What to do after a hydroponic hyacinth finishes blooming, and how much longer can it live?

Hyacinth is a plant very well suited to hydroponics, because hyacinth has very well-developed and soft white roots, and a hydroponic hyacinth allows you to observe the root growth very well, but because the nutrients hydroponics can provide to the hyacinth are limited, and blooming is a very nutrient-consuming process, most hyacinths will die after blooming.

What to do after a hydroponic hyacinth finishes blooming

1. Continue growing in water

After the flowers of a hydroponic hyacinth fade, continue growing it in water until early June, when the temperature gradually rises and the hyacinth's leaves turn yellow and withered and it enters its summer dormancy period.

2. Cut off the leaves

Cut off all the yellowed and withered leaves of the hyacinth during its summer dormancy period, and cut off all the roots as well.

3. Refrigerate the hyacinth

Place the bulb in a cool, ventilated place to air-dry for 1 to 2 days (never expose it to the sun). After it is completely dry, wrap the bulb well in newspaper and put it in a jar, then place it in the refrigerator's crisper compartment (not the freezer).

4. Temperature requirements

During the summer, the temperature must not exceed 10 degrees, otherwise the bulb will easily rot.

5. Growing it again

When the temperature gradually turns cooler in November and late autumn arrives, take out the hyacinth bulb that was stored for a whole summer, place it on the mouth of a suitable container, add water until it is about 1CM from the bottom of the bulb, then place it in a completely dark and cool place at 5°C to encourage rooting. After about 25 days roots will begin to sprout, and when the roots have grown to 2CM, you can follow normal hyacinth care methods and grow it until it blooms. Generally, with this cycle, a hyacinth can be grown for about 3 years; by the 4th year the original bulb will basically no longer bloom.

How long can a hydroponic hyacinth live

Generally speaking, a hydroponic hyacinth can only survive for one year, but after adopting the correct care methods, a hydroponic hyacinth can also survive for three to four years.

How to grow a hydroponic hyacinth

1. Steps before hydroponic growing of hyacinth

1. Add clean water to the glass bottle, but be careful that the water surface just does not touch the bottom of the bulb.

2. Use an ordinary glass cup or a specially made flower glass bottle to grow it. The bottle is divided into upper and lower parts, small at the top and large at the bottom;

3. The glass cup can use a lead wire as a tray, hung down from the mouth of the cup.

4. Put water in the lower part, and put a piece of charcoal in the water to prevent the water from smelling bad.

5. Choose an extra-large bulb, place it five centimeters from the mouth of the cup or bottle, immerse it in water, and place it in the sunlight.

6. When the sprout grows to five centimeters, place it in a dark place; after the roots have fully emerged, place it in a warm place without direct sunlight, and frequently add water so that the water reaches the bulb. When the leaves and flower buds emerge, give it one to two hours of sunlight every day to make its leaves and flower stems strong; turn it one direction every day so that it does not grow leaning to one side.

7. No need to fertilize, and it will bloom into a bright, fragrant hyacinth in March or April of the following year. After the flowers fade, take it out together with the roots and plant it in potting soil; when the leaves wither, dig it up and store it well, and it can be planted again next year.

2. Care methods

1. Place the hyacinth in a cool, dark, well-ventilated spot, keep the temperature at 9°C to 13°C, and check once a week to see whether water needs to be added.

2. When the flower bud grows 8cm out of the bulb (after about 10 to 12 weeks) and the glass bottle is full of roots, you can move the hyacinth into a warm room.

3. With the temperature in your home kept at 17°C to 20°C, you will enjoy watching the buds grow and color up. But do not place them directly near a heat source; this way the beautiful hyacinth flowers will stay open longer.

4. After blooming, you can plant the bulb in your courtyard. In summer you can use the glass bottle for cut flowers, and in winter you can buy a treated hyacinth and use it again.

How to change the water for a hydroponic hyacinth

When growing a hyacinth hydroponically, you need to change the water. This is mainly to ensure that when growing a hyacinth hydroponically, there will be more oxygen in the water; the more oxygen it contains, the better the plant will grow. In fact, changing the water for a hydroponic hyacinth does not need to be very frequent. Generally, in spring and autumn, you can change the water once every 7——10 days; in summer, change the water about once every 5 days; in winter, the interval should be longer, generally changing the water once every 10——15 days.

However, not all hyacinths die after blooming. They die because the nutrients that can sustain the hyacinth's survival are insufficient, so we only need to help the hyacinth supplement enough nutrients after blooming, and then cut off part of the hyacinth's leaves to reduce unnecessary nutrient consumption.