When transplanting tulips into open ground take into account the characteristics of the local climate and soil. Experienced gardeners claim that the most the right time for this - the autumn period. If you plant the bulbs in the spring, they will not ripen. Therefore, replanting is carried out in the fall - in October. For flowering to occur, the bulb bud must be ripe. But many still take risks and plant these flowers in the spring. You can use the bulbs of plants that were not planted in the fall for forcing (long and proper storage). After the tulips fade, the bulbs are dug up and sent to a box for preservation. With proper preparation and care of the tubers, the finished planting material is planted in open ground in the spring.
How to prepare the bulbs?
In the wild, tulips bloom in early spring, and when the heat comes, the flower fades. All its vitality is concentrated in the bulb, so the plant goes deeper into the ground so that when the autumn coolness comes, it will release new roots. With the onset of spring, new flowers will grow from them. The tulip bulb vitally needs cold weather in order to accumulate useful components, thanks to which the plant grows and blooms.
Gardeners who decide to plant tulips in the spring should consider the following factors:
- 1. Before planting, strengthen the tuber’s immune forces. This can be done by placing a box of flower bulbs at the bottom of the refrigerator, where the temperature is kept within 4 degrees above zero.
- 2. Protect from diseases and pests. It is recommended to put the bulbs in a weak manganese solution for thirty minutes.
- 3. Produce thorough examination for damage to the top cover. Reject those spoiled by fungus and sores, otherwise the bulbs will produce weakly growing tulips.
- 4. Dry at room temperature.
For pest control and disinfection, celandine purchased at a pharmacy is suitable. By soaking the tubers for half an hour in a weak warm solution, you can get results no worse than after manganese baths.
Bulbs should be stored at a temperature of 19-23 degrees and 70% humidity in a dry and ventilated room, in a vegetable box or flower pot. It is important to ensure that the temperature does not rise, otherwise the flower bud will die. If drying planting material is done outdoors, you need to pay attention so that it is not exposed to sunlight. Having received sunburn, the tulip bulb will die.
In order for the transplantation of tulips to go well in the spring, in the fall they should be placed in a box half filled with high-quality soil and stored in a cool place, close to a temperature of 4 degrees. By the time it's time to plant, the bulbs will have sprouts.
Rules for transplanting flowers
In the garden, without replanting, tulips grow for no more than 3-4 years. Next, the plants are replanted, separating the children from the mother bulbs. Children are planted separately from adult flowers, since grown specimens will bloom in the spring, but children will not. They must be laid out carefully so as not to damage the roots. Tulips need to renew the soil on the site every year and remove unhealthy and damaged flowers.
If the flowers stop growing or changes occur to the buds (they fall off, the petals become irregular shape), this means that the soil is not suitable for the plant, it is damaged by pests and becomes sick. In this case, an urgent transplant is carried out to a new place, making sure to wait until the end of the growing season. Typically, tulips are transplanted from one place to another after flowering, in the summer months. At the end of June - beginning of July, when the leaves and scales of the bulb turn yellow, they begin to dig up the plants. If you skip this period, the tuber will begin to take root. Then it’s better not to disturb it, especially if you want to grow a flower from it.
If you plant tubers in open ground without making pre-planting preparations, they will bloom 14 days later. In order to plant tulips in the spring, they are dug up along with the soil. This way the tubers will be stored in their native soil. In the spring they are transferred to a previously prepared bed.
The bulbs are planted in fertilized soil when its temperature at a 9-centimeter depth reaches 10-12 degrees. In this case, the planting materials will take root faster. If the temperature is higher or lower, the root system will not develop properly and will produce weak flowers. On a dry, sunny day, dig a small hole and plant planting material to a depth of three tubers (25 cm). There should be a distance between them the width of two onions. This will give the flowers enough space to grow well. It is allowed to plant up to 10 tubers in one hole.
Soil preparation
Once the soil has thawed, you can begin preparing for planting. First, they cultivate the ground by digging it up to the level of the spade bayonet (25 cm). The best soil Loam enriched with humus is considered to have a neutral index. If the soil contains a lot of clay, it is improved with coarse river sand, peat or manure. A little lime is added to peat to neutralize some of its properties.
If the land is not fertile enough, it must be fed with organic and mineral fertilizers:
- potassium sulfate;
- fertilizers containing nitrogen;
- with double superphosphate.
The soil is fertilized in early spring, before transplanting from one place to another, for example from a box into the ground.
Usually three feedings are made:
- when the first shoots appear;
- when the tulips are ready to bloom;
- at the end of flowering.
