Many gardeners and fans of house flowers, quite deservedly like the crocuses known and under the name saffron. This plant pleases in the great colors not only in the spring, but also in the fall. In spite of the fact that crocuses are perennial plants and well transfer frosts, care for them and timely change are the key to the fact that your flower bed will inspire you many years.
Instruction
1. Some gardeners recommend to replace crocuses approximately once in five years, especially if there is conversation about garden cultivation. But quite often these flowers are grown up by hostesses and in pots in house conditions, and here it is important to create the conditions as close as possible to the environment of dwelling of plant. The crocus is plant bulbous, at the same time from big bulb children who it is necessary to transplant in due time gemmate every year, otherwise they begin to interfere with each other.
2. You should not be frightened if suddenly you have found out that you are in full swing summer when other plants please with greens and color, crocuses suddenly begin to wither. As each bulbous look at them has dormant period. At crocus it comes approximately in the middle of the summer. In this condition of bulb it is possible to dig out, make survey, to get rid of damaged. After that bulbs clean, dry within 5-7 days and place on storage in the dry and cool place.
3. Before jumping it is important to pave the way correctly. For the good growth and blossoming it is necessary to plant bulbs in friable and fertile soil. The rerotting manure, but not fresh well is suitable for fertilizer!
4. It is not less important to pay attention and to drainage, for this purpose it is possible to add coarse sand or fine gravel to the soil.
5. If you want the crocus to have pleased you with blossoming in winter time, for example for New Year's holidays, then bulbs it is necessary to land to the soil approximately in the middle of September. At the same time pay attention to that they did not concern each other in pot. It is reasonable to land in one pot of bulb of one size that they have blossomed all together. In case of landing of crocuses to the open soil, vesennetsvetushchy plants land in September, and osennetsvetushchy – at the beginning middle of July.
6. Crocuses perfectly grow and blossom on well lit sites therefore it is important to land them on open, unshaded places. On average time from disembarkation before blossoming in house conditions takes 3.5 months.
7. When for house cultivation bulbs of plants from the open soil are used, it is necessary to sustain certain temperature cycle of storage and disembarkation. For this purpose during the first seven days after excavation of bulb maintain at temperature up to +30 °C, then for two weeks at +20 °C. After that temperature goes down to +15 °C, and in several days of bulb put in the fridge. Further disembarkation to the soil depends already on in what time you want to see at yourself at window the blossoming crocus. From disembarkation before blossoming there pass about 3.5 months.