Flowers gladiolus love many dackets, but not everyone is solved to decorate their summer cottage. The reason is one - many simply do not know how to care for these flowers, and more importantly - how to store them.
Gladiolus or shinters appeared in the gardens of ancient Greece for 300 years before our era. At first, the Greeks considered this amazing flower weed, because the races grew in the fields along with wheat. A little later, in ancient Rome, beautiful flowers were already grown to decorate royal gardens. And now these relatively unpretentious flowers please us with their amazing blossoms. Many want to grow them on the flower beds and their summer cottages, but not everyone knows how to care for them and how to keep the bulbs of flowers before landing.
Look at these photos, what beautiful gladiolus can be:
How to keep gladiolus
These plants differ from others in that with the onset of the cold flashes, it is necessary to dig and transfer to a special place to save until spring. For many gardeners and dacities, such manipulations are very problematic, because many people live hundreds of kilometers from the site and in cold times they do not have the opportunity to come to the country.
Anyway, with a huge desire, you can grow and save these unique and unique gladiolus flowers.
The common mistake of many novice flower flowers is that they know that the bulbs of gladiolus need to dig up, and then simply do not give the values \u200b\u200bin what conditions they are stored. But this is the most important aspect when storing gladiols. If you do not comply with certain conditions and do not maintain the necessary temperature regime, it is hoped that the spring flowers will come in, not worth it.
What you need to know to keep gladioli
So, it is important - most people believe that the bulbs in the winter fall into the hibernation. This is not true! Just during this period, the plant is gaining strength, each bulwing occurs the process of formation of new kidneys, as a result of which the subsidiaries are replaced. There is also a bookmark of leaf and future colors.
To preserve the plants forces and put them in the right direction, it is necessary to create all the conditions for the normal storage of bulbs.
How to save gladiolus:
- consider the temperature in the room. This is 99% is the key to success. The formation of new plants in the bulbs occurs just in winter, and not for 1 day, but for several months. For example, if during the bookmark the plant will be in the basement, where the temperature will be high, then "blind" boutons may appear;
- when Gladiolus is deposited, they continue to function and highlight moisture, which is so necessary to bookmark new colors next season. When the bulbs get into a hot medium, they simply dry and will not be able to develop normally in the future. And if the temperature is too low, then new kidneys will not be formed in such conditions;
- it is very important when storing gladioles maintain a certain humidity in the room. Very low moisture again, will contribute to the speedy drying of the bulbs, and the high - the appearance of mold and winding the colors.
It is possible to save the planting material, and you don't have to come up with anything new, it is important to comply with certain rules and it is possible to plant bulbs in the soil with the onset of heat.
How to keep gladiolus in winter
Before studying the study of the storage rules of gladiolus bulbs, we will get acquainted with the features of digging flowers.
There are certain deadlines when you can start digging the bulbs. This time - after 30 days from the moment the colors begin to fall. Spread the bulbs are best in warm weather when there is no wind and precipitation on the street. It is important to take into account that each gladiolus variety has its own period of flowering, so it will not be possible to say exact time. As Gladiolus lovers say - this is the time from 1 to 4 decad of the last autumn month.
It is extremely unwanted to overeat flowers in the cold ground, as they can start to root or the bulbs will be rotated. The bulbs who were grown from the kidneys must be turned out the latter.
How to remove the bulbs of gladiolus:
- Take a shovel or forks.
- Carefully fit the soil with a pitchflower (this garden tool copes with the task better than the shovel).
- From each club shake the earth.
- Review the plant - if you saw that the tubers began to rot or deteriorate, they need to be thrown away, so as not to infect healthy plants. Sick bulbs are most likely to save will not work.
- Dug-in bulbs need to be decomposed on a flat surface, laying down to the bottom of a skip or phaneer.
- Leave the planting material so that the bulbs seek well.
- As soon as you see that the Earth has become a dry, sharp knife or scissors need to cut the stems, leave only a small tip above the bulb, 2 cm long.
If a variety of valuable or such a planting material is no longer, and you have detected damage on the bulb, you can cut it with a sharp knife, and this place is smeared with green. It is also suitable for processing fresh cutting a strong heatman solution.
To preserve the bulbs of gladiolus, you need to peel them well in the room for 30 days. Try not to remove the shell from each bulb (it is scales) so as not to overheat the plant.
After drying, the bulbs need to be processed. This is done like this: gladiolus need to rinse in water room temperature and put for 30 minutes to a weak mortar of manganese. Instead of manganese, you can use a chlorofos solution, take 20 g of the means on 10 liters of water.
And you can split the bulbs in a variety and put each pouch each in a separate bag for 3 days and drown on the street. Then put the bags with gladiolus to the room and to dry in the way it described above.
Clubneelukovitsy are always worse in the cold season, so they are desirable to immediately lower in warm paraffin. To do this, use the tweezers, carefully take the steel tool and lower the heat paraffin for 3 seconds. Now quickly move the planting material under the rush of cold water and put on a soft, well absorbent fabric. Now such tuberukovitsa can be stored.
Powing period of gladiolus is approximately 1 month or a little more. During this time, the bulbs will not germinate, even if they are stored without complying with the temperature regime and humidity. Then, when this term expires, premature sprouts will begin to appear on the bulbs of gladiolus. And since the street is still very cold on the street, it simply will have nowhere to go, and they will die. To prevent this, it is important to comply with a certain temperature mode - to store the bulbs of gladiolus at a temperature of + 5-10 oC, but not higher, maximum air humidity - 70%.
How to keep gladiolus in trench
If you are soft in your area, you can store gladioluses right in the trenches. Choose a suitable area so that the groundwater should not be laid. It is very important.
