Dear Tom, Thank you for your Haemanthus splitting advice. A PBS member in Boston wants to try Haemanthus albiflos. Sincerely, Bob Werra --- Thomas Glavich <tglavich@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > The safest way is to take them out of the pot or > ground as a group. Work the roots mostly free from > the pup. Gently pull the pup off. If it doesn't > come, try cutting part way on both sides of the pup. > Try not to break the bulb or the pup. It should > come free reasonably easy. > > To ship, clean the pup off with a hose. Let it > dry. Leave the leaves on if they are short and > you're not shipping far. If they are really long, > trim them back and let the cuts dry. There is a lot > of energy in a good size pup, so you don't have to > worry. > > Wrap it in paper towels then newspaper. Ship it > Priority mail or Fedex, or some other reasonably > fast method. Its not a good idea to ship these to > an area where there is extremely cold weather. A > light frost won't hurt the bulb, but a hard freeze > could get to it. > > I would wait until after the holidays to ship. > > Tom > > Robert Werra <robertwerra@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Dear All, When and how should you take offsets of > Haemanthus albiflos? How should you send them to a > fellow bulb nut. Sincerely, Bob Werra No. Calif. > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >