April - it's time to properly wake up and uncover gladioli. For an early and enviable bloom. I'll tell you how I do

Fiery fireworks, fellow flower growers! How are your gladioli corms doing?

It's time, it's time to get flowers from secluded cool places. Make them grow roots and release sprouts BEFORE landing in a summer residence - you can admire flower swords in your personal garden a week or two earlier. I do this every year and I advise you.

Shake up stocks

Imagine. After planting on a flower bed, the corm needs to understand what is happening in general. Until recently, it was stored in the refrigerator, but here it ended up in the ground. Gladiolus it will take time rocking, and only then roots will appear in the soil, and well-recognized green feathers above the ground.

I propose to act differently: get gladioli in advance and start sprouting them. So after planting the corms are already ready to move into active growth. And they will definitely get under way! Saving time on the restructuring of a flower from storage to spring development, in the summer the florist will notice: gladioli blossomed earlier than the usual numbers.

April: time, time

All bulbs wake up differently. Some will sprout a few days after you move them from cold to warm. Other slow-witted people will need up to 2 weeks. And this is normal! The germination rate is influenced by the variety, and the features of last year's cultivation of gladioli, and storage conditions.

I always take out gladioli only 14 days before the intended landing. I know that in our region the weather is suitable only for the May holidays.

Previously, I was in a hurry, after reading advice on the Internet to get gladioli 20-30 days before landing. So what? Most by the end of April were producing impressive green leaves and overgrown with beard roots.

I had to grow gladi like seedlings, which was clearly not part of my plans. Who will be happy with a couple of extra flower boxes on the window when they are already filled with seedlings?

Checklist for awakening gladioli corms in April

✅ Very predictable, but the first step is just get the gladiolus corms out of the refrigerator and peel them off last year's husks. At this moment I feel the joy of greeting my pets again. It is exciting to understand: in just 3 months a gorgeous flower will grow from a lump!

However, leaving the lyrics aside, let us inspect wealth with a critical eye. I always throw away rotten and sick-looking corms. Because there is no particular desire to tinker with their salvation, and hoping for a chance is more expensive for ourselves: at the stage of germination, the infected can destroy neighbors

✅ For prevention, I soak the bulbs in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for half an hour, and then dry them. This is no, but a guarantee that harmful bacteria and fungi will be neutralized!

But to all sorts of growth stimulants, root-epins, and others like them, I belong... not that negative. I consider it unnecessary to use such preparations. A healthy onion, well-fed last year and stored in even the slightest acceptable conditions, will cope with its only task at the moment - to grow up - without any lotions. Don't torment flowers with your love!

✅ And now - by itself the sacrament of germination. You just need to put a damp newspaper or a thin layer of sawdust, moistened with water, on the bottom of the tray. Top - lay out the onions.

✅ Inspect plantings regularly. Make sure no one gets mold. Wait for sprouts. Sometimes it happens that the hurry-ups release long green shoots. In this case, you still have to plant the gladiolus in the ground - at least sprinkle it with peat so that the plant does not work for wear. If you overexpose a sprouted bulb without nutritious soil, its resources will not be enough and it will die.