How to grow tulips at home?

Imagine how surprised your guests will be to see that you are growing tulips at home! Spring-like green stems with exquisite buds of a wide variety of colors look extraordinarily impressive against the background of white snow outside the window. Delicate bulbous flowers grown on the windowsill will not only become your pride, but also brighten up the long wait for spring.

Tulips suitable for home growing

Tulip photo

This is not to say that growing tulips at home is a simple activity that is accessible even to a child. Despite the unpretentiousness of this culture, it is necessary to follow certain rules when planting bulbs and provide the growing flowers with proper care during the entire growing season. Then the results will be pleasing to the eye.

If you are seriously interested in how to grow these Dutch beauties, you have to stock up on containers for flowers, prepare a substrate, choose a suitable place where they will grow comfortably, and start planting bulbs at a favorable time. Our article will help you do everything right and avoid mistakes.

Video about growing tulips at home

Not all species grow well at home. Of course, it would be very tempting to grow tulips of unusual colors on the windowsill - brown, blue, purple, black, etc. However, exotic varieties are quite capricious, so for home cultivation it is better to use proven varieties: Aristocrat, Christmas Marvel, Oxford, Epricot Beauty, Parade, Fringit Elegance, Diamond Star, Diplomat, Lustige Battle, Bridge Miles, Negrita, Confux, London, Temple of Beauty , Apeldoorn, Eric Hofsier, Scarborough. Even novice flower growers can cope with the cultivation of such an unpretentious variety as Parade Record (Darwin hybrids).

When choosing flowers for growing, it is worth giving preference to low-growing varieties that are resistant to diseases (especially variegated leaves), unpretentiousness to growing conditions and are able to tolerate minor disturbances during care.

The purchased planting material is already completely ready for forcing - the bulbs are sorted and processed, so they can be planted immediately. If you decide to independently prepare planting material from tulips growing in the garden, you will need to provide them with thorough care throughout the growing season: feed, water, loosen the ground and destroy weeds. In this case, you need to dig up the plants as soon as the stems begin to turn yellow.

In the photo, home tulips

Select the largest of the bulbs dug out and send them to dry in a dry room. In this case, the following temperature regime must be maintained: the first week + 34 ° С, then two months + 23 ° С, and the last month + 17 ° С.After that, the planting material must be placed for cooling in a box or gauze bag on the lower shelf of the refrigerator (or in the basement), where it is stored until planting at a temperature of +5 ° C.

Planting flowers at home - step by step instructions

Growing tulips at home is based on forcing technology: artificially created conditions for plants are similar to natural ones. At the same time, special attention is paid to cooling the bulbs, because in nature they form shoots and flowers only after they have passed the stage of winter rest. Another thing is that the technology of distillation by controlling the temperature regime allows you to get fresh flowers in the middle of winter or early spring - at the request of flower growers.

In the photo bulbs and pots for tulips

So, the bulbs are ready for planting, it's time to figure out how to plant them at home:

you can start planting at the end of September;
prepare pots or bowls at least 15 cm deep;
mix the substrate from the river stove, sod land and humus (1: 2: 1), add a little wood ash to the substrate, or buy a ready-made soil mixture with good water permeability and a neutral reaction;
Before planting, inspect the bulbs from all sides for diseases and immerse them in a solution of potassium permanganate for half an hour;
put drainage in bowls or pots (you can use sphagnum moss) and fill the container with the substrate so that the distance to the edge remains three times more than the height of one onion;
spread the planting material on top of the ground, bottom down, one centimeter apart;
fill the onions with the substrate to the tops;
water and top up the soil mixture if the tops of the bulbs appear from under the ground;
transfer the pots with plantings to a dark room, where the humidity is 80%, and the temperature is not higher than + 9 ° C.

Photo of planting tulips in pots

Planting should not be left unattended - make sure that the ground does not dry out, but also does not mold. Weekly watering will be sufficient.

How to achieve flowering and prolong it

After a few weeks, you will notice that the potted bulbs are sprouting. As soon as the seedlings reach a height of 6-7 cm, it's time to transfer them to the room and gradually accustom them to daylight, at first covering them with a paper cap. It is desirable that the temperature also rise gradually, within two to three days, up to +18 ° C. At higher temperatures, tulips will form weak, thin peduncles, possibly even fusarium infestation.

If you are growing flowers in winter, provide them with artificial light for ten hours, otherwise the stems will be very elongated and the color will be pale.

