Hyacinth is a bulbous garden flower that blooms one of the first. The color of the inflorescence itself can be varied - from white to dark purple and even black. Hyacinths can be grown both in the garden and at home in a flower pot. In the wild, this vibrant flower grows in areas of the Middle East and the Mediterranean. There are more than 30 species of wild hyacinths.
Distillation of
hyacinths at home does not create special problems. Very often, on the eve of Women's Day on March 8, one can already see hyacinths in flower shops in flower shops. But they can be grown at home and on their own. If you want to get a flowering plant for the holiday, you need to plant it in the last days of December. For forcing out the bulbs, it is necessary to select the largest, full-bodied, not damaged. There must be a hole in the pot in which hyacinth will grow. It is necessary to pour drainage to the bottom - it can be expanded clay or any small pebbles, then there is a layer of sand and only then a nutrient mixture, you can buy it in a store or cook it yourself. To do this,
turf land - 2 parts, peat or humus - 2 parts and 1 part of sand. Hyacinths are unpretentious to the soil mixture and can grow in any. It will be good if you add several granules of superphosphate to the soil for the flower, then by March 8 you will receive lush flowering. The bulb should look 2-3 cm from the nutrient substrate. Hyacinths do not like dry air and high temperature. The most optimal temperature regime for them is 15-18 degrees. Watering should be moderate, they do not like waterlogging.
After flowering
So, the hyacinth has faded. What to do next? Everything is very simple. When the leaves of a flower
dry, you need to carefully dig out the bulbs, this is if he grew in the garden. Then they must be well dried and stored in a dry place before disembarkation. If you do not dig the bulbs, they will bloom worse next year. If hyacinth has faded at home, what to do next with it? There are several options here. You can just throw the bulb, and next year buy a new one.
But we are not looking for easy ways and we will save it for further flowering. After flowering, hyacinth should continue to be watered, after pruning the peduncles and preserving the leaves. Watering continues until all the leaves have dried out on the flower. During this time, the bulb will recover, gain new strength and grow a little. Next, shake the onion from the pot and dry well. In autumn, it can be planted in open ground. The bulb that was used to distill the house should not be taken for reuse at home. Its flowering will be sparse, and if you plant such a flower in the garden, then he will gain strength there. Such bulbs can be alternated: a year house forcing, two years in the garden. Hyacinth bulbs can live for more than 10 years. Hyacinth faded, what to do next, we figured out, now we will deal with the children.
Reproduction by children
Hyacinth is not very willing to breed, but sometimes after flowering, children form in it. They need to be carefully separated and planted in open ground along with full onions. Such offspring will bloom only in the 4th-5th year. But onions can help to educate children. Let's figure it out in order. Hyacinth faded. What to do next? After the bulb is dug up and dried, a cross-shaped incision must be made with a clean and rubbed alcohol knife on its bottom. After each subsequent onion, the knife must be treated with alcohol. When such incisions dry out, put the bulbs on the bottom in dry cardboard boxes. So we store until September, by this time 5 or more children are formed on each bulb. It does not make sense to propagate hyacinths by seeds, this is only done when these flowers are selected.