Gladioluses are well adapted for climate of our country, but that they have really grown, it is necessary to prepare them for landing correctly. For this purpose it is necessary to observe the instruction.
Instruction
1. You store planting stock at temperature of 4-10 degrees of heat until the end of March. If bulbous tubers were stored in due cool, then after landing they will ascend at the same time. At the end of March bring planting stock home. If it you store houses at temperature not higher than 2-8 degrees of heat, then shoots can be late up to July.
2. At the beginning of April it is necessary to clean bulbous tubers from the covering scales. Also look through each bulb and reject patients. If damage insignificant or the necessary grade is not enough, then it is possible to cut accurately damaged place and to grease with brilliant green. You put the cleaned bulbous tubers in boxes or other tanks, there you put labels with the indication of grade. You put boxes under diffused light. To landing time almost all bulbous tubers will have sprouts up to 5 cm long. If you want to increase resistance of gladiolus to fungus and to accelerate blossoming, before landing process bulbous tubers in medicines Fitosporin, Fundazol. Before application read the instruction.
3. Remember that old bulbous tubers should be rejuvenated constantly young planting stock - klubnepochka. This way is the main way of reproduction of gladiolus. If to choose large klubnepochka, then it is possible to receive the blossoming plant in the first year. Consider that some grades give only small klubnepochka.
4. Approximately in 2-7 days prior to landing, depending on their size, clean klubnepochka - large earlier, small later. You will be able to receive better planting stock if you select for landing those klubnepochka which by the size it is more and at which several root hillocks were formed. The more the klubnepochka has root hillocks, the is more hardy and the plant will more powerfully grow.
5. Start landing as soon as the soil allows. Terms of landing of gladioluses from year to year different, a lot of things depend on what spring - cold or warm. But anyway it is not desirable to be late with landing. If you live in Siberia, it is necessary to plant flowers during the period from May 5 to May 15 (be guided by weather patterns). Inhabitants of midland have to plant gladioluses from the middle or the end of April to the middle of May.