From: Carol Jensen <jorna@mobilixnet.dk>
Reply-To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>,pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [pbs] HIERONYMIELLA AUREA & amarygia PARKERI 'ALBA'
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:30:07 +0200

At 20:29 12-06-2005, Alberto Castillo wrote:

underground, only the leaves protruding from the soil level. H. aurea is an
alpine plant that spends the winter in dormancy under snow. It comes from a
cool droughland plateau high in the Andes where it is never warm. Its soil
in the wild is a mix of several sizes of sand and a sort of silt. The
plants sprout in late spring and receive water during late spring, summer
and early autumn, flowering in mid to late summer. Dormancy is from late
autumn to midspring. The temperatures in the wild can be deceiving as the
bulbs are deep in the soil and under a thick layer of snow. In other words,
the envronment is pretty cold but the bulbs may not. In climates like this
here (say zone 9-10) the plants only produce foliage and although surviving
many years never flower. Alkaline soils and full sun in the wild.

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I am wondering if one puts such a cold-needing bulb in the fridge for a
month or two (just as I put my amaryllis in 10C-50F temperature for 2
months) in order to make it flower. This for indoor gardeners of course. Or
one could put the outdoor ones in a pot and then in the fridge, then move
them outdoors in the pot.

Carol