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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Interest in Stenomesson, any interest in Tulipa clusiana?
(Rodney Barton)
2. Re: Sparaxis and Gladiolus suffering (michaelcmace@gmail.com)
3. Re: If Ari could pick up next month? Or you on a visit to
Alby? (Claudia)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rodney Barton <rbartontx@yahoo.com>
To: Janet Hoffmann via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
Cc:
Bcc:
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:30:33 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [pbs] Interest in Stenomesson, any interest in Tulipa
clusiana?
I'd like some T. clusiana if they don't go to the bulb exchange. PLs
contact me off list: rbartontx@yahoo.com.
Rod

On Monday, March 27, 2023 at 01:30:24 PM CDT, Janet Hoffmann via pbs

pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

If you are trying to gage interest, I for one would be interested in the
Stenomesson, both colors, maybe a bulb or two or each.

I have a lot of Tulipa clusiana. They are in bloom right now and will go
dormant as the weather warms up here. We are having an unusually cool
spring in the San Jose, CA area with frost this morning. I have rather
heavy rocky soil and I found last year that the only way that I can dig
them is when the soil is moist from rain. I am thinking that I will dig
them the end of next week after the next bout of rain and when the blooms
are starting to fade. I can put them in a large planter until they go

dormant. I am not sure if I will make the April 17th cutoff window. I am
also trying to gage whether there is interest in this bulb and if I

bother trying to save some. I do need to thin them in any case being as
after over 25 years in the ground, they are starting to take over my

yard.

Janet

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <michaelcmace@gmail.com>
To: <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 06:56:08 -0700
Subject: Re: [pbs] Sparaxis and Gladiolus suffering
Gianni wrote:

then dried up and Sparaxis grandiflora and Gladiolus splendens have not
flowered

It's not unusual to get some leaf tip dieback on South African bulbs, but
if
there's a lot more dieback than in the past and they're no longer
flowering,
I agree that something went wrong.

It could be a disease, but I can't see the photos, so I can't help with
that.

Usually I interpret leaf dieback as a symptom that something went wrong
underground. Some of the roots have been killed, and the leaves die back
because the reduced roots can't support them. Potential causes of root
damage:
--Too much water at some point in time (which caused some of the roots to
rot)
--Too little water at some time (which also causes roots to die back)
--Your soil has broken down and no longer drains well
--Bugs underground are eating roots
--Too much fertilizer damaged the roots
--The veranda got too hot at some point in the growing season and damaged
the roots

Note that too little fertilizer doesn't usually damage the roots -- the
plants just get stunted.

At this point, your best bet is to pay careful attention to watering (not
too much, not too little) until the bulbs are dormant, and then repot

fresh soil in the summer. Hopefully it will just be a one year problem.

Mike
San Jose, CA

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Claudia <chava52@gmail.com>
To: pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net, Leslie Valas <vffam5@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:12:12 -0700
Subject: Re: [pbs] If Ari could pick up next month? Or you on a visit to
Alby?
I am interested in getting some of your bulbs. Please let me know when

have dug them out--my sister comes to San Jose periodically (we are in
Berkeley) and could get them.
Thanks
Claudia

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 10:48 AM Linda Press Wulf <lindapwulf@gmail.com>
wrote:

and

case

over

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