How to grow gladioli from children at home?

Growing gladioli from tubers or babies is one of the most effective ways to get healthy and beautiful flowers. In this article, we will describe in detail how to choose tubers, as well as plant and care for seedlings correctly at home and in the garden.

1 We grow beautiful flowers from children

Unlike the use of corms and the seed method of growing these beautiful and beloved flowers, planting babies (tubers) promotes faster growth of beautiful and healthy plants. Corms and seeds, as a rule, give the first crop of flowers only after 2-3 years, while the bulbs quickly age and wilt.

Gladiolus babies adapt much better to the different climatic conditions of the regions and the composition of the soil. They are resistant to diseases, germinate better at home, especially if all storage conditions are observed, and proper care of the seedlings.

Babies are formed as a result of the completion of the growing season of flower reproduction. They are gradually replacing the "older" tubers. Due to the strong and dry shell of the fruit, gladiolus buds are much better adapted to home cultivation, even under relatively unfavorable storage conditions.

On one healthy flower, as a rule, from 20 to 30 tubercles are formed, depending on the variety. Modern varieties, bred primarily for the use of flowers for commercial purposes, babies can form in the amount of 200 or even 250 buds per flower. Thus, the number of healthy and suitable for use as a planting material of gladiolus children on one flower depends on the storage conditions and maintenance, soil composition and agricultural practices, on which the duration of the growing season in gladioli depends.

2 We plant tubers at home

To obtain a good harvest, flower growers recommend selecting the largest and healthiest bulbs, with a dense and as dry shell as possible. From such children, the harvest is obtained already in the first growing season. This does not mean that smaller fruits are not capable of active reproduction, but the first flowers from them will appear no earlier than 2-3 years after planting.The optimal size of tubers for growing gladiolus at home is at least 7-9 millimeters in diameter.

In order to grow healthy gladioli from children, it is very important to choose not just large fruits, but also pay particular attention to the presence of root tubercles on the kidney, the more their number, the better the final planting material will turn out. It is advisable to store young kidneys at room temperature in a place well protected from excess light; with proper storage, gladiolus babies can retain their properties for several months.

Approximately 15–20 days before planting, pre-selected babies must be thoroughly peeled. Further, for preventive purposes, the bulbs are placed in loose gauze bags, having previously divided them into varieties, after which they are dipped into a solution of warm water and potassium permanganate in a proportion of 5-7 grams. substances per 10 liters. water.

The soil for planting must first be well moistened, then loosened. There are two ways to sow gladiolus tubers in a garden plot - shallow or deep, depending on the structure and composition of the soil. In heavier or clayey soil types, they are planted to a depth of no more than 3-4 centimeters. In looser and lighter soil, you can plant them deeper, in planting grooves measuring 7-9 centimeters.

In this case, the distance between the planted fruits should not be less than 5-7 centimeters, with a distance of 15-20 cm between the rows of planting, if the planting is carried out on previously prepared beds. As for the landing frequency per 1 sq. meter, then it directly depends on the climatic conditions of a particular region and the illumination of the site. To determine which frequency is right for your companion, we recommend that you divide the planting material into several parts and varieties, and plant them at different frequencies, and in the fall, based on the quantity, you can make an optimal conclusion.

After planting, it is best to mulch the beds with a small layer of cut grass (1-2 centimeters). Next, you need to carefully water the beds and cover the planting sites with plastic wrap or other material suitable for mulching. This contributes to better tuber preservation and acceleration of the germination process. Subject to the listed sequence of actions and recommendations, the first shoots in a normal season are obtained in 20-25 days.

3 Care for seedlings in the open field - basic rules

As soon as the first shoots appear, water the planted area abundantly and, if necessary, loosen the surface with a depth of 1–2 centimeters. At this stage, you can additionally fill in a small layer of humus, as an obstacle to the development and growth of unwanted weeds. The first feeding is carried out no earlier than a month after the appearance of healthy shoots.

