Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Cultivation => Cultivation Problems => Topic started by: pontus on November 25, 2014, 01:08:21 PM
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Hello everyone,
a few days ago i brought in my pot of ixia viridiflora, as colder temperatures and maybe potential frosts where forecasted, and as there was a budded flowerstem on one corm, i did not want to risk it getting damaged...
it grew well to begin with, and buds kept expaanding and looking good, untill only a few days ago when they suddenly, instead of opening, started drooping and shrivelling, and one even fell off this morning ! :(
what is happening? can i save the last few flowers and make them open anyway? it would be a shame to loose the spike after such a long whait! I have momentarily brought it back outdoors in a vers sheltered spot on the balcony. as i suspected maybe they did not like the indoor heat or dry atmosphere....
Pontus
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Hi pontus,
the flowers may need more light to open,
cheers
fermi
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I'm not as hopeful as fermi - I think once such flowers have suffered an abrupt temperature swing and begun to shrivel, there is little hope of saving them. :'(