By following the rules of feeding, gardeners receive healthy flowers in spring time, in which the tubers remain healthy.
Planting care
Caring for tulip bulbs after flowering is carried out in compliance with certain rules. They apply to all varieties planted in open ground in spring:
- 1. Check to see if all the bulbs have sprouted and remove the defective ones.
- 2. Dig up plants with signs of disease so that the infection does not spread to other flowers.
- 3. Water the flowerbed, not allowing the soil to dry out. Immediately after watering, loosen the soil.
- 4. Near small seedlings, carefully loosen the soil to reduce moisture loss and give oxygen access to the root system.
- 5. Use nitrogen-containing fertilizers during the first feeding. Thanks to them, the tulip grows quickly and strong leaves are formed. Gardeners recommend using Crystallin with the addition of essential microelements and nitroammophosphate.
When buds form, blooming tulips are fertilized a second time. The second feeding is considered optional, but it strengthens the flowering plant and the petals last longer.
Tulips reproduce from bulbs. When transplanting tulips, it is recommended to protect the bulbs from getting wet. Therefore, for planting, choose bright places and dry soil, which may be rocky; this will not affect flowering in the future. Flowers should be planted in a sunny place, protected from the wind.
Tulips need replanting. How and when to replant tulips?
To do this, you should study the following questions:
When to replant tulips so that the buds look lush and beautiful;
What kind of soil should there be for replanting?
How should plants be treated?
When to dig and how to store bulbs;
What kind of nutrition is required?
Planting tulips
Tulips are planted in the fall before the first frost, until the ground freezes. Bulbs are also planted in winter, having previously been prepared before planting. To do this, dried tulips for replanting are placed on frozen ground and covered with purchased, good soil on top. If there is snow on the soil at this time, it should be removed by preparing the planting site.
Flowers require obligatory planting once a year, as otherwise they lose their beauty and stop growing, being on the same soil all the time. If tulips are not planted, the bulbs begin to produce babies, which has a bad effect on flowering. Flowers become small and ugly. After flowering ends, with the appearance of yellow stems and leaves, the tulip bulbs are dug up.
The bulbs are subjected to special preparation, observing the following stages:
Digging up bulbs;
Drying;
Selection of healthy bulbs;
Storage and basic drying;
Soil preparation;
Disembarkation.
Digging up tulips
In order to avoid transplanting germinated tulips, flowers are dug up in spring or summer. Timely digging saves from pests and fungal diseases that render the bulb unusable. This is also done to prevent the bulb from becoming damp and multiplying.
As they multiply, the flower heads become smaller and wild. Therefore, it is important to know and observe the timing of transplantation. Dig up the bulb before it has time to dry. In order for it to receive nutrition, the flower stem is cut off after the flower head has bloomed. At the same time, it is cut off at the root, and a month later the bulb is dug up.
Digging is carried out in dry weather, carefully to avoid damage, which in the future can provoke the development of bacteria.
In case of poor soil, damaged bulbs, or when pests are detected, tulips require urgent replanting in order to save them.
Storage and drying
Tulips are divided into varieties. Then the boxes are prepared and the bulbs are laid out so that they dry. The boxes are placed in a warm, dark, ventilated room, away from the sun, to protect the flowers from burns.
Choosing Healthy Bulbs
After several days, the bulbs are cleaned of dirty husks. The overgrown bulbs are separated. Large and small onions should be separated into separate boxes. This will help with transplantation. Large bulbs will produce large and lush flowers, but small bulbs will most likely not produce anything.
How to choose bulbs when purchasing?
The bulb must have:
Smooth surface with even scales;
Size no more than ten centimeters;
Dense peel;
Light red color;
Dense bottom of the bulb;
No mold.
Basic drying
After the first drying, the bulbs are taken to a colder room. Before this, the bulbs should be sorted again, discarding those that are unsuitable. The main thing when drying is that the sun does not enter the room and that it is well ventilated.
While drying, the bulbs should be constantly inspected in order to remove areas of rotting in a timely manner. Following this order will keep the bulbs healthy and allow beautiful buds to bloom in the summer.
Land preparation
In order for the flowers to grow beautiful, strong and lush, you should know when and how to replant tulips. First you need to carefully prepare the soil or soil. The landing site should be sunny.
It is important to choose a windless place with good lighting. This will help save the roots from rotting and help the flowers develop well!
