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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: pontus on August 07, 2012, 11:12:30 PM
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hello everyone,
does anyone have any good advice on growing allium red eye sucesfully?
i wanted to grow some this year for a show. I planted a few bulbs in the ground and a few in big pots last october. (end of october and early november). They seemed to root quickly, and then almost immediately produced leaves, these all looked fine untill disaster struck! -17°c for 3 days in january/february, followed by wet alternating with freezing cold. The overwintering leaves all died and turned to slush as i had imagined, however, i thought the bulb would still be ok and a possibility of flowering, but they had all died too, apart from 2 in pots which had miraculousely survived, but grew very poorly...
i did not know this was an anutumn growing hybrid?
would it be better perpahs to store bulbs in a fridge untill late november and plant then, when leaves cannot grow anyway because it is too cold? or plant in february? or will this harm the bulbs??
Pontus
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If I remember well is the real name from this crossing Allium Silverspring
but this name is registered (I still don't know how this is possible)
because they are seedlings
they can rename it with this trick
Allium doesn't like potting mixture
better to use a loam based mixture
not a peat based one
Buy from this one not to large bulbs
14+ is Ok
but they are short living
and not completely hardy
most bulbs aren't hardy in pots
probably because the temperature changes to fast
even very hardy ones like Cyclamen hederifolium dies in pots at -8ºC
Roland