double seasoning
Rodger Whitlock (Sun, 27 Apr 2014 12:05:14 PDT)
On 26 Apr 2014, at 8:59, Richard wrote:
I have some young Erythronium multiscapoideum that sprouted in early January
in the greenhouse and have died down. If i dry them out for a few weeks then
put into cold moist conditions for 3 months will they go through another
growth cycle again?
Sounds like your greenhouse got too warm, forcing your seedlings into premature
dormancy. In your shoes, I'd move the pot to a shady location outside and just
let it be. Trying to get another cycle of growth going now would push them into
having active growth as the summer winds down and things gradually cool off.
Certainly, somebody somewhere has successfully done what you propose, but my
own belief is that most seed and seedlings do better if exposed to natural
conditions. (There are exceptions.)
I've stopped sowing heaps of seed, but in the days when I did, the pots would
go into a coldframe as soon as sown, so they were exposed to the natural cycle
of warmth and coolth. Western erythroniums germinated well under those
conditions and entered their first dormancy, if anything, a little late.
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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Z. 7-8, cool Mediterranean climate