HYACINTH HOME CARE, PHOTO, PLANTING AND GROWING IN A POT

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Hyacinth (Hyacinthus) - a perennial flowering plant from the Asparagus family. In the natural environment it is found in Central and Asia Minor, in the South - East of Europe. The birthplace of hyacinth is the eastern zone of the Mediterranean. The flower blooms in the warm rainy season.

Light green glossy leaves of a bulbous plant form a surface rosette that beautifully sets off small bell-shaped flowers collected in a panicle inflorescence. Plant height - 35 - 45 cm.

Hyacinth is one of the first spring flowers widely grown in greenhouses in early spring. The plant is used for a single distillation at home. Here it grows at an average rate. Compact fragrant bush pleases with bright flowering for 2 weeks.

Also be sure to grow chlorophytum at home. One of the most important plants for the home.

	Growth rate is medium.
	Blooms 3 weeks.
	The plant is easy to grow.
	For distillation. It is better to transplant to the garden. After flowering, the bulb is not distilled.

Useful properties of hyacinth

Dried hyacinth petals are filled with sachets to flavor bedding. Things flavored in this way retain the smell of freshness and purity for a long time. Hyacinth is believed to emit strong energy, which propagates in a spiral from the roots to the upper tier of flowers. The plant improves the general condition and improves mood. But the smell can cause a headache, so it is not recommended to put the flower in the bedroom and children's room.

Hyacinth: home care. Briefly

When growing a flower, minor difficulties may arise. But hyacinth at home can be grown, knowing its preferences:

Temperature mode	+ 15 - 19 ° C.
Air humidity	When distillation is high.
Lighting	Bright indirect; windows facing west or east.
Watering	As the soil dries up, regular and abundant.
Hyacinth primer	Soil mix of equal parts of garden soil, humus, peat and sand; ready-made substrate for flowers.
Fertilizer and fertilizer	Diluted universal solution for flowering plants, used at the beginning of the growing season, budding phase and after flowering until the leaves turn yellow.
Hyacinth transplant	Need not.
Breeding	Children from the base of the bulb.
Growing Features	Hyacinth definitely needs a period of rest. After flowering, a wilted peduncle is cut, and then dried leaves are removed so that the plant does not waste energy on maintaining them. Plant juice can cause itching, redness, and even skin burns. When working with a flower, one must be careful.

Hyacinth care at home. In detail

It is not difficult to grow hyacinth in room conditions, only it is worth paying attention to all its preferences.

Hyacinth bloom

Hyacinth is one of the few plants whose flowering can be purposefully influenced and timed to the desired date. A flower does not resist such brutal violence by humans. A wise plant obediently obeys the instructions of the owner and blooms at the right time.

Wherein hyacinth bloom - a spectacle bright and beautiful. Each bulb produces an erect stem with several elongated green leaves, and its inflorescence is crowned by a loose spad consisting of many flowers, similar to tiny bells. Their color may be different.

Each hyacinth flower looks like a large bouquet consisting of small bells. If the inflorescence grows heavy, establish a support so that the flower can proudly hold its beautiful "head". The height of the fragrant fluffy creation is no more than 40 cm. Sometimes bulbs after forced house forcing are used for autumn planting in the garden. In this case, it will not only bloom again in spring, but will also present several children.

Temperature mode

The hyacinth plant at home is optimally kept at + 15 - 19 ° C. The temperature regime must be observed, otherwise the plant may not bloom. High temperature reduces the flowering time. Hyacinth is placed away from heating appliances.

Spraying

Home hyacinth during distillation needs high (about 65%) air humidity. A container with a plant is placed on a pallet with wet pebbles or placed in a larger container and wet sphagnum is placed between the walls. You can put an open container with water nearby, turn on the humidifier.

Spraying the flower is not carried out.

Lighting

The plant loves bright diffused lighting. Therefore, hyacinth at home is preferably placed on windows facing east or west. Shading is required on the south windows. Hyacinth, located on the windows on the north side, may not bloom: the internal forces of the plant should be supported by the power of sunlight, but here it is negligible.

Watering hyacinth

Watering helps the plant get nutrients from the soil, but it can also cause decay and death of the flower. Therefore, the procedure is approached very carefully. The soil in the tank should always be moist. Hyacinth care at home requires regular watering, as the substrate dries.

Hyacinth watering should be plentiful and very accurate: water should flow along the edge of the pot without falling onto the bulb. Water is drained from the pan.

Hyacinth pot

When choosing a pot for hyacinth, proceed from the planting option of the plant. Hyacinth can be planted in an individual pot - wide and shallow, whose diameter is 4 cm larger than the diameter of the bulb. A lonely flower will look elegant, but modest. Hyacinths planted by a group at a distance of about 3 cm in one container look more impressive. The diameter and volume of the container are selected according to the same principle as in the case of a single landing. A mandatory requirement for the pot is the presence of drainage holes at the bottom.

Priming

Hyacinth needs a loose, breathable, neutral acid substrate. In the store you can buy ready-made soil for flowering plants, or you can cook it yourself, taking in equal proportions humus, garden soil, sand (perlite) and peat.

Coal powder and ground sphagnum are added to the soil. To enhance friability, you can add brick chips, foam balls or vermiculite, as well as strengthen the drainage layer.

