Re: favorite shade plants

> From: Gene Bush <genebush@otherside.com>
>     In the nursery I can tell you that they seem to be sensitive to
> transplanting at all stages. I have grown them from tissue culture
to pints,
> to 5 pints pots. Each stage I loose some of them. They just sit
there and
> dwindle away. Rest go on.... have no explanation. Most I lost was
from
> ordering 4 inch transplants this spring... lost about 25 percent of
them
> when potting up to 5 pint.
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Gene, I find this interesting and wonder why....I have only ever
transplanted while the plants were in growth and mine have not (knock
on wood) seemed to mind this.  In fact, when I moved my old clump
this spring, I was chastising myself for leaving the job until it had
started growth - thinking I should have done it earlier...now, I
wonder if I was lucky to have waited that long.

So, I am curious - were you transplanting in full growth, dormancy,
just starting growth...when?  Am wondering if when makes a
difference?  

I did discover that Carex petriei does not like to be divided and
transplanted while dormant - in winter.  I had 2 seed pots that I had
neglected to prick out  last year - they were solid with seedlings;
roots like fine cobweb in pot shape; a solid block.  Well, last
winter, I took one and just cut it into 6 chunks and potted those and
then got busy and didn't do the same to the other pot until late Feb.
 The first lot languished; thought I'd lost them and they are still
just recovering; the 2nd lot grew away like gangbusters.....so 'when'
can make a difference with some things.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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