Photo of tulips in a pot

With the appearance of colored buds, it is recommended to rearrange the pot closer to the cold glass of the window, since at a lower temperature, the flowering period will stretch, and you will be able to admire the delightful flowering longer.

To extend the flowering period, it is also advisable to take out the pots with plants to the balcony at night, and during the day to spray the leaves with warm water (without getting on the flowers). The required air humidity level for tulips is about 80%. The soil should also be constantly slightly moistened.

Important subtleties:

the bright sun should not shine on the flowers;
protect plants from drafts;
keep pots as far away from central heating radiators as possible;
for irrigation, it is recommended to use settled water at room temperature;
cut domestic tulips at the very surface of the earth, in the early morning before watering.

Video about growing tulips

After home cultivation, the bulb is greatly depleted and it is no longer possible to reuse it for the same purpose, but you can plant it on the garden bed - the bulbs will recover in the open field, and the next year they will bloom again (but already in the flowerbed).Therefore, with the end of flowering, the buds break off and gradually reduce watering until the leaves turn yellow, then the bulbs are dug out, dried and stored at a temperature of +14 degrees in a dry basement.

The video attached to the article will allow you to better understand how to plant tulips at home. Following the recommendations, you will definitely be able to achieve excellent results and admire the exquisite buds on long winter evenings in anticipation of spring.

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With the arrival of a gray, dull autumn, and after it a cold winter, you want a warm sun, spring and bright colors of flowers. It will not work to bring all this closer with a wave of a magic wand, but you can brighten up boring gray days by growing flowers on your windowsill, which are a symbol of spring, the holiday of March 8 - tulips. Knowing the simple technology of forcing tulip bulbs at home, you can please yourself and your loved ones by creating a holiday island in a single flower pot.

Is it possible to plant and grow tulips on the window of an apartment in a pot?

It is possible to create conditions for growing tulips in a city apartment, since these flowers are not too demanding to light and grow well under artificial conditions.

The temperature regime for the germination of the heads on the window can also be maintained at home. The main thing is to choose the right varieties for growing, because the decorativeness of flowering will depend on this.

The following varieties of tulips lend themselves to forcing:

early, low and medium-sized with a simple flower shape or double;
tulips of the "Triumph" class, early flowering with large flowers and a stem length of up to 0.7 m (forcing of these tulips is the most preferable);
Plants of the Kaufman and Foster varieties, low, double petal, bicolor.

Tulip varieties can be distilled: Kaufman and Foster, class "Triumph", early, low and medium-sized

When planting bulbs, you need to decide on the timing of flowering, because forcing is divided by flowering time into:

early - flowering period in winter, New Year and Christmas (planted in pots in early autumn);
average - flowering throughout January and by Valentine's Day (planting in October);
late - receiving flowers by March 8 (planting at the end of October - November).

Having decided on the varieties of tulips, you need to take care of purchasing planting material. Many foreign firms sell bulbs specially prepared for distillation (forcing varieties), this is stated on the packaging.

If you decide to use your own planting material, then for growing a flower you need to choose the most powerful plants with large peduncles in the spring.

During, when the tulip buds start to gain color (the edges of the green petals change color to pink, white, yellow, etc.) they are cut... All the forces of the flower then go to the development of the underground part of the plant.

After the leaves turn yellow, the onions are dug, dried at room temperature for 2 weeks, and then placed on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator until disembarkation.

When the tulip buds begin to gain color, they are cut off, the bulbs are dug up and placed on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.

Conditions for growing a house on a windowsill

To successfully grow tulips at home, certain conditions must be met.

Illumination - affects the quality of colors. The duration of daylight hours should be at least 10-12 hours. In January and February, the daylight hours are 7.5-9 hours.

Even on sunny days this is not enough and the plants need to be illuminated for 3-5 hours. For this, fluorescent lamps or phytolamps are used.

Temperature... The ideal temperature to grow bulbs is 12-18 ° C.

When the temperature drops by 2.5 degrees during the day, the beginning of flowering is delayed by one day, and an increase in temperature to 20 degrees, on the contrary, brings flowering closer by 2-3 days.

Growing conditions: illumination for at least 10-12 hours and a temperature of 12-18 degrees

Selection of bulbs for planting

For planting for distillation, only very large specimens, dense, heavy and, most importantly, absolutely healthy.

