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bulb planting advice
Hi I've just bought some cyclamen (hederefolium?) and polyanthes tuberose bulbs, could anyone advise how best to plant? I planted tuberose 3 to a pot (approx 8 inches) after a brief soak, I don't even know which way up tp plant the cyclamen! one end has what looks like where a shoot would come, is this root or shoot? help please!!
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There are potential growing pints all over the top of cyclamen corms. The top often appears to be concave. Does that help?
Get them in the soil, they don't like to be hanging about out of the soil. Shallow plant, no more than an inch.
In the sticks near Peterborough
thanks nut i'll try to get them in today got them friday
True Welshonion. Have to admit to never having planted a dry one. I move them green and don't move the big ones at all.
I think they mound up and expose themselves () having started below ground but I've never done any experiments to prove that.
Just check RHS who say an inch. I think I'd cover them and leave them to sort themselves out, being exposed with no root growth through the summer is much the same as being stored dry, they don't like that
In the sticks near Peterborough
There are many seeds where I think the seed packet advice is to plant too deeply. I am apt to follow Mother Nature in some regards! And especially with regard to the time plants naturally cast their seed.
i planted maybe half an inch-an inch, thankyou both, now please can someone help me with these tuberose bulbs?
Won't be me rosemummy. I don't know what they are
In the sticks near Peterborough
I grew polyanthes tuberose a few years ago. They need a very warm, sunny spot - I grew mine in the conservatory and they smelt lovely. Didn't manage to get them to flower in the 2nd or 3rd years though - just foliage. Gave up and converted them to compost at that point.
thanks bob, i've brought them inside, when they show shoots i'll pop back in gh and then out in sunniest bit of garden,i wonder if getting them to perform after first year is a general problem, as they're supposed to smell so divine and aren't expensive, not many people seem to grow them, could you just tell me did you soak your bulbs before planting? how deep did you plant and what compost did you use? thanks in advance
Hi rosemummy, I didn't soak them and used John Innes #2 compost. I planted them at twice the depth as the height of the bulb (so imagine having two bulbs stacked on top of the bulb you are planting.) That is how I plant all bulbs except tulips which I put much deeper.