Bulb storage
Johannes Ulrich Urban (Mon, 08 Oct 2018 12:10:51 PDT)

Hello Bob,

There is one thing I do not understand in your bulb storage problem. You
say you bring the bulbs into flower in winter. But you also say you
store them bare rooted in your heated greenhouse.

I would assume that you pot them up before flowering?

My suggestion would be to pot them straightaway after harvesting from
the garden. Hippeastrum /can/ survive bare root storage, but they do not
really like it. They have permanent roots that stay turgid even in very
dry compost in pots during dormancy. If you would pot them up directly
after harvesting the roots would remain intact, you would have to be
careful with your watering regime but I would think even without any
water at all potted bulbs would be much less stressed. And the workload
would be the same except that potting would occur at a different time of
the year.

Does this help?

bye for today

Uli

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