So, when to transplant peonies, how to do it right. This is the topic of our conversation. How to care for peonies after transplantation? During the flowering of peonies, the garden is transformed beyond recognition. Very beautiful and festive! It turns out that this flower can grow, bloom magnificently in one place for 100 years or more! And this means that he is worth it to devote more attention and time to questions of choosing a place, preparing the soil. Look at the peony photo at the end of the article - is your garden still not decorated with such gorgeous flowers?
Peonies for planting or transplanting, what roots they should have
A beautiful, abundantly flowering peony bush cannot grow out of poor planting material. A sign of good quality of the peony root is high-quality dividers (the so-called part of the root tuber, separated from the mother plant) - large or very large, bright, shiny buds of renewal, as well as the absence of areas affected by rot. The best peony root for planting is a dividend with a bunch of young thin roots and several large buds.
It is very simple to distinguish young roots from old ones. Old peony roots are usually darker, younger ones are lighter. The length of the roots should be 15-25 cm, thickness - 10 mm or more.
The root neck is the weakest point of the peony, the gateway for infection. The more old tissue on the root neck, the more likely it is that there is an infection. At the same time, the old tissue is a field "sown" by sleeping buds. According to my observations, dividers from 2-3-year-old bushes with 1-2 buds develop much better than very large ones with 3-5 buds from old bushes. Young people are only slightly behind in growth in comparison with the "oldies" only the first 2-3 years, and as the roots grow, they overtake them.
In delenki from old bushes, hollows are often found, formed as a result of a previous infection. But if the rhizomes do not rot, and the hollow is surrounded by healthy tissue, then this is a minor defect. True, such roots can become a haven for garden ants.
Note! The cut or fault location should be matte. If it shines when wetted, this indicates the presence of putrefactive processes. In this case, carefully clean all sections to a healthy tissue.
How to transplant peonies, planting rules
A planting pit 60 × 60 × 60 cm in size should be prepared in advance. On dense soil (clay, heavy chernozem) it must be filled with loose nutritious soil mixture rich in humus. After all, a peony is a big gourmet, in the spring it always lacks nitrogen. If the soil is light, you can not prepare the pit in advance. If you dug a hole immediately before planting, be sure to fill it with water so that the soil settles quickly.
Before planting, the dividend is soaked in water. Heavily dried dividends can be left in containers with water for up to three days. Peony drinks water no less than cabbage. But from excess moisture, the roots may burst, forming cracks. Therefore, it is important to monitor this process and prevent their cracking.
Young dividers are planted in rows, taking into account the size: small - vertically, and large - at an angle Immediately before planting, examine all suspicious places on the rhizomes, if necessary, strip them to healthy tissue. Places of cuts, faults and the root neck are abundantly sprinkled with wood ash.
Before planting, the purchased delenka is soaked for 30 min in a suspension of foundationazole or topsin-M (according to the instructions), and then dipped in a clay mash of consistency sour cream with the addition of up to 100 g of copper sulfate.
Peony Planting Depth
In the floriculture literature, it is usually written that when planting a peony, the buds should be at a depth of 2-3 cm from the soil surface, since peonies do not bloom when planted in depth. However, this is not always true. For example, interspecific hybrids are able to germinate, even if the spine was at a depth of 60 cm. I had such a case. True, flowering had to wait a long 7 years.
But a small planting, in which the root collar is too close to the soil surface, is very dangerous: it suffers not only from heat and frost, but also from excess meltwater in the spring (this may be the cause of the fall of peony bushes).
Peony transplant timing
From my point of view, in the Kuban not earlier than October 15-20. Why? Because peonies lay flower buds in the first decade of October, when the leaves are still green, that is, there is an outflow of nutrients in the rhizome. This process continues until the leaves turn yellow. This is what you need to focus on when determining the time of digging and dividing bushes.
Usually in the literature it is recommended to plant peonies in August. However, these dates are indicated for Central Russia and Belarus. We in the Kuban are much warmer, therefore, the landing dates are different. If they ask me for processes of peonies, then I divide and plant for reproduction in early October. But planting material can be planted until the frost.
How to divide peonies when transplanting
The bush chosen for dividing is dug up with a lump of earth and washed from the ground with a strong stream of water. If there is several divisions, from bushes of different varieties, then you need to hang labels with the name of the variety and transfer them to a dark place for 1-2 days. During this time, the roots fade somewhat. This facilitates division, prevents cracking, cracking of roots in an inappropriate place.
The rhizomes of a peony of 4-5 years of age can be divided into divisions by an ax, setting its blade in the center of the root neck, so that the right and left sides have the same number of kidneys. Tapping an ax ax with a heavy hammer, cut the bush in half. A sharp knife and pruning shears go further.
A secateurs are enough for dividing old bushes, and a 2-3-year-old bush easily breaks down into dividers, even by hand.
Where to plant peonies, what place to plant
Peonies tolerate light or partial shading. At my cottage there are peonies that are around the clock open for the sun, and there are those that are lit by the sun in the morning and evening, and in the afternoon, in the sun, they find themselves in deep shadow. Everywhere they feel great, but, it seems to me, in that area where the peony bushes are in the shade for some time of the day, they bloom more beautifully and longer than others.
As you can see, peonies have a ton of secrets. But a person in love with these flowers will always find an approach to his favorites, reveal their secrets.
Peony transplant tips, experience and reviews
It is important to know such a little secret about peonies. They have two distinct periods of active root formation (build-up of suction feeding roots) - at the end of August-September and early spring from awakening and strictly until mid-May. As evil, they begin to seduce us with seedlings in February and March. What to do? I buy, keep them as much as I can in the state of sleeping beauties, who woke up, they put them on loggias in suitable containers, cherish until spring. The optimum temperature should be somewhere + 5 ° C, the maximum allowable + 15 ° C, the minimum allowable up to -5 ° C (at a lower temperature I cover well, put it in a large cardboard box). I plant my winter peonies at the very beginning of May, and there are no problems. But I (unknowingly) had experiences planting from containers in June ... Plants, to put it mildly, felt bad. Several tree-like ones were ruined, although they looked beautiful before planting. So I was convinced of the validity of the recommendation: if it was not possible to plant until mid-May, it is better to hold peonies in containers until August, it will be more comfortable there. Can be dug in the shade.
Bo Duchess
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From my own experience I was convinced that the peonies (grassy) planted in spring or early summer then slow down in development and do not bloom ... I did this out of necessity (I saved the peonies that were to be “eliminated” from friends), I hope that this year they will still please bloom !
natkonotop
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My grandmother planted it like this: she dug a hole, laid broken brick on the bottom and on top an old fabric, such as quilted jackets, so that the fabric was thick. Sprinkled it all with earth and only then stuck the seedling. It turned out that the root grew in breadth, and not in depth, this gave a lot of flowers.
Mom
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