Hyacinth planting time

Hyacinth is a perennial herb in Hyacinth of Hyacinth Family. Its flowers are rich in color, red, blue, white, yellow, purple and other colors. The cultivation method is mainly ball propagation. The cultivation soil should be deep and fertile sandy loam with good drainage. Let's take a look at the planting time, planting temperature and planting method of hyacinth together!

Hyacinth planting time

Water culture and soil culture time are the same, should be carried out in September to October, the next April can bloom.

Hyacinth planting temperature

Hyacinth bulbs have the habit of dormancy in summer, rooting in autumn and winter, sprouting in early spring, flowering in March, and withering in early June. Like warm and humid winter, cool and dry summer, sunny or semi-cloudy environment. Like fertilizer, appropriate fertile, good drainage sandy loam, avoid too wet or sticky heavy soil. During the growth of hyacinth, the root system grows best at 2~6℃. The optimum temperature for bud germination is 5~10℃, for leaf growth is 5~12℃, and for bud emergence and flowering is 15~18℃. The storage temperature of bulb was 20~28℃, the optimum temperature was 25℃, which was the best for flower bud differentiation. It can withstand short-term frost.

Hyacinth planting method

There are two kinds of flower market supply, one is September-October supply, like daffodils dry head is dry bulb. Another kind is to have flower bud after breeding, this hyacinth bought before the Spring Festival, can be water raised, put in the indoor window to watch smell incense. For the cultivation method of dry bulbs, the place with sufficient sunshine, high dry terrain and good drainage should be selected, and the base fertilizer (soybean cake crumbs, fish bone meal or organic fertilizer retting) should be applied. In autumn and winter growth period, phosphorus and potassium based topdressing is applied for 1-2 times.

Hyacinth conservation methods

At ordinary times, the soil should be kept slightly wet, avoid excessive humidity or accumulated water, so that in March of the following year, it can generally bloom, potted plants are basically the same as those planted in the ground, 1-4 bulbs per pot are planted with loose soil, sufficient base fertilizer is applied, placed outdoors in the sunny place, topdressing is applied during the growth period, Shanghai area is moved into the indoor sunny place for cultivation in November, the room temperature is maintained at 5-10℃, and flowers can be fragrant around March.

Post-flowering treatment methods

After hyacinth blooms, cut off dead leaves after flowering, dry storage indoor ventilation place, replant or pot in September, apply base fertilizer and later topdressing, promote mother bulb division, help child bulb grow up, when cultivated to a certain extent, can bloom again.