Boweia volubilis emergency!

Kipp McMichael kimcmich@hotmail.com
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:16:52 PDT
Schmuel,


  As other posters have noted, you should have a new shoot soon enough. I think the growing stem actually produces one or more branches inside the bulb which remain dormant unless the rest of the axis is damaged. I had a bulb grow in this fashion. The "second chance" branch will not likely be as large as the initial one.


-|<ipp


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From: pbs <pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org> on behalf of Monica Swartz <eciton@utexas.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 5:38 AM
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Subject: [pbs] Boweia volubilis emergency!

Hi Shmuel, don't worry, your Boweia is fine. In some growing areas,
B. volubilis will keep making the vining flower stalks all year. In
others, it takes a short rest in the winter. B. volubilis is a very
tough plant. You can even take off chunks of the fleshy bulb scales,
bury them shallow, and you will soon have a bunch of baby offsets
(this does not work with B. gariepensis, winter-growing and much
fussier). Hope this helps.  m




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