Judy: I recently dug a bunch of Colchicums and sent them into the BX. I waited until the leaves were long gone and collected seed capsules for the BX as well. I went back a couple of weeks later and to a patch that I didn't separate and there was one corm pushed out of the ground by crowding and it had some 1/2 inch roots developing. ArnoldNorthern NJ -----Original Message----- From: Judy Glattstein via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> Cc: Judy Glattstein <jgglatt@gmail.com> Sent: Wed, Sep 23, 2020 7:31 pm Subject: [pbs] Transplanting Colchicums My colchicums are flowering prolifically. Some are growing in what I fear is too much shade - trees do that, over time. The flowers are pale and flop over on the ground. All the advice is to move them in summer as the leaves wither away. But that means a starving, low light growing situation while the leaves feed the corms. How terrible would it be to move them as soon as the flowers wither away, so next spring-into-summer growing season would provide more energy? Judy in western New Jersey, where yesterday I shoved all the pots of Eucomis autumnalis into the basement, even though they are still very green. It has been quite dry, and rooftop night temperatures as low as 32.0 degrees Fahrenheit. Time to hibernate! -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…