How and when to replant tulips in the fall from one place to another

Transplanting all varieties of tulips in the fall is an important stage on which the further health and abundance of flowering of the plants depends. Tulips are one of the first to begin to bloom in the flowerbed, and to ensure an early process, it is important to think about it in advance and replant the bulbs correctly in the fall.

Reasons for transferring from one place to another

Plants should be replanted for a number of reasons, the main ones of which are the following:

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

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

When to replant tulips: in spring or autumn

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

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

Advantages and disadvantages of autumn transplantation

The advantages of autumn planting are:

• Over the winter, the bulbs will have time to take root in a new place.
• Flowering times remain the same.
• After flowering, the bulbs will have time to gain nutrients.
• In spring, tulips will immediately enter a phase of active growth without adapting to a new location.

One of the disadvantages is that if you replant the crop in the fall in the northern regions, frost may suddenly strike, and then there is a high probability that the bulbs will die.

Pros and cons of spring transplantation

The advantages of spring transplantation 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 the bulbs do not have time to gain nutrients over the winter. In addition, the flowering dates are shifted by several weeks. But the main drawback is that not all transplanted bulbs will bloom in the year of transplantation. Some will begin to bloom the following year.

Transfer rules

It is not enough to simply transplant tulips to a new place; it is important to do this in accordance with all the rules of agricultural technology. The correct procedure will be less traumatic for the plants, and they will quickly adapt to the new location.

Digging up the bulbs

Many gardeners make a serious mistake - they start replanting tulips immediately after digging them up. The tubers remain in the soil all summer. It would be correct if you leave the plants until the deciduous part dries out by 2/3. After which 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

The dug up bulbs are cleaned of old scales and roots, and the children are also separated. Planting material is sorted by variety and placed in boxes. It is not advisable to cover them. Until September, the indoor temperature should be up to +20 degrees. A few weeks before landing, it is lowered to +15 degrees.

Once every few weeks it is worth inspecting the bulbs.If they show signs of damage, for example, mold or rot, then such specimens are separated from healthy ones. Mold is wiped off with a dry cloth and then treated with a fungicide solution. If the rot is small, it is cut off and the cut area is treated with brilliant green. If the tuber is severely damaged, it is thrown away.

Pre-planting treatment of bulbs

Immediately before planting in a permanent place, the planting material is treated in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. The bulbs are immersed in water for 30 minutes. After which 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 place

You need to plant tulips in a place where they have not grown for at least 2 years. During this time, the soil has had time to fill 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 on the bottom. The thickness of the drainage is about 3 cm.

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

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

• In the spring, sprouted bulbs are planted in the soil, 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. Make holes and fill the bottom with drainage.
• The distance between the bulbs is the same as when planting in the fall.

Immediately after planting, the tulips are watered with heated water.

Further care of plants

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

Plant care:

• If mulch was added to the flowerbed in the fall, it is immediately removed so that the soil warms up faster in the sun.
• After the seedlings appear, the soil around them is carefully loosened.
• Until the buds begin to appear, it is not advisable to water the flowerbed frequently; abundant irrigation is carried out after the plant enters the flowering phase.
• Fertilizers are applied to the soil only in the first half of the season, when the plants are just beginning to actively grow (you can apply any fertilizers for flower crops).

When applying fertilizing, it is worth monitoring the external condition of the flowers. If you overfeed tulips, they will begin to actively increase their leaf mass and stretch upward. Nutrients are added no more than 2-3 times per flowering season.

Is it possible to replant blooming tulips?

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

If you still need to replant a flowering plant, then dig the tulip out of the ground with a large lump of soil and plant it in this form in a new place.

Basic mistakes

Errors in planting tulips include:

• Delaying deadlines.
• Incorrect planting depth for the bulb (if you plant it 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.