Growing tulips in Teplitsa: Features of pastures and care

Tulips pasture is growing colors in the period unusual for them. Greenhouse tulips are rather grateful plants, which, if you have patience and some skills, will turn with rouse flowering. In addition to aesthetic pleasure, you can get a profit from their sale, because the day before the romantic holiday or female day, the cost of one flower grows at times.

Selection of Lukovitz

Starting with high-quality planting material. For forcing in winter bulb must be particularly strong and healthy. In principle, ready for forcing bulbs are on sale, but you can also prepare them yourself. To get a good bulb for growing in the open field tulips flowers are removed on the second or third day of flowering.

Be careful: do not break down the unpacked buds, since because of this, the growth of the leaves and the necessary organic substances will stop entering the bulb. It also draws them from the soil, where calcium, nitrogen and magnesium should be contained.

Tulips are digging around at the end of June, at that time when the upper leaves begin to fade, and the lower - yellowing. At the same time, flakes of bulbs acquire a brown color. For high-quality flowering, select only round and large bulbs: their size should start from 3.5 cm, the so-called first analysis. For premises with artificial lighting, the bulbs "Extra" are especially good, about 4 cm.

Disposable and cleaning them, note that there is no damage and diseases on the surface. Purified, they are able to absorb more nutrients from the soil.

For each of the distillation terms, there are recommended grades of tulips. For example, for early - this is Abba, sunrise, Zorro, Monte Carlo, Mosella, Jan Van. For medium surveillance, the most suitable will be: Abu Hassan, Hell Rem, Darwinov Hybrid, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bCarol, Triumph, Tosca, Seville, Charmer. For late cultivation, the atom, aristocrat, diplomat, parade are ideal.

Storage of selected Lukovitz

During storage, the landing material continues to live and accumulate useful substances, forming the embryos of leaves and flower. Finally, a pestle with three tubercles is formed, which signals that it's time to cool the bulb. For this, selected roots are placed in the room with the regulation of humidity and temperature. For storage, use flashes with a mesh bottom so that the bulbs breathe.

Flower kidney is formed at a temperature of 17-20 ° C and a humidity of 70-75%. With incorrect storage mode, the flower will be defective.

Remember: it is impossible to store landing material next to fresh fruit, as they highlight ethylene harmful to tulips.

Tulip Growing Technology: Cooling

Depending on when you wish to get flowering, the bulbs are planted from August to November. If you put them in early September, the plants will bloom under the New Year. The November disembarkation will enjoy blossoming in February-March.

Soil requirements:

• it should be pure, neutral, moisture and breathable;
• it is impossible to take a greenhouse substrate;
• it is not allowed in it manure;
• it is best to use peat, sawdust, river sand, perlite;
• from the use of last year's soil it is better to refrain, since it may contain various pests and pest larvae.

The substrate is ideal for a mixture of one part of the sand of the river, one part of the humidity and two parts of the turf with an admixture of ash. You can also use ready-to-pour neutral soil.

The seating material for distances is planting in pots, drawers or other containers. Before boarding, it is necessary to defrast the bulbs, placing them for 30 minutes into the decoction of Cephela, the solution of manganese or simply holding them in water up to +40 ° C to destroy all putrefactive bacteria.

1. Before starting, clean the bottom of the bulbs from scales, trying not to damage the root roller.
2. Fill the container with a substrate for about two thirds. The thickness of the land layer must be at least 10 cm.
3. At the interval of one and a half centimeters, fall out the bulbs. It is necessary to deepen them by 3-4 cm, gently indulging, but neatly, so as not to be damaged by the Donets.

4. Fuck the substrate to the top. If the soil seats, you need to plug it so that the bulbs never remained bare.
5. Moisten the soil well and further provide bulbs with abundant irrigation, preventing the drying of the soil.
6. Now the containers with future tulips should be put in a dark room for the process of cooling and rooting.

