How to plant hyacinths as indoor plants?

Many people want to pamper loved ones with fresh fragrant flowers for the winter holidays. For this, planting hyacinths at home is best suited. These delicate plants are among the first to bloom in the spring garden. But not everyone knows that they can be planted at home and, with proper care, achieve gorgeous flowering in the cold season.

Preparing the bulbs for planting

Most bulbous plants can be planted in a pot on a windowsill. Hyacinth is no exception. In order for it to bloom at home, you need to select the largest and healthiest bulbs for planting.

The most popular varieties for home cultivation:

• "Lady Pink";
• "Aida";
• "Yang boss";
• "Aqua";
• "Odysseus".

When a hyacinth bud appears in the flowerbed in the spring, it is tedious to carefully cut it off. Then he will use all his strength to form the bulb. In June, these hyacinths are dug from the garden garden and the tubers are properly prepared for planting. The procedure requires patience and some knowledge.

1. Choose large, dense bulbs. It is desirable that they be at least 5 cm in diameter, without the slightest damage and traces of disease.
2. Then they are laid out for a week to dry in a shady, well-ventilated place at an air temperature of about 20 degrees.
3. Then you need to separate all the "children" from the tuber, clean the dead scales and roots.

The subsequent care of the bulbs is as follows: they must be left in a dark room for 3 months, while ensuring proper storage.

• In the first 2 months, hyacinths should be at a temperature of 25-26 C.
• In the third month, they should be moved to a room from 17 C.
• After that, hold for 3 days in a cool place, where the temperature ranges from 5 to 6 C, and then proceed to planting in pots.

In order for hyacinths to bloom well at home, it is important to observe the temperature regime. Novice florists sometimes fail to carry out such care of the bulbs, so they buy planting material in the store. They sell tubers that have already passed all stages of development.

Planting in pots

Planting time for indoor hyacinths depends on when you want to see flowering. If you are planning it for the New Year, it should be planted in the middle of the first month of autumn. You can get a bouquet of flowers on March 8 by planting tubers in the last days of October.

You will need wide, low pots. They can hold several bulbs. Place a layer of drainage on the bottom, then put soil. You can purchase a ready-made earthen mixture or prepare it yourself. You will need to take leaf, sod, compost soil, peat and sand in the same proportion. Stir and use. Pour a thin layer of sand into the pots on top. It will not allow plant roots to rot at home.

1. Make small indentations and place the hyacinth bulbs a few centimeters apart.
2. Sprinkle them lightly with sand so that the tops of the tubers are on the surface.

Now the plants must be left alone for 2.5 months. The pots should be taken to a basement or other place where the air temperature fluctuates between 5 and 7 C. They should be kept in complete darkness. If the room is light, cover the pots with paper sheets.

Care during this period involves regular, moderate watering. Be sure to make sure that the ground does not dry out. If the planting is carried out correctly, the tubers will root well and subsequently bloom beautifully at home.

What to do next?

At the end of the second month, hyacinths release small green arrows in a cold room. When they stretch up to 3 cm in height, they need to be taken out into the light in a warmer room. Place the pots on a loggia or veranda where the temperature is cool enough. The optimal level is 12-15 degrees. In such conditions, the plant should gain strength for a month, and eventually buds will begin to form on it. Now it can be brought in and placed in a warm room in a permanent place. Flowers feel good in a lighted area of ​​the house, which is protected from drafts and temperature drops.

1. Indoor hyacinth care is simple. Place them away from heaters and maintain an average temperature of about 20 degrees.
2. Moisten the soil in time, but try not to flood the plant too much so that water does not stagnate in the pot.
3. It is advisable to provide additional lighting so that the pots are illuminated for at least 10 hours a day.
4. After a week, the buds are fully formed and flowering begins, which continues at home for about 7-10 days.
5. Keep the room cool so the flowers will last longer.

Advice

During active flowering, hyacinth sometimes begins to lean sideways and can break off. This happens due to a too heavy peduncle. To avoid this, place a support around the pot to support the flower.

Gardeners call the stages of preparation of hyacinths for flowering in winter "forcing". If, out of inexperience, you did something wrong, this does not mean that the plant will not bloom. It's just that the flowers will be smaller, they will fall off faster, the leaves will stretch up too much and begin to lean to the ground. The main thing is to withstand the cold period after planting in pots. Without it, the flowers are unlikely to be able to produce buds.

How to plant hyacinth in water?

Recently, it has become fashionable to plant hyacinths in a container of water. To do this, you need to prepare the tubers, as for planting in the ground. Then, for each bulb, you need to take a glass container, fill it with filtered or spring water and place the plant there. It is important to ensure that the tuber is not completely submerged in the liquid. It is necessary that only the bottom of the bulb is in contact with the water. Hyacinths need to provide resting time in a cool, dark place and wait for them to sprout.

Care at this time consists in the timely addition of water to the container. Try to keep it from evaporating and keep the roots of the bulb moist at all times. When the green arrows begin to sprout, mineral fertilizers can be gradually added to the liquid.

After 2.5 months, the sprouts of indoor hyacinths must be taken out to a bright room and provided with the same care as for flowers in pots.

Top dressing

The soil is quickly depleted, so growing hyacinths at home will not be successful without regular feeding. It must be done several times, starting from the moment the first leaves appear.

Good care is provided by the Fertimix product. This fertilizer has a balanced content of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. In addition to them, the preparation contains vitamins B1, PP and B6. All these elements are vital for hyacinths.

1. For feeding, put a liter of clean water in a jar and dilute 2 caps of the preparation in it.
2. To make flowering longer, it is allowed to increase the dose and use 3 caps of "Fertimix".
3. Water the flower pots twice a month.

Such home care will provide hyacinths with adequate nutrition, improve their growth and flowering.

How to prevent flower disease

In order for hyacinth to be resistant to various diseases, you need to be careful about the choice of planting material and be sure to check that there are no traces of rot on it. For the prevention of fungal diseases, planting in the ground should not be carried out without preliminary treatment of the tubers with fungicides. You can use the liquid remedy "Doctor Foley".

The main reason for the appearance of yellow leaves and the slow development of the plant at home is considered to be improper care. Be careful when watering the hyacinth. Water should not get on the bulb and leaves of the flower. Otherwise, tuber rot may begin. Pour water near the edge of the pot, gently saturating the soil.

How to care after flowering?

When the lush buds droop, they should be cut with a sharp knife and discarded. Continue to feed the hyacinth itself and provide it with proper care. Do this until the leaves wither. Then remove the tuber from the pot, remove the dry shoots and dry the bulb well. It is no longer possible to plant it indoors. After the "distillation", the plant is very exhausted and will not withstand the repeated procedure.

Plant it in the garden in the fall. In the open field, the hyacinth will recover and will be covered with flowers again next year.

Due to the beauty and amazing tenderness of hyacinths, their cultivation is popular in many countries. In the spring, people are happy to take care of flowers in the flower beds, and in the fall they begin “forcing” at home in order to decorate their homes with bright summer colors in winter.