Cannes - flowers - winter storage in three ways at home

Cultivation of cannes became a fad of many florists not only from the southern regions of Russia, but also from the middle belt, from the Urals, the Far East. If at the latitude of Sochi these subtropical plants easily hibernate in the open ground, then north of the subtropics storage in the cold season can only be provided at home. In order for this perennial to feel good in winter at home, you need to get acquainted with the features of the plant and its vegetation.

What do we know about cannes?

Cannes is an unpretentious ornamental plant with broad and large lanceolate leaves, from which a flower arrow appears in June, carrying magnificent, bright and large flowers of red, orange and yellow blossoms one by one. The leaves of this perennial are themselves ornamental flower beds, they can be pale and dark green.

Florists appreciate this decorative plant for its rapid growth, decorativeness, unpretentiousness, as well as the fact that such flowers are practically not affected by diseases and pests. From them you can create floral compositions, picturesque groups, arranged in the form of a hedge that separates the garden area from each other.

Breeders have created a variety of canna varieties - from a height of half a meter to 2.5-3 meters, with peduncles of different colors and shades. If you properly organize the storage of this ornamental plant in winter, you can enjoy many years of growing perennial.

Duration of excavation of cannabis

Each plant requires that the roots or bulbs receive as many nutrients as possible - this makes it possible to reliably transfer the winter dormancy period. The signal is a steady lowering of the ambient temperature. For a plant like canna, this is the period after the first frost. Cooling is a signal that it is time to prepare for wintering, and consequently, all nutrients rush to the rhizome.

Advice

Keep in any form a brief diary of the main works in the garden, in the flower garden, in the garden. Regular records will help you better prepare for technological operations, in advance to drop inventory, containers, seeds and seedlings.

This serves as a guarantee for plants that in spring it will be able to start a new vegetative cycle. For the middle band this term will be the end of September - early October, for more southern regions the timing is somewhat shifted. If you start the digging process before the first frost, the root system will go to winter without getting enough food.

How to dig a plant?

Before digging up the rhizomes of the plant, it is necessary to cut off all the stems, leaving a stump about 20 cm long. Then perennial is carefully punctured, extracted from the ground. No need to remove the roots from the roots, wash them - the remains of the soil will help not to lose the necessary moisture in winter. Before laying flowers for storage, they need to dry a few days in the shade. It is best to do this under a canopy or in a barn.

Board

If you have several varieties of this ornamental plant, attach a tag with the name of the variety to the remainder of the peduncle. It can be made of dense foil, cardboard, plastic. In spring it will be easier to create a flower arrangement, taking into account the characteristics of the variety.

It is necessary to inspect the excavated tubers, removing spoiled, rotten roots with kidneys. This is an opportunity to divide the plant, leaving on each tuber for 1-2 healthy kidneys. Places of cut must be dried and sprinkled with crushed charcoal for disinfection. Experienced growers advise the division of perennials to postpone until the spring, when it will be clear how the winter overwintered the plant.

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You can save this flower in winter in several ways. Preliminary it is necessary to prepare containers in which storage will take place, as well as peat, sand, sawdust and thermometer to measure the air temperature in the room.

We describe the most common methods.

• Storage in cardboard boxes, wooden boxes.

Tubers canes are placed in containers, pouring them with a mixture of sand, sawdust, peat. Sawdust for the substrate is preferably taken from fruit trees.

The optimum temperature for this storage is + 8 ° C. The substrate should be moistened from time to time, but not too much to prevent the appearance of rot. Such a temperature regime and optimum humidity can be created in the cellar or in the basement.

advice Monthly, you need to conduct a revision of tubers, pruning rotted places and sprinkling with ash or charcoal, ground cinnamon. Dry soil moisturize additionally.

• Storage in a pot.

A flower with clipped peduncles along with a clod of earth is placed in a cool light room. It can be a loggia or a veranda, that is, a room where the temperature does not rise above 13 ° C.This method mimics the natural conditions of tropical winter, to which cannes are accustomed, it guarantees excellent preservation and maturing of flower buds. Once a month the soil is watered, but not too abundant.

Council

The frequency of watering is closer to the planting of perennials on the bed, it is necessary to increase the frequency before planting in May - to fertilize with full mineral fertilizer for ornamental plants.

• Storage in a flower container.

This way you can store cannes while enjoying their flowering. It is important here to have time to dig up the flowers before the first frosts. The flower-bud is not trimmed, as perennial flowers continue to bloom at home. This method is perfect for low grades, although if there is enough space the winter garden will only benefit from canna of any size. Care for these plants is slightly different - they need to be watered and fed regularly, placed in the brightest place of the house. Flowering perennial can be admired until January.

Council

In order not to weaken the plant, it needs to provide a period of rest from February to April, cutting off the dry leaves and limiting watering.

How to get out of wintering properly?

If it is planned to plant plants immediately in the open ground, then in April you need to get the tubers from the substrate and begin their adaptation to new conditions, taking them out to fresh air with a sunny day. Then each tuber is examined, sprinkled with cinders, crushed charcoal, dipped into a stimulant of root formation "Kornevin" and planted on a permanent place.

You can pre-germinate perennials in pots.

Composition of the mixture for germination:

• sand - 1 part;
• humus - 1 part;
• is a fertile land - two parts.

In March, all the cuttings with cut sections of cuttings are planted in a substrate, they are poured on top by 2 cm soil, watered with warm water. A week later, the flower buds will start to grow, and we can assume that the successful wintering is over.

In order for the decorative perennial to successfully winter, you need to create conditions that are close to the conditions of a tropical winter - cool and moderate watering. It is necessary to constantly control the humidity, not allowing the formation of rot. The reward for a patient and responsible flower grower will be a beautiful flowering of a strong and healthy plant.

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