in the sun with blue-violet tones during flowering in April and May.
- Blue star has blue flowers with a whitish rim with a diameter of up to 4 cm, forming cylindrical inflorescences, and begins to bloom in April.
A variety of coloring hyacinths
As noted above, the variety of colors of hyacinths is very large. Therefore, among them there are cream and yellow such as grade hyacinth city of harlem up to 28, blooming from the last days of April.
Orange , as hyacinth jeepsie queen with persistent aroma, well suited for house distillation.
Flowers hyacinth woodstock up to 15 cm long, they have a violet-raspberry color, moreover, the tips of its leaves are also painted in raspberry color - this new variety exudes a delicate aroma and is optimal for house forcing.
Large-flowered garden hyacinth miss saigon with curly tassels of inflorescences of delicate lilac color, it also boasts a persistent aroma and is rightfully considered one of the leaders among plants for spring (flowering period begins in April) flower garden design.
30 cm tall, has lilac flowers with a whitish border; it also begins to bloom in April.
Hyacinths outdoor planting and care
For the successful planting of hyacinths in open ground in our conditions, a number of nuances should be taken into account. Planting is recommended to be planned for the end of September - early October, picking up medium-sized bulbs, as they are more resistant to bad weather.
When planting, it is necessary to observe the depth (15-18 cm) and density (20 cm), and making a preliminary digging, add peat or normally rotted compost. Hyacinth is demanding for watering, especially in the heat during budding, flowering and 2 weeks after flowering.
In addition to loosening and weeding the soil on the site, it is recommended that it be processed in advance (in August) up to 40 cm deep. Humus is introduced in the amount of 10-15 kg per square meter.
Hyacinth transplant after flowering
Transplanting these plants is quite simple. To do this, dig hyacinth after flowering in the summer, store until autumn, then, in the fall, transplant to another site.
When the bulbs finish blooming, it is better to wait a couple of months until they recover after the growing season.
Hyacinth fertilizer
Feeding in the case of hyacinths is mandatory and is carried out twice or thrice during the growing season. Both dry and liquid fertilizers are suitable - in dissolved form they need a little less, but the soil should be pre-watered, while dry ones are scattered and embedded in the soil.
Fertilizers are applied at the initial stages of growth (superphosphate in the amount of 15-20 g, nitrate - 20-25 g per sq m), then at the budding stage (potassium sulfate - 15-20 g, superphosphate - 30-35 g) and at the end of flowering (superphosphate with potassium sulfate - 30-35 g each). These volumes increase one and a half times on sandy soils. Nitrogen dressing is preferably done in the spring and summer.
Do I need to dig hyacinths for the winter
Hyacinths from the Netherlands, left in the open field for the winter, will bloom worse in the 2nd year.
In this regard, after yellowing of the foliage (optimally - in the end of June - early July), the bulbs are dug up, dried, peeled off leaves, roots and sent for storage.
Bulb Hyacinth
The quality of flowering in the next year depends on storage, therefore it should be taken with great responsibility.
After peeling, the bulbs are brought into a well-ventilated, dry, shaded room. Before settling the onions, the warehouse and containers are disinfected and dried. Lay the onions in a small layer in wooden boxes, put in gauze or nylon bags, do not tightly wrap in paper so that there is air access.
During storage, the most important processes occur in the bulb, the formation of the buds of leaflets, inflorescences, the root system, new buds, therefore, during this period it is necessary to ensure the optimal temperature regime. During the first ten days in the store it is necessary to maintain a temperature of thirty degrees. Then, until mid-September, twenty-three to twenty-five degrees above zero, and then until planting in the ground, about seventeen degrees above zero.
Hyacinth also needs care when storing the bulbs. In which if the temperature regime is violated, the process of formation of inflorescences is also violated, as a result of which in the spring of the next year weak peduncles appear with separate, often underdeveloped flowers.
Humidity in the storage should not exceed seventy percent; with high humidity, fungal diseases quickly develop. During storage, do not forget to regularly inspect the bulbs, while rejecting the sick. If spots appear bloomed, the bulbs are dried, and if pests develop, they are treated with insecticides.
