Re: Storage for Daylilies
- To: , "Medit Plants"
- Subject: Re: Storage for Daylilies
- From: J*
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:07:05 -0700
The daylilies I have gotten bareroot in the mail have survived several weeks
dry in a box, no worse for the wear. The leaves were cut back to an inch or
two; the soil removed from in between the roots (this is easy with a hose
but messy; the fibrous roots were trimmed back to within a half inch of the
tubers; and the whole bare plant left to dry off for day or two before
packing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Malefakis <eem1@columbia.edu>
To: Medit Plants <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 8:09 PM
Subject: Storage for Daylilies
>HELP!
>The selection of fifty daylilies I ordered to take with me to Corfu in
>early December (yes, that's not too late to plant there) arrived here in
>NY, and they're not the tidy sack of dormant corms I expected to stash
>in my fridge till the time comes, but a huge, wet, muddy, tangled pile
>of very robust, juicy articles each with a large, tangled thatch of
>fleshy roots. There's no way I can keep them in the refrigerator in
>their present condition, and we have no balcony.
>Shall I:
>a. Untangle them and spread them out to dry in a dark corner (our
>apartment is overheated) and leave them there till I leave?
>b. Cut off the roots and refrigerate them?
>c. Wash them and let them dry off for a few days then cut off the great
>bulk of the roots, leaving a few, and then keep in the fridge?
>Does any one have any better ideas?
>thank you
>Cali Doxiadis
>(Of Corfu and, sometimes, New York)