Cooling the bulbs is necessary to monitor the development of shoots. During this period, the plant accumulates a biologically active substance (gibbellin) that affects the growth of the stem.

The duration of the cooling depends on the desired duty of flowering and the grade of the bulbs, but is usually 16-22 weeks at a temperature of from +7 to +9 ° C. At this time, the plants are rooted and give elastic sprouts at 5-7 cm. It will be very useful to pour the soil 2-3 times over the entire period of 0.2% solution of calcium nitrate, which helps strengthen the stems.

How to calculate the layer laying date? For example, we want to get flowering tulips by March 8, cutting them on the day earlier. From the date of March 7, we count on the date of 21 days - a period of growth in the greenhouse, it will be February 15. Now we will deduct 16 weeks (cooling time) and we get on October 26 - a date when there should be a layer layer for cooling.

IMPORTANT: for the entire period of rooting plants you need to maintain the necessary humidity in the room and the soil. Water seedlings twice a week, moisturize the floors and walls.

Next Stage: Growing Tulips in Teplice

To distort the colors use vegetable winter greenhouses free for this period from other crops.

Three weeks before the set period of flowering, containers with plants are transferred to a greenhouse or a greenhouse. By this time, the height of the shoots reaches 9-10 cm and in their foundation you can already distinguish between the future flower. It happens that the distillation time has already come, and the stalks are still too short, then the capacity is left in the greenhouse, covering it with dark film, and wait when the tulips are growing up to the desired level.

Tulips growing conditions:

1. In the first 2-3 days, maintain a temperature of 12-14 ° C. During this time, the sprouts will green.
2. Then warm the greenhouse to 18 ° C and do not forget about constant watering and tillage. The water temperature should be at 20 ° C. Give tap water first a few days stand in order to evaporate chlorine.
3. Soil must be regularly pouring and disappeared.
4. After 2-3 weeks, the tulips will start their bloom.

If natural lighting in the greenhouse is not enough, you can organize artificial extra light: place a luminescent lamp by 40 W above the shoots at an altitude of about 25 cm, and as they grow, lift it. The duration of the light day for tulips should be 10-12 hours, for example, from 9 am to 9 pm.

Avoid hitting the plants of direct sunlight. Bright light provokes a brown growth of green leaves to the detriment of flowers.

Tip: To speed up a little, the leaves of colors are allowed to spray with warm water a couple of times a day until they turn out. And in order to pull the moment of flowering, the water temperature is reduced by 2-3 ° C. It is possible to extend flowering by reducing the air temperature to 12 ° C.

The most frequent problems with tulips during their cultivation and care are:

1. The formation of weak, elongated and thin patterns is due to elevated temperatures in the greenhouse and too frequent landing.
2. Very short stems - a sign of insufficient cooling and too early early forgottening.
3. Instead of a full-fledged flower, only one widespread sheet seemed: it happens if the bulb was too small.
4. Weak and brittle stems talk about calcium shortage in the ground.
5. The appearance of discolored buds and their rapid diefing indicates too high air temperature in the greenhouse, the absence of ventilation, improper storage and cooling of bulbs.

When is the time to cut tulips?

The best point for this is the phase when closed buds are semi-rapid. Put in cold water (up to +4 ° C), they are able to keep freshness during the week. To store cut flowers in a dry form, they can be placed in the refrigerator, where the temperature is +1 ° C, packing tulips into cardboard or plastic boxes. In this form, they can be stored up to four weeks.

After the flowers are cut off, watering plants are reduced twice and continue until the leaves are finally covered. This is a period of vegetation for bulbs and they pass the phase of active maturation. After moving the leaves, the planting material is digging, dried and prepared for storage. These bulbs are not suitable for pastures, but are quite suitable for planning in open ground.

Many literature and video material are devoted to growing tulips, so it's not difficult to find answers to the questions of interest. If you do not miss the recommendation, then grow these beautiful flowers - it is quite possible. Let this process become real pleasure for you and profitable.