Hyacinths planting and care at home
Large bulbs are planted in clean pots, up to 10 cm in size with loamy soil, so that the bulbous tops are flush with the edges of the pot, the rest should be buried in the ground by 2/3.
Pots are covered with paper caps or inverted dishes and placed in a cool (6-10 ℃) place. Perform watering with cold water on dried land for 12 weeks. When the sprouts reach 10 cm, they are rearranged in the sun.
In early December, you can remove the cover and transfer each hyacinth in a pot to the windowsill of a well-lit room. While it is necessary to maintain a temperature of at least 23 ℃, stably water and spray flowers until the beginning of budding. A month later, hyacinth will bloom for as much as 3 weeks.
Growing Hyacinths from Seeds
With a selective approach, the seed method is preferred, which reduces to sowing the seeds at the end of September in boxes with a substrate, including humus, sand and leafy soil in the proportions of 2: 1: 1, and further cultivation in a cold greenhouse for 2 years.
Hyacinth propagation by children
The resulting seedlings almost never inherit the properties of their parents, in connection with which amateur gardeners prefer the vegetative method more. Although he is not without drawbacks - every year you can count on the growth of only 1-3 children.
If the children easily detach from the bulb, they are planted and grown, if it is difficult to separate them, then the parent bulb is planted together with them.
Hyacinth propagation at home
Home hyacinths are propagated using medium-sized bulbs. First, suitable ripening conditions are created, including moving into a pot with specialized soil for hyacinths (sold in stores) and sprinkled on top of the ground.
So the bulbs are left for 8-10 weeks in a completely light-free room with a temperature of less than 8 degrees (in general, a refrigerator is quite suitable), maintaining the level of soil moisture.
Diseases and Pests
In natural conditions of mid-latitudes, hyacinths are practically not susceptible to disease. Much more dangerous is their stay in the house. External signs such as pest damage inability to stretch , early yellowing and wilting .
As a preventative measure, pickling in a phosphorus-containing preparation lasting 15-20 minutes is used before planting the bulbs. Sick specimens need to be dug up and destroyed, the remaining ones should be treated with phosphorus-containing agents.
Among the diseases most often seen yellow bacterial rot , characterized by the transformation of bulbous tissues into mucus, exuding a disgusting smell. Problems with stretching are associated with it, in addition, the occurrence of stripes and spots on foliage and peduncles, their decay.
All parts of diseased plants must be destroyed (preferably by burning), and the pit should be treated with formalin (5%) or bleach. Subsequently, hyacinths are recommended to be planted in the same place only after a few years.
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How to grow and care for hyacinth at home?
How to care for hyacinth in a room? This is a question many beginner growers ask, because turning a plant adapted for street breeding into a room is a very interesting experiment.
Hyacinth is a beautiful flower that is one of the first to bloom in the flower beds in spring with the onset of warm rains.The word "hyacinth" in Greek is translated as "rainy flower". Luxurious, lush hats of flowers and heady aroma announce to everyone about the awakening from winter sleep and the beginning of spring. Observational breeders have noticed that hyacinth is a fairly “disciplined” plant, and you can calculate the exact time of flowering after planting. This property is now being used with pleasure by gardeners for growing hyacinth in the house. They bloom for 2-3 weeks and you can organize a distillation for a particular holiday. Therefore, by the New Year, bulbs are planted in early September, and by March 8 - in mid-October, for planting in May, they are planted in early November.
How to grow hyacinth?
Hyacinth bulbs should be planted so that they peek out 2-3 cm above the ground.
Sowing preparation. First you need to select the appropriate bulbs. They should be dense without signs of rot and external damage. Pay attention to the correct storage of bulbs before selling. The most successful specimens for forcing at home will be bulbs 5 cm in diameter. Such planting material is able to give a powerful and healthy peduncle. Before planting the bulbs, it is advisable to hold for several days in the lower compartment of the refrigerator.
Pot and soil preparation. Capacity for landing should be wide and shallow. It is permissible to use boxes, pots, etc. Hyacinths require nutritious light soil. Universal primer is easiest to purchase at a flower shop. Before planting in a container for drainage, it is necessary to pour expanded clay or other small pebbles.
Bulbs should be planted so that they look 2-3 cm above the ground. Blooming hyacinths will look beautiful if the distance between the bulbs is 3-5 cm. To prevent planting material from rotting during forcing, sprinkle sand on top of the soil.
