The tulip got its name because of its resemblance to a turban headgear common in the East. The flower is mainly planted in the garden in the open field, however, you can "teach" to bloom the plants in the room. This process is called forcing tulips at home.
The optimal conditions for forcing flowers are created in greenhouses, but with great desire and diligence, tulips can be successfully grown on the windowsill. To do this, use the best varieties. In order for the distillation to be successful, some rules should be observed.
Firstly, at the beginning of winter, tulips bloom worse after distillation, and bloom faster and more magnificent in spring. Forcing flowers should be done after preliminary preparation of plants. Early varieties with a shorter dormancy period are best suited for this. But, if desired, using drying, freezing, applying warm baths and other tricks, the rest period can be artificially reduced and forcing out at the right time.
Tulips are planted with seeds, children and bulbs. If you use seeds for propagation, then the first flowers can be seen only after five years, this method is used to breed new varieties. Forcing tulips at home is done using bulbs. This will require large, healthy, dense bulbs, which are kept in an ice-free basement or in the refrigerator until distillation begins.
For planting tulips there is no need for large pots, small plates with a diameter of up to 14 cm are perfect. They take as a substrate turf soil, humus and sand in a ratio of 3: 4: 4. You can also purchase in the store a special primer for bulbous plants.
Tulips are distilled at home for one and a half to two months before the start of the unlabeled flowering date. Firstly, early varieties are planted, later - later.
Usually, 3 onions are placed in one pot, which cannot be in contact with the walls of the pot and with each other. The bulbous tops should not be sprinkled, they should be above the ground. Usually, planting is done in September, after which the tulips should be at rest. To do this, pots with tulip bulbs are buried in a cold cellar in the sand or in the garden in peat. In the first case, the sand layer above the pot should be 5 cm, in the second - at least 10.
After the shoots appear, the plates are brought into the house. The optimum temperature will be 12 degrees, and the place needs to be shaded, the plant does not like direct sun. Flowers should also be placed away from batteries, they should be protected from drafts. To increase the flowering period, tulips are taken out to a colder room at night.
Watering is carried out with tap water settled for 2 days in order to prevent the ingress of chlorine. Well or boiled liquid will not work. Also, for better absorption by the roots of the plant, the water should have room temperature (optimally 20 C). During flowering and growth, the soil should be moistened all the time, it is also useful to feed flowers with liquid fertilizer.
After flowering is finished, care must not be stopped: it is necessary to allow the bulbs to mature. At this time, tulips should be fed and watered until the leaves are wilted. These bulbs are dug up, dried and stored in a cool place. Such bulbs will come in handy next year for garden plantings. However, the forcing of tulips at home from this material is no longer possible.
Today, there are many different varieties and types of tulips, all kinds of colors and sizes. For distillation, hybrid low-growing early varieties are best suited, for example, a simple or terry early tulip, Kaufman, Greig.
In the same way with tulips, daffodils are distilled at home.