2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Summer is over, gladioli have faded, although some late varieties are still blooming. And this means that soon it will be necessary to take care of the correct storage of the gladioli bulbs so that they stay safe until spring
Some important information
In order to "hide" the bulbs of gladioli for storage in time, you need to know their ripening dates, so as not to dig up ahead of time and not be left without these beautiful flowers for the next year. In varieties, depending on the time of their flowering, the ripening periods are as follows: early gladioli take a month to ripen, medium ones - 10 more days, that is, 40 days, and later ones must be allowed to soak in the ground for about fifty days. Ripening dates are counted from the moment the flowering is completed or from the moment the peduncle is cut.
By the way, one more note: varieties with lavender-blue color, as well as all gladioli with dark flowers (for example, lilac, dark red, burgundy) after ripening must be dug out first, since for some reason it is these tubers that are the very first to lose your immunity to various fungal diseases. We get the last ones out of the ground and put them away for storage.
When and how to dig up the bulbs?
Gladiolus tubers begin to be dug up in September, after the bulbs are fully ripe and in accordance with the color of the flowers in dry weather. If it rained the day before, then postpone this work for a day or two, wait until the soil dries out a little.
Preparing for storage
After all the ripe tubers have been dug out, cut the leaves of the plant in the same way so that a small piece, "stump", no more than one centimeter long remains. Some gardeners cut the leaves completely, leaving nothing, believing that this is better for the bulb. In fact, this left piece will help us during storage, since it will play an important protective role against such an unpleasant disease of gladiolus roots as thrips. The next important action - in adult tubers we cut in all the roots, and in children we only slightly shorten them, we will trim them in the spring, on the eve of germination or planting in the soil. After removing the tubers, rinse well in cool water, removing all the soil from them.
Now we turn to the disinfection of our future planting material. It is imperative to carry out this operation, as you can bring in an infection that will destroy all our gladioli. We carry out disinfection in special products purchased in the store, or, if you have stocks, in a weak solution of manganese. We keep the roots in manganese for half an hour, in a special solution - according to the information on its use.
After that, you can proceed to drying. Remember that insufficiently well-dried tubers will not survive the winter, they can simply rot from excessive moisture, "grabbing" the neighboring bulbs. For drying, the roots are laid out on the bottom of a box, covered with newspaper or plain paper, in one layer and left in a warm place for two weeks (the air temperature during drying should not fall below 25 degrees and rise above 30 degrees). After a period of two weeks, we transfer the bulbs to any linen bags (preferably arranged according to varieties) and hang them in a well-ventilated room, the temperature in which ranges from 20 to 22 degrees Celsius (I dry in a summer kitchen or in a barn). And leave it to dry completely, which will take about a month.
Storage
The optimum temperature for this is from five to ten degrees Celsius. Any place where this temperature is observed is suitable for bulbs: refrigerator, basement, windowsill, shed, pantry, and so on. We store in the same bags that we dried.
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