Ginger is a very useful tropical plant. Its root is widely used in cooking and in medicine. All have also heard about the fat-burning properties of ginger. Everyone loves to add it to food, but few people imagine what kind of plant it is. What does it look like? And if it is a plant, then what is the flowering of ginger? Many even believe that this is something underground, such as truffle mushrooms. The roots saw everything. But what does the plant itself look like and is it possible to grow it at home? Ask anyone, he only shrugs. We'll figure out.
Is ginger growing at home?
Ginger can be grown at home, regardless of its variety. If the house is warm, the plant will feel great. That's just a ginger blossom at home snag. Although it blooms in the wild, and with magnificent and lush massive flowers, you can not make it bloom at home. Or you will have to try hard for this. But the rest of the vegetative part - the stem with leaves - can grow to enormous size. With good care, ginger can reach a height of one and a half meters.
Under what conditions does ginger grow in the wild?
You can hardly find wild ginger in nature. It is mainly grown on plantations in the hot countries of the tropics, where a humid climate is constantly kept. It is believed that if the flowering of ginger has begun, then its root is already losing most of its useful and culinary properties. Therefore, on plantations he is not allowed to bloom. All cultivated plantings of plants are in the open air and are annuals, therefore, even with constant irrigation, he himself will not bloom, since the tuber must have at least two years of age for the peduncle of the peduncle.
Only wild animals manage to bloom, who are fortunate enough to take root somewhere in the backyard of a plantation, in a partially shaded place. This may be a plantation between plantations or even the outskirts of tropical forests, in the thick of which there is no, no, but the sun's rays penetrate, but above the ground, in the thick of vegetation, a moist, stable atmosphere is always preserved.
How to make ginger bloom at home?
In order for a plant to please its lush flowering at home, it is necessary to create an environment that is most similar to the natural one for it. Even with proper cultivation of ginger at home, its flowering will not necessarily be 100% guaranteed. But you can try. What is needed for this?
- You need to be patient and prepared for the fact that no matter what planting material you use - seeds or tubers, ginger can bloom in you no earlier than three years after planting, provided that the tubers are not removed from the pot, for example, for the winter.
- In winter, the plant should be transferred to a cool room and reduce watering. It is impossible for the root to dry excessively, but enhanced moisture should also be avoided. If a plant is kept at the same temperature both in summer and winter, it will not feel the change of seasons, and ginger will not bloom.
- In spring and summer, during the period of active vegetation, the same enhanced regime of increased humidity should be constantly observed. If the plant is not contained in a greenhouse, namely, at home, where it is not possible to artificially maintain humidity in the entire room, the plant should be sprayed constantly from the spray gun.
- It should be regularly, 2-3 times a month, to feed the plant with complex fertilizer with the main set of minerals intended for fertilizing the soil of indoor plants.
- If the ginger root has kicked out the peduncle, in no case should you transfer the plant to another room, change the lighting or violate other conditions that the plant has become accustomed to for a long time. Otherwise, the flowering of ginger at home will not come.
If the owner had the patience for painstaking and prolonged care, then in the fourth or fifth year of life, the plant will delight him with its flowering. And here is the culmination of growing ginger at home - flowering, a photo of which we present below.
Ginger Planting Rules
The plant is not so finicky to the ground. Subsequent baits have much greater significance. Initially, the plant can be planted in a pot with a soil mixture made by mixing turf land, sand and humus, taken in equal proportions. The resulting soil will be closest to the one that lies in the upper layer of tropical forests.
But it should be remembered that ginger is a fast-growing, fleshy, and therefore very gluttonous plant, which means you can’t do without frequent baits. To ensure proper growth without slowdowns and other complications, substances such as potassium and phosphorus must be in the complex fertilizer.
Planting a seed or tuber is carried out in a shallow, but rather wide pot, since the body of the tuber does not develop downward, but parallel to the soil surface, slightly buried in its upper part. The pot should be equipped with a good layer of drainage, because although the plant likes frequent watering, its root will simply rot from the constant “swamp” in the pot.
Watering and fertilizer
With proper watering and fertilizer during the active growing season (from March to November), the plant can grow from a small sprout into a huge bush, which with the advent of cold weather must be placed in a room with a temperature lowered to 14-16 degrees. It is this average air temperature that is held in the forests of the tropics.
Transfer
Florists were divided on this point. Some say that it is advisable to transplant a plant every year with the beginning of the growing season (in early March) before taking ginger back to a warm room. Others do not advise doing this, because they believe that since no one transplantes the plant in the natural environment, then this should not be done at home.
Moreover, they believe that it is precisely because of these transplants that the plant, in most cases, refuses to bloom at home. In any case, this question rests entirely on the head of the amateur gardener, since there were no fundamental rules on this subject. Of course, you can transplant the plant with caution, preferably all in the same pot, only with the replacement of soil and drainage. But many still prefer to confine themselves to bait mullein and maintain the familiar rhythm of bait with complex fertilizer.
Flowering rules
The root of the plant is very sensitive to all kinds of manipulations with it. All preparation (all processes) for future flowering occurs precisely in it. It is very possible that for flowering in the next year, the main tuber has already given some root appendages to prepare the next bud for pasture of the peduncle. But if, during a transplant, these appendages are disturbed, the plant changes its mind to bloom, and does not expose from the bud not a peduncle, but an ordinary additional stem. And you still won’t know about it, although you were already very close to finally ginger flowering.
The main tuber forms a kidney for the peduncle pasture with special care. The future reproductive organ should come from the healthiest site of the tuber, from the kidney that has grown and developed over the previous three years. The flower stalk will never germinate from the body of the tuber that you planted in the pot initially. It will come out only from that part of it that developed during the subsequent growth of the tuber. And it takes time. That is why the flowering of ginger occurs only after a few years.
The root itself is as sensitive to all changes as the vegetative part. If irrigation is carried out irregularly or with varying intensity, if the tuber does not have enough elements for which the fertilizer you have poorly selected, it will not even bother to create a bud for the peduncle in your body. And expectations will be unfounded.
The most inconvenient thing in this matter is that the plant, as everyone knows, does not know how to talk, and therefore it is only possible to understand what it lacks, as they say, using the “poke method”, that is, through careful observation of it during growth. Here, lovers themselves will have to observe and chase out their plant care formulas, since there are no derived postulates for the direct cultivation of ginger for decorative purposes (for flowering) at home. If the plant likes the atmosphere that you created for it, it will decide to bloom. And this is what ginger blossoms look like in the photo.
In conclusion, a little about ginger varieties
Each variety of ginger and blooms in its own way. The most nondescript is considered ordinary pharmacy ginger. But there are varieties of ginger, the flowers of which are superior in their beauty to the flowers of cacti and orchids. In most cases, these are massive and fleshy inflorescences resting on a torch-like basis.
The rules for growing ginger at home, flowering photos of various varieties can be found in special reference books.
As can be seen from the above, to make ginger bloom at home is not only a difficult task, but also a long, and also unpredictable one. No one can guarantee that after 3-4 years of thorough care, your ginger will bloom. But you can still try. No one will be worse from this.