The soil should be dug up so that it allows air to pass through and is loose. Before placing the bulb in the ground, it is treated with antifungal drugs. This will protect against the development of flower diseases. It is best to dig up the ground with wood ash or phosphorus fertilizer. The best time for planting tulips is when the soil temperature drops to + 7-10°C. This usually happens at the end of September - beginning of October.
Soil fertilizers:
Mineral fertilizers with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium;
Complex fertilizers– yelled or s1;
Lime-ammonium nitrate;
Manure and humus.
Planting bulbs in the ground.
First of all, choose a site. Water should not sit idle on the ground - this will destroy the flowers. It is best if the flowerbed is located behind the building to protect it from strong winds and bad weather. Experienced gardeners replant tulips in the autumn season.
Tip: before planting flowers, dig up the soil a month in advance, this will enrich the soil with air and promote good flower growth!
The bulb is placed in the ground at a depth of 20 cm. To transplant tulips, use the largest bulbs, which are placed in the center, and smaller ones on the edge. This is done in order to big flower did not shade the small one. When planting bulbs, you should maintain a row and leave a distance of about ten centimeters between the bulbs.
Caring for plantings involves loosening the soil and weeding away weeds. This will ensure good growth and flowering, and will also help preserve the bulbs for subsequent years. In spring when correct landing, the first shoots will appear.
In order for flowers to look beautiful in single plantings, the following well-known varieties are used:
- Unicum;
- Fuselier;
- Little Princess;
- Ali Baba;
- Corona.
Advice! To ensure maximum flowering of tulips, different varieties are used. different types, from early to late varieties tulips. This will allow the flowerbed to always remain blooming.
After the first shoots, diseased and yellowed plants are dug up so that the disease cannot affect healthy ones. Fertilizing is done before the first shoots appear.
If the varieties are mixed up and the tulips grow in a chaotic order, replanting the blooming tulips is recommended only the next year, and during flowering, signs should be placed near the bulbs indicating the variety.
Each gardener himself determines based on his flowers whether to replant them every year or not. But in order for the buds to be full and beautiful, an annual transplant is desirable.
Application in landscape design
Thanks to the use of tulips in landscape design The results are very bright and colorful compositions, in the composition of which the tulip always plays a central role, and all attention should be paid to it.
Various tulips are used. By flowering time - early and late. According to the shape and characteristics of the flower:
Liliaceae;
Fringed;
Terry;
Darwinian hybrids;
Green-flowered;
Parrots;
Simple;
Wild;
Low-growing, etc.
Most often, flowers are planted in ascending order so that the early, spring varieties bloom first, and then the late-blooming ones. For a beautiful composition, flowers are planted in green areas as a carpet or in small flower beds. The flower is selected to be of the same height and placed in small groups. The distances between the rows are filled with other small flowers that match the color.
Tulips are most often used for ceremonial decorations, where it is important to highlight the beauty of significant places.
Tulips are the most sought after flowers among gardeners.
They are bulbous plants that require regular replanting. Timely and correct flower transplantation can ensure the preservation of rare plant varieties.
When should you replant?
The period for replanting tulips depends on the climatic characteristics of the areas where the plants grow. The main condition for planting tubers in the soil is a soil temperature of 10°C. Planting material is dug out and prepared 2 months before planting in the soil. In this case, digging up tubers should be carried out in favorable weather, which should be windy and dry.
The procedure must begin when the plant goes through certain life cycles:
- end of flowering;
- yellowing of the bulb;
- lack of rooting of the bulb.
After flowering ends, tulips begin a dormant period. In this state, it is not recommended to water the plant being prepared for transplantation. By the time the procedure is carried out, the leaves should turn yellow and the stems should dry out a little.
If you miss the deadline, the bulb begins to take new roots, preparing for the next flowering cycle, which significantly weakens the planting material, worsening its progeny characteristics.
Tulips are unpretentious flowers, which do not require special care, which consists of annual transplantation for the purpose of:
- separating the “babies” that have grown on them from the bulbs;
- calibration of planting material;
- selection of diseased tubers to prevent infection of all plants;
- changing the place where flowers grow;
- soil fertilizers.
Deadlines
It is recommended to dig up tubers during the period when the plant finishes flowering and the leaves and stem turn yellow. There are many varieties of tulips that differ from each other appearance flower and flowering time. Early varieties They bloom already at the end of April, so preparations for the next season in the form of digging up tubers can begin at the end of May. Tulip bulbs of mid-early varieties are dug up in June, and late ones - in early July.
The timing of planting bulbs in the ground depends on weather conditions and the area where the flower grows.
Some gardeners practice replanting in early spring. However, in this case you should not hope for flowering this season.
