With the onset of spring, many are in a hurry to pleasetheir loved ones with colorful flowers, uplifting - tulips. These plants tend to bring into the home interior a joyful mood and a sense of celebration. In order to give a bouquet to please the eye for a long time, you need to know how to care for cut tulips.
If tulips are cut from the plot, do itrecommended in the morning. At this time, dew accumulates on their surface, and moisture consumption is much lower than during the day or evening. This advice will help extend the life of a bouquet of flowers such as tulips. How to care for cut flowers, if they were purchased in the store during the day? First of all, they should provide access to water and coolness.
First of all it should be noted that tulips -These are geotropic and phytotropic plants. This means that their stems tend to bend under the weight of the buds. Also, these colors are characterized by a desire for a source of light, therefore, tulips stretch and bend in the direction of greater illumination. In this regard, the bouquet must be periodically deployed by different sides to the window.
So, you become a happy ownerbeautiful bouquet. After that, the question inevitably appeared: how to care for cut tulips at home? First of all, you should choose a room with clean air and no drafts. The life of the bouquet will last significantly if you apply it from direct sunlight. It should also be remembered that caring for cut tulips at home implies placing a vase with a bouquet away from fresh fruit. This restriction is due to the fact that the fruits emit special substances that contribute to the soon wilt flowers.
During transportation the flowers losea significant portion of moisture and do not receive the required amount of nutrients. As a result, the appearance of such a bouquet with the purchase may be unpresentable. You should not be afraid of this, because after saturation with water, the tulips will get their former look.
Caring for cut tulips begins withcutting stems two to three centimeters from the end. This should be done obliquely, under a stream of cold water. In order to keep the stem upright, the package in which the bouquet was delivered should be left on the flowers. To release the tips, you can slightly pull the package up. A vase is selected based on its ability to support flowers. Consequently, the best option would be high capacity. Care for cut tulips involves the removal of lower leaves that are under water. The plant will not receive food from them, and the process of rotting, which will start in these leaves, will spoil the water. There should be no moisture under the packaging. This applies to both the upper petals and buds. Excess moisture here also provokes rotting. You should also monitor the appearance of condensate, if necessary, remove it with a paper towel.
Most often, these colors need two to three hours.in order to drink water. In paper packaging, a bouquet is allowed to hold a whole day, after which it will need to be removed. This is to create a space where the buds will open. Outer petals may be omitted. Such spoiled bud parts are removed.
Every girl is pleased to receive as a gifttulips. How to care for cut flowers, not everyone knows, so the colorful buds fade so quickly. After placing the flowers in a vase, you need to monitor the condition of the water. At least once every two or three days it should be changed to fresh. If this is not done, an accumulation of harmful bacteria will be formed that contribute to the death of the plant. In the process of changing the water is well washed vase. From time to time, yellowed leaves and petals should be removed. The perfect place for tulips is the room where the light is scattered from the window. Vase with a bouquet periodically turn the other side to the source of lighting. In order to prolong the life of the bouquet, special preservatives will be added to the vase with water, which can be purchased at flower shops. Most often there can be found powder, which is called "Chrysal". This substance allows to preserve the freshness of flowers much longer. According to reviews, after processing the bouquet with this powder, the state of the flowers improves by about forty percent.
Take care of cut tulips at homeconditions are not so difficult. However, there are situations when it is necessary to open the buds as soon as possible, for example, for the wedding. In this case, cut off the ends of the tulips, then put them in warm water. The warmer the water temperature, the faster the flower buds will open. A vase with a bouquet is placed in a bright room. At the same time avoid direct sunlight. Abundant lighting will help buds bloom faster.
How to care for cut tulips, ifneed to delay their disclosure? Then the bouquet is placed in cold water. You can add ice cubes to the vase. In this case, the saturation of the plant stems will be slower, as a result of which the buds will slow down their opening. Store such a bouquet in a dimly lit or dark cool place. It is recommended to place the tulips in the fridge. In this case, you need to make sure that the bouquet does not overcool, and also remove the condensate that has accumulated on the flowers in time with a paper towel.
Для того чтобы ухаживать за срезанными тюльпанами at home, you can resort to using fertilizers. The use of special means for bulbous is recommended. Ideal option - top dressing for tulips. It is allowed to use fertilizers for other types of plants, however, their composition contains sugar. This substance leads to fast yellowing of flowers.
Specialists, in particular florists, argueWith proper care, a bouquet can stand at home for up to seven days. Despite this, there are fastidious varieties of tulips that can not survive in water for more than three or four days.
So, to keep the bouquet freshform as long as possible, you must remember how to care for cut tulips at home. Observing the simple subtleties described in this article, you can extend the life of the bouquet to one week.
