Ginger is widely known for its healing properties and is popular in cooking. Meanwhile, this plant is also very beautiful, especially during the flowering period.
Growing ginger at home or in the garden, you can enjoy the bright, large flowers of this exotic guest.
The show will be memorable and rare - at home, ginger blooms extremely hard and reluctant.
When is it dissolved?
Ginger flowers do not leave anyone indifferent, so it is worth making some efforts to get them.
In natural conditions, the flowering of ginger occurs in the second year of the plant’s life.. It is necessary to clarify that its rhizome becomes fibrous, loses its aroma and can no longer be used for culinary purposes. Therefore, those who grow ginger for sale, come simply - dig a plant, a year later. Fortunately, ginger grows and multiplies quickly in the warm climate of South-East Asia.
When growing ginger in a greenhouse or at home, flowering can only happen in the third year, and then only if the owner complies with a number of the requirements of a capricious plant.
As a rule, the flowering of ginger begins in the spring-summer period and lasts for several weeks, with appropriate care and a certain luck, flowering will continue until autumn.
How to determine that this will happen soon?
Ginger flowers are located on long basal stems. Until these stems appear, it is impossible to determine the approaching flowering.
The most important sign of the upcoming flowering is the formation of the main tuber of a special bud for the pasture of the peduncle. This kidney must be healthy, grown and developed over the previous three years.
It is possible that the main root has already formed root adventitious processes to prepare a bud for the peduncle pasture, but all this thorough preparation is hidden underground.
AND, if the owner of the plant during transplantation disrupts the growth of these shoots, flowering will not occur - from the bud will grow the usual additional stem instead of the peduncle.
To distill the ginger flower, be patient and follow all the guidelines for plant care, for at least three years without removing the tubers from the pot.
The flower spike never sprouts from the body of the tuber that you planted in the pot initially. It will only come out of that part of it, which developed in the process of subsequent tuber growth. And it takes time. That is why the flowering of ginger comes only after a few years.
How it blooms: description of varieties and photos
Ginger has many varieties and blooms each in its own way. Flowering plants of any kind is an unusual sight - ginger releases flowers on long basal stems. In one inflorescence can be petals of different shades from red and purple to yellow. And the form is surprising - in the form of cones, lilies. This may be a single large flower or several constellations in the form of torches.
Consider the most aesthetic and popular varieties of ginger. And further on a photo it is possible to see some of the plant varieties blossoming in house conditions and on the street.
At home
The presented varieties are most often grown at home for decorative purposes.
Zerumbet
Large inflorescences form on the stems.look like a rose with dense fleshy petals.
Great
On powerful stems bloom inflorescences of bright pink shade similar to corn cobs.
Kasumunar
Flowers look like orchids, complex structure, white tone.
Japanese
Delicate flowers with a pleasant aroma appear in early spring.
Ginger Torch
Pinkish fluffy inflorescences, almost odorless.
Purple
Pinkish fluffy inflorescences, almost odorless.
On the street
Varieties intended for growing in open ground conditions are most often grown for the purpose of obtaining a harvest and selected by size and taste of rhizomes, therefore they bloom much more modestly. But among them there are exceptions, giving the owners the pleasure to enjoy the finest flowers.
Black Ginger (Barbados)
Medium size pink flowersshaped like a daisy, with bright red stamens in the middle. The smell is strong, sweetish.
White Ginger (Bengal)
Large bright scarlet single flowers with a delicate smell.
Ginger hive
Included in the ranking of the most beautiful tropical flowers in the world. The height of the inflorescence reaches one and a half meters, the petals vary from green to bright scarlet. Cultivated in tropical gardens Southeast Asia, at home is not grown.
Flowering and yield
For a good and high-quality crop of rhizomes, ginger blossom is undesirable. Moreover, in their homeland, in Southeast Asia, ginger is grown only as an annual plant - a rich crop of tubers is harvested only 8–9 months after planting.
Thus, the flowering plants, which can only happen in the second year of his life, can not happen. Can only bloom individual bushes on the edge of the plantations, if they accidentally forgot to dig. In the wild, ginger is almost never found.
This is because The plant directs all the nutrients from the roots that have fulfilled its function to the seeds. Seeds are formed at the end of flowering and are in the form of small boxes. At the same time, modern cultural varieties of ginger cannot multiply with the help of seeds.
Why when growing can not bloom?
To achieve the flowering of ginger at home is not an easy task. Why ginger can not bloom?
- The plant has not yet reached the age of flowering.
- Insufficient watering or waterlogging of the soil.
- Insufficient air humidity.
- Lack of fertilizer or inappropriate primer.
- The absence of a pronounced change of seasons.
- Excessive plant root manipulation.
Do I need to help the plant?
Yes, if the goal is to bloom. At the same time, there can be no guarantees, but the owner, of course, must do what he can, because the plant is exotic and poorly adapted to our growing conditions.
How exactly?
With fertilizer
If the purpose of growing ginger is flowering, it should certainly be fertilized.. It is recommended to bring dressing no more than twice a month, with fertilizers with a high content of potassium and phosphorus. They will help to get powerful greens and will stimulate the dislocation of the peduncle.
Of organic fertilizers, mullein diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10 is well suited, but for obvious reasons it can only be used in a greenhouse or at least on a balcony.
Initially, the ground for the cultivation of ginger to choose loose, nutritiousconsisting of one third of the humus, one third of the sod land, and one third of the sand. A drainage layer with a thickness of at least 3 cm is also required, otherwise the roots will rot.
Create optimal conditions
- Avoid exposure to wind and sun rays. Light must be sparse. The place for the pot should be carefully chosen, because this plant does not tolerate drafts and the scorching sun.
- Spray the plant regularly with soft, settled water at room temperature.
- Water moderately at the first sign of drying of the topsoil, loosen every time after watering, to ensure access of oxygen to the roots.
- In the fall, reduce the amount of watering to 1 time in 2 weeks, remove the pot in a dark cool (+15 degrees) place.
- In the spring, when the buds wake up, take the pot out of the basement and start watering in small portions, applying fertilizer: first potash greens to grow, then phosphorus ones to form peduncles.
If ginger is grown for decorative purposes, you need to choose a pot of small size and do not disturb the roots for at least three years, including not digging for the winter and not replanting.
Thus, we told about amazing ginger, showed photos of the plant in bloom. But growing ginger for decorative purposes in Russia is a risky business from the point of view of result - yet the climate is not warm and humid enough. However, with excellent care and a certain amount of luck, there is a chance to enjoy the beautiful spectacle of flowering of this amazing plant. If the capricious pet does not want to bloom, in any case, the owner will be pleased with the spicy aroma of fresh juicy root.
