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Re: Ready for Winter

ladypenguin wrote:
> 
> Can someone help me with preparing paperwhite bulbs for bloom in the winter?  Have had them wrapped up in newspaper and darkness
> for a few months...can they just be put in a pot of dirt now and set in a sunny window?
> 
> Kelly Sutton
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Kelly, are they actually putting out roots like that?  The way I
understand bulbs, they don't root unless they have solid contact
at the basal plate.  If they didn't root, you can take them out
and put them in dirt all you want and all you're going to get for
months is bulb noses peeking out the top.  They should have been
planted (or set) when you started the forcing.

Incidentally, paperwhites are just as happy on top of a dish of
gravel as they are in a pot of soil. Forcing is a
one-time-per-bulb thing anyway, so the long-term care is
basically not all that important.

-- 
Jim Gray 
Quality Assurance, Tipton
jjg2@c-cor.com
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