Fertilization
Pacific Rim (Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:07:41 PDT)

Ben Zonneveld, with great respect: other reasons that bulbs in the
Netherlands rapidly increase in size and number are the same elsewhere in
the world:

-- sometimes the growing fields are healthy soil
-- sometimes the growing fields are sterilized
-- sometimes plants are minutely observed and selected for traits such as
rapid production of offsets.

Paige Woodward
paige@hillkeep.ca
http://www.hillkeep.ca/

----- Original Message -----
From: "zonneveld" <zonneveld@RULBIM.Leidenuniv.nl>
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 12:48 AM
Subject: [pbs] Fertilization

All bulb fields in Holland are heavely fertilized each year before the
bulbs ( tulips narcissi hyacinths) go in That is why they increase in
size an number
Ben J.M.Zonneveld
Institute of Biology,Leiden University, Clusius lab
Wassenaarse weg 64, 2333 AL Leiden, The Netherlands
Zonneveld@rulbim.Leidenuniv.NL
Fax: +31-71-5274999. min temp -10C (15F)
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