Fertilizers with a high ammonia and nitrogen content, such as urea, are well suited for feeding. It should be diluted with water in a proportion of 15 grams. for 10 liters of liquid. This solution is enough for 0.5-1 square meter of planting, depending on the frequency of the rows. This solution is used the first two times. Further, it is better to feed the seedlings with a small amount of water with "green" organic fertilizers. After three weeks, the final feeding is carried out using mineral fertilizers with trace elements and various phosphates or nitrate.

The amount of fertilizers that are recommended for fertilizing depends on the type of soil, however, the first and second fertilizing must be carried out on any type of soil, a month after the first shoots. When flower arrows appear, which are often thrown out by young tubers during flowering, it is better to break them out or cut them out. In this case, the allium absorbs more nutrients and substances, which will contribute to a good harvest of flowers for the next season.

It is best to dig up tubers obtained from children vegetatively in early autumn; for a middle zone with a temperate climate, the ideal time for digging is mid-September. After they are dug up, healthy children are separated and sent to proper storage or planted to get new varieties. Children of gladiolus grown in this way from the bulb are high-quality, rejuvenated planting material that can be stored all winter, subject to certain conditions.

Gladioli are noble flowers that look very beautiful in the design of personal plots. Most amateur flower growers grow these plants using the classic scheme: germinating corms on a windowsill, planting them in the soil, digging out the bulbs after flowering and storing them until next spring.

But during storage, the planting material may become unusable, often the bulbs are affected by pests and diseases, rot, and get sick. We have to buy new bulbs. You can not do this if you try to propagate these flowers with the help of small babies that appear from the mother's bulb. How to grow gladioli with children, are planting and care difficult?

Children of gladioli: what is it?

One corm lives no more than five years, then it begins to age, to ache, which becomes not to the liking of the florist. You have to look for a replacement, it is best to grow planting material from a baby that is suitable for planting next year. Gladioli from children grow up healthy, strong and beautiful. Before we consider in more detail all the stages of growing multi-colored handsome men from children, let's talk about what gladiolus children are, about growing, preparing for planting.

Let's start with the size of gladiolus corms. The size and flowering capabilities of a gladiolus bulb are indicated by one term, usually incomprehensible to novice florists, the analysis of corms.

• Corms of the 1st analysis include specimens with a diameter of 3.3 centimeters and more. When planted, such a bulb will give several good peduncles, the corrugation of the flowers will appear in full force, and the coloring will be bright and intense.
• Bulbs of the second analysis are smaller - they are planting material with a diameter of 2.5 to 3.1 cm. Their flowering will also delight flower growers.
• The bulbs of the third analysis include corms ranging in size from 1.5 cm to 2.4 cm. The flowering of gladioli when using small bulbs occurs with a long delay, not all buds open, and there are few of them on the peduncle.
• Bulbs of the 4th analysis are the smallest, with a maximum size of 1.4 cm. They bloom much later. The plant requires more care, with its provision, you can achieve good flowers, of course, not the same as when planting the bulbs 1-3 times.

At the base of the corms, tubers are formed, which are otherwise called babies. There are two types of children:

• Children of the 1st category (from 5 to 10 mm) can produce corms of the 2nd or 1st analysis.
• Children of the 2nd category (from 3 to 5 mm). These are small babies that only produce bulbs of the third analysis in the first year after planting.

We conclude that the baby is an organ of vegetative reproduction. Appears at the end of the growing season at the base of the corm. The baby is covered with a dry, dense shell, it protects it from external influences. It is worth noting that the babies are well stored, their germination and safety reaches almost 100%. The main functions of gladioli children include:

• Update and save the collection of gladioli varieties.
• Reproduction of gladioli by children allows you to increase the number of plants grown.
• Get plants that can easily adapt to a new place and are resistant to various diseases.

How babies are stored in the winter

When laying gladioli corms for storage in the fall, the children are separated, washed and dried well.To do this, you need to lay them out in a dark, dry and warm place. They should be there until mid-November. Before further storage, it is necessary to sort the children by size. Store them in a dry place at temperatures up to + 15 ° C. If the temperature in the storage room is maintained in the range of + 5 ... + 10 ° C, the babies will be able to survive without losing germination for 24 months.

How to prepare tubers for planting

Eternal, novice florists have a question about what to do with children? Before disembarking, it is necessary to carry out a number of activities that will help the children prepare for disembarking in open ground.

Each baby is covered with a dense shell. It is she who protects against various damages during storage. But when planting, this shell can only harm, delaying the germination of children for a month or more. It is recommended to remove it or break it. It is not difficult to remove the shell manually, but it takes a lot of time and effort. If a large amount of planting material needs to be processed, this can be a time consuming process. Due to inexperience, there is a possibility of damage to the delicate tissues of the baby and the future growth point of the flower. Each of us decides for himself whether he will spend time and energy on removing the shell, or will wait several weeks, wondering if the babies will germinate. Experienced gardeners say that cleaned babies not only germinate faster, but also form a larger root bulb.

An effective way is to germinate gladiolus babies before planting. To do this, 25-30 days before planting, the children are taken out of the storage area, placed for 1-2 weeks in a bright and warm place. Placed by size and variety of gladioli in bags with clasps or jars. A little weak solution of potassium permanganate is poured into each container, the containers are closed, but so that there is air access. It is impossible for the children to immerse themselves entirely in the solution, there should be quite a bit of water. Root buds and seedlings appear in 12-14 days. You can place the children on a damp cloth, put them inside the bags, and place them in a cold place, for example, in the refrigerator. Children prepared in this way will give amicable sprouts.

Growing seedlings from children

In early spring or even in winter, you can start up the children for seedlings. Despite the fact that you have to spend time growing seedlings, you can get a 100% result. Growing seedlings occurs according to the standard scheme, only when growing seedlings of gladioli there are two prerequisites:

1. you need to plant the children in separate containers so as not to damage the roots;
2. the plant needs to provide cool conditions for growth. The temperature should be + 5 ... + 15 ° С.

Children are planted in cassettes or small cups, poured into a tray. After the first shoots appear, you need to put the planted seedlings into the light. Illumination with energy-saving lamps is suitable, which will provide the best conditions for the growth and formation of the root system in children.

In April, you can start planting gladiolus children in the beds. Since each baby is planted in a separate container, there are no difficulties with planting.

Disembarkation and care

How to plant babies

To land on the beds, you need to wait for the earth to warm up to + 10 ° С. Planting is carried out shallow, no more than 3 cm. This is necessary in order to improve the development of corms and accelerate germination. Children are laid out along the bottom of the groove and sprinkled with sand. There is no need to water the gladioli yet.

If babies are planted that have germinated without cleaning, the depth should be 5-6 cm. The grooves are spilled with water. Children are laid on the bottom of the groove, covered with earth. Can be planted individually, then there is a chance of getting large corms in one season.

When planting a large number of gladioli, experienced gardeners prefer a dense planting, in which the groove is made wide, and the children are placed in it in a wide strip.When landing, between the children of gladioli, a distance of no more than 2 cm is left. In a meter groove with such a landing, up to 400 children can be accommodated.

Baby care

At the time of planting and active growth, children need moist soil. They need to be moisturized regularly. When the babies hatch and the first shoots appear, you need to protect the beds with non-woven material or film from a possible cold snap. Do not worry too much, since usually gladioli tolerate small drops in temperature.

Plant feeding is carried out 12-14 days after germination. Mullein solution works best, but any organic fertilizer can be used. In row spacings, the soil must be loosened regularly. It is necessary that the root system be provided with additional air supply. Fertilizers will help form large corms. Young bulbs do not tolerate drought very well, therefore it is necessary to ensure regular and constant watering throughout the season.

With good care, creating favorable conditions, large children of gladioli can bloom in the first year. But it is better to gently break out the peduncles. What for? To allow the corms to ripen more fully by the time of autumn digging. In the fall, from the little children you planted, you can get full-fledged corms, which they dig up before the first frost appears.

What florist does not want to boast of proud handsome gladioli grown by his own hands. The best corms for flowering for the next year are obtained in one season from small children.

