Hyacinths: landing and care in open ground and indoor conditions. Hyacinths have faded: what to do with them when to dig, how to store the bulb?

Propagation, care and storage of hyacinths. Varieties and history of the emergence of plants.

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The warm season gives us the joy of contemplation and inhalation of pleasant aromas of flowers. Whether they are natural or grown on open ground on a flowerbed - you enjoy their beauty.

Fans and professionals in plant growing unambiguously love hyacinths for the variety of their varieties, color colors, unpretentiousness in care and beneficial properties.

Let's talk more about this amazing flower.

Flowers of hyacinths - varieties: water, eastern, mouse muscari, leguminous, wild

hyacinths of different colors in a large pot

Water species of hyacinths from tropical America. It grows only in water, while flowers and leaves rise above its surface, and half -meter roots are completely immersed in it.

Blooms with pink, purple and blue shades. The water hyacinth was widespread due to interesting properties to cleanse water from harmful microbes and pollution, to absorb harmful substances. It can be found in the reservoirs of our latitudes, as well as in aquariums.

Eastern hyacinths inspired breeders to create many subspecies of this plant of different shades and shapes of the flower.

Oriental hyacinth from Syria, Turkey, Libya. In the wild, it is found in pink, purple and milk. The flowering period of the plant is accompanied by a pleasant strong aroma.

Muscini Muscari is a favorite of flower beds and gardens. You can easily recognize it in the form of blue or purple flowers. They are:

they look like barrels
small
densely and in large quantities are located on the peduncle

This type of hyacinths is unpretentious in care and generous for annual offspring. Each parent bulb surrounds itself up to 15 pieces of children.

Bob, curly hyacinth is loved by gardeners who are fond of vine -like plants. In a number of African and Asian countries, its fruits are eaten, in all others - enjoy the beauty of leaves and flowers. The plant is annual, but easily takes root and grows.

Wild hyacinths, or prolays are common in European countries. You collected them more than once in the early spring in the meadow and in the forests.

Outwardly, wild hyacinth is a socket of continued leaves at the ends of the leaves and a stem with 4-10 flowers. Shades of colors are blue, purple, white. This type of hyacinths has no smell.

Giacintic plant: legends and beliefs

reproductions of pictures-stories on the origin of hyacinths

A number of legends are associated with hyacinths, for example:

about the beautiful young man of Hiakintos, at the site of the death of which this flower grew. Apollo was in love with the young man, but the jealous marshmallow, the god of western wind, was mortally wounded by Hiacintos during the training on the throwing of the disk. The name of the flower that appeared at the site of death was given by Apollo himself;
about the wound of hyacinth. In an ancient Greek society, a man who bore this name was popular and revered. But over time, his fame faded, the god of beauty Apollo overshadowed him. Once they began to compete in the throwing of the disk. Apollo injured hyacinth and from the drops of the second blood falling to the ground sprouted scarlet hyacinths;
about the appearance of flowers off the coast of Holland. After the crash of the vessel, a week later the children saw flowers and leaves swaying on the surfs along the coast. These were hyacinths;
associated with the suicide of Ajax. After the death of Achilles Odysseus and Ajax, the rights to his weapons declared. The Council of Elders gave preferences to Odyssey. Ajax was amazed at their decision and pierced himself with a sword. Hyacinths grew in the place of his death.

The beliefs are also connected with hyacinths. For example, one of them says that ancient Greek women loved to decorate their hair with them. So they attracted happiness and love to themselves, learned to curl and lay their curls beautifully.

Hyacinths: landing, care and growing in a pot in room conditions

hyacinths bloom in indoor pots

Hyacinths love open soil more, but can grow in a pot.

For planting, choose large plants of the plant on the bulbs without damage and place them 1-3 pieces so that a gap of 2.5 cm remains around each.
Pour drainage to the bottom of the pot, sand is suitable for these purposes. Then fill it with a mixture of sand with peat to the level of 2/3 of the bulb.
Cover with a black cloth/paper and leave in a cool place for 1.5-2 months to ripen the peduncle and leaves in the bulb.
Pour the bulbs regularly during the rest, but avoid flooding. Otherwise, they will begin to rot.

Hardening, or flowering of hyacinths takes its start from the moment of the moves of pots with bulbs in heat. The ambient temperature reaches +22 ℃. The duration of flowering is 3 weeks.

Depending on the variety of plants, you can please yourself with hyacinth flowers:

early - at the end of December
a little later - in late January - early February
late-in March-April

Since you stimulate the bulb to intensive growth and flowering in conditions of indoor content, the supply of its strength is quickly depleted. To restore them, she will need a couple of years of life on open ground.