Now you need to drench the trench, the depth of which should not exceed 80 cm, width is 10 cm less than the depth. The bulbs of gladiolus need to be omitted to the ground, fall asleep with dry leaves and cover with a polyethylene film that protects the plants from moisture. Bookmark the bulbs of gladiolus in the trench must be carried out before the steady cold will come.
How to store the bulbs of gladiolus in the basement
An ideal place for storing gladiolus is a basement. But, there is one nuance, if you keep vegetables and fruits in one room, then put on the shelf of the flashers of the colors can not be. To do this, it is necessary to allocate a different place, since vegetables and fruits will be distinguished during storage, there will be a large amount of moisture, and for the bulbs of gladiolus it is destructive.
In the basement should be maintained a certain temperature, in the range from 4 to 7 oWith with a plus sign. Humidity indoors - from 60 to 80%. For children, you need to create other storage conditions - the temperature should be reduced by several degrees, and humidity to increase to 90%.
If you have the opportunity, you can put the bulbs of gladiolus in boxes with a bottom in the form of a mesh, then the bulbs will be evenly affected and ventilated well.
To save the bulbs of colors and protect from pests, you can put the purified garlic cloves into each box. Several times a month you need to fall into the basement to inspect the bulbs. If you have detected spoiled gladioli, they must be removed. Every time during checking garlic needs to be changed.
An ideal place for storing gladiolus bulbs is a dry basement with ventilation or cellar, the premises should be cold.
Boxes with landing material Place on racks in the basement, so you can save space. And you can still keep the bulbs in the bags (do them yourself from old kapron pantyhose).
You can do otherwise if there is no possibility to put the bulbs in the boxes with the ventilated bottom. Then take the usual boxes of wooden boards or plywood, pour sand and jump onion. In the spring you will find that every bulb "covered" with children. Even if the adult bulb in winter could not be saved, you will have a lot of planting material. From the kids in the first year, the flowers will not grow up, but so you can save your favorite and rare variety of colors.
How to keep gladiolus in the apartment
Not everyone has the opportunity to send a bowl on the basement or cellar. It is quite realistic to do it at home - in the apartment. Of course, it will be much more complicated, but if you take into account all the nuances, you can save gladiolus to spring.
To repeat and tell how to properly dry the bulbs after digging, we will not. You can only clarify that you can choose a balcony as a seat for drying.
First we will find out how to properly save the Gladiolus baby in the apartment. It is necessary to distribute bulbs in varieties and put into paper bags. It is only important that the paper is breathing, that is, not glossy. You can take the paper for a meals.
Now you need to find the most cool place in your residential room and put bags with bulbs in this place. When there are a lot of bulbs, they can be put in 1 layer in cardboard boxes, but only so that they do not come into contact with each other. Over time, with proper storage, the bulbs will slightly decrease in volume, it is not scary. Before planting gladioluses in the ground, it is necessary to soak planting material for half an hour in solution with growth stimulants.
If the bulbs are not very much, then they are best sent for storage in the refrigerator. Highlight the bottom shelf or put the bulbs in the box. Gladiolus pre-put in hermetic container, it can be a plastic box or package for freezing. Our task is to limit moisture access to the bulbs. Each bulging must be wrapped with simple paper, and then put it in the box.
As soon as spring comes, the bulbs will begin to "breathe", that is, allocate a large amount of moisture. Just at this time, they need to be removed from the refrigerator (end of February - the beginning of March), each bulb unfold and dry. Then we again wrap up in a new paper and put it in the refrigerator, but already on the top or middle shelf, where the temperature will be below.
The place for storing children of gladiolus can be a cold window sill. You can arrange the bulbs right under the balcony or inlet door. If there is a container with a lock on your staircase, it will be an ideal place to store children.
Adult gladiolus bulbs are stored under the same conditions, but only it is desirable to put in ventilated boxes or boxes, suitable for storing a sleeve.
If you are going to keep bulbs in the refrigerator, they need to be good. Wet bulbs in a cold medium will grow root.
Storage of gladiolus on the balcony
If you live in the area with a mild climate and winter are quite warm, then you can position the boxes with the landing material right on the loggia, only if it is well insulated. As soon as it grows on the street, the boxes will have to bite the old fur coat or blanket.
In order not to worry and constantly do not follow the temperature on the loggia, make a special container, insulation the walls of the foam and install the thermometer. As soon as frosts begin, put boxes with bulbs inside the container, and you throw a cotton blanket from above. The temperature is monitored using a thermometer - if it rises, the insulation removes or remove the containers with the planting material.
How to protect flowers from pests
Tips - the only problem of gladiolus. They can climb the scaly layer of the bulbs and calmly overreim in it. Ajacent Tips like children and adult plants. Insects are instantly developing in warmth, so you need to be extremely careful to prevent the death of the planting material.
Just in case it is necessary to treat bulbs with special drugs. It has proven himself "Inta-Vir", 1 tablet is taken on 10 liters of water. The bulbs are soaked for 30 minutes in the solution, and then dried within 7 days. If you fail to find this drug, you can perform the processing of bulbs in conventional water heated to +60 oC. Treatment time - 10 minutes, then place the bulbs in cold water with a temperature of +12 oC, and then it is good to dry them.
Another effective way, with which you can get rid of pests - buy a powder for dealing with cockroaches and just sprinkle onions them. After 1 month, processing is desirable to repeat. Do such manipulation or not - decide for yourself.
If you comply with all the recommendations, you will be able to keep the bulbs of gladiolus until the spring landing.
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