Five favorite yellow-flowered geophytes
Jim McKenney (Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:37:54 PST)

Here's what I'm about to try for Colchicum luteum and, should I be able to
acquire another one, Iris winogradowii: after the plants enter dormancy,
I'll give them a few weeks at prevailing temperatures and then try storing
them in the refrigerator for the rest of the summer. The refrigerator here
gets opened so many times a day that the temperature is probably in the low
40s F much of the time, if that.

Has anyone else out there tried this? I would like to try this with some
alpine Saxifraga, too. Maybe even experiment with pushing them into two
growth/dormancy cycles per calendar year.

If it works, I could go into the Eritrichium nanum and Myosotidium
business! Sorry, I'm wandering far off topic.

Any thoughts, anyone (about the refrigerator business, not my wandering)?

Jim McKenney
jimmckenney@starpower.net
Montgomery County, Maryland, zone 7, where the noctifloras would be opening
if I had any and it's time to close down for the day.

At 06:27 PM 1/21/2004 -800, you wrote: