Tulips after flowering - what to do?

As soon as the tulips were bombarded, the question is born that they need to do with them. So that the flowering is not limited to one season, let's figure it out with the order of actions with the swarm tulips.

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What to do with tulips after flowering?

After the tulips finished flowering, they also require attention. In order for tulips to please you with colorful bloom next season, you need to stick to certain actions, namely:

abundant watering after flowering;
feeding;
digging bulbs;
proper storage.

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Tulips after flowering - watering and feeding

Tulips were blowing, petals crumbled, but this does not mean that the flower does not require special action. It is necessary to create favorable conditions for the formation of a good bulb for the next year.

First, after the petals dried and creepy needed to cut the floweros. If at this moment to cut the entire ground part of the tulip, then the bulb will not be formed to flowering next season. It is necessary to wait for the leaves on their own yield and dried - this will be a signal that the bulb has ripened. If not to cut the flower, then the bulb will give nutrients to the aging of the seeds, and the bulb will exhale.
Secondly, tulips are needed abundant watering a few weeks after a cut of tulips heads. It is also necessary to loosen the soil and remove weeds.
Thirdly, the sworded tulips must be filled with phosphorus-potash fertilizer. Do not apply nitrogen and chlorine feeders.

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Tulips after flowering - digging bulbs

After the leaves of tulips completely yellow, dig bulbs from the soil, adhering to the basic recommendations:

dig up the bulbs preferably in a sunny, warm day, so that they can dry in the sun;
wire a shovel carefully, not to damage the bulbs and the roots of tulips;
after you dig bulbs, carefully inspect them. Rotten and non-sprouted bulbs throw off;
in rainy weather, the bulbs are rinsed and dried well;
dug-off bulbs cleanse from stems, surface scales, land;
if you notice that the bulb is amazed by fungus, it must be treated with fungicide;
tulips bulbs can not dig for several seasons.

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Tulips after flowering - bulbs storage

In a trace of how dug-off on the bulbs of tulips dried, go to their sorting. Sorted bulbs fold into mesh boxes in 1-2 layers. This is necessary so that the bulbs do not start. For the proper development of bulbs, it is necessary to observe the temperature regime of storage:

in July at 24-26 degrees;
in August at 20 degrees;
in September at 17 degrees;
in the consequent months before disembarking, gradually lower the temperature to 12-15 degrees.

Compliance with the necessary temperature during storage is very important, because at this time the processes of the formation of kidneys occur, laying leaves, flower. Also periodically browse the bulbs and throw away missing. Keep the bulbs in the cellar, basement, storage room.

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Tulips after flowering - Useful tips

To multiply the grade of the tulip, as well as for growing a large bulb, it is necessary to cut off the flowering head for the cultivation of a large onion. This will contribute to the buildup of the mass of the bulbs.
Shooting petals, yellowed leaves need to be removed from the bed so that they do not start.
Sit tulips into special containers or plastic baskets, it will greatly make it easier to care for them. You can dig up the tanks with the sworded tulips and rearranged into a secluded place to aging bulbs.
In order to understand the bulbs or not, dig one and carefully inspect it. If brown spots on the scales appeared on the bulb, then the bulb was ripe.