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- Instructions for the propagation of tulips - So the young booming
- Thus, the propagation succeeds with Brutzwiebeln
- Brothwiebeln bloom from the second year
- Harvesting and sowing tulip seeds - How to do it right
- Tips
Tulips can best be propagated over brood bulbs
Instructions for the propagation of tulips - So the young booming
Tulips are double-tracked for their reproduction. You can use this strategy for the uncomplicated vegetative propagation with brood bulbs or the challenging generative offspring by sowing the seeds. This guide explains in no uncertain terms how to replicate a whole bunch from a few tulip bulbs.
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Tulip bulbs provide you with plenty of material for propagation, by sprouting small onions from the axils of the onion scales. These grow rapidly, detach from the mother onion and lead an independent tulip life. You can give this process a free hand or harvest the bulb onions to locate them at the desired location. That is how it goes:
Mother and daughter bulbs produce more or less large cuts. So that pathogens or pests do not use them as a gate, please dust the wounds with charcoal powder. Following this treatment, plant the tulips in the nutrient-rich, loose soil.
Brothwiebeln bloom from the second year
Brutzwiebeln, set in autumn, will initially produce a leaf head next spring. Please cut this off only when the leaves are completely yellowed. Until then, the onion absorbs valuable nutrients to flower for the first time based on the energy reserve the following year.
Harvesting and sowing tulip seeds - How to do it right
At the end of the flowering period, do not cut off all the flower cups so that the tulips produce their seed-filled ovaries. After a two-month ripening season, harvest the dried seed pods just before they rip. Then you fill a clay pot to three quarters with garden soil and a quarter with Saaterde. Then sprinkle the seeds to sift it thinly with sand and to water fine shower. Proceed as follows:
Long spring green sprouts that remind of grass or chives sprouted. After some time, these stems wither and fall off. Then you can search for the tiny tulip bulbs in the substrate. These put you in small pots with potting soil and patience. It takes 5 years and more until the first flowering.
Tips
Does your mouth water when you see a crisp, juicy tulip bulb? Then nothing speaks against tasting it. Remove the bitter peel with a knife and boil the tuber for 15 minutes in water. Although the taste does not catapult you to culinary heights, it is still worth a try. More than 2 to 3 specimens should not be eaten because the glycoside they contain may cause nausea.