Transplanting tulips in the fall from one place to another: when needed

Transplantation of all varieties of tulips in the fall is a crucial stage on which the further he alth and abundance of flowering plants depend. Tulips are among the first to bloom in the flower bed, and to ensure an early process, it is important to think about it in advance and transplant the bulbs correctly in the fall.

Reasons for transferring from one place to another

Plants should be transplanted for a number of reasons, the main ones being:

• If flowers grow in one place for a long time, they begin to degenerate.
• Separate the babies from the mother bulb.
• Without transplanting, the tubers go deeper into the soil, and it becomes more difficult for the sprouts to break through the ground.
• Discard old and damaged planting stock.
• Plants do not grow out of control.

After flowering, tulips are not transplanted immediately. It is best to dig them up after the leafy part has withered and leave them until autumn. It is not necessary to repot the crop every year. Flowers can grow in one place for 3-4 years.

When to transplant tulips: in spring or autumn

You need to choose the time for transplantation based on the climatic conditions of growth and the tulip variety. It is best to do this closer to the fall. Especially if the variety is cold-resistant. The optimal dates are the numbers from September 10 to October 10. In warm climates, if the winters in the region are not frosty, all varieties are transplanted at this time.

Heat-loving varieties are transferred in spring (in the central, middle and northern parts).But even in these regions, it is worth transplanting tulips in the fall, if possible. The first sign that it's time to move the crops in the fall - the soil temperature drops to +10-15 degrees at a depth of 10-12 cm.

Advantages and disadvantages of autumn transplanting

The benefits of autumn planting are:

• During the winter, the bulbs will have time to take root in a new place.
• The timing of flowering remains the same.
• The bulbs after flowering will have time to gain nutrients.
• In the spring, tulips will immediately enter a phase of active growth without adapting to a new place.

Among the shortcomings, one can single out the moment that if you transplant a crop in autumn in the northern regions, frost can suddenly strike, and then it is likely that the bulbs will die.

Pros and cons of spring repotting

The advantages of spring transplanting include:

• The soil will have time to warm up at the time of planting.
• There is no risk that heat-loving varieties will die due to frost.

The disadvantages include the fact that during the winter the bulbs do not have time to gain nutrients. In addition, the timing of flowering is shifted by several weeks. But the most important drawback is that not all transplanted bulbs will bloom in the year of transplantation. Some will start blooming next year.

Transfer Rules

It is not enough just to transplant tulips to a new place, it is important to do it according to all the rules of agricultural technology. The correct procedure will be less traumatic for plants, and they will quickly adapt to a new place.

Digging bulbs

Many flower growers make a serious mistake - they start transplanting tulips immediately after digging them out. All summer the tubers are in the soil. It will be correct if you leave the plants until the period until the deciduous part dries out by 2/3. After that, the planting material is dug up and stored in boxes for several months. And when autumn comes, they are transplanted to a new place.

Drying

Dug out bulbs are cleaned of old scales and roots, and children are also separated. Planting material is sorted into varieties and laid out in boxes. You don't want to cover them. Until September, the air temperature in the room should be up to +20 degrees. A few weeks before the landing, it is lowered to +15 degrees.

Once every few weeks it is worth inspecting the bulbs. If traces of damage appear on them, for example, mold or rot, then such specimens are separated from he althy ones.The mold is washed with a dry cloth and then treated with a fungicide solution. If the rot is small, it is cut off, and the cut is treated with brilliant green. If the tuber is severely damaged, it is discarded.

Preplant bulb treatment

Immediately before planting in a permanent place, the planting material is treated in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Bulbs are dipped in water for 30 minutes. Then they are dried and transplanted to a new place. Before planting in a new place, it is worth preparing the soil. The soil is dug up to a depth of 20 cm. Then the soil is watered with a solution of potassium permanganate to disinfect it.

Landing at a new location

You need to plant tulips in the place where they have not grown for at least 2 years. During this time, the soil has managed to be filled with nutrients. The soil is loosened. Remove all weeds. Then grooves or holes are made in it, 3-4 cm deep.Washed river sand or small pebbles are laid out at the bottom. Drainage thickness - about 3 cm.

The distance between adult bulbs in a flower bed is 30 cm, between children - at least 15 cm.

After autumn planting, the soil is not watered. Watering is carried out after 3-4 days, provided that it does not rain. Spring Planting Stages:

• Sprouted bulbs are planted in the soil in spring, so in March they are transferred to pots and kept at home in a cool room.
• When the weather is warm outside, the soil is dug up. They make holes and fall asleep at the bottom of the drainage.
• The distance between the bulbs is the same as when planting in autumn.

Immediately after planting, tulips are watered with warm water.

Further plant care

After the autumn transplant, sprouts appear in the spring, after the snow melts. Depending on the region, this may be the end of March-April. Plants are already blooming in May in most areas.

Plant care:

• If mulch was added to the flower bed in autumn, it is immediately removed so that the soil warms up faster in the sun.
• After emergence, the ground around them is carefully loosened.
• Until the buds begin to appear, it is undesirable to water the flower bed often, abundant irrigation is carried out after the plant enters the flowering phase.
• Feeding is applied to the soil only in the first half of the season, when the plants are just starting to grow actively (any fertilizer for flower crops can be applied).

When fertilizing, it is worth monitoring the external condition of the flowers. If you overfeed the tulips, they will begin to actively increase the leafy mass and stretch upwards. Nutrients are applied no more than 2-3 times during the flowering season.

Can blooming tulips be transplanted?

It is forbidden to transplant blooming tulips. This disrupts the natural processes that occur during flowering in plant tissues. Varietal varieties react especially painfully to such procedures.

If you still need to transplant a flowering plant, then the tulip is dug out of the ground with a large clod of soil and planted in this form in a new place.

Basic mistakes

Tulip planting mistakes include:

• Delaying deadlines.
• Incorrect planting depth of the bulb (if planted too close to the surface, the plant will freeze in winter and die).
• Plant planting material with signs of damage, mold or rot.

Replanting tulips is not that difficult. The main thing is to adhere to the rules of agricultural technology and try not to make mistakes.

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