vegetative propagation TOW
Mary Sue Ittner (Wed, 07 May 2003 07:22:55 PDT)
Dear Diane and Rodger,
Thanks to both of you for all your interesting information. You two are
good note takers. I have mostly stuck to growing from seed and potting up
offsets so although I did try to create new bulbs from a rare Lilium that
was going to be disturbed anyway by a road crew. It was really gratifying
to see that it worked.
I had never known you could propagate corms. Has anyone besides the experts
quoted ever tried it?
In your notes Diane you sometimes mention a time to do this and sometimes
not. Is there any general rule about the best time? Would it be when they
normally would be coming into growth?
If you weren't in the business of selling bulbs it seems like you'd most
want to do this with something you couldn't easily propagate otherwise and
I'd be scared it wouldn't work and I'd lose something very special.
Perhaps members of this group who do leaf cuttings will tell us about how
to do this.
Mary Sue
I never At 04:27 PM 5/6/03 -0700, you wrote:
On 5 May 03 at 21:28, Diane Whitehead wrote:
Ah, Rodger, I didn't realize you had been at that lecture. Was the
information about the cyclamen correct, or did the information
actually still pertain to the preceding instruction about arisaema?
I could blame the darkness for poor note-taking, but of course, the
lights were on for this lecture.
Your information about cyclamen was recorded accurately and
accurately posted to the pbs list.
Paul Christian recommended the same treatment for both arisaema and
cyclamen. He remarked, in particular, that the wounds in arisaema
tubers produce considerable slimey exudate, hence the recommendation
that one wash the wound with alcohol before packing it with sulfur.
--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
on beautiful Vancouver Island
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