Crocuses at home - how to grow saffron on the windowsill

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The Crocus or saffron – it is a bulbous plant that belongs to the family Iridaceae. Blooming crocuses in the wild growing in Central Asia and Europe and is a very beautiful sight.

Usually the crocuses in bloom home at a time when other flowers are gone or have not yet started to blossom – fall and spring types of saffron. Together with other primroses, they start the season in spring or autumn escort, pleasing with bright colors.

Crocuses prefer open ground, but like other bulbous species, they are subjected to distillation and can please a man in any period of the year, standing on the windowsill.

This is a low plant up to 25 cm, which grow along with the flowers and leaves directly from the corms. The lower stem covered with transparent scales. The flowers are unisexual with colorful Corolla-like perianth. Inside the buds are hidden stigmas with stamens that have bright orange, red or yellow. Pollination is accomplished by insects. Of formed underground ovaries produced fruits in the form of boxes with seeds that are popped to the surface and there ripen.

The shape of a Crocus flower resembles a Tulip. Flowers have different colors: from cold purple and blue to warm yellow tones, there are also types of white color.

In Spain are very common crocuses. The cultivation of these flowers there is delivered to the stream. But the cheapest varieties are brought from Iran or India.

You can Grow crocuses in the home – this is a very exciting thing. The purpose of distillation is to obtain flowering plants in the winter time or by a certain date. For this purpose perfectly fit the Dutch large-flowered spring-blooming varieties. For distillation to take bulbs of the same size and varieties, this ensures simultaneous flowering and the same size of plants planted in the pot.

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In the garden, crocuses for forcing are dug out of the ground in August. Then the bulbs for two weeks kept at room temperature and removed for storage in a cool place. It does not always work to force blooming crocuses at home to a certain number. This largely depends on the size of the bulbs (the more the faster blooms), varieties and external criteria, but the approximate time of flowering to determine possible.

To get a blooming saffron, you must save the bulbs alone at a temperature of 6...9 degrees, not putting them in the ground. Approximately 3 months before planned time of flowering crocuses at home planted in low containers with breathable damp soil. The bulbs should not touch each other and the edges of the pot. Then planted the bulbs sent to the cold cellar or refrigerator. There for 2 months, the plant takes root and pushes out. When the shoots are 5 cm, the flowers are then taken to a room with a temperature of 11...15 degrees and set on the windowsill where there's more light. If the room is warmer, the crocuses will grow faster and Bud. If there is insufficient lighting elongated shoots and flowering will be weak. Water the plants need moderately, after dry out the upper part of the earth.

Under optimal conditions after 2 weeks after placement into the room of crocuses in the home bloom, the bloom lasts. After flowering continue watering until all the leaves fall off. After that, take out the bulbs, put them in storage, and all can be repeated. Only when re-distillation of the flowers get smaller and weaker.

By the Way, the bulbs of crocuses can be eaten: they can be baked, boiled or cooked any other way. Especially valuable are the stigmas of plants of which produce expensive drugs and condiments.


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