Also, if necessary, you can replant the tulip during the active flowering phase. In this case, it will not be possible to preserve the buds and flowers.
How to replant?
Bulb disinfection After digging up the tubers, you must:
- disinfection in a solution of potassium permanganate, prepared at the rate of 1 gram of the drug per 10 liters of water;
- drying in a well-ventilated place in the absence of direct sunlight;
- cleaning from soil, roots and scales;
- sorting according to variety and size;
- ensuring storage in a room with air humidity levels corresponding to 70% and a temperature of 24°C.
To get abundant flowering next year, you must:
- Select a landing site, the main requirement for which is the absence of flooding of the area in early spring after the snow melts. If it is impossible to allocate such an area for tulips, it is recommended to raise the bed a little by adding soil to it.
- Prepare the soil by adding fertilizers. Pre-planting soil fertilization involves adding fertilizing components to it:
- humus;
- chopped grass;
- ash, in case of acidic soil.
After preparing the planting site, fertilizing the soil and reducing the soil temperature to 10°C, you should immediately begin planting tubers of the ornamental crop:
- Make grooves with a depth of 2 times the height of the tuber.
- Place the tubers in the grooves.
- Sprinkle them with a small amount of soil.
- Cover the bed with dry grass or fallen leaves to protect the planting material from severe frosts.
It should be borne in mind that small bulbs are planted first, and it is recommended to deal with large tubers only after a week. With good soil fertilization, you can plant tulips for several years in the same place.
Step-by-step instruction
The process of caring for tulips consists of annual procedures:
- digging up bulbs;
- calibration of planting material in accordance with its size;
- rejection of diseased and weak tubers;
- disinfection works;
- drying tubers;
- storage of planting material in appropriate conditions;
- if necessary, selecting a new landing site;
- applying fertilizers to the soil;
- waiting for weather conditions that are favorable for planting;
- planting tubers;
- covering them with insulating material in order to protect the planting material from frost.
Care after transplant
After autumn planting, the first shoots will appear after the snow melts, in late March or early April, depending on the climatic conditions of the region.
After the sprouts appear, you should follow certain rules for optimal growing of the plant, ensuring its long-term flowering with bright and beautiful flowers:
Is it possible to replant blooming tulips?
Situations often arise when there is an urgent need to replant an already flowering plant. For example, when forming a new bed or when changing the garden design layout.
Tulips in the flowering phase can be replanted with a high probability of survival, but the flower itself cannot be preserved.
When transplanting a flowering plant, you need to dig it up with a clod of earth. For a successful event, the following rules must be observed:
- Cut the flower in advance, leaving the stem with 2 lower leaves.
- you should dig up the plant with a bayonet shovel along with a lump of earth, trying to minimally disturb the root and tuberous system of the flower.
Transplanting tulips during their flowering period has the huge advantage of being able to decorate your home with beautiful floral elements.
Few flower beds or gardens are complete without bright, beautiful and fragrant tulips. Our gardeners are already accustomed to the fact that these unpretentious plants They delight with their flowering even with minimal care. But, in some cases, tulips need to be replanted. Next we will talk about when to transplant them to another place in the summer, autumn, spring.
When can you replant tulips?
It is quite difficult to name the exact timing of transplanting tulips. Often, such subtleties depend to a large extent on the characteristics of the plant variety itself. But there is still an optimal time period when the plant will take root in the ground in the best way - this is autumn (from the first ten days of September to the first ten days of October).
A plant planted during this period of time will have time to take root quite firmly in the ground, prepare properly for wintering and will promptly enter the flowering phase.
But, unfortunately, autumn replanting is not always possible. Many people are interested in the question: is it possible to replant tulips in the spring? Gardeners give a rather twofold answer to this question. I guess, yes. But you should act with extreme caution and handle the bulbs with extreme caution.
Attention! When transplanting tulips in spring, you should not wait for the plant to bloom on time. In addition, with a greater degree of probability we can say that the plant may not grow so beautiful and bloom wildly. But with the right approach, the result will be positive.
It is worth noting that spring planting will best be tolerated by those tulips that “survived” the winter in special containers. In this way, the transplant can be carried out as efficiently as possible, practically eliminating the possibility of damage to the flower bulbs.
In what cases is transplantation possible?
To understand the advisability of transplanting tulips, you first need to find out in what cases it is generally worth carrying out such a procedure, because this plant can quite easily “live” in one place for up to 4 years.
Tulips need to be replanted at least once every four years.
