Gladiolus - one of the beautiful flowers from the genus of tuberous plants. Gladiolus are grown with the help of bulbs, they are annually excavated, and then stored. From the proper harvesting and from how you prepared for the storage of the bulb, the safety of the tubers of the gladiolus bulbs depends.
Storage of gladiolus bulbs
For this you need
- Cardboard and wooden boxes;
- Scissors or sharp knife;
- Plywood or wood flooring;
- Forks or shovel.
After 30 days, after the gladiolus ottsvet, in dry weather digs bulbs. Each variety of gladiolus is removed at different times, so the flowering periods will be different. Early varieties bloom 60 days earlier than late varieties, so harvest tuber bulbs must be made after they have faded. If you produce a massive cut of flowers, then in a month you need to dig up the bulbs. During this period, bulb bulbs fully ripen in any variety.
The dark colors of gladioli - purple, blood red, purple, burgundy, cherry, tuber bulbs ripen a week earlier after the flowering period or after mass cutting is over. Their cleaning should be done in 23 days, and not in a month, if they are restrained in the ground, this will lead to decay and fungal lesions. Such planting material will be much worse. The tubers of bulbs that have grown from planted buds on tubers are scooped out last.
Bulbs are excavated with a shovel or pitchforks. With the tubers you need to shake the soil. Remove all rotten and damaged material. Expand the bulbs on plywood or plank flooring. With scissors or a sharp knife, cut off the stems, leave 2 cm, trim the roots, separate the old corms, because the gladiolus was already growing from it. If it can not be immediately separated, then all the material should be put in one layer under the canopy, and the removal should be repeated after 15 days.
In the running water, rinse all the material, disinfect in a solution of chlorophos, add 10 grams of water to 20 grams of chlorophos or in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Then spread the tubers to dry under a canopy for 15 days, then bring all tuber bulbs into the heated room. If the weather is wet or frost has begun, then drying should be done indoors.
Sort by sorts of tubers of gladiolus bulbs, fold them into cardboard boxes or wooden boxes. Store them in a dark and dry room at a temperature of 5 degrees to 7 degrees. During the winter, inspect the material and remove the spoiled and rotted bulbs.
If you buy a planting material in the store, you need to pay attention to the size of the bulb. A very large bulb can be either old or, if the diameter of the donut is larger than a coin in one penny, then from the bulb you can get the tops, or this overfed bulb. These bulbs grow poorly and are almost always sick. Of course, you need to pay attention to its appearance, so it is free of stains and damage, not very flat, and harmonious. The bulge of the bulb speaks of defeat by a wireworm or of a venerable age.
The best is a bulb grown from a baby, not yet flowering, a bulb of the 1st parsing, 4 cm in size. This bulb will give the children, it will bloom well, and the flowering period will be 6 years. A larger bulb of the 2nd bloom will give many children and magnificent flowers, but the lifespan of such a bulb is one year less. The best is the planting material, which grew on a site of children, they have protective properties from the disease and the stock of vital forces is higher than that of bulbs. In addition, it is to this soil that they adapt best.