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- Grow your own tulips - the way from seed to onion
- Harvest ripe seeds in summer
- How to put tulip seeds in a mood for fun
- The spring brings us small tulip bulbs
- Tips
Tulips can also be pulled from seeds
Grow your own tulips - the way from seed to onion
Some of the most beautiful varieties of tulips are due to chance developments during private breeding. Do you as a hobby gardener love to create your own individual breeding? With a little luck and this guide, the plan can succeed. This is how tulip seeds turn into promising flower bulbs.
Harvest ripe seeds in summer
With their colorful flower cups, tulips attract bees and bumblebees. These have valuable pollen in their luggage, with the help of which the flower is pollinated. At the end of the flowering period, the flowers invest all their energy to grow up to 300 seeds in the ovary. Therefore, do not cut off the withered tulip flowers, but continue the care program unabated. The dry, brown seeds are harvested shortly before they begin to rip.
How to put tulip seeds in a mood for fun
One of the fundamental prerequisites for successful tulip breeding is stratification. The seeds will not be motivated to germinate until a cold signal indicates that winter is soon over. This succeeds quite simply in the garden, where the seed is exposed from mid-October to the influences of the weather. How to do it right:
If the seed vessels are snowing in, this is of particular advantage for overcoming the germ inhibition. If there is no snow or rain, please water regularly, as the seeds will die in dryness.
The spring brings us small tulip bulbs
Have the seeds convinced in the course of 2 months by the effects of cold weather, that the winter is over, sprout the green, long shoots. By the end of spring, small tulip bulbs are found at the ends of the substrate. Please wait until the sprouts wilt and fall off. Then dig out the flower bulbs and put them in small pots with potting soil.
It will take about another 5 years until your pupils flower for the first time and the result of their breeding comes to light.
Tips
Hard-working tulip growers are often plagued by skin irritations. The toxins contained in the sap trigger tulip dermatitis on contact with the skin. Therefore, please carry out all work related to the breeding of Tulipa with gloves.