We hope you have enjoyed the SRGC Forum. You can make a Paypal donation to the SRGC by clicking the above button

Author Topic: Calochortus bulbules  (Read 3249 times)

PEAK

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Posts: 79
  • Always from seed!
Calochortus bulbules
« on: February 08, 2007, 08:04:39 AM »
I have from British Columbia received small bulbules of Calochortus vesta. Now I would need some input how to handle these. I am familiar with sowing of Calochortus, they usually respond well to the "put the pot outside and forget it" technique! But what about bulbules, do they have a dormancy needed to brake? How should I handle them in our north Scottish climate?
-5C and 30 cm of snow in the morning!
Per-Åke Löfdahl Bulb Enthusiast
Stockholm-Sweden

Ian Y

  • Bulb Despot
  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2112
  • Country: scotland
  • Why grow one bulb when you can grow two:-))
    • Direct link to the Bulb Log SRGC
Re: Calochortus bulbules
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2007, 01:41:50 PM »
The Calochortus that I grow like a fairy dry winter, I start to give them a good soaking late February easrly March.

I would sow them good and deep in a pot of compost that is not wet but not dry either, keep them dry under glass and then water them when your temperatures start to rise in March.
Ian Young, Aberdeen North East Scotland   - 
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=bulb

PEAK

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Posts: 79
  • Always from seed!
Re: Calochortus bulbules
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2007, 02:07:06 PM »
Thank you Ian, your suggestions seems sound to me! Thats the way I will do it!
By the way, the bulbules were received as C. vestae, and I have noticed that this name is widely used. But IPNI lists no such, they only list a C.vesta. However Kew in the world checklist of monocots:
http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do
do list it as C.vestae! So an e or not an e, that is the question!
Per-Åke Löfdahl Bulb Enthusiast
Stockholm-Sweden

 


Scottish Rock Garden Club is a Charity registered with Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR): SC000942
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal