Hyacinth is one of the very first spring flowers. He throws out of his land scented candlesas soon as the first spring sunshine begins to warm the earth.
However, in order for the plant to flourish for more than one year, you need to know how to transplant a hyacinth after purchasing it in a pot and take care of it.
Bulb Requirements
Dispelling a garden hyacinth flower requires providing him with conditions close to the street. The key to success is the selection of a healthy, dense, ripe bulb of five centimeters diameter, as well as knowledge of how to plant a hyacinth in a pot at home.
The size of the planting material for this flower is crucial for success. Since only a large one can get a full-fledged plant.
The appearance of the bulb is also an important factor. It should be without rotting elements, mechanical damage, tight to the touch.
To get a nice, bright flower, you must provide proper storage of the bulb. It must be excavated at the end of June and placed in a damp, warm room. Storage temperature during the rest period is 27-30 degrees. In such conditions, the bulb should be 14 days.
After that, it is moved to a cool, 22-24 degrees, room for 2 weeks, and then the temperature is reduced to 15 degrees. All these resettlement activities - important stages Prepare a hyacinth to distill a flower, carefully read all the information on how to plant hyacinths at home in a pot, then the flowers will delight you with flowering for more than one season.
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Bulbs purchased in the store, have already passed these stages of preparation, therefore, such manipulations are not required for them. You only need to save them before landing.
More details about how to multiply and grow hyacinths at home, you can find here.
Planting and care at home
How to plant a hyacinth at home in a pot? The plant must be planted in shallow, wide pot. The soil for planting is suitable ready for planting bulbous. In the absence of the possibility of buying, mixed turf, sheet soil and compost in equal quantities. For the looseness of the composition is added part of the sand or peat.
Before planting a layer of expanded clay is laid on the bottom of the pot. On it is poured a layer of sand and soil mixture. Then closely folded onions. From one to three bulbs can be placed in one pot.
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The bulbs should not touch each other and the edges of the dishes.
Hyacinths sprinkle the soil in such a way to keep their heads open. After landing, they are created conditions for rest in the most cool and dark room. Ideal conditions are content in the cellar or basement. If you do not have them, find a cool place in the apartment and cover the pots with a dark cloth or an opaque cap.
You can put containers with plantings under the balcony door or in the container for vegetables in the refrigerator.
About 2.5 months your hyacinths will sleep and prepare for flowering. During this time they should be rooted as much as possible.
Hyacinths are planted not only at home but also on the street. More details about planting and caring for hyacinth in open ground can be found here.
When to plant at home?
The time when planting hyacinths at home in a pot plays a big role in distilling a plant and it depends on what time you want to get flowers. It is important consider which grade of hyacinth you purchased. Early varieties are planted in early October, and the flower is obtained from them by December.
For flowering in February, selected varieties with medium flowering periods. They disembark at the end of October. Later varieties when planting hyacinth in a pot in late December, bloom in late March and early April.
The process of forcing peduncle
After a two-month period of sleep, spring hyacinths are arranged. They are placed in a warm, bright place and begin to water. The soil should be slightly wet, but not wet. Stagnant water is detrimental to the bulbs, they can rot.
During the forcing period, hyacinth care is in watering. Try to keep the water when watering does not fall into the center of the bulb. The roots of the flower are quite long, so watering can be carried out in the pan.
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With early forcing and high humidity, hyacinth watering is not required.
Hyacinths sufficient illumination needed. For even flowering pot should be turned to the light on different sides. If the weather is cloudy, you must provide additional artificial lighting.
Twice a month, the plant must be fed with mineral fertilizers, preferably special ones.
Leaving after flowering
After flowering on the bulbs flower stalks are cut out. Watering and fertilizer continue until the leaves finally wilt. During this period, the bulb restores strength for future flowering and forms daughter processes.
After complete drying of the whole foliage, the bulbs are removed from the soil, cleaned and dried. Starting from 4-5 years of age, the mother bulb begins to form children. They can be carefully separated if possible.
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If small onions hold tightly to the main one, it is better not to tear them off, in order not to injure the mother. Children only grow for 3-4 years in the open field, and then flowers can be obtained from them.
You can learn more about what to do next with hyacinth at home, when it has bloomed, here.
How to distill a flower in water?
A feature of this flower is the possibility of obtaining a full-fledged flower in the conditions of complete absence of soil. Distillation can be done in water, filling the bulb in half. The whole procedure of preparing to receive a flower is carried out in the same way as the variant with the soil.
At the end of the cooling period of the bulb placed in a warm placebut continue to protect them from light. As soon as sprouts reach a length of 10 centimeters, the bulbs are exposed to light. Add mineral fertilizers to the water, so the process of forcing the flower will accelerate.
The bulb must be placed in water so that it only touches the water by its roots, the rest of it must be on the surface.
The process of planting and transplanting hyacinths in indoor conditions in a pot requires strict compliance with the rules, as well as knowledge of how to care for them. Only in this case you can get beautiful bright flower at the required time.
