Light levels for growing SA bulbs - Simplified...

ROGOZINSKI JAN jan.rogo@ntlworld.com
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:44:52 PDT
Massonia grow reasonably here for me in the UK, maybe I don't have very high
standards. Perhaps the South African Bulb Group would have some thoughts. They
have several members with South African experience who would be able to compare
environments.

> 
>     On 19 October 2016 at 18:55 Sarah Hinckley <sarahh@suiattle.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Hi Robin,
> 
>     I am a beginner with SA bulbs. None of the ones I have have begun to
>     flower yet. I have had the greenhouse less than a year. I am just
>     presupposing that the light levels in western Washington might be too
>     low to get these bulbs to grow and flower successfully.
> 
>     I really appreciate hearing about others experience!
> 
>     thanks,
> 
>     Sarah
> 
>     On 10/19/2016 10:50 AM, Hansen Nursery wrote:
>     > Sarah,
>     >
>     > Have the plants in your greenhouse been blooming or are you unsatisfied
>     > with
>     > the quality of flowering? I find I can get Cyclamen graecum to flower
>     > and
>     > set some seed here on the southwest coast of Oregon if I leave them in
>     > the
>     > poly house through the summer, where I think intensity of heat counts as
>     > much as intensity of light. I'm just south of the 45th parallel.
>     >
>     > If they aren't flowering at all or poorly, I'd definitely supplement the
>     > light, although surely more lengthly exposure to light in the summer
>     > should
>     > compensate for less intensity of light to some degree the further north
>     > you
>     > live. Can someone comment on this?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > Robin
>     > Hansen Nursery
>     > robin@hansennursery.com
>     >
>     >
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