What to Do After Hyacinth Flowers Fade? Detailed Guide to Water Culture and Soil Culture Methods

Water culture is the second most common method of growing hyacinths, so what should you do after the flowering period of a water-cultured hyacinth ends? Let's take a look at the more suitable ways to handle it!

How to handle hyacinth flowers fading in water culture:

1. Continue water culture: After the flowers fade, continue growing the hyacinth in water until early June, when the temperature gradually rises, the leaves of the hyacinth will turn yellow and dry up and it will enter its summer dormancy period.

2. Cut off the leaves: Cut off all the yellowed and dried leaves of the hyacinth during its summer dormancy period, and also cut off all the roots.

3. Refrigerate the hyacinth: Place the bulb in a cool, well-ventilated spot to air-dry for 1 to 2 days (never expose it to the sun). Once it is thoroughly dried, wrap the bulb in newspaper, put it in a jar, and 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. Replanting: When the temperature gradually turns cooler in November and late autumn arrives, take out the hyacinth bulb that has been stored for a whole summer, place it on the mouth of a suitable container, add water to about 1 cm from the bottom of the bulb, then place it in a completely dark and cool spot at 5°C to encourage root growth. After about 25 days, roots will begin to sprout; once the roots grow to 2 cm, 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 to handle hyacinth flowers fading in soil culture:

1. Keep the bulb: After the flowers of a soil-cultured hyacinth fade, cut off all the leaves, flower stems, etc., and keep the bulb. Then bury the bulb in sandy soil and wait for the summer dormancy period to arrive.

2. Replanting: Around July 20, dig it out, put it in the refrigerator's crisper compartment, keep it at 4°C for low-temperature sprouting. After the growing point sprouts, continue to bury it in sandy soil, water once every 15 days, and wait until December to pot it for cultivation. The management is very simple, with no special techniques needed.

Tips:

After a hyacinth blooms, with proper handling, it will bloom again the next year, but the flowers will become shorter and smaller, and the flower scape will also shrink; this is mainly because the bulb has already begun to degenerate. Therefore, it is best to grow a hyacinth for one year and then buy a new bulb!

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