The bulbs must be 10/11 (first parsed) or 12/12 + (extra size), the numbers on the package indicate a circumference of 10-12 mm, the diameter is 35-40 mm.

Heads must be heavy in weight, their weight is not allowed less than 25 grams (lower weight indicates that there is no flower bud in it). The larger the bulb, the more powerful the plant will be and the larger the flower.

How to plant a flower correctly

Before planting, the onions must be cleaned of the brown shell covering them., due to which its suitability for planting is determined (no damage and disease), as well as a larger amount of nutrients and moisture enters the peeled bulb, the roots penetrate into the soil faster.

Then it is necessary to decontaminate the heads... They are placed for 30 minutes in a strong solution of potassium permanganate, or etched in preparations Maxim, Fundazol.

For planting tulips, pots or containers filled with 2/3 light nutritious soil with the addition of sand and humus are used.

Bulbs are placed at a distance of 2-3 cm from each other., slightly pressing them into the pre-moistened soil (to disinfect the soil, it can be spilled with a pink solution of manganese), sprinkle on top with a layer of sand and earth.

At a distance of 2-3 cm from each other, the bulbs are placed, slightly pressing them into the pre-moistened soil, sprinkled on top with a layer of sand and earth

Bulbs must be completely undergroundif after watering they become bare, they are again covered with earth.

Unlike open ground, forcing onions are not deepened to a height of up to 3 bulb diameters.

Planting containers with bulbs to maintain moisture placed in plastic bags and sent for cooling in a cool place, basement or refrigerator.

At a temperature of 5-9 ° C, the bulbs take root from October to January-February. It is periodically necessary to moisten the soil and ventilate the planting material.

3-4 weeks before the selected flowering time, containers with tulips are brought into the room and gradually begin to get used to lighting.

For the first 3 days, it is desirable that the air temperature does not exceed + 15 ° С and the lighting is not too bright (exclude direct sunlight). It is best to darken the sprouts by covering them with agrofibre or a double piece of gauze.

Then we increase the temperature to 18 ° C and put it on a well-lit windowsill. In order for the heat from the radiators to have less effect on the temperature on the windowsill, the plants are fenced off in height from the radiator with a substrate under the laminate.

On a cool windowsill, tulips will bloom for a long time, and on hot buds from dry air can dry out. To prevent tulips from stretching too much when there is a lack of lighting, they are highlighted.

To accelerate the flowering process of tulips, use:

soaking the heads in a gibberellin solution for 48 hours;
watering tulip sprouts with a solution of gibberellin, three times before flowering, which, in addition to accelerating the onset of flowering, also contributes to an increase in buds.

Forcing tulips at home:

How to grow: home care rules in autumn and winter

Further care of the plants consists in watering and feeding.

Watering should be regular, the soil should not dry out and it is better to water from a spray bottle so that the water is evenly distributed and does not clog the soil.

It is advisable to take water separated or passed through a filter in order to reduce the amount of salts in it. The best watering option is melt water.

In the first ten days, watering is alternated with top dressing. 0.2% calcium nitrate solution, which promotes the growth of strong stems.

In addition, fertilizing with potash and ammonium nitrate is carried out, adding 20 grams each for 10 liters of water or applying complex fertilizers. You can use special liquid fertilizers such as floran, vegaflor, harmavit, herbasol.

When applying fertilizers, the dosage must be strictly observedso as not to overfeed the plants and cause burns. Overfeeding bulbous plants can lead to a lack of flowering.

Watering should be regular, the soil should not dry out, watering alternates with top dressing

If you want to preserve the bulbs after flowering, then after cutting the flowers, we continue caring for the tulips as in the open field. We carry out watering, feeding, so that the bulb recovers and accumulates nutrients.

After the foliage turns yellow, we dig out the tulips, dry them and leave them in a dark, dry place until autumn.

In the fall, we plant the heads in open ground, they are not suitable for re-distillation (only after two years of recovery in the open field, they can be taken for distillation again).

There are no particular difficulties in planting and growing tulips at home. The main thing, correctly determine the timing of planting and planting material, adhere to the basic rules of cultivation.

And having planted the bulbs, we, like children, will live in anticipation of the miracle of flowering.

It is worth choosing tulip varieties for growing in the spring in order to prepare the planting material (bulbs) for distillation. Plants with a good, large bulb can fully bloom.

To grow tulips at home, it is important to adhere to the correct agronomic process throughout the growth period. This means competently producing - watering, loosening the soil, treating the soil from weeds on time, feeding the plants with fertilizers.

