How to Handle Hyacinths After They Bloom? A Detailed Guide to Care Methods

Hyacinth is one of the famous bulb flowers that bloom in early spring. Shortly after it blooms, the above-ground plant gradually withers. Many people throw it away once it loses its ornamental value, but this is actually a mistake. So how should hyacinths be handled after they bloom? Let's take a look.

1. Soil-cultured Hyacinths

1. Natural care

After a soil-cultured hyacinth blooms, you can simply place the withered potted hyacinth in a cool, ventilated spot, stop fertilizing and watering, and wait until the temperature rises the following year to resume watering and nutrient supplementation, beginning a new cycle of hyacinth cultivation and care so it can grow and develop normally.

2. Bulb handling

Alternatively, after it blooms, you can dig the bulb of the soil-cultured hyacinth out of the soil, cut off the withered stems and leaves, leaving only the bulb, then wrap the bulb in newspaper and place it in a cool, ventilated spot. When the hyacinth's growing season arrives the following year, take the bulb out and replant it, burying it in moist sandy soil and keeping the surrounding environment at 20-30 degrees to encourage it to re-root and sprout.

2. Water-cultured Hyacinths

1. Care in water

After a water-cultured hyacinth blooms, you can continue to grow it in water, watering and changing the water for it, and adding nutrient solution drop by drop to supplement nutrients so it can continue to grow and develop until the high-temperature period of summer arrives, when it enters dormancy.

2. Pruning and cold storage

After the hyacinth goes dormant, cut off its yellowed leaves and also trim away all of its roots, keeping only the clean bulb. Then let the wounds dry, wrap it in newspaper, and put it in the refrigerator to chill. When the temperature drops in autumn, take the bulb out in November, place it in a water-culture container, add water to slightly below the bottom of the bulb, then place it in a dark, lightless spot at around 5 degrees. It usually takes about 25 days to root, after which normal care can resume.

3. Points to Note

After blooming and being handled with care, a hyacinth can bloom again, but by then its bulb has already entered a state of degeneration, and the flowers it produces will become smaller and no longer attractive. So after it blooms, it can only be handled once; after that, you need to buy new hyacinths to grow.

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