Tips for preparation and storage of gladiolus help flower growers to enjoy your favorite plants for several years. harvest time depends on the varieties of flowers, and the method of content - the chosen storage location.
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Terms and cleaning process
Experts advise to extract the bulbs from the soil a month after flowering. The exact timing depends on the type of gladioli, but the overall period is the last month of autumn. Tubers reach the storage you need in a warm and dry weather. Cleaning and preparation for storage of bulbs is carried out before the onset of cold weather. The process is as follows:
- Excavation. They pulled out of the ground as the deadline for completion of flowering. At least gets the young plants that have not yet been primrose. The procedure is performed pitchfork or a shovel, after which the cleaned tubers from the ground.
- Sorting. All you need to head to check for rot and various injuries. From bad tubers should immediately get rid of.
- Drying. The remaining bulbs need to be expanded on a suitable piece of board or plywood at a certain distance from each other. Pre-need to cut the stem of the plant. Under the very foundation of it is not worth doing, it is necessary to leave 0,5-07 cm.
Drying is conducted until complete suberization layer. Check its availability can be achieved by pressing the edge of the tuber with the right thumb. If the department of the old corms young not damaged, the process can be considered complete and it is necessary to remove them for storage.
The content of the tubers in the winter
Shelter for bulbs chosen based on the plant variety and the climate. Florists recommend to store gladioli ways:
- In the trench. The method is suitable for those who have no severe frosts in winter and enough snow. Near the site should not have groundwater. Basic requirements for the trench: Depth - 80 cm width - 70 cm. Bulbs need to equip the vessel, pour them with wood shavings, the top cover first leaves, then wrap. Remove to a storage location before the cold weather.
- In the basement. The main conditions for the room: the presence of cold, dryness, ventilation. The air temperature must not rise above + 7 ° C, humidity - no more than 80%. Storage tanks is better to take with a mesh bottom.
- In the apartment. The main condition - the presence of the room in which the temperature does not exceed + 20 ° C. The small box must lay paper, pour it into charcoal or ash, in the lower container tubers such a way that they are not adjacent to each other.
- In fridge. Each tuber should be prepared to turn in any piece of paper. After that, all the bulbs are formed in a plastic bag, which punctured a few holes. Packages are stored on the shelf above the drawer for vegetables. Upon detection of a change of damp paper is held once in 14 days.
If the storage time on the tubers were pests, it is possible to get rid of them with water. It is necessary to take the container 2 and pour them into the liquid at different temperatures: at first it must be + 60 ° C, in the second - + 12 ° C. The bulbs must first dipped in hot water, then in cold. In each dish, they should be 10 minutes.
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