What is the best way to handle a hyacinth after it has finished blooming?

In its native habitat, hyacinths of course bloom every year, but after arriving in China they tend to degenerate easily, so they are still imported every year. A few places in China can produce them, but the output is far from enough. Here we must guard against two notions: one is thinking they can only be used once, and the other is believing that rough, careless management will still let them bloom again.

First of all, the native Mediterranean climate zone has mild, rainy winters and cool, dry summers. What mainly affects plant dormancy is the moisture factor. So hyacinths, tulips, all kinds of narcissus, crocuses, anemones, ranunculus and so on all grow in winter and go dormant in summer. Of course, because winter still has a slightly cold period, natural bulbs still need vernalization (a cold environment) before they can bloom. The bulbs we plant have basically been refrigerated, so they can bloom even with the vernalization step skipped, and after blooming normally, logically speaking, they should be able to bloom again just as in their native habitat.

But the time after blooming is exactly when the bulb grows rapidly, and here two factors must be faced; neglect either one and degeneration may result.

One is the length of time from after flowering to leaf withering. In the native habitat, flowering generally starts in mid-February, and from early March the bulb's growth and renewal begin in full swing (some renew every 3 years, like hyacinths; some, like tulips, replace the old bulb every year), and high temperatures do not set in until mid-June or the end of June, giving nearly 3 months during which the bulb grows rapidly. Tulips grow from a tiny new shoot to the size of the old bulb or even larger, (so tulips are affected the most and degenerate most easily). In most parts of China, however, under natural conditions flowering starts in mid-March, the bulb only begins growing after April, and temperatures rise rapidly after May, so the leaves turn yellow and wither by late May at the latest, causing bulb growth to stop halfway, and of course it cannot grow large.

The other is nutrition. In water culture the nutrition is of course not enough, and even if planted into soil after flowering, root breakage is hard to avoid; even if the roots do not break, they can hardly adapt to the soil. Also, pot culture does not provide enough nutrition either; you should know that when grown in the ground the roots reach more than 50 cm long, and you still have to add plenty of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer to the soil, apply nitrogen fertilizer several times after sprouting, and after flowering apply phosphorus and potassium fertilizer several more times until the leaves yellow.

After the leaves yellow, the bulb must be dug up and stored, and at this time temperature is also very important. I have found that hyacinths and Dutch narcissus are not too sensitive, but tulips must be stored below 25°C, otherwise flower bud differentiation decreases markedly and daughter buds multiply. The next year there are more small bulbs but they do not grow large, and degeneration becomes even more serious.

There are also diseases and insect pests that can cause degeneration, which I will not detail here.

Only by taking corresponding measures against the above influencing factors can we ensure no degeneration or less degeneration, and at least enjoy the flowers for more than three years!

Hyacinth after blooming: how to handle a hyacinth after it has bloomed? What to do after it finishes flowering, and can it still be grown?

I usually like to keep some flowers and plants in the office, and the other day I could not resist the calls of the old man selling flowers downstairs, so I bought a pot of hyacinth and brought it back to the company (it was a water-cultured hyacinth).

When I came to the company on Monday, I saw the hyacinth blooming vigorously, and I was so delighted. That feeling was especially wonderful.

But the good times did not last. After a few days I found the hyacinth flowers starting to wither. Suddenly I had a bad feeling that the flowers were certainly going to fade. I suddenly remembered a line of poetry: flowers are easy to see when they bloom, but hard to find when they fall.

So I began to wonder: what should I do after the hyacinth finishes blooming? Can a hyacinth still be grown after it finishes blooming? Can a hyacinth continue to bloom after it finishes blooming?

No sooner said than done, I immediately turned to Baidu for help!

Online, there are only two views about what to do after a hyacinth finishes blooming:

First, let the hyacinth wait to die (that is too cruel).

Second, air-dry the hyacinth, store it in the refrigerator, and plant it again next spring (it is said that this way it can still bloom again).

All right, this time I finally have some understanding of hyacinth flowers. It seems that if you like flowers, you have to grow them yourself; only after growing them and then running into problems do you truly understand, and deeply. Otherwise, just reading flower-growing knowledge all day is useless.

Let me introduce the hyacinth.

The hyacinth is native to southern Europe and is a perennial herbaceous plant in the hyacinth family and genus, with a bulb. It is cold-hardy and likes well-drained, fertile loam and plenty of sunlight. It roots in autumn, sprouts new shoots in early spring, blooms from late March to early April, and the plant withers and goes dormant in early June.

After the hyacinth blooms, if you do not intend to collect seeds, you should cut off the flower stalk to promote bulb development, and the cut should be made as high on the flower stalk as possible. In early June the bulb can be dug out, spread out, graded, and stored in a cold storage room; the summer temperature should not exceed 28°C.

Join the flower-growing QQ group above or add the WeChat subscription account "Flower Information Network" to discuss together how to grow hyacinths.

Hyacinth after blooming: how to handle a hyacinth after it has bloomed? What to do after it finishes flowering, and can it still be grown?

I usually like to keep some flowers and plants in the office, and the other day I could not resist the calls of the old man selling flowers downstairs, so I bought a pot of hyacinth and brought it back to the company (it was a water-cultured hyacinth).

When I came to the company on Monday, I saw the hyacinth blooming vigorously, and I was so delighted. That feeling was especially wonderful.

But the good times did not last. After a few days I found the hyacinth flowers starting to wither. Suddenly I had a bad feeling that the flowers were certainly going to fade. I suddenly remembered a line of poetry: flowers are easy to see when they bloom, but hard to find when they fall.

So I began to wonder: what should I do after the hyacinth finishes blooming? Can a hyacinth still be grown after it finishes blooming? Can a hyacinth continue to bloom after it finishes blooming?

No sooner said than done, I immediately turned to Baidu for help!

Online, there are only two views about what to do after a hyacinth finishes blooming:

First, let the hyacinth wait to die (that is too cruel).

Second, air-dry the hyacinth, store it in the refrigerator, and plant it again next spring (it is said that this way it can still bloom again).

All right, this time I finally have some understanding of hyacinth flowers. It seems that if you like flowers, you have to grow them yourself; only after growing them and then running into problems do you truly understand, and deeply. Otherwise, just reading flower-growing knowledge all day is useless.

Let me introduce the hyacinth.

The hyacinth is native to southern Europe and is a perennial herbaceous plant in the hyacinth family and genus, with a bulb. It is cold-hardy and likes well-drained, fertile loam and plenty of sunlight. It roots in autumn, sprouts new shoots in early spring, blooms from late March to early April, and the plant withers and goes dormant in early June.

After the hyacinth blooms, if you do not intend to collect seeds, you should cut off the flower stalk to promote bulb development, and the cut should be made as high on the flower stalk as possible. In early June the bulb can be dug out, spread out, graded, and stored in a cold storage room; the summer temperature should not exceed 28°C.

Join the flower-growing QQ group above or add the WeChat subscription account "Flower Information Network" to discuss together how to grow hyacinths.