In the cultivation of gladioli, the key to success is the planting material. In order for powerful plants with large flowers to develop from corms, it is better to grow them from children with a diameter of 0.6-1 cm in one summer.

Kindergarten for children

Children of gladioli need to be cleaned of covering scales and disinfected for two hours in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Next, the treated children are planted on a bed under the film. The soil in the garden bed is dug up in advance with the introduction of humus and a universal complex of fertilizers.

The scheme of planting the children is in grooves to a depth of 5 cm, row spacing 20 cm, a row distance of 10 cm from each other. After planting the children, the grooves are covered with soil and they must be watered with warm water with a universal complex fertilizer.

It is not difficult to take care of the planted children, but all the following procedures must be performed: abundant watering every 5 days with the obligatory loosening of the soil, application with irrigation every 10 days of complex universal fertilizer (from the beginning of August, use only potassium-phosphorus fertilizers as fertilizers), removal of peduncles.

Harvesting of large formed corms is carried out in the third decade of September. In wet weather, you need to monitor the lobes of the corms, preventing the appearance of new roots before harvesting, otherwise storage will be problematic, and, as a result, there will be poor flowering next year.

Corms - sunbathing and a good "diet"

It is better to grow gladioli in an open, sunny place. Earth is preferable to weak acidity, but neutral is also suitable. In the process of growth, gladioli develop not only a powerful aboveground part, but also powerful roots, so the soil in the garden should be well and deeply dug up with the introduction of mineral fertilizer nitrophoska at the rate of 30 g per square meter of the area of ​​the garden.

Gladiolus corms need preliminary preparation for planting. A month before planting, it is necessary to clean them of integumentary scales, to discard the sick and infected. Before planting, you need to process it in a solution of potassium permanganate for half an hour.

The soil temperature at the time of planting the corms should be at least 8 ° C.The planting depth varies and depends on the type of soil, if on light soil it is less, then on heavy soil it is more, the optimal depth should be approximately three diameters of the corm.

The distance in a row is at least 20 cm, and preferably more. Shoots appear in 15-18 days. Since the emergence of seedlings, it is necessary to regularly water, loosen the soil and, from June, apply fertilizer - nitrophoska, adding 30 g per 10 liters of water during irrigation.

Dig up corms, like children, at the end of September. After digging, they are washed, soaked for 25 minutes. in a solution of chlorophos, prepared with the addition of 20 g per 10-liter bucket of water, and then for an hour in a solution of potassium permanganate prepared with the addition of 10 g per 10-liter bucket of water. After these pest-killing procedures, the corms are dried for two weeks in a ventilated room at a temperature of 25 ° C. In November, the corms are laid out in boxes and lowered into basements with an air temperature of 5-7 ° C and a humidity of about 60%.

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Preventive measures

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To propagate gladioli by children

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A few days before disembarkation, the shell is removed from the baby. This operation is time consuming but mandatory. Sometimes it is advised, having sprinkled the baby on a hard flat surface, roll a bottle over it. In this case, the shell really breaks and it is easier to remove it. But at the same time, part of the baby is crushed and completely loses its germination.

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Sprinkle the bed with the planted gladioli with a layer of mulch on top. For example, mulch from well-rotted (2-3 years) sawdust mixed with peat (5-10% of the mulch volume).

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The first shoots appear two or three weeks after planting. During this time, it is important to ensure that the flowers are properly hydrated. Lack of moisture will definitely affect the growth of the plant. It will be weak and lose its decorative shape. Provides moderate watering, avoiding waterlogging. Moisture retention can be ensured by mulching with peat. At the same time, it will serve as an additional plant nutrition. You should also pay attention to air exchange. The soil in the container is constantly loosened, thereby providing air access to the gladiolus root system.

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Growing gladioli

Like dahlia, gladioli need to be rejuvenated, that is, take children from the plant and grow new planting material. From small things you will never be able to get real gladioli, therefore

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Better to use another method. The cleaned baby must be soaked.Everything seems to be simple: ordinary water, room temperature, poured it in - and that's it. But in reality there are also difficulties. When soaking, care should be taken not to confuse different varieties.