For successful rooting, the container is placed in a dark place with a temperature of only 5-7 °. Can be covered with plastic wrap with ventilation holes. Periodically, it is necessary to check the soil, preventing its drying out. Under such conditions, future hyacinths should spend 2-2.5 months. If the plant is brought into heat immediately, there will be no flowering.
After the first leaves have appeared, the container can be moved to a place with a temperature of 15 ° C.
After the bulbs hatch, and they had the first leaves, about 2-3 cm tall. Capacity can be moved to a warmer place. At temperatures up to 15 ° they will pave to grow until buds appear. During this period, they still do not need bright lighting. It is necessary to ensure that the soil is moist, but not sour. To form smooth peduncles, it is necessary to periodically rotate the container with sprouts to the light source from different sides. For more magnificent and long flowering, you can feed hyacinths with fertilizers.
With the beginning of the blooming of flowers, hyacinths must be put in a constant place, beingware of hot batteries and the bright sun. The hardest part is left behind! Now you can enjoy the beauty of the flower, only periodically watering it. Avoid getting water on the bulb and leaves. Winter evenings and cloudy weather can lead to dropping buds, so you need to extend the daylight with artificial lighting.
With a variety of colors, these plants are pleasing to the eye. And their aroma is quite pleasant. But when the hyacinth faded, what to do with the bulb? Its flowering and development in the future depends on proper care during this period.
It is very nice to receive a blooming hyacinth as a gift in winter or early spring. On sale during this period there is distillation - these are small bulbs with inflorescences and leaves. Many just throw them away when the flowers fade. But hyacinth after flowering is quite possible to save.
Onion care after distillation
Usually the plant is sold in small containers where it lacks space, moisture, nutrients. Forcing simply depletes the bulb. If the situation is very bad, then the still blooming hyacinth can be carefully transferred with the ground into a larger pot. But this, so to speak, is an ambulance. Better to wait until it fades.
There are two ways. keep it after flowering. The main thing is not to dig out the bulb as soon as it has bloomed. After distillation, it is weak and it needs time to recover. Peduncle pruned. It is better to do with leaves as follows: wait until they dry. If this is spring distillation, then if possible a plant with leaves should be well kept until July in a pot. To do this, they put him in a dark place.
Humidification needs regular, but infrequent. Full drought should not be allowed, but it is desirable that the soil between the irrigations dry out, gradually reduce it. After the leaves have dried, they are removed. bulb extracted from the ground.
It is dried and stored in peat chips or sawdust. Usually their landing time is in the fall. With the first frosts they are placed in open ground. If planted on warm autumn days, they can begin to grow, and with the advent of cold weather they will simply die.
The beds with hyacinth are well insulated for the winter with sawdust, peat, leaves or special material. Not all varieties are equally resistant to frost. Therefore, shelter is removed only when the soil is thawed.
But in practice, this is not so simple. Many bulbs do not withstand storage until the fall and simply dry out. It is worth remembering that forcing them exhausts and even those that lay before the fall will bloom only after 2 years.
Another way to preserve the plant is simpler and more productive. When the hyacinth has finished flowering, cut flower arrow. If a transplant from a small container has not been done before, then now is the time. At the bottom of the pot you need to lay the drainage layer. For this, pebbles or expanded clay is suitable.
The substrate can be taken already ready from the store, or ordinary land mixed with sand and peat. Lukovka is simply transferred to a new spacious tank, without deepening much. Now hyacinth should be placed in a warm place with plenty of light. A glazed warm loggia is a good option, but the windowsill is perfect.
It is not difficult to take care of it: it is necessary to water in moderation without soaking the bulb and not over-moistening the substrate. For feeding, complex mineral compositions are suitable. With this care, hyacinth develops in almost the same conditions as in open soil.
When the plant forms leaves, it can be move to open ground. This should be done in the spring, when frosts pass. Just transplant with a lump of earth into the landing hole without deepening the neck and level the soil. During the stay in the pot, the bulb accumulates nutrients. And next year, it is quite possible to expect flowering from her.