Fertilizer and fertilizer

To form a beautiful flower and its full development, fertilizing and fertilizing are carried out. Hyacinth is fed a universal flower remedy containing potassium and phosphorus, diluted in half. The drug is used in cloudy weather or after evening watering at the very beginning of the growing season, during the formation of buds and until the leaves completely dry.

After top dressing, the plant is kept in a shaded place for 24 hours.

Hyacinth transplant

The bulb of a plant planted at home in a pot blooms only once, so a hyacinth transplant is not performed. Planting material should be updated annually.

Rest period

After planting the bulbs, they artificially create a dormant period. The hyacinth bulb can gain strength for further full-fledged vegetation only in the ground. For 2.5 months, the plant is kept in a cool, dark place (in the basement or refrigerator). Occasionally watered.

This is necessary to maintain humidity. If you try to remove hyacinth from a dormant state ahead of time, it may still be weakened and not ready for flowering. And if, on the contrary, prolong the rest, the flower begins to actively form leaves, directing all its power to them.

How to adjust the flowering for a certain date?

You can approximately predict the date of flowering of hyacinth. To do this, remember that between planting and flowering should take almost three months, hyacinth, depending on the variety, blooms for about 20 days. If timed to bloom hyacinth on International Women's Day, the bulb is planted in the second decade of December. If you set out to get flowers for the New Year, then planting should be done in the second half of October.

Having calculated the approximate date of the appearance of flowers, the plant is created with the necessary conditions for it to ripen for flowering. For this, the bulbs are kept in a cool, dark room for about two months.

When the seedlings grow to 3-5 cm, they begin to gradually increase the temperature.

When 3 true leaves are formed, the content temperature is increased from + 8 ° C to + 15 ° C and the degree of illumination of the plant is increased. When inflorescences begin to form, hyacinth should be moved to a permanent place. If you follow this pattern, hyacinth will bloom by the appointed date.

What to do with homemade hyacinth after flowering

After flowering, you can extend the life of the bulb of hyacinth. Be sure to remove the peduncle. Water and feed until the leaves completely dry. In this case, the onion grows stronger and forms onions. The bulbs are carefully removed from the soil and put to dry. They are no longer driven out, but planted in the autumn in the garden. In spring, hyacinth will bloom in the flowerbed.

Hyacinth propagation

Hyacinth reproduction is carried out in several ways:

Hyacinth reproduction by children

Reproduction by children formed on the basis of the bulb. After flowering, the plants dig the bulb, and then the children are separated from its base. Their further rearing is required. Then a bulb is formed from them, which is planted in anticipation of the next flowering.

Propagation by cuttings

Rooted cuttings. A leaf is cut from the mother plant during the formation of the buds. The cut site is treated with a stimulator of root formation and planted in the ground under the film. After 21 days, rooting occurs, and after 45 days the first shoots appear. The first two seasons, the bulb grows in the ground without digging.

Diseases and Pests

Sometimes with improper care, hyacinth is affected by diseases and pests. The problem can be detected by looking at the plant and seeing that:

hyacinth leaves turn yellow - from drafts, poor lighting, improper watering (keep away from drafts, rearrange in a brighter place, adjust watering);
Hyacinth completely turns yellow - heavy airtight soil, improper watering, low humidity (during planting, strengthen drainage, add baking powder to the substrate; adjust watering; the pot is installed on a pallet with wet pebbles;
hyacinth buds fall - when watering, water falls on the buds;
the flowers are deformed - keeping warm during rest (closely monitor temperature);
hyacinth does not bloom - the content of bulbs in the heat, poor planting material (monitor the temperature of the content; update planting material);
hyacinth has an unusual appearance of leaves - flowering in poor lighting, bulbs for a long time lay in a dark place (monitor lighting);
hyacinth rot - waterlogging of the soil, heavy soil, poor drainage (follow the rules of irrigation; reinforce drainage when planting, add leavening agents to the soil).

Most often, a nematode, thrips and aphids are harmful to hyacinths. Insecticides are used against pests (the drug Fitoverm is effective from a nematode).

Types of home hyacinth with photos and names

Under natural conditions, approximately 30 species of hyacinth are common. At home, eastern hyacinth is mainly grown, on the basis of which more than 300 different varieties are bred by breeders.

Eastern hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis)

Large round bulbs. The stalk is straight. Leaves lanceolate wide elongated. Collected in a basal outlet. Small flowers - double or simple bell-shaped. The inflorescence is bright racemose. The color of the flowers can be pink, white, blue, purple or red.

Hyacinth varieties by color

Pink and cream hyacinths - "Ann Marie", "Marconi" (pink grade); "Sunflower" (cream grade);

Red and raspberry hyacinths - "La Victorie" (red grade); "Cyclop" (raspberry variety);

White hyacinths - "Edelweiss", "M-me Sophie" (terry variety);

Yellow hyacinths - "Yellow Hammer", "Chestnut Flower", "City of Haarlem";

Blue, blue and lilac hyacinths - "Grootvorst" - (lilac grade); "Grand Lilac" (blue variety), "General Kohler" (blue terry variety); "Blue Star" (blue grade);