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A good corm should have sprouts from 1 to 10 cm before planting and root tubercles no more than 3 mm high. The rest are thrown away.

Gladioli are loved by almost all growers. But not everyone succeeds in raising these proud handsome men. That is why it is necessary to share the experience and secrets of gardeners who grow them successfully.Harvesting gladioli in open ground is carried out in late September and early October. The corm ripens four weeks after flowering stops. In greenhouses, the flowering period lasts a little longer. At the same time, the cleaning time is shifted accordingly. When harvesting, the plants are completely dug out of the ground. After that, they are dried and the stems are cut.

The next important point is feeding gladioli. In indoor conditions, you cannot do without them. How to grow flowers to ensure an adequate diet?Large corms deepen by ten centimeters, medium - by five to seven. Small bulbs - babies - are planted to a depth of two to three centimeters. The distance between the holes is from five to fifteen centimeters (depending on the size of the planting material).

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Has some subtleties. You need to take moss - sphagnum, moisten it, put it in a jar with low edges (for example, from herring) and put gladiolus bulbs tightly on it. Then you need to put this jar on the windowsill. Although it is cool by the window, it is light. Plants will begin to grow slowly and will release a furrow of future roots.If the baby is the size of a thumbnail, then she will make a good gladiolus. It is a wonderful renewable material.Subscribe to receive updates by email or RSS

How to prepare a baby gladioli for sowing?

To soak, you need utensils, such as small bottles. All varieties need to be numbered, and squares must be prepared from foil, on which to write numbers with a ballpoint pen. Put each square with a number in a bottle with the corresponding grade and pour water there. You don't need to add anything. Pour in water 2 days before planting. It is necessary to plant the baby early, practically from April 15th. There may be deviations of 3-4 days depending on the nature of the spring.

One of my favorite colors is gladiolus. The regal beauty conquers hearts. Breeders are developing new varieties. But the old ones are also very beautiful. And having received the first flowering, I want to propagate this variety.

How to do it?

Make a trench about 15 cm in the garden bed, pour about a 2 cm layer of coarse sand on the bottom. Then the bulbs should be lightly pressed into the soil. Sprinkle on top with wood ash, then - again with sand and pour with a warm solution of potassium permanganate. Cover with earth, leveling the surface neatly.

The first decade of May is the best time for planting this plant in the ground.

How and where to plant a baby?

The bulbs are cleaned of soil and rinsed with water. Then they are kept in a solution of potassium permanganate and then dried well. Next, the old bulbs and root system are removed. The final stage is thorough drying, which will last up to fourteen days.

The normal development and flowering of gladioli will require three to four foliar dressings with mineral fertilizers, for the preparation of which the following substances are dissolved in one liter of water:

Bulbous flowers can be found not only in garden flower beds. Skaters sometimes settle in the most unexpected places.Growing gladioli outdoors is not the only option for planting bulbous flowers. In conditions of artificial soil, they will adorn any interior. But before growing a gladiolus, a number of issues need to be resolved. First of all, you need to choose the right container in which the flowers will grow.

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If you do this procedure quite early, then the plants will grow strongly and then you will need to transplant them into half-liter cups (for example, from under sour cream) into the soil. At the same time, they do not need to be deepened. Plants will give roots. When transplanting gladioli into the ground, turn the jar over and remove it. To make the jar easy to remove, you need not water the flowers before this for 2 - 3 days. The soil must already be prepared before planting.

This is done when the leaves turn yellow, or after the first freeze. It is better to dig with a pitchfork, not a shovel. You do not need to rip out, as you can tear off the bottom of the young onion along with the old one. You can dig it up with a scoop and take it out by taking it by the bottom of the stem.