So, the first and quite logical reason for replanting a tulip may be its long period of stay in one place (longer than 4 years). The second reason for replanting (and urgently) may be the absence or insufficient flowering of the plant or the deformation of its flower petals. Such “symptoms” indicate that the plant is being damaged by pests or that the soil is not quite suitable for the tulip.
Subtleties of the flower transplantation process
As mentioned earlier, replanting a tulip is possible over several periods. More on this later.
Spring planting
Transplanting in the spring, of course, is not the most desirable, but when there is no way out or the circumstances are so, it is important to know how to do it correctly. So, first you need to select the most beautiful and healthy bulbs and plant them in a container with prepared soil. Choose the container very carefully: its depth should not exceed 15 cm. It is better to carry out the transplantation process by the end of April.
You can replant tulips in the spring
When planting bulbs, try to maintain a minimum distance of 3 cm between them. After planting, be sure to sprinkle them with a few centimeters of soil and water them carefully. When the first shoots appear, you can plant the plant in open ground.
Advice. If the tulips have already begun to bloom, it is not advisable to replant them, since many varietal plants react quite sharply to this process. If the circumstances are this way, then try to act as carefully as possible: dig up each flower with a large lump of earth, carefully move it to a new place. Fill the holes with soil without compacting it. Water lightly.
Autumn planting
As for autumn planting, as mentioned earlier, this is the most gentle option for tulips. So, start replanting approximately by mid-July. At this point, the scales on the bulbs will turn brownish. Try not to be late, otherwise the plant will begin to take root, and then the replanting process will become much more difficult. Leave the dug up bulbs to dry either fresh air, or in a well-ventilated area.
Tulip bulbs
At the beginning of autumn, dry bulbs must be thoroughly cleaned of husks and dry stems, kept in weak potassium permanganate to protect them from pests and diseases, dried and planted in the ground.
Remember, the area for transplantation should be virtually windless and sufficiently lit. The soil must be fertilized on the eve of planting.
That, in principle, is all you need to know about the intricacies of transplanting tulips to a new place. Good luck!
How to plant tulips correctly: video
Representative of the Lily family, perennial– tulip – has won a special place in the hearts of gardeners. This is a very neat flower that reaches a height of no more than 10-12 centimeters. Root system- These are bulbous appendages that are constantly renewed. Side shoots grow from the bulbs, forming daughter bulbs. The color of tulips can vary from delicate, pastel shades to rich ones. The absolute peak of the breeders' creation is the royal, black tulip.
Features of caring for tulips before and after flowering
The rules for caring for tulips throughout their development are very simple. Feeding is necessary only during the growing season - at the peak of development. Fertilizers are applied only three times, taking into account the required period of time. The state of development and external beauty of tulips directly depend on feeding. For example, if nitrogen components there is enough soil in the soil mixture, the tulips will be straight, but they will begin to bend, literally, immediately in their absence. Changes in leaves, such as turning blue, indicate lack of phosphorus, and other problems – potassium.
Every spring, the necessary procedure for renewing the bulbs is carried out, removing faded or rotten parts and treating them with potassium permanganate. The location of the tulips also speaks volumes, so if the tulips were transplanted or stored, in the spring you need to choose a place that would be protected from direct sunlight. Pruning tulips should not be comprehensive - you need to leave at least 3-4 leaves so that the bulbs can receive nutrition.
Tulips are usually replanted in order to overcome the degeneration of the crop, although the risk of their appearance still remains. Tulips of 13-15 classes grow quietly in one area without transplantation for about 4 years, but they also need to be moved to a new one suitable for further development, place.
You can replant tulips after flowering only when the leaves have completely faded. Cut them off ahead of schedule This is not possible, since the bulb accumulates nutrients in preparation for the new growing season. It is permissible to transplant the bulbs after 2 weeks - a month of flowering.
A good, nutritious site with a suitable history is selected for transplantation, that is, the predecessors must be suitable for further growing of tulips. Planting is carried out according to the following scheme: 30 cm between bulbs and 15 between children. Before deepening the tulip bulbs into it, each groove is treated with a warm solution of potassium permanganate. If the soil on the site is prone to cracking, which can negatively affect the bulbs in it, you need to mulch it with peat, and only then plant the bulbs.
Only the healthiest, unspoiled, unrotten bulbs that are suitable for planting will help preserve the variety from degeneration. Because the soil has been moistened and watered, the tulip bulbs do not need to be watered immediately after transplanting. After about 3-5 days, you can gradually introduce the usual care for them, and after 2 weeks - the first feeding.
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