2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Probably, everyone in childhood read the famous fairy tale "Twelve Months", in which the little princess demanded lilies of the valley in winter. But even in a cold cold and snowfall, it is not difficult to make a fairy tale come true. Imagine how nice it is to admire when lilies of the valley bloom in your apartment on New Year's Eve or in early spring. Every gardener can feel like a wizard, for this you need to prepare the rhizomes of the lily of the valley in advance and save them until the time you need
The graceful and fragrant lily of the valley blooms before anyone else in the spring forest. The appearance of this graceful plant corresponds to the poetic name: the slender stem of a long peduncle bears beautiful, drooping flowers. Lily of the valley is the favorite plant of flower growers for growing out of season and this is done quite simply. Often the distillation of a fragrant lily of the valley begins for some holiday. However, observing the flowering of lily of the valley in winter is sometimes perceived as a small miracle!
Harvesting rhizomes of lilies of the valley for distillation
Lilies of the valley are known to bloom in the wild in May. If you decide to grow lilies of the valley in your apartment, then you should create special artificial conditions. Observing certain requirements of the environment for distillation, even a man will be able to present his beloved lilies of the valley by March 8th. In order to have time to get the flowers of the lilies of the valley before a certain date, correctly calculate the distillation time. Usually, from the beginning of forcing to flowering, 25 - 30 days are provided, these time limits depend on the home environment. If flowering occurred ahead of time, then in order to preserve the freshness of the flowers, transfer the container with lilies of the valley to a cool place.
When choosing rhizomes for forcing, pay attention to strong specimens that have flower buds. Planting material can be purchased at a specialized store, or you can dig up lily of the valley rhizomes in the forest or on your site. Perform this procedure with a pitchfork so as not to damage the plant and leave the roots to the maximum. When forcing, the lily of the valley does not give new roots, the plant receives water only through them. Nutrients are also embedded in the rhizome, so it is important to properly preserve it before forcing the peduncles. Lily of the valley sprouts can be stored upright in the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator with paper wrapped around the top.
Forcing lilies of the valley
At the right time for you, remove the pieces of lily of the valley rhizomes from the storage. Sort carefully, sort, clean from dirt, only healthy, not rotten rhizomes are suitable for distillation. Pay attention to the buds: in leaf buds, the tops are sharp, in flowers, they are rounded. Cut the long roots, leaving 10 cm in length. Then place the roots of the lily of the valley in warm water for 10 hours. The recommended water temperature is 30 - 35 degrees. In the process of such heat treatment, the plant will come out of dormancy and the flow of nutrients from the roots to the flower buds will increase.
Prepare a container by filling it with soil mixture, not reaching the edges of 10 cm. Take four parts of peat and a part of sand as soil. You can buy regular seedling soil. Place the rhizomes of the lily of the valley vertically, preferably the buds are at the same level. Fill the empty spaces between the roots with earth. Make sure that the flower buds are not covered, but are on the surface. Carefully pour the planted rhizomes with water, if gullies have formed, add the soil again. Forcing lilies of the valley requires high humidity, for this, wrap the buds with moss, cover the container with sprouts with polyethylene or glass and put it in a very warm place. Spray the young shoots every day.
When the flower stalks have reached a size of 8 cm, then remove the film, sphagnum and transfer the container with lilies of the valley to a cool light windowsill. For a long time to please the eye with the sight of snow-white and fragrant little bells, maintain a temperature of 16 - 18 degrees and shade the plant from direct sunlight.
If you want to drive out lilies of the valley every year, then set aside a special flower bed with fertile soil on your personal plot. Fertilize in May so that the plant has strong flower buds.
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