There is an important rule: after forcing the bulbs should not be planted in a pot and try to get them to bloom again. They are exhausted and they need a rest period of about 3 months. Many alternate their planting in open ground and a pot.
Care after flowering in the garden
For plants in the open ground, the same question is relevant: hyacinth has faded, what to do next? In principle, all procedures are almost identical to those described above. And in the open ground bulb formation and growth occurs after the flowering of hyacinth.
The arrow of the peduncle must be cut off before the seed boxes begin to form. The fact is that they take a lot of nutrients from the bulb. But the leaves, on the contrary, supply substances for its growth. The longer the leaves remain green, the more nutrition it receives. Therefore, they do not need to be removed, but you should wait until they dry out themselves.
It is good to make nitrogen fertilizers. Potassium and phosphorus mineral compounds are also suitable. They not only help the bulb recover after flowering, but also contribute to the formation of children. But overfeeding them is not worth it. Top dressing is added to the soil after watering.
In the open field after flowering, irrigation is carried out in aisles once a week. As soon as the leaves turn yellow, it is stopped. When they are completely dry, it’s time to dig.
Theoretically, bulbs can be grown in one place for several years without digging. However, gardeners advise not to leave them in the ground for the winter, but dig out every year. And there are several reasons for this:
- After wintering, hyacinth can bloom poorly. Not all varieties tolerate frosts well;
- So you can get more planting material;
- Bulbs are preserved from disease and decay.
They dig them out in the fall and then ask them the desired depth. Without this, they can stop blooming at all. After digging, they are also disinfected, sorted and stored. It is important not to miss the moment when the leaves die. After this, you can not find the bulbs, since hyacinth deeply grows into the ground.
Bulb storage conditions
In the cultivation of hyacinths, this moment is of great importance. So, before sending the bulbs for storage disinfect in manganese solution. Then dry, leaving for a week in the fresh air (not in the sun) or just in a well-ventilated area. The optimum temperature for this is about 20 ° C.
Need cleaning from soil and excess flakes. Particular care must be taken to separate those under which the children are. It is also good to make cruciform incisions on the bottom of the bulb. It is important to disinfect the knife after processing each of them. You can wipe it with alcohol.
During sorting, the children are separated from the bulbs, if they are easy to detach, and they have already acquired their roots. Seeds are put in boxes or paper bags, sprinkled with sawdust.
In the storage of bulbs, there are several stages:
- Bulbs are kept at t 25 ° C for 8 weeks;
- After that, it must be reduced to 18 ° C;
- A few days before disembarkation, it is good to hold them in a cold room (t 4-5 ° C). This will help them adapt to the external environment.
Humidity in the room is also important. The air should be dry, but not enough to dry the bulbs. Good ventilation is also needed. Bulbs from open ground can also be stored at home. at a temperature of about 5 ° C. Do this only with adult specimens.
What to do if the bulb is sick? The leaves may turn yellow for this reason. In such cases, planting material should be immediately dug up, held in a dark solution of manganese and put to dry separately from others, treating them with special preparations.
Hyacinth bulbs contain oxalic acid. In people with sensitive skin, it can cause irritation, so it’s best to protect your hands when working with them.
Preparation of planting material and soil
The soil before planting hyacinth bulbs in it must be prepared. When choosing a place, it is better to give preference to the bed, which is under a slight slope. So flooding can be avoidedwhich is very dangerous for the plant. As an option, bulk beds with sides are suitable. They will protect hyacinth from groundwater.
It is better to dig the soil in advance so that it has time to settle. From fertilizers to the soil, you can add mineral compounds and humus. Ash and dolomite flour are quite applicable.
Bulbs are sorted before planting. It is important that they are not damaged or rot. Then they are disinfected in potassium permanganate. The procedure is also good as disease prevention. The children formed during the storage period are carefully disconnected and put in separate containers. Here they will grow and develop.
After preplant treatment bulbs are planted in holesmaking them sand shirts. Sand is poured at the bottom of the landing pit on top of them, also sprinkled with sand, and only then with soil.
These flowers were brought to Europe in the distant XVIII century. And they invariably enjoy well-deserved popularity. How the plant will develop in the future depends on proper hyacinth care after flowering. After all, one bulb with a competent approach can please bloom for about 10 years.