In addition to choosing hyacinths in sandy soil, there is a method of growing in a vessel with water.

Hyacinths: landing, care and cultivation from the bulb in the garden in open ground

blue hyacinth grows on open ground

If you have a desire to grow hyacinths on a flowerbed/in the garden, then first prepare the soil and choose the right place for them. Namely:

add river sand or peat or three -year humus or old year's older leaves;
the future corner with hyacinths is a calm place in which moisture does not stagnate. Its ideal location is between the bushes and/or trees, where the sun's rays pass well.

For planting, select medium -sized bulbs without damage and softness.

Dip them for half an hour in a fungicidal solution for disinfection.

Place the bulbs into 18 cm deep, 15 cm among themselves, at a distance between rows up to 20 cm. These gaps will help you maintain cleanliness in the area with hyacinths, loosen the ground and make fertilizers.

Before the onset of cold weather, take care of covering the bulbs in order to protect against freezing. A thick layer of fallen leaves, peat or dry grass will help you save them.

With the advent of heat, be sure to remove the insulation from the site with hyacinth bulbs.

On hot and/or dry days of autumn and spring, additionally water the bulbs, avoiding water from getting on them.

After flowering, leave the roots of the plant for a couple of months to gain strength before the New Year and a possible transplant.

Planting hyacinths in spring and autumn

The best time to plant hyacinths on open ground is the end of September - the beginning of October. So the bulbs will have time to take root in front of the cold and gain strength before flowering next year.

In the spring, hyacinths are planted in open ground after their flowering in the pot so that they are nourished by natural substances.

Hyacinth: How often to water in a pot and in the garden?

black hyacinth blooms thanks to good watering

Giacint in translation means “rain flower”, which means he loves moisture, which does not stagnate.

When planting in a pot, the sand moisturizing the soil will become. Sprinkle it from above around the bulb and check after 3-4 days. Learn that during rooting, the hyacinth is in a cool room, so moisture will not evaporate quickly.

After the appearance of buds and changes in the temperature regime, water it more often. But still focus on the upper layer of sand.

If you decide to dilute hyacinths in the garden, then immediately after landing into the ground, pour them abundantly.

In the spring, with the appearance of buds on the bulbs, check the soil moisture. If it is dry, then you need water.

When hyacinths rush, when they bloom, how many times they bloom?

blooming hyacinths of different shades

Hyacinths bloom only once a year. During this period, their bulbs are so exhausted that they are no longer able to please with beautiful colors.

Plants living on open ground bloom in the spring with the advent of the first heat and rains. The end of March and the beginning of April is their months.

Hyacinths in room conditions are ready to bloom at the time you choose. Of course, pay attention to their varieties before planting. Because they bloom in:

end of December
january-February
the first spring months

Hyacinths have faded: what to do with them next?

the girl transplants hyacinths after flowering

When hyacinths have faded, their leaves and pedicolus fade and fall away from the bulb.

Leave the plants for the next 2 months at rest so that they restore their vitality. The ideal option is not to touch the bulbs after flowering all summer.

Other options for actions:

cut the wilted leaves and pedicels with scissors and transplant the bulb with the ground into a wide pot,
dig on the bulbs after their ground part falls off, and put in the boxes in two layers. Leave them to dry in a cool room for a couple of months. Then change the temperature regime of their storage up to the cold,
throw out the bulbs if there is no desire to mess with them further.

When to dig hyacinths after flowering, what to do with the bulb, how to store?

hyacinth bulbs are selected for storage

After flowering, hyacinths remain in open ground until their leaves are wound. In time, this is approximately the end of June - early July.

Dig on the bulbs with wilted leaves, without waiting for the second to disappear. Otherwise, the former will go deep into the ground and you simply will not find them.

Prepare forces for storage:

dry them with the ground for a week in a warm room, temperature +25 ℃;
gently separate the earth from the bulbs and put the second into paper bags separately from each other or in two rows, if you have large boxes.

Leave the container with hyacinth roots in a warm room with a temperature of up to 22 ℃ for 2 months. Follow the humidity and access of fresh air.

Transfer the boxes with bulbs to a cooler place with a temperature of up to +17 ℃ per month.

And for the third time change the climatic conditions of storage of bulbs. A basement with a temperature of up to +5 ℃ is suitable. Leave them there for 5-7 days, sort it out and put them in open ground winter. Bead to cover with natural materials - peat, dry grass.

