If you decide to grow ranunculus at home - planting and caring in the open field for him is not at all difficult. The site you need to choose is bright, but not in direct sunlight, a little shaded. The soil should be loose, drainage so that weeds and other plants would not grow too close next. Because the root system of the Asian buttercup is weak, they can damage, but water and feed in moderation. And you will enjoy ranunculus with long beautiful flowering.
Just remember - the plant is poisonous, you need to be careful with it so that it does not accidentally get into food.
When to buy tubers
Experts advise that it is better not to buy tubers in the fall, because they require very gentle winter care, a certain humidity and temperature, and turn over every couple of days. And you can not watch the tubers before planting in the spring. But in the spring, from March approximately, it is already possible to buy nodules and plant on a pre-selected site suitable for them.
How to plant
If the weather is already more or less warm (around April), the tubers are kept in the moisture for 4 hours, you can add a little potassium permanganate there - suddenly what kind of infection has stuck to them, and then already planted. It will sprout for a long time, from 1 to two months, because the middle of April is just right, and after a month, approximately flowers will appear.
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How to care
It is not difficult to monitor the plant - after a week the soil is carefully loosened, often watered, but little by little, and monitored so that the soil does not dry out and is not wet. Carefully clean the fading buds with a sharp knife so that other, new ones can appear. If this is not done, the plant may stop flowering altogether. And watch: if the buds fall off - an excess of moisture, yellow spots appear - dry soil.
After flowering
Ranunculus is a perennial plant, after flowering into hibernation, as a bear falls, and wakes up only with warming up to 20 degrees. Here it is necessary to clean it after wintering for wintering. Cut the shrunken stalk no later than the beginning of October, immediately dig up the nodules carefully so as not to damage. Moreover, this should be done on a warm day, when the temperature will not be below 15 degrees. Next - treat with fungicide, dry well, and can be hung in a linen bag in a cool basement, or wrapped in newspaper, and sent to the bottom of the refrigerator.
You can also transplant nodules into pots, and put on the windowsill, changing the southern and eastern sides, periodically transferring the pot. Water and feed organic matter, and your plant up to 10 years old can please you in the house with beautiful delicate flowering.
Breeding
Ranunculus nodules are funny, similar to crow's feet. Choose larger specimens, if there are children - separate, you can handle it with a stimulant, hold it for a couple of hours in moisture and transfer it to the garden. Nodules must be planted with claws down into the pit, depth - up to 8 cm. But the place where the claws connect must look up, otherwise the flower will not grow.
The borders decorated with an Asian buttercup look very beautiful, you can grow them in pots and plant them for the summer at different ends of the garden, creating a beautiful palette of colors.
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