Hyacinth - home care, potted growing

Caring for hyacinth at home in a pot does not seem to be a difficult process, even a beginner can cope with this. How to properly prepare the bulb for distillation, and after the appearance of the flower to care, below in the article.

Hyacinth: home care in a pot

Hyacinth is a perennial, bulbous flower that responds to favorable conditions of care with a lush color. But after flowering, the plant needs peace when the future peduncle and the bulb itself are forming.

Hyacinth can be grown both in soil and in a pot

Forcing bulbs at home

At home, the bulb can be planted for distillation at any time, regardless of the rhythm of the plant, receiving beautiful flowers for a given date. Bulb forcing is carried out both in soil and in water.

Bulb forcing in the ground follows this algorithm:

1. A pot or container is filled with earth and a hyacinth bulb is planted in it. This must be done so that ¾ of the bulb is immersed in the ground, and ¼ rises above the ground.
2. It is important to keep the distance between the bulbs. The distance in the container between them should not be less than 25 cm.

Water distillation is simpler than soil and consists of the following steps:

1. For distillation, you need soft water - melt snow or collected rainwater, into which mineral fertilizing and growth stimulant are added.
2. Water is poured into the container and the bulb is placed in it. Its lower part should slightly touch moisture.
3. The container is placed in a dark and cool place.

Choosing a pot and soil for planting bulbs

Hyacinths, the planting and care of which is carried out at home, will please with abundant and long flowering, provided that the soil and flowerpot are correctly selected. A flowerpot when growing hyacinth is an important component, and if it is improperly selected, the plant will not take root.

The flowerpot should be 2-4 cm wider than the bulb, deep enough to fit hyacinth and a drainage layer with soil. When choosing containers, it is worth checking if there are drainage holes in them, if not, do it.

For a home flower, hyacinth soil and its composition are not so important, most importantly, it should not be acidic. You can prepare a mixture for growing a house yourself by mixing peat and coarse sand in equal parts, or you can buy a ready-made soil mixture in a store or supermarket.

Proper care is the result of a beautiful hyacinth flower

Flowering care

The bulbous hyacinth flower is unpretentious in care, requires a minimum of attention. Everyone can grow it on a windowsill, in a room pot, most importantly, follow the care instructions.

Lighting

Indoor hyacinth content provides for sufficient daylight hours. It is important to provide onions up to 12 o’clock in the sun. If in the summer there is enough natural light, then in the winter it is important to turn on special lighting daily.

Temperature

A step-by-step instruction for caring for the bulb prescribes that there should be no drafts and nearby radiators of heating, sudden changes in temperature. Optimum temperature for hyacinth flower growers called 20-22 ° C. But, since hyacinth is considered a garden flower, keeping it in the summer on the balcony or in the garden will benefit him. In winter, only room maintenance.

Watering and spraying

Step-by-step care provides for proper watering, and most importantly, regular. It is important to remember that the water is pre-sedimented, and it is poured exclusively along the edge of the bowl, preventing moisture from entering the leaf outlet.

Hyacinth care does not include spraying. The maximum is rubbing the leaves with a damp, clean cloth.

Top dressing

Hyacinth care provides for regular feeding. It can be either ready-made fertilizers for store plants for flowering plants, or organic ones, for example, chicken droppings.

The first dressing is carried out after the hyacinth is put into the light after rest, if it wintered in a flowerpot (although this is wrong, but some flower growers so often do). For the first top dressing, a phosphorus-rich composition is chosen.

The second top dressing is carried out two weeks later and phosphate and potassium fertilizers are introduced into the soil. For the third time they feed at the end of flowering plants, before preparing for wintering. In this case, potassium-rich compounds and superphosphate are suitable.

Timely feeding ensures plentiful flowering

Before applying liquid fertilizer, the plant should be watered, and then it is necessary to loosen the soil. Moisture in the soil will not allow the root system to “burn out”, and loosening will not allow the beneficial substances to evaporate.

Care after flowering

How to care for hyacinth after flowering? You can simply dig a bulb and transplant it into the garden or save it, next time you grow a full-fledged plant. After flowering has stopped, the peduncle is carefully cut. Then continue to water the bulb in the pot, but in moderation, gradually reducing it. How long? Until the leaves fade and dry.

Next, the bulb is removed from the pot, cleaned of dried leaves, if there are children, they should be separated. Then the bulb is prepared for home storage until the next planting. It should be noted that the lifespan of hyacinth bulbs is 8-10 years, and they will give flowers every 1-2 years.

Bulb storage at home

When the flower is bloomed, the time comes to prepare it for home storage. At the very beginning, the roots are cleaned from the ground, then the onion itself is husked, treated with a potassium permanganate solution and allowed to dry for a while in a well-ventilated room or outdoors at a temperature of at least 20 ° C.

After drying, they are folded and stored in boxes with sawdust or paper bags. Further, the storage of dried and disinfected bulbs is carried out in several stages.

