Flowering gladioluses do not leave a single person indifferent. High blooms with two or three dozens of individual colors, which are revealed gradually, please the eyes for a month. Gladiolus and their incredible coloring, and a form of flowers, and a thin unobtrusive aroma. Why often do amateur gardeners do not sit these exquisite flowers in their flowers? And all because gladiolus are those flowers that, after flowering, you must first dig up tubers, and then create certain conditions to them so that they are preserved until spring. It is this troublesome storage and scare away people from growing a beautiful flower.
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So that the gladioluses are preserved before disembarking them into the ground, the first thing they need to dig up in time. You can do it in dry warm weather and a month after their fruit. Dug-in bulbs spread on wooden sheets and send to a dryly shaded place to dry out. After a couple of days, cut the stems of the gladiolus, leaving 2-3 cm near the base of the bulbs. After trimming, leave the gladiolus for the complete drying of them for another month. The temperature for their drying should be room. To the bulbs do not dry, do not delete the upper shell with them.
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Fully dried bulbs prepare for winter storage. To do this, lower them for half an hour in a weak mortar of manganese, then blocked the cloth and dry out again. Experienced flowers advise on the bulbs also to paraffinate. To do this, each dry bulb take the tweezers for the left tail and lower it for a couple of seconds in the melted paraffin. After paraffin, lower the bulb in cold water so that a solid paraffin shell formed on it. Prepared gladiolus can be stored in several ways: in the earthen trench in the country, in the basement of the house, in the cool place of the apartment, in the refrigerator.
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If you are in the area loose earth and there is no high ground water, then lay the bulbs are deposited in the trench. Dig its depth of 80 cm and width 70 cm. At the bottom of the trench set long wooden box and arrange it in the bulbs in a single row. Top pour five-cm layer of dry sawdust and ground level nestle boxes dry leaves. On the leaves lay a polyethylene film which is to land prishpilte metal straps. On the film lay another layer of leaves and flatten them with something solid.
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In the basement of gladioli bulbs can be stored, if next to them are to be vegetables. The latter will weep, and bulbs are moldy. The ideal temperature in the cellar storage gladioli - +4 to +7, and humidity - 65-80%. The bulbs basement place, putting them in a box with holes for ventilation.
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The apartment storing bulbs or on the balcony, or in a cold storage room. To do this, place them in a container with dry sand, and the container put on the wooden pallet. Nearby lay a thermometer and a daily look at his testimony. If it's a strong frost is expected and there is a possibility of freezing of bulbs (not a loggia insulated), at this time, further nestle old container with a warm blanket.
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The ideal place to store gladioli is a household refrigerator. Each bulb wrap in newspaper and put them all together in a plastic bag. Top bag tie, and on the sides make a few holes for ventilation. Put the package with bulbs on the bottom shelf, but not in the container for vegetables. There gladiolus will miss the air, and on the shelf and the temperature is optimal, and humidity - normal.
In the spring bulbs of gladiolus, which are stored in a warmer place than is recommended, a few lose weight - shrivel. Then, before planting them in the ground to soak in an aqueous solution of growth stimulants. When winter storage some bulbs may begin to grow roots or green arrow. This means that the temperature is too high for them - move them to a cooler place.
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