Tulips are flowers of surprising beauty who want to admire all year. Especially their bright and fragrant buds are not enough in the winter. To compensate it, many grow up in cold season house tulips in normal pots.
Tulips belong to family of lily family. Such plants are perennial. They strike with the beauty and special aroma. At the same time it is optional to wait for spring to begin to admire tulips, it is possible to grow up them directly at home in the winter. Such process can be begun with the onset of cold weather at once.
Landing of tulips of the house
First of all for tulips it is necessary to prepare pots. They should not be too small, especially if it is going to put on several bulbs at once. It is better to choose pots of mean value. Do not use high and deep tanks, so in it there is no sense – tulips possess small root system.
At the next stage the way is paved. For landing of bulbs of tulips pure peat or mixed with small amount of sand can act as soil. Also perlite or the garden earth can be used. In addition, it will be required to add 1 part of compost to pot or manure and small amount of wood ashes. All these components carefully mix up and are a little humidified.
Now it is possible to pass to planting of bulbs. They have to on 1/3 act over the soil. It is necessary to plant bulbs at small distance from each other – about 1 cm. Then they it is abundant pour down. Here it is better to use special solution that tulips have as soon as possible begun to grow actively. Take on 5 liters of water 10 grams 0.2% of calcic saltpeter. In case after watering it is noticed that the soil has strongly sunk, then it needs to be filled up in small amount that bulbs on 2/3 were in the earth. Then pots need to be taken out to basement or other room where air temperature is no more than 10 wasps. When bulbs sprout 5 cm high, they will need to be exposed on windowsills that they have begun to receive sunlight.
Care for house tulips
In order that as much as possible buds were dismissed in the winter, it is necessary to look after with special attentiveness them. It is important to water tulips several times a week and not to assume that the soil became dry. Two times a month are made fertilizing of plants. Here it is necessary to use special structures which are on sale in flower shops. They get divorced according to the instruction. When buds blossom, watch that they have not begun to wither ahead of time. For this purpose it is necessary to rearrange pots to that place where strong streams of hot air are not observed, that is they should not blossom near batteries or heaters.