When you want to bring a sense of spring into your home and brighten up dull, cloudy days, you can grow bulbous flowers at home. If you're successful, this activity will give you the incomparable pleasure of watching beautiful spring flowers awaken. You can achieve flowering all year round, even in winter, if you meet the necessary conditions for the plants. Forcing is an agricultural technique aimed at making plants grow and bloom at an unconventional time of year for them. The process itself consists of three parts: storing bulbs, rooting bulbs, and forcing-growing in a warm room. Spring bulbous plants such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and crocuses, pushkinia, muscari are an excellent choice for beginners. In order for the plants to bloom at a certain time indoors, this process must be simulated. Depending on the type of bulb, they require 12 to 18 weeks of cooling for flowering. Cooling interrupts the dormant period, allowing the bulbs to develop a root system, leaves, stems and flower buds. After the cooling period is over, the bulbs usually grow and bloom for 2 to 6 weeks. For example, in order for tulips to take root by the desired date, there must be at least 20 weeks for rooting and 2-3 weeks for forcing. STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Bulbs for forcing must be large, healthy, firm to the touch, without spots and rot. 2. Before planting, to prevent diseases, it is advisable to soak the bulbs in a fungicide, for example, a solution of the drug "Maxim". Dilute 1 ampoule in 1 liter of water. 3. You need to find a spacious, but not too large pot, 2-3 times higher than the height of the bulb. Be sure to have drainage holes. 4. Drainage is poured onto the bottom (expanded clay - 2 cm). If the height of the pot allows, you can make an additional layer of sand - 1 cm. The substrate for bulbous plants is universal, with a neutral or slightly acidic reaction, with the addition of sand. 5. The height of the soil layer is regulated by the size of the bulbs, taking into account that after planting, 1.5-2 cm should remain free on top for ease of watering. The soil should be lightly tamped, then install the bulbs with the bottom down. The distance between the bulbs should be at least 1.5 cm. 6. Sprinkle the bulbs with soil from above, tulips and small bulbs can be completely covered with soil, up to 2 cm from above, but hyacinths and daffodils are deepened only by 2/3, the top should be above the soil surface. 7. Plantings must be watered. Calcium nitrate can be dissolved in water as an additional nutrition. 8. The surface can be sprinkled with sand or vermiculite to reduce moisture loss. 9. Place the planted bulbs in a cool, dark place where the temperature is within +5-7 °C. They can be placed in the refrigerator, on an insulated balcony or loggia, in a garage, or in a summer house. Periodically, the bulbs need to be inspected, the soil moistened if necessary, and checked for mold (usually noticeable on the walls of the pot). 10. The bowl can be moved into the house when young shoots appear, three weeks before flowering. First, place the pot in a room with a temperature of 12-15 °C, then increase the temperature to 16-18 °C for three days. Additional lighting is needed to obtain strong, bright flower stalks. Important! If the plant is late in flowering, you can increase the temperature to 22 °C and increase daylight hours to 12-16 hours. During the period of active growth, you need to feed the plants; universal complexes are suitable for this. We are in social networks. networks: VKontakte - https://vk.com/greenvilleclub Telegram - https://t.me/greenville_Cash_Carry Instagram - greenville_nsk