Did the roots of the Hippeastrums look stunted, where brittle and conspicuously poorly developed? Then some Nematodes could be the Culprits.[Sorry for the dotted line: Crazy Windows/Explorer eats my Carriage ReturnZ!.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. > Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 17:50:12 -0400 > From: dkramb@badbear.com > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: [pbs] Hippeastrums & Potatoes > > I grew potatoes for the first time, and I'm disappointed with the results. > Lots of very small (pea sized to golf-ball sized) tubers and only a few > fist sized, or bigger. > > Next to the potatoes I grew out my Hippeastrums. Again, I'm disappointed. > The ONLY one that increased was Germa. Luckily that's my favorite. Roseum > reduced significantly in number (from about 8 down to about 2). And > others, are still the same size... just 1 bulb... and I've been growing > them for years now. Red Lion, Orange Soverign, Santa Rosa, etc. > > Germa faithfully produced one baby last year, and another one this year. > So I'm happy about that. I expected all of them to make babies though. > > Dennis in Cincinnati (going to harvest the Dahlias and maybe the Cannas > tomorrow) > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/