2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Forcing bulbous plants allows you to get great joy from fresh buds and flowers at a time unusual for pets and unusual for us - in winter, early spring. Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, muscari and other plants decorate the festive table during winter celebrations, experienced flower growers know how to make their pets bloom for the 8th of March. But what to do with such a gift when International Women's Day is over and the flowers have faded? Someone thinks that after forcing the plants have wasted their strength and are no longer suitable for flowering. However, nature can argue with this, and with proper care, the planting material can be brought back to life
Stop wasting nutrients
During the forcing process, the plant is depleted, and in order to restore its strength, it is required that the bulb accumulates nutrients. For this, it is necessary to create such conditions as to extend the growing season of the plant as much as possible and give time for the outflow of nutrients from the leaf apparatus into the planting material.
First of all, you need to free the plant from the flowers that draw out the power from it. Dying buds may seem to no longer pose a threat to nutrient residues. However, one must not forget that seeds can ripen in them. Therefore, flowers that have lost their decorative appearance are removed. In daffodils, they are cut off almost at the bulb itself, in tulips they only get rid of inflorescences, and in hyacinths, the peduncle is bare by stretching it with closed palms.
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Leaves on plants should be left and the growing season for them extended as much as possible. For this, it is recommended to create more favorable conditions for the plants. The bulbs are moved from a cramped pot into a large container with a loose nutrient mixture. Please note that when planting for distillation, the bulbs are planted separately in miniature tight pots, and with a large amount of planting material, they are placed with a bridge, end-to-end. But as soon as it is time to restore the strength of the bulb, it is provided with such conditions so that the plant is spacious.
Transplanting into fertile soil after forcing is also different. If, to obtain a flower in the cold season, the bulbs are not hidden under a layer of soil, then in our case the planting material should be planted deep in the pot so that the bulb does not peep out on the soil surface. Firstly, she no longer needs to spend energy to push the sprouts through the soil layer to the soil surface, and secondly, this is to protect the bulb from drying out.
Laying on the sides and crumbling the bulb with a nutritious substrate, watering is carried out, and then another layer of dry soil mixture is placed on top so that a soil crust does not form. After these procedures, the pot is left in a bright and cool enough place at a temperature of approximately + 15 … + 17 degrees C. For these purposes, verandas of private houses, glazed balconies of high-rise buildings are suitable. In addition, caring for transplanted bulbs includes feeding. Fertilizing is carried out 2-3 times a month.
Storage until autumn disembarkation
When transplanting bulbs after forcing in late winter - early spring, the leaves begin to turn yellow around May. This is a signal that they can be cut, and it is time to dig up the bulbs and send them for dry storage at a temperature of about +25 degrees C. In this way, they will receive several months of the necessary rest period. In the fall, in the natural terms for bulbous, these specimens are planted in open ground. The strongest will bloom next year, but some will need more time to set the buds again.
What bulbous storage is not required
In winter, so-called flowering small-bulbous cultures can also settle in our houses. Mouse hyacinth, woods, crocuses after wilting of leaves are not laid for dry storage. So that they do not dry out, they are immediately moved into open ground.
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