I live in coastal Northern California where temperatures are not as extreme so am not sure if my experience applies. I usually unpot my Oxalis so I can share extras with the BX and store them in paper bags and pot them up as I see signs of life. Therefore I usually end up repotting in July, August, and September depending on the species. The ones that flower in the fall start growing before the winter flowering ones. So far I've potted about 10 species. Most of them were already showing signs of life, but none of them are up yet. Potting can be tricky since you can't always tell if what you see is the root or the shoot. Sometimes even when I pot them on their side they have grown out the slits in the bottom of the pots. This has happened more than once with O. purpurea as shown in the photo. Even though the fall flowering ones are flowering in the hottest part of the year for us (September, October) that hasn't seemed to be a problem, but then we usually don't have as many hot days in a row as Sacramento. Of the ones you mentioned O. bowiei is usually the first to show green after repotting, often in August, sometimes September. O. purpurea is later, September or October and when I grew O. versicolor still later. Of the ones I grow Oxalis obtusa and O. compressa are the last ones I repot. Even if I repot them in late August, they may not come up until October or November. Mary Sue > I have read that the South African oxalis bloom best if watering commences in August, but no specifics about when in August. Also wanted to know how temperature relates to the timing. Here in the Sacramento California area it is supposed to be in the hundreds for several days this week, and I am sure these won’t be the last hundred degree days. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Oxalis_purpurea_white_msi_2017.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 245877 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
