"A dog, a wife and a walnut tree The more you beat them, the better they be" Sent from my iPhone > On 23 Nov 2015, at 9:05 AM, Dell Sherk <ds429@frontier.com> wrote: > > A deranged gardener told me, once, that if you strike the trunks of fruit trees with a club, they will feel threatened and produce more blossoms – and presumably, more fruit. I tried this on my worsleya, and it didn’t work. > > Dell > > > > > From: Linda Foulis > Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2015 4:24 PM > To: Pacific Bulb Society > Subject: [pbs] Getting 'amaryllis' to bloom - or old wives tales > > > I thought I would share something that amused me. I just heard from a new gardening friend that his mother would drop her amaryllis bulbs to wake up the roots and get them to flower for Christmas. Anyone else heard of such a strange practice? > I'm pretty sure my hippeastrum will not bloom this year even if I do drop them, not a good year for them at all. > > > Linda M Foulis > Beautiful Blooms > http://www.beautifulblooms.ab.ca/ > Zone 1-2, on the edge of the middle of nowhere > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/