This article will focus on gladioli. About these solemn and rich, such wonderful and such proud flowers. I note right away that gladiolus does not need to be grown in the beds, because it is a cut flower. These flowers can be planted in groups of 3 to 4 flowers. They can have the same color, but they should have different flowering times. All bulbous crops should grow in the sun, nothing will grow in the shade. The exception is

There is one important subtlety here. It is impossible to soak the baby for more than two days, it will begin to lose germination very quickly. Or it may happen that after two days of soaking, it is not possible to plant the baby for various reasons. In this case, you just need to drain the water, and cover the bottles with cardboard or paper. Before landing, then you can keep the baby up to 4 days. This is usually enough.

How?

Remember, feeding is very important!Healthy children should have a surface without damage and stains, clean, not shriveled or withered, with a diameter of 4-5 mm.

It is necessary to store gladiolus bulbs in a dry place at a temperature of three to eight degrees Celsius. At home, gladioli can be stored in paper bags or cardboard boxes by placing them on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.

Ammonium nitrate - 0.5 g;

Mistakes will not allow you to get a full-fledged flowering plant. In order to solve the problem of how to grow a gladiolus with a normal developed root system, it is necessary to know the degree of its growth. It branches in the soil to a depth of forty centimeters. Full nutrition of the flower will be able to provide a layer of soil with a thickness of at least forty-five centimeters. Based on this parameter, a suitable growing container is selected. You can use large flower pots or plastic containers, the capacity of which should be at least twelve to fifteen liters.​. (30 10 ) .​Note! If you plant gladioli unforgiven, then you plant them in early May

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How to cut gladioli?

Early or small-bulbous tulip varieties. They fade so quickly that the foliage on the trees does not have time to cover them with its shadow.

The main requirement is that the landing site should be light. Planting depth is 5-6 cm. A groove must be made in the soil and poured with water in which one gram of potassium permanganate, boric acid and copper sulfate are dissolved per 10 liters of water. When the moisture is absorbed, the bottom of the groove is compacted with the edge of the board and the baby is laid on it at a distance of 2-4 cm (depending on the size). We fill the grooves with soil.

Reproduction of gladioli

You can propagate gladioli in different ways.

You can feed gladioli with a mullein solution based on a bucket of water 0.5 liters of infusion,

If you do not have time to clean the children, then immediately before planting them, you need to soften their hard cover with a weak solution of potassium permanganate, placing it for 10-12 hours for about one or two days.

Never buy small planting material !!!

Several methods of reproduction are used - by seeds and small baby bulbs. The latter method is more common. How to grow a gladiolus from babies?

When to dig up a gladiolus bulb?

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An unusual sight - gladioli on the window of a living room. How to grow a gladiolus in a pot so that it is healthy and fully developed and bloomed? At home, small-flowered and miniature varieties of skewers will be more suitable. They have a stem height of thirty to fifty centimeters. The root system of flowers of these varieties is less powerful. It has already been said about the choice of a suitable container.​. , . . . 20-30 (20 10 ) , , , 40-60 (10 10 ) . , , 2-3 , +25…+30 .​The baby must be grown up without fail. It has such a dense shell that it cannot even germinate. Therefore, she needs to be helped in this by breaking the chitinous cover. To do this, put the baby on sandpaper, put on a mitten and roll it over the sandpaper. After that, soak in water and wait until the shell bursts. Once this happens, you can plant. Sit on 3 - 4 cm, that is, shallow. Or, at the beginning of May, it can be planted directly into the soil in a small trench 10 cm deep.

Growing gladioli

As for onions, lilies, garlic and gladioli, they need the sun. If

The usual mistakes during planting are a decrease in depth to 2-3 cm. It will grow in this case too, but worse, and will rise later. After all, such a layer is often not sufficiently moisturized.

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For 30-40 days as you are going to dig up the bulbs, watering should be halved, and all feeding of gladioli must be stopped.

Start preparing gladioli bulbs for planting before the scheduled date in 15-20 days.Tuber is an excellent material for breeding a skewer. Babies are formed on the main bulb. They are small in size. In order to accelerate the flowering of this planting material, in March it is sown in containers. The sowing depth is between two and three centimeters. Baby gladiolus will grow in a container until September. Plant care is the same as for flowers grown from large corms. At the end of the season, the baby grows up to three centimeters in size. In the next season, such corms will become an excellent planting material for full-fledged flowering plants.Potassium chloride - 0.5 g.

