Freesias belong to klubnelukovichny cultures from family of iris family. Their homeland South Africa, therefore flowers very exacting to heat and abundance of moisture. Very seldom blossom in midland of Russia in the open ground and are most often used for landing in greenhouses and on windowsills, but if to provide the correct agrotechnology of cultivation, it is possible to receive the blossoming bed and in midland.
It is required to you
- - seeds;
- - bulbous tubers;
- - complex mineral fertilizers;
- - lane or rods;
- - twine.
Instruction
1. Flowers of freesia have various color and saturated landyshevy aroma. Are supplied to the flower markets of all countries from Holland. It is possible to grow up freesias from seeds that is suitable for hothouse or house blossoming and from the bulbous tubers which are widely used in the discovered and protected soil more.
2. From seeds pave the easy trained way in boxes for cultivation, make grooves on depth of 2 cm and seed seeds at distance of 2 cm. As soon as there are 3 real leaves, plant raspikiruyta. If you seed flowers in March, then the first blossoming will begin in October, that is from the period of shoots to first flowers there pass not less than 180-200 days. Therefore dive seedling in flowerpots or replace in the heated greenhouse. The distance between flowers has to be 10-15 cm.
3. Leaving consists in weeding of weeds, watering, garter and fertilizing. You make watering, without waiting when the soil completely dries up, but at the same time excessive watering will lead to the fact that all tops will dry up and plants will get sick. Therefore you carry out moderate waterings.
4. Two times till the period of blossoming carry out fertilizing of flowers by complex mineral fertilizers. Tie up all flowers to lane as soon as they begin to bend.
5. For landing in the discovered or protected soil use bulbous material. You make landing to the open ground in May as soon as the soil gets warm up to 18 degrees. In the protected soil and under film shelters plant bulbs for 20 days earlier.
6. One week prior to landing get bulbs, examine them, remove begun to rot, leave at the room temperature. Before landing wet for 20 minutes in weak solution of potassium permanganate, pollinate wood ashes and at once land in well cultivated soil on the most solar site protected from wind.
7. Plant bulbs on depth of 5 cm of Distance between them do 10-15 cm.
8. Leaving, also as well as in the first case, consists in weeding and watering. Do not forget that freesias grow up, having tied to lane or rod. As flowers form high escapes and can fall.
9. At such way of cultivation the bed will blossom at the end of August, the beginning of September.