1. The first stage takes place indoors at a temperature of 24-26 ° C for at least two months.
2. The second period before planting itself, when March is approaching, and it is necessary to expel the flower stalk on the eve of the holidays. In this case, the bulb is stored at a temperature of 16-18 ° C. The room should not be too dry so that the bulb does not dry.

If you need to reduce the first period, the temperature in the room is increased to 30 ° C.

Breeding methods

Under natural conditions, the bulbous plant hyacinth propagates by bulb bulbs-children. But at home, you can propagate it in other ways - seeds and children, cuttings and cutting the bottom, dissecting.

Sowing seeds for an ordinary florist is a unpromising method, since it requires a lot of time and effort, and it is not a fact that the seed will sprout.

Where to get seeds from? After the box has formed, dried up, it opens and seeds fall out of it. They are sown in nutrient and loose soil, not sprinkled with earth, sprayed from the spray gun. The container is covered with a film and cleaned in a warm place at a temperature of 24-26 ° C, periodically lifting up the shelter and spraying. After the first shoots appear, they are looked after until the first 2-3 leaves appear, and then they are planted in open ground or in a flowerpot.

How to propagate hyacinth at home

Planting children is an easy way to propagate hyacinths. This method is simple and has many advantages:

• the first flower stalk is knocked out in the third year after planting;
• all signs of the mother plant are preserved;
• high percentage of survival.

Stimulation of the formation on the mother's bulb of children is possible as follows:

Bottom cutting

This method is best used by experienced gardeners. Only large bulbs are suitable for this. How to do it right:

1. A large onion, freed from the ground, dried for a week in the shade.
2. With a sharp knife, the bottom of the hyacinth is carefully cut out. The result should be a shallow hole.
3. The cut site is treated with charcoal or a fungicide solution.

Such a bulb is planted in a pot with a slice up and covered with polyethylene on top. The first children can be expected after 2-4 months.

Hyacinth reproduction is simple

Onion dissection

Another way to stimulate the formation of children on hyacinth. For work use a sharp knife. The bulb is divided into 5-6 parts, after which the slices are disassembled into scales. Sections must be treated with charcoal or a weak solution of fungicide. The resulting material is stored in paper bags in the first month at a temperature of 20-25 ° C, in the second - 17-19 ° C.

Cuttings

Planting material - cuttings - is harvested during the formation of buds. A leaf with a handle on the bulb is selected and cut with a sharp knife under the root, the cut sites are treated with a disinfectant and growth stimulant. After planting it in a nutrient substrate and cover with a film. Rooting takes place in 3-4 weeks.

Pruning

Pruning of the flower is carried out without fail, but after flowering. The flower stalk itself is cut first, the main thing is not to peck it under the root itself, it is worth leaving 10-20 cm. Then they wait until the leaves dry. To speed up the process, the plant is watered less. When all the leaves have dried, they are cut with a sharp knife or scissors.

Diseases and Pests

Hyacinth, like any plant, is susceptible to damage by diseases and pests. Most often, the flower has to be treated with special preparations for the following ailments:

• yellow bacterial rot affects the leaves of the flower, manifesting itself as gray spots on foliage and bulbs. The process itself is accompanied by a clay smell of decomposition;
• apical rot. It provokes pathogenic microflora. It appears in the form of brown depressions on flowers and foliage, the green mass is covered with gray mycelium, the roots rot;
• mosaic. The leaves are the first to dry, after the flowers and the bulb, elongated light green spots appear on the plant, which gradually turn yellow and dry;
• gray rot can provoke damage and death of the bulb. The plant most often gets sick at the beginning of active growth and development, the ejection of the peduncle and manifests itself in the form of yellowish spots that increase in size and acquire a brownish color.

Among pests, hyacinths most often affect:

• tobacco thrips and aphids, which take juice from a healthy plant, causing the death of hyacinth. For protection and treatment, the plant is treated with a solution of acids: phytoverm, acarin, chord;
• nematodes are parasites that infect the stem and gall. In most cases, the florist deals with the first ones that parasitize the entire plant, both its terrestrial and underground parts. The bulb will soften, the growth of leaves and peduncle stops. To combat and prevent parasites, phytoverms are used.

What else can be the problems when growing hyacinths

Most often, flower growers notice the following changes:

• the bulb does not knock out a flower. Most likely, the reason lies in the incorrect temperature conditions established during the forcing of the peduncle. Hyacinth does not like high temperatures;
• foliage turns yellow. This problem can be provoked by improper watering, more precisely flooding a plant with water, or drafts. By eliminating the defects and properly watering the plant, you can revive it;

Prevention of the disease is the key to a healthy plant

• the buds fall off. The reason is improper watering. It is important to water the hyacinth so that the water does not fall on the peduncle. Plus, it is defended in advance by warming to room temperature;
• rotting flower. Excessive watering leads to the appearance of such a problem in the care of hyacinth. It is important to give the plant a few days to "rest", so that the earthen lump has dried up, and reduce watering.

Hyacinth is an unpretentious plant, and if proper care is taken, there will not be any special reasons for anxiety and problems in its forcing.