Hostas Indoors?
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- Subject: Hostas Indoors?
- From: L* T*
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:58:22 -0400
Folks, I have a question. Well, several questions asking
specifics.
I know hostas need a dormant period, and I've heard that 8
weeks dormancy was sufficient for them. First question, is
this true?
Next, what if I wanted to refrigerate/freeze hostas? How
would I go about doing this? I thought about it this
weekend, and I obviously don't have room to stick 4-5 pots
in my refrigerator crisper. What would happen if I wrapped
the crown and roots in newspaper and 'crisped' them?
I have a pretty big freezer in the garage and I thought
about using that. At first I thought that would be crazy and
kill them, but then I thought about you folks in Minnesota
with snow up the ying-yang, and thought, hey, why not? So,
what would happen if I put hostas in the freezer? Again,
would I wrap it in newspaper?
Anyone ever try this? Anyone ever written an article that I
could read?
I'm thinking if I did this now, they would be ready to take
out in mid-December, where I can grow them indoors for a
while, and let the ones I have inside go dormant about mid
January. Kinda start a rotation program till spring, then
put them outside again.
What do you guys think would happen?
Thanks for the input,
Lu (Atlanta, Zone 7B)
Website: http://www.bigfoot.com/~Hostanut
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