Do I need to dig hyacinths every year?

Preferably. So you will control:

the depth of their rooting
flowering quality
timely treat diseases

In addition, hyacinths should change the place of flowering, providing the soil rich in useful substances before landing.

When to transplant hyacinths after flowering and after purchase?

hyacinth bulbs ready for planting in pots

After flowering and collecting bulbs from open ground, the hyacinths transplant to another place after 3 months.

If you bought a plant in a pot, wait until the peduncle will wag and disappears. Then act either:

pass the hyacinth into a pot of larger volume with new soil and drainage,
fort it up a couple of times and at the time of wilting the leaves remove the bulb for drying and preparing for storage.

Hyacinth propagation: onion, seeds, leaves

grown children on the mother's bulb of hyacinth

The propagation of hyacinths with bulbs is common and accessible to gardeners of any qualification. Unlike two other methods that require patience, attentiveness and good knowledge of plant development.

During flowering around an adult bulb, children form in an amount of 2-8 pieces. Select them and plant them separately, but they affect you with flowers only after 3-5 years.

During the formation of buds of future flowers on hyacinth, carefully cut 2 sheets and put in a special aqueous solution for 10 hours. Then transfer to wet sand and leave in a warm room with multiple light for 1.5-2 months. During this period, the leaves will start the roots in the form of small bulbs and threads and young leaves. Change the soil under plants to a more nutritious one. From one sheet you can get up to 10 children.

Seed reproduction is used by breeders to create new varieties of hyacinths. The process of their cultivation is extremely painstaking and long. You will receive an adult flowering plant no earlier than 8 years.

How to grow hyacinth from seeds, what do seeds look like?

a variety of hyacinth colors is ensured by the reproduction of seeds

After flowering, you will see small boxes in the place of flowers. In them are hyacinth seeds. Collect them during the period when the boxes begin to turn yellow.

Dry and remove the seeds.
Lay them into paper bags and leave them stored in a moderately warm and wet room until the fall.
Prepare the soil in the garden for landing - deliver, pour, pour sand to the bottom of the grooves.
Drown the seeds densely into the grooves and fill them up. The best time for this is autumn.

In the spring, when the seeds germinate, support:

soil moisture and looseness
its mineral composition
lack of weeds

Leave the seeds next year in the same place. And after two - dig small bulbs, process and dry them for storage until autumn.

In autumn, plant only healthy specimens and repeat the care in the spring.

Dry the bulbs every year for 7 years, while they reach the right size and gain strength for flowering.

Why don't hyacinths bloom or bloom badly?

gyacinth with a short pedicel

There are several main reasons for this:

bulb. She could get into the soil already sick or with damage,
storage. Namely, non -compliance with all the rules, poor -quality moisturizing air in the room,
landing. Too early or late, to a greater or lower depth,
priming. Excessively hard and dry or sour and humid, with weeds during planting and budding,
incorrect selection of a place for landing. For example, the soil on which other bulbous plants grew last year is infected with diseases/pests, is dangerous for hyacinths,
lack of watering and sunlight in the right amount.

Hyacinths: diseases

hyacinth is sick - it has yellow ends of the leaves

Hyacinths are different in nature and causes of the disease. Conventionally divided them into two groups:

physiological
not physiological

The first belongs to:

the curvature of the peduncle
uneven opening of buds, when the top blooms the first
the appearance of white buds
green tops interspersed with blossomed flowers

The second group includes:

verkhushtnaya rot of an infectious nature
donets and roots manifested during storage
soft, or wet rot

Is it possible to keep hyacinths in the bedroom?

white hyacinth in the festive packaging on the windowsill

Depends on your aroma subject.

Yes, if you are not annoyed by its smell during flowering and in the bedroom there is a window with sunlight access in the afternoon.

And also take note that hyacinths improve communications and activate friendliness. If you want to strengthen these qualities in the bedroom, place the plants on the windowsill.

Water hyacinth for aquarium for water purification

water hyacinth in the natural pond

Eichornia, or water hyacinth loves water in different types:

vase
pond
aquarium

Its roots quickly remove turbidity and attract harmful salts that have already disappeared into water. This ability is extremely valuable to maintain a harmonious atmosphere in the aquarium. Due to the frequent dollars of water, you add new substances that are not useful for its inhabitants.

Above the aquarium where Eichorni lives, be sure to install a lamp at an altitude of 40 cm so that the leaves get enough light.

So, we examined the features of growing hyacinths on open ground and in the pot, its beneficial properties for the purification of water bodies. We got acquainted with the process of propagation and care.

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