Mary Sue Could I have a copy please I just potted into individual pots disticha and haemanthoides into individual pots yesterday (one year olds) I also have a fairly large disiticha?!! Kind Regards and Best Wishes Ron Redding Hervey Bay Australia >From: Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> >Reply-To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >Subject: Re: [pbs] Boophone disticha >Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 12:14:33 -0700 > >Hi, > >I'm growing some of these from seed. I don't know if I'll live longer >enough to see them bloom. Someone asked awhile ago for long lived bulbs and >I don't think anyone answered. My understanding from a conversation with >Cameron and Rhoda in South Africa was that Boophone bulbs can be very long >lived and get very large. I separated some in a communal pot I think it was >late last summer. None of them died. It seemed to me that there were going >to be set back whenever I did it and eventually would need more room so >doing it when the roots weren't as tangled made sense to me. My still young >plants haven't ever gone completely dormant. Since this species usually >grows on a summer growing cycle, but can grow on a winter cycle depending >on when it gets rain in the wild, I'm trying to convince mine that winter >is when they want to grow so IF it ever stops raining, am going to withhold >water and see what happens. > >I purchased a bulb of Boophone haemanthoides from Telos Rare Bulbs (prices >much more reasonable than Paul Christian and I know the grower is very >careful) and it is definitely a winter grower that loses its leaves in >summer. A couple of weeks ago when Nan asked about Boophone I found I had >saved an introduction by Rhoda about this genus from another list. It has a >lot of helpful information so anyone growing this genus who is interested >in a copy please contact me privately and I will email it. > >Mary Sue > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php _________________________________________________________________ Search for local singles online @ Lavalife - Click here http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx/…