The drainage hole must be present in the pot. Flowers do not tolerate stagnant moisture. Drainage material is poured at the bottom of the tank, which will ensure the normal outflow of water. A good drainage system will ensure normal growing conditions. The pot is filled with soil, which should be quite fertile and at the same time moisture-consuming. The success of growing full-fledged plants depends on its composition. Corms in pots are deepened by eight to twelve centimeters, maintaining a distance between them of six to seven centimeters.

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To do this, first put some good soil, then sand, then children, then sand again, and sprinkle any earth literally 3 - 4 cm. If the baby is large, then you can simply "crack" its shell if you lightly squeeze it with two fingers. In one season, children can grow a juvenile bulb, that is, the best. This bulb is considered an amazing planting material. However, for this, the bulbs should be grown at home in separate yogurt cups, planted there in early April. You need to transplant to the garden in late May - early June. In the fall, you will be surprised to find large bulbs. They will be 2.5 cm in height and in diameter. Such a bulb will be the best planting material.

Occurs for the sale of planting material, so that the varieties do not get mixed up, you need to take the planting material, and, along with the roots and greens, shove it into a piece of nylon tights. After that, you need to rinse in a barrel of water. When you wash, you need to kill thrips, which is the most disgusting pest. To do this, dip the stocking with bulbs into the Karbofos solution, the concentration of which should be 2 times higher than that required for spraying. It is necessary to keep in such a solution for 10 - 15 minutes, then remove and transfer to a thick raspberry solution of potassium permanganate. This will help get rid of possible diseases.

Growing gladioli

It is categorically impossible to bring fresh organic matter under the planting of gladioli. The planting material will be very painful and poorly stored. Organics must be applied to the previous crop. If the soil is poor, then it can be fertilized with either humus or mineral fertilizer. But do not get carried away with nitrogen. Best of all - wood ash with a small addition of urea or saltpeter.Propagated by seeds

Be sure to break out all the flower arrows from young plants!

First, you need to cleanse the onion from the integumentary scales and carefully examine it for the presence of pests and diseases. A healthy bulb will have a dense, shiny surface. Dried, softened, heavily sore and moldy bulbs should be thrown away.

How to grow gladioli

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The timing of fertilizing is as follows:

The decoration of balconies and loggias is impossible without flowers. Bulbous plants can be used for this purpose. When choosing varieties, preference is given to gladioli with a small stem height. In order to organize a miniature flower garden, suitable containers are selected. In this case, containers of the required size can be used.

You cannot get large bulbs if you plant a large baby directly in the ground in early May. When buying planting material for gladioli, examine it carefully. The best planting material is a bulb with a small bottom, and a height and diameter of 2.5 - 3 cm. Never buy an onion about 1 cm high and 5 - 6 cm in diameter, with a bottom of the same size. This is an old planting material. You won't get renewable material from it. Such a bulb will only work if you have lost the variety and you have only one single old onion left. Before planting, cut it in half and lubricate the slices with brilliant green. Then plant it.
You need to keep in potassium permanganate for 15 minutes, then, without rinsing, take out all the contents of the stocking, cut off the upper part and lay the bulbs to dry. After about 20 days (if the temperature is 20 - 25 ° C), the bulb should dry out. Whether the bulb is dry or not, you can check thanks to the roots. If, along with the old bulb, the roots separate easily enough, this means that the bulb is well dried.
At least half a day will take place in the shade, then you can not wait for their real flowering. The flowers will have a very frail ear, and it will have only 5 - 7 flowers, instead of 12 - 15 required. In addition, flowering will start very late. Therefore, the gladiolus needs a particularly sunny place.

It is very effective to fill the grooves with loose peat crumbs planted by the baby. But in such a crumb you need to add 1 cubic meter. m 5-8 kg of chalk. This is desirable but not required.

To get new varieties, but this is a difficult and long way.