How to keep tulips at home, how to care?

Tulips in the home — How to keep tulips at home

Recently, it has become fashionable to give flowers in pots instead of ordinary bouquets - they do not wither and longer remind of the donor. But for any flower in the pot you need to look after. Can survive, for example, tulips at home?

Usually tulips are planted in the garden - all the same in the open ground these flowers feel better. However, there is a way to grow tulips at home. It is called forcing out tulips. If you received a tulip in a pot as a gift, thenit was grown by forcing. Too much detail on the forcing of tulips, we will not stop - for her now is not the season. The bulbs of the tulips are planted in pots in autumn, then by the beginning of spring or even by the end of winter they will bloom. First planted earlier varieties, after a while later.

How to take care of homemade tulips in pots, so that they can enjoy you with their flowers as long as possible? To begin with, you need to put the flower pot in the right place. Tulips do not like direct sunlight, high temperatures and drafts. Therefore, the flower pot should be placed away from the central heating batteries in a "windless" place.

If you want tulips to bloom longer, thenFor the night, take them out to a cooler room (for example, to the balcony). Extends the flowering time and moist air in the room, so it is useful several times a day spray tulip leaves with warm water, while not falling on the flower itself.

Tulips at home need regular watering: the soil in the pot must always be moist. For irrigation tap water is best suited, but beforehand it needs to settle for a couple of days to evaporate chlorine. Boiled and hard well water to water the tulips is not worth it. The optimum water temperature for watering is 20 degrees; the lower the temperature, the worse the water is absorbed by the roots. Also need to feed flowers with liquid fertilizers.

Tulips at home bloom for only one year, but bulbs can be excavated and planted in the garden - give the flower a "second life". To do this, do not stop watering and feeding the plant, even after it has blossomed, to give the bulbs mature. Carefully remove the faded bud and gradually cut the tulip watering. When the leaves turn yellow, stop watering the flower.

When the leaves dry, excavate the bulb from the ground and carefully separate from it the old roots and stem with dried leaves. The bulb should be dried and stored at home in a dry and cool place with good ventilation (suitable cellar or lower shelf of the refrigerator,if the basement is not). After scooping the bulb, it should be dried for two weeks at a temperature of 24 degrees, then a month at a temperature of 17-20 degrees, and then until the very landing in the ground to maintain a temperature of 14-15 degrees. Due to this temperature regime, the bulbs will not shrink and begin to grow prematurely.

In the autumn, bulbs are planted in the garden in the open ground. But for the repeated forcing in pots suchbulbs do not fit. However, be prepared for the fact that in the first year after planting flowers may not be. For example, the bulbs that were used for early distillation, will have to be grown more than one year before they begin to bloom.

As you see, growing tulips in the home is not so difficult. Now you know, how to take care of homemade tulips in potsso that they bloom as long as possible, and then they could find a "second life" in your garden. And closer to the autumn we will tell about the forcing of tulips, so that you yourself could grow a tulip in a pot "from scratch."