Re: dividing tuberose (Polianthes)
- To: "Janet Blenkinship" , "medit-plants"
- Subject: Re: dividing tuberose (Polianthes)
- From: J*
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 07:26:38 -0800
Well, I like that answer (just don't divide unless good manners compel you);
maybe the big chunks I repotted will do well then. I did notice the very
full pot only produced a few flowering stalks last summer, and not all at
the same time.
-----Original Message-----
From: Janet Blenkinship <janetble@otenet.gr>
To: jaknelson@shastalink.k12.ca.us <jaknelson@shastalink.k12.ca.us>;
medit-plants <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Monday, March 13, 2000 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: dividing tuberose (Polianthes)
>Hi Julie
>
>I am no expert on Polianthes, but have found that the more congested the
>bulbs are the better they flower. Maybe the answer is NOT to divide them
>very often. I only do so if asked for a piece by a passer-by.
>
>regards Janet b
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Julie <jaknelson@shastalink.k12.ca.us>
>To: medit-plants <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
>Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 1:33 AM
>Subject: dividing tuberose (Polianthes)
>
>
>> Several years ago I planted a cheap Costco bag of modest-sized tuberose
>pips
>> (each ca 1.5 cm diam., 3 cm tall) in a large plastic pot on my deck and
>have
>> left them alone since then. At the end of last summer I noticed they had
>> broken the pot from growth. Today I tipped out the contents and had a go
>at
>> dividing them, and was astonished to find that each original pip (Sunset
>> calls them rhizomes, but they don't look much like rhizomes to me) has
>> produced literally hundreds of offsets to form a grapefruit-sized mass.
>> Pulling them apart, they proved to be brittle and many broke off without
>any
>> rootlets attached. My question is: will those that come off with no
>obvious
>> rootlets regenerate roots, or are they goners? Do they have a base plate
>> like narcissi? I carefully teased apart the first few hundred and then
>gave
>> up and replanted hunks of attached pips. Thanks for any advice you can
>> give.
>> **************************
>> Julie Kierstead Nelson
>> Redding, far northern inland California, USA
>> USDA zone 9, Sunset zones 7/9 margin
>> ****HOT summers****
>>
>>
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