Bulbs > Galanthus
Chipping/Twin-scaling type question
annew:
--- Quote from: Natalia on April 22, 2018, 02:05:13 PM ---thanks for answers
Alan_b - yes, this form of the flower is stable - I have several plants of this type of different types - they keep their shape from year to year.
Brian Ellis - Yes, I was wrong and I asked the wrong question
Thanks, but it helped.
When you trimmed the trims, did you observe a variation in shape? Do I understand correctly?
Then the meeting question - there is still an old way of reproduction of Amarylls - cross-cutting the bottom of the bulb. Theoretically this is just a stimulation of the formation of children. How do you think - in this case there will also be a scatter in forms?
I chiping chimeras - the young plants received from chips completely repeated the parent plant.
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Sorry I have not been following this thread. Yes you can cross-cut the base and they will make bulbils.
Some inverse poculiforms seem stable (eg Trymlet and Trym), but some are very unstable (eg Trimmer). Be prepared to save only the ones that are true, and throw away the others! Also do not chip the young bulbs again until they have flowered so you can check they are true before cutting.
Will23:
Hi, I'm just looking for a bit of advice if possible please. I noticed a few pots in which the bulbs had not sprouted this winter, so knocked out the pots. Most of them had rotted but, one of them contained two bulbs with no shoots or roots. The variety is Hollis. They were firm but there was no sign of life. I decided to try to save them so gave them a good soak in fungicide and chipped them into 28 pieces. This was at the end of January. There are a lot of bulbils on the chips now and, if it was autumn, I would be potting them up. Should I pot them up now or leave them in the bag over the summer and pot up at the normal time for chips? I've attached a photo of a couple of the bulbs. What do you think? Many thanks, Will
David Lowndes:
I haven’t any experience of this situation but my instinct is that 2 months in the bag is long enough. Temperatures are rising and metabolic activity will increase so more oxygen will be needed (admittedly not a lot!). So, I would pot them up now.
annew:
I would pot them up now and keep somewhere cool and shaded. They will probably not produce any leaves until next spring at the usual time.
Will23:
Thank you for your comments David & Anne. I'll pot them up this weekend. Cheers, Will
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