The top photo shows the popular Ice-cream variety.

Is it possible to plant tulips in a pot at home, which pot to choose, what soil? How to grow in winter? How to care at home? These questions arise for those who want to grow tulips in their own apartment.

If you want blooming tulips to delight you in winter, you need:

Water abundantly twice a week plantings (soil overdrying must not be allowed);
Same at least twice a week feeding should be carried out. Funds are purchased in a specialized store, following the recommendations on the bottle or package, it is necessary to dilute the make-up for tulips;
When buds appear on the plant it is necessary to carry them away from heating devices (batteries, heaters), you need to make sure that the buds do not wilted ahead of time.

Tulips blooming on a specific date

At home, some grow plants not only for themselves, but also for trade, for example, for International Women's Day - March 8. At the same time, the result is often no worse than growing on a personal plot. How to care for tulips if you need to achieve flowering by a certain date?

To achieve flowering by February-March, you need to plant bulbs in October-December;
subject to the technological process of cultivation, it will be required four monthsto bring the plant to a gorgeous bloom;
Tulip blossoms in a pot from 14 days or more;
For long flowering it is worth moving the pot closer to a cool place at night (cold windowsill, place next to the exit to the balcony);
To distill tulips at home you need to take low pots or containersbecause high capacity is detrimental to the plant. For large planting material, a 30 cm high pot is required. For small bulbs, 20 cm high. The recommended pot diameter is 20 cm. This container is suitable for growing 5 plant bulbs;
It is better to take a pot for tulips from ceramics, it is breathable, which has a beneficial effect on the root system.Plastic is much cheaper in price, but it heats up excessively from the rays of the sun, does not give oxygen to the roots.

At the end of summer - August, September - the rudiments of the flower itself begin to form in the bulb. If you set yourself the task of getting blooming by the New Year, then the film and the subsequent pruning (decapitation) of the blossoming buds will help to speed up the process. During the storage period of the bulbs, the temperature effect is important, it consists of:

Stage 1 - creation of a high-performance temperature regime;
Stage 2 - creating a temperature regime with lower values.

There is a way in which the main thing is to dig the bulbs out of the ground early, as soon as yellowish spots form on them. The bulbs are kept at a high temperature of 30-35 degrees for 7 days. Before planting tulip bulbs, they should be stored in a cold place, often using a refrigerator (vegetable trays).

Tulip planting rules

In the second half of September, the planting material of tulips (bulbs) for distillation must be planted in a container containing the nutrient composition. It can be a peat-sand mixture, or a mixture of sand and earth, some use one peat, perlite. The Dutch practice cultivation on one river sand, without impurities. The lightness of the substrate is important, its neutral reaction.

How to plant the bulbs? Planting and growing is carried out in wide, low pots, any similar containers. Drainage holes are made at the bottom. Then they are covered with a crock, a drainage layer is placed.

Forcing bulbs

Fill the container with the substrate, about 2/3, then slightly compact;
Measured, at a distance of 1 cm, the bulbs are planted in the ground, with pressing movements;

The planting material is completely sprinkled with the substrate;
Then the plantings should be watered abundantly.

The containers are transferred to a room with an air temperature of up to +10 degrees and a high humidity of up to 75%, for example (balcony, loggia, basement). It is necessary to frequently water it to avoid drying out the substrate. After the sprouts appear, the temperature should be significantly reduced to plus 1-3 degrees. The germination period is 16-22 weeks.

The timing of keeping it cool depends on the timing of flowering, as well as on the variety of flowers.

Tulip distillation technologies

When the containers are 21 days before the planned flowering, the pots with the bulbs are rearranged in a dark room, where the temperature is about 14 degrees (not lower). After 4 days, the lighting power is increased to full. The temperature regime should correspond to +18 degrees. Backlighting is essential for tulips. To prevent the plants from stretching, they create a 10-hour daylight hours.

Watering, feeding plants with calcium nitrate has a beneficial effect on flowering, significantly affects the beauty of the future flower. In order for the buds to please with their brightness, they should be kept for prolonged flowering at a temperature not higher than 16 degrees so that direct sunlight does not fall on the plant. Such an uncomplicated technique has a positive effect on the peduncles, they become strong, the intensity of the color of flowers increases.

If desired, everyone can distill tulips at home. This will require compliance with simple rules and recommendations. The key to success is the correct planting, germination of plant bulbs, compliance with the temperature regime at all stages of tulip growth, as well as maintaining the necessary humidity and lighting. Subject to all the rules, you will get an amazing bloom of beautiful flowers at any time of the year.

Forcing tulips is a series of sequential actions, thanks to which the plant can be made to bloom exactly when you choose. For example, for the holidays - New Year, Valentine's Day, March 8, etc.

As a rule, in the autumn-winter period, the plants rest, this condition helps to survive the unfavorable months for them. All bulbous plants also adapt to wintering, but inside the plant changes that are invisible to the eye occur, and the organs of the future flower are formed. The entire distillation process can be described as follows:

Proper storage of planting material (bulbs) after the digging process from open soil;
Carrying out rooting of bulbs in conditions of low temperature;
The process of growing a flower, (adherence to technology) before the flowering period at home, in a heated room.

How to grow tulips from seeds

Seed propagation is a long, painstaking process, this method, as a rule, is used by breeders. Growing from seeds from China is an exciting activity, usually the seeds have good germination. The cost of seeds is from 5 to 14 rubles, in a package of 10 - 20 pcs. seeds. The reviews are the most favorable. Planting material arrives in a short time, images of a flower are attached to the seeds, its type is indicated, packages with seeds are numbered.

In autumn - from September to October, it is necessary to sow seeds in a greenhouse, the soil should be taken loose, nutritious;
Seeds are sown thickly;
With the onset of spring, narrow leaves that look like a single tube will sprout. Such a plant has one root;
During the summer, the plant develops slowly and forms a small bulb with several roots;
The next spring, such a bulb will give a full-fledged large leaf. The plant develops gradually, after three years, the bulbs are dug up in the summer (when the leaves turn yellow);
Then they are dried, then from September to December they are planted.

How to grow tulips in a hydrogel

In agriculture, hydrogel is widely used for growing plants. Florists are also actively practicing this method. A hydrogel is a polymer compound. Plants are planted in a hydrogel or a mixture of the composition and soil is produced. Moisture that is absorbed by the substance:

Does not flow out of the container;
There is no evaporation of moisture;
Nutritional properties are not lost:
A hydrogel of all kinds of colors is on sale;
Reasonable cost, decorative appearance, and low material consumption are the advantages of this method;
As a rule, a transparent container is used for a good view of beautiful, colored balls or pieces;
Containers can be of all kinds in shape;
With this type of cultivation, there is no danger of harming the root system of the plant;
The hydrogel is filled with water, preferably settled or filtered. In proportion to 1 kg of the product - 300-350 ml of water.

This technique is not quite suitable for growing tulips for sale. The method is costly, aqua soil is suitable for growing tulips for yourself as a gift to relatives and friends. Growing in water is a similar option, also not suitable for farming.

There is an excellent method for growing tulips hydroponically. An artificial nutrient composition is created, which includes the necessary substances for plant growth.

Growing tulips in water

Let's consider this method in detail:

It is necessary to use an epin plant growth regulator. Take a tulip bulb, soak it for 2.5 hours, so that the root is in the water (take warm water with the addition of epin, to awaken the sprout);
We line the bottom of the container with pebbles;
We put the bulbs with the root down, cover them on all sides with another decorative layer of stones;
The apical tails of the plant should rise above the stones;
We fill the container with water, just a little - the lower part of the onion should touch the water. It is important not to pour the onion, as this is fraught with decay;
The container should be placed in a shaded place;
When roots appear, add water;
It is necessary to control the water level, tulips need a lot of moisture, as they grow quickly;
Literally in a few days, green leaves will look out, then it is worth rearranging the container with plants in a warm and bright place;
When tulip buds bloom, the desired temperature for them is +12 degrees, when kept in such conditions, flowering will be the longest.

There is a way that prevents the unpleasant phenomenon - leaf falling off. To solve this problem, you need to add alcohol to the tulip water.

For example, if the alcohol is 20 percent, then you need to take 1 part of alcohol and 3 parts of water. If 40 percent, then 1 part of alcohol and 7 parts of water are taken. When the water stagnates, the container with the plants is placed under running water for rinsing.

What to do with tulips after distillation

The video below explains how to preserve and restore bulbs after forcing at home.

