How to prepare gladiolus?

Preparation of gladiolus bulbs to the spring landing from in an open ground or a container should begin with their competent storage in winter. And if the bulbs well moved the rest period in an apartment or another appropriate place, then a month before their landing, you can begin to prepare the bulbs.

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Right Winter Storage Gladiolus

Winter storage of gladiolus is a pledge of their good germination in the spring, abundant and long bloom and good resistance to the disease. How to keep the bulbs of the flaws of gladiolus at home - read our same name article..

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The optimal time to start the preparation of gladiolus to landing

Depending on the region, gladiolus must be obtained from the storage room or basement in the first days of April (for southern regions) or in the middle of this month (for more northern places).

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Preparation of gladiolus a month before they are planted

Immediately after gladioluses are taken out of their storage, they need to carry out such manipulations:

The bulbs of the same variety are separated by size: large, medium and small kids.
From each bulb neatly remove the dry skin. When you delete, watch not to damage the eyes, from which the leaves with floral arrows will begin to grow.
If there are damage in the form of scratches or a small mold on some bulbs, then clean these places with a sharp knife. Splashing places. Lubricate ordinary green.
Black, mummified (completely dried), with a large number of ulcers or other visible damage to the bulbs, throw away.
Large bulbs who have two eyes and they are both very large, you can cut into two parts along. Watch that each part of the bulb's eyes turned out to be intact. The place of the cut is densely pertinate with a powder made of extended tablets of activated carbon. The cutting of the bulbs into two parts will help get two full plants, which in the future can also be divided. Such a division will help very quickly breed, for example, a very rare variety, which gives a small number of children.
After all the bulbs are you clean, lubricate the greenstone wound and some divide into parts, put them in one layer in flat cardboard boxes. The bulbs put in such a way that the eyes watched smoothly. Do not put the bulbs on each other - sprouts from developing eyes will begin to grow to the parties.
Put boxes with bulbs in a light room, but not on the window. The straight sunshine will cause too rapidly developing eyes, and then their drying.

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Preparation of gladiolus for 1-2 for to disembodies

It is possible to start gladiolus to land after April 25, but if spring is very early. In the spring, the protracted gladioluses are planted in mid-May. Deciding from the date of landing, in a couple of days the bulbs need to be disinfected. To do this, you can use such verified means:

Ordinary manganese. Make a weakly pink solution and hold the bulbs in it for 15-20 minutes.
Salt. In one liter, dig two large spoons of salt and place the bulbs in the water for 5 minutes.
Shopping agent "Maxim". This is a fungicidal tool to drain strictly according to the instructions and treat them the bulbs by applying a special sprayer for liquids.

After any wet processing of the bulbs, spread to one layer on paper and let them dry completely.

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Right leaning prepared gladiolus

Prepared onions land on the bed or in the container.

The landing depth is no more than 10 cm. This layer of the soil is quite enough for the bulbs with well-developed sprouts receive their portion of heat from the sun.
The distance between the bulbs in the garden or container is 3-4 cm. With such a dense planting, the flower bed will look very colorful. With strong summer winds, gladioluses will rely on each other and will not break.
If some peaks of the eyes still began to grow to the side and the sprout curve increased from it, then the bulb must be planted sideways. With such a landing, the flowers will grow precisely as smooth as well-developed bulbs.
The land for the gladiolus landing should be sufficiently loose and fertile.
These flowers do not wear out water stagnation, so low areas for the device of flower beds are not suitable. With too wet plot, gladiolus is better to plant in large pots or containers.