I've really been enjoying learning about the lomas and seeing all these great photos and info getting added to the wiki. Thanks Norton for all the work you've been doing! I hope your conservation efforts are very successful. On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 6:27 AM Peter Taggart <petersirises@gmail.com> wrote: > My limited experience of amanacaes is that it grows from mid/ late Summer > until mid Winter, grown indoors/ under cover in the northern Hemisphere. I > would not give such bulbs much water to wake them up, rather a little > humidity and wait for them to grow enough leaf to use water, before wetting > the soil. > Peter (UK) > > On 3 March 2017 at 13:49, norton cuba melly <nortonc26@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Endemic to Peru, they act as indicators of the beginning of winter, since > > they are the first plant to flower between June and July, they also are > > indicators, of ENSO ( El Niño South Oscillation) by flowering less than > > normally. I have germinated 29 out of 31 seeds. The seeds are green > > photosynthetic, they germinate as soon as they fall on the ground, so I > > dont think its the kind of seed you can save for a long time in > comparison > > to other plantas of "lomas" ecosystem. I hope I can have positive results > > giving the bulbs their first cycle in May. Any advice of how to > reactivate > > them? > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/