Tulips are very beautiful and popular flowers that will not leave anyone indifferent. Their homeland is Central Asia. In wildlife, these unpretentious bulbous plants grow well in deserts and steppes, on mountain slopes, in climates with cold winters and dry summers. Cultivated varieties of tulips have a huge variety of colors and shapes: peony, lily-colored, multi-flowered, etc. In addition to the external showiness, they have excellent quality - tulips can be grown at any time of the year in your apartment. At the same time, it is not necessary to create greenhouse conditions. It is enough to have a flower pot with soil and a bulb.

What varieties of tulips are suitable for home cultivation

Varietal tulips are unusually beautiful, but at the same time they are capricious and demanding on growing conditions. Therefore, for home distillation, it is better to choose simple, low-growing varieties. These include the following:

Greig's tulip. Has a beautiful goblet flower shape. A distinctive feature is wide leaves with a variegated color pattern. The color of the bud can be either one-color or two-color. The petals are pointed. Greig's tulip exudes a delicate delicate scent.
Foster's tulip. Started the Darwin Hybrid. The stem length rarely exceeds 15 cm. It has bright colors and is resistant to viruses.
Tulip Parade. It has a large goblet bud. The flower has a red tint with orange veins, it remains unopened even in the sun. Reproduces well.
Crystal Beauty and Fringed Apeldoorn are ideal if you want to please your family for the New Year. They are both terry and fringed. Flower shades are very diverse: from red-orange to lilac-purple.
New Year's variety Christmas Marvel can be grown not only in the room, but also on the balcony. It has a goblet shape and a very beautiful raspberry shade with a white border.
Variety Lustige Battle. It has the shape of a bowl, the color is bright red with a white border. Reproduces very well, ideal for winter forcing.
The Dutch Scaborough variety will bloom exactly by March 8th when planted in late September or early October. The flower is large, bright orange with a yellow edging-corner.
The Apeldoorn Elite variety opens wide, like a poppy seed. It has a spectacular orange color with a yellow edging along the edge of the petal. Blooms for International Women's Day.

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How the tulip bulb works

The tulip bulb is actually a modified shoot. In the center of the bulb there is a peduncle in its infancy, from above it is protected by scales, which form the bulb. Tulips are self-renewing plants. Despite the fact that after flowering it dies off, embryos of daughter flowers begin to develop in the bulb. If the faded stem is plucked in time, all the nutrients will go to the bulb. It is being dug out, the "babies" are separated from the mother's fetus, which dies off. Thus, 3-4 new flowers will be obtained from one bulb.

The life cycle of a tulip depends on natural conditions, so it is quite possible to create an artificial microclimate suitable for the growth and flowering of tulips. Knowing the peculiarities of growing and caring for these beautiful flowers, you can create a botanical garden at home even in the middle of winter.

Growing tulips for the New Year

Whatever gift for the New Year would be made, a bouquet of fresh flowers in any case will bring not feigned joy. Moreover, if a bouquet of tight strong flowers will stand in a pot with soil for one and a half to two weeks. This should be taken care of in the fall. How to properly prepare for forcing? Planting bulbs for New Year's flowers should be in October, following certain recommendations.

First you need to prepare the ground. It must be moist. Ready-made soils for bulbous plants are sold, but it is better to make the substrate yourself. Mix half a liter of river sand with the same amount of humus. Mix a liter of turf with ash there. Such a composition of the substrate is necessary to retain moisture in it, because the bulb does not need nutrients from the soil, they are already accumulated in it.
Pour drainage (expanded clay) on the bottom of the pot or box and add soil 2/3.
Arrange the bulbs fairly tightly without touching each other.
Fill the bulbs completely so that the tops are not exposed.
Place the pot in a cool place, such as a glazed balcony or the bottom shelf of the refrigerator (if it's a small pot). The temperature there should not drop to 5 ° C. Do not cover the ground with anything from above, make sure the moisture level is maintained.
2 weeks before the celebration, bring the box of bulbs into the room. During this time, they will take root. Do not place the box on a sunny windowsill, but rather place it on the floor with the window facing south. If this is not possible, cover the sprouted bulbs with paper caps.
Place the box on a well-lit windowsill a week before your scheduled event. If there is little light, use phytolamps so that the daylight hours for flowers are 10-12 hours.
Water the flowers every day with water warmed to room temperature (preferably with melted snow) and feed with calcium nitrate.

