Move to winter quarters
Both potted plants and outdoor flowers must not be exposed to frost in winter. While a bucket can be easily transported into the house, you need chocolate flowers from the bed, of which only the tuber is left at this point, dig up and put in a hibernation pot plants.
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Note: In mild areas, where temperatures rarely drop below 0 ° C, even in winter, it is definitely possible to overwinter a chocolate flower tuber in the bucket outdoors, provided the pot is well covered with a brushwood mat is isolated.
time
The chocolate flower should move into winter quarters as early as October in order to avoid the risk of unexpected night frosts.
instructions
After you have dug up the tuber, it is a good idea to divide it with a sharp knife and hibernate the individual pieces separately. In spring you can look forward to a large number of young chocolate flowers. You overwinter the tubers as follows:
- ideal temperature: 8 ° C to 10 ° C
- dark, dry location (preferably in the basement)
- Regularly check tubers for rot (caused by moisture)
- Shrink tubers
- hang up in a potato net
- Alternatively, fill a wooden box with a peat-sand mixture and dig in the tubers
Spring habituation
At the end of February, when the sun is gaining more and more strength, you can get your chocolate flower used to moving outdoors soon. How to do it:
- Put the pot in a warm place
- choose a bright location
- Put it on the terrace when the weather is nice
- no direct sun
- Resume watering
- fertilize
- Divide if there are significant nodules
Note: Night frosts are possible up to the ice saints in mid-May. Until then, you should bring the chocolate flower indoors at night.
