We can have a bit of fun, through changing a well known joke about Mrs. Schroedinger saying to her husband, "Ervin, vott are you doink to zat cat -- it looks haff dead!" We can ask you what else were you doing to your tubers... Cynthia W Mueller On Jan 8, 2017, at 12:43 PM, Leo Martin <stnalpsoel@gmail.com> wrote: >> Does anyone else grow [Walleria gracilis] or one of the other >> species? > > I bought some Walleria gracilis seed from Silverhill in 2000, I believe. It > has only been available once since then from Silverhill, I think. Five of > about ten seeds sprouted that year. In future years there were 0-2 sprouts > in the pot. Sprout location varied from year to year, so I imagined > different tubers were growing or sleeping, as they saw fit. They never grew > well. Maybe they got too cold? I have occasional frost. > > One late summer, about 6 years after planting, and after two seasons with > no sprouts, I unpotted them. There were three slightly shriveled, but > alive, tubers. I repotted into a very sandy mix. > > I have not seen sprouts since. I still water the pot every winter. > Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Schroedinger's cat, and what all. > > Leo Martin > Zone 9? > Phoenix Arizona USA > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/