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Growing tulips by March 8

Tulips are a traditional gift for International Women's Day, which symbolizes femininity and the coming of spring. Flower shops earn half of the annual revenue ahead of the holiday. So why not please yourself or your loved ones with flowers grown at home? The material for forcing spring tulips is practically the same as preparing for growing winter flowers. However, planting of the bulbs should take place in January, taking into account that it will take 8 weeks to root.

The soil is prepared in the same way as for the "winter" bulbs (a mixture of sand, turf and humus).
In the spring, germs and bacteria are active. Previously, for disinfection, the bulbs are placed in a solution of potassium permanganate for half an hour.
The flower box is filled with a layer of drainage and 1/3 of the soil is laid out. Onions are spread on it, compacting the soil. Do watering. Spread the soil on top again, completely covering the bulbs.
Place the box on the balcony for 8 weeks for rooting. Watering is done weekly.
When shoots appear, the box is transferred to the room and placed on a well-lit windowsill. So that the stems do not stretch out, the seedlings are taught to light gradually, closing the window with paper.
Tulips are fed with fertilizer for indoor plants.

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How to grow tulips without soil

Tulips grown without soil look simply luxurious and in their characteristics are in no way inferior to plants expelled in the ground.

Prepare a clear glass vase, pebbles, and purified water.
Wrap the onion in paper and place on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for 2 weeks.
Place pebbles on the bottom and pour water over 1/3 of the vase.
Place the onion so that only the roots touch the water. The bulb itself should not touch the water.
Pour a handful of stones on top of it.
Put the vase on the balcony for a month.
Then transfer it to the room, and in 2-3 weeks you will receive a flower in a bud.

How to feed tulips for better growth and lush bloom

Bulbous flowers grow regardless of the season (even in winter in severe frost) only because all important processes take place inside the bulb. Therefore, it is important to nourish the plant not so much during flowering, but also the bulb itself before planting in the ground.

Heteroauxin is a potassium salt with a phytohormone of the auxin family, which promotes the growth of the plant itself and its root system. It is produced in the form of tablets. Can be used for propagation of an adult bulb. After dissolving 1 tablet of heteroauxin in a liter of water, the unseparated onion with the "children" is placed in the solution for 15-24 hours. This procedure will induce active root growth, while untreated bulbs will produce 2-3 roots. The more roots and the thicker they are, the more chances the “kids” have to survive. Also, the bulbs are kept in a solution of the drug before planting for better rooting.
The liquid drug Narcissus increases the resistance of tulips to diseases and microorganisms, heals small wounds on the bulb, destroys the spores of pathogenic fungi. A preparation of natural origin, the main active component of chitosan is an extract from the shell of crustaceans. Absorbs radionuclides, pesticides, salts of heavy metals, stimulating the production of immunity and protective enzymes. The use of the drug accelerates germination by a week. The plant is fed with a solution of ½ cap of Narcissus per liter of water by watering it under the root every 2 weeks. It is also recommended to spray an already adult plant from a spray bottle at the same frequency.
Natural growth regulator Zircon is made from Echinacea purpurea extract, known for its immunostimulating properties. The drug will help tulip bulbs to adapt to new conditions (before taking the bulbs from the balcony to the room), will have an antioxidant effect. If it is impossible to create an optimal microclimate for tulips (humid air and soil, indirect sunlight, a lot of light), then Zircon will protect the plant from possible diseases. Flowering thanks to Zircon will not suffer, the buds will form large, tight. One capsule of the drug is dissolved in 5 liters of water for root feeding.
Liquid preparation MisterCvet Universal is suitable for feeding all indoor plants, including bulbs. Contains macronutrients (nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus), trace elements (magnesium, zinc, manganese, copper), phytohormones, minerals and amino acids. Promotes excellent flowering, fast growth and healthy appearance of tulips. 1 cap of the preparation is dissolved in a liter of water for root feeding. Promotes the formation of a large stem, a large voluminous bud and a bright color of the flower. Top dressing is carried out every 2 weeks. The solution is suitable for all indoor plants.

Tulips are convenient because they are unpretentious, and they can be grown for almost a whole year. It is not recommended to choose exotic varieties for home distillation (parrot, peony or lily-colored varieties), because they are capricious and demanding on the microclimate. A short, sturdy stem will look much better than a long and thin stem. It should be noted that the color of a tulip grown at home will not be as bright as that of a flower grown in a garden. However, with proper care and in your apartment, you can admire the unusually beautiful flowers and inhale their aroma for 2 weeks, even when there is severe frost and snow drifts outside the window.

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