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produce a distillation of lilac in the winter, you need to take a few branches that have well-developed flower buds. Sami branches must be cut at the end of October or early November. After cutting them placed for 5 weeks in a refrigerator at a temperature in the range -3 - (- 5) degrees. If you cut the branches in December or later, they are no longer required promorazhivat. Somewhere in the middle of December, placed in the refrigerator branches are removed and placed on a term of up to 12 hours OT8 in a bath filled with water at a temperature not higher than room temperature. After a bath threads get, and the ends of their fragmenting. Samuel lilac after such a procedure, plunging to a depth of no more than 20 cm, and put in a special pre-prepared (for 5-6 hours before) solution.
Solution Recipe: 1 liter of water is taken, it is added 0.8 g of potassium alum, 0.2 gram of sodium chloride (i.e., sodium chloride), 0.3 g of potassium chloride, and 3 g of sugar.
To get something you have, the solution should be changed daily, as well as daily updates on the ends of the cut-off place. The temperature of the ambient air must be between + 18 (+20) degrees. In addition, you will need very high humidity, which often flower buds have to spray the water. Days 15-20 lilac, if done right, will bloom. To preserve the flowers fresh for a long time, twigs placed in a vase with a very feeble solution of citric acid; in the water you can add vinegar - just a few drops.
In the future, if you have a cottage there lilac bushes and you want to do it by distillation, starting somewhere from late May until the end of June, the bushes to be a good fertilizer.