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How and When to Plant Gladiolus

Saul Goodman
2020-11-16 11:23:35
The purse-string flower is mainly sowed and propagated, high-quality seeds can be obtained through artificial pollination, the sowing time is selected in August to September every year, suitable soil can be prepared, the seeds can be carefully sowed into the soil, covered with a thin layer of fine sand, soaked in water to wet the flowerpot after sowing, and placed in a cool place. Propagation will use a small amount of cutting methods, need to prepare a good sand bed, cut healthy branches for cutting.

1. how to plant gladiolus

1. Ploughing: If you want the gladiolus to grow rapidly, blossom more and give birth to more babies, you must plant it in the ground, and plant it in loose and fertile soil. Every time before planting, you should plough the ground and fertilize it, and mix farm manure such as pig manure and chicken manure into the soil.

2. Planting: Gladiolus gladiolus likes the sun. When planting on the ground, it should be planted in a place where there is no building to block the light. The buds of the seed bulbs should be buried in the soil with the roots upward and downward. The thickness of the covering soil should be 5-10cm. Deep burial is conducive to keeping the flower stems of the plant straight and not easy to lodge, and it can also create conditions for the growth of the upper roots.

3. Maintenance: After planting, the soil is compacted by hand, and after watering, there is no need to take care of it. Gladiolus can grow and blossom by itself.When 1/3 of the stems and leaves on the ground become yellow in autumn, the balls will be formed, and the dry stems and leaves will be cut off after the balls are formed.

4. Pilling: The small balls generated from the mother ball are picked and broken off, and the dug seed balls are placed in a cool and ventilated place to dry. After two layers of skin are removed from the seed balls, the seed balls are placed in a ventilated and dry place, and the temperature is kept not lower than 0 . The seed balls are planted in the next year.

2. When is the best time to plant gladiolus

Modern hybrid gladiolus is mostly planted with bulbs in spring, that is, planting in spring every year, flowering in summer, harvesting bulbs in autumn, dormancy of bulbs in winter, digging up bulbs in late autumn every year, and continuing planting in the next spring, an infinite cycle.

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