Walleria
ds429 (Sun, 08 Jan 2017 13:47:05 PST)

Oh, droll Cynthia!
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On Sun, 1/8/17, Cynthia Mueller <cynthiasbulbs@hotmail.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [pbs] Walleria
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Sunday, January 8, 2017, 4:44 PM

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

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