Nomocharis
Pamela Harlow (Sun, 30 Jul 2017 09:42:20 PDT)
I've never had any trouble with Nomocharis, several species of which have
thrived here for years in part sun. All are in containers and overwinter
in a cold (to mid 20's F) greenhouse. I grow them like lilies. I make my
soil with a base of compost-derived commercial mix to which I add lots of
pumice and my homemade organic fertilizer. I use my acid fertilizer
recipe, which has no dolomite in it, just 3 pts cottonseed meal, .5 pts
bone meal, and .5 pts kelp meal. (Lately I've begun making a bulb version,
with less cottonseed meal, but I haven't repotted the Nomocharis since
switching.) The original seeds came from NARGS, Chiltern, and especially
the Archibalds. My site is cold by Seattle standards, routinely 5 - 10
degrees cooler than the city. I hope this helps.
Pamela Harlow
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 8:10 AM, David Pilling <david@davidpilling.com>
wrote:
Hi,
On 30/07/2017 04:38, Diane Whitehead wrote:
I have tried for decades to grow nomocharis from seed, as bulbs have
never been offered for sale
here, and, though they do germinate, that's as far as it goes.
I would really appreciate some instructions.
I used to beg on the SRGC forum for the secret. I could never get a clear
answer.
I have grown Nomocharis from seed to flower, twice. The plants did not
survive to flower again or set seed.
I sowed a lot of seed. Most of it met with disaster. One has to keep
searching online, people often only sell seed for one year. A tip is to
apply for surplus seed in the seed ex - often you won't get much seed as
first choice, but will get plenty as surplus.
The two pieces of typically vague horticultural advice I did find "shade"
and "peat", I believe hindered me. Here in the North of England it is
always shady, and peat becomes a rotting mess when over-watered. If I set
off again I would treat them as lilies.
The wiki page:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
shows my plants and various bit of information. Seemingly it took four
years from seed to flower.
They are wonderful flowers, and given the chance I would clothe the
countryside in a million of them.
--
David Pilling
http://www.davidpilling.com/
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