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Cultivation => Cultivation Problems => Topic started by: ruweiss on December 15, 2010, 08:31:02 PM

Title: Storing Gladiolus corms ?
Post by: ruweiss on December 15, 2010, 08:31:02 PM

Can one of the experts explain me the best way how to store
the dry corms of Gladiolus flanaganii during wintertime?

Title: Re: Storing Gladiolus corms ?
Post by: Brian Ellis on December 15, 2010, 11:08:58 PM

I'm no expert, but I just leave them in the pot, bone dry in a cold greenhouse and repot just before they start into growth in the spring, it's worked perfectly for the last three or four years.

Title: Re: Storing Gladiolus corms ?
Post by: Darren on December 16, 2010, 08:06:33 AM

I do exactly as Brian does and it has worked for 8 years. Also - it gets through our wet winters fine planted out on the rock garden, flowers and seeds itself around each year. Even last winter when it was soaked in November then frozen for three months. Far more reliable outside than most.

Title: Re: Storing Gladiolus corms ?
Post by: ruweiss on December 16, 2010, 08:38:01 PM

Dear friends, thank you for the good advice. Next year I will also try some corms
in the open garden.

Title: Re: Storing Gladiolus corms ?
Post by: Darren on December 17, 2010, 10:50:26 AM

remember it is a chasmophyte in nature - mine are planted in very gritty soil between two large stones. Our natural soil beneath is very well drained also.

Title: Re: Storing Gladiolus corms ?
Post by: ruweiss on December 18, 2010, 09:24:03 PM

Darren, thank you for this additional information, I will do my very best to
cultivate this botanical gem in my garden.