Re: transplanting Jacks in the pulpit

I, too, am intriqued with growing more Jack in the Pulpits.

First year, I bought them from a propagator in NH, licensed to gather in the
wild and propagate from them.  He would only ship in the fall, after Labor
Day, if I remember correctly. The few purchased have survived.

I am now on an estate job where there are Jacks all over the place.  The
location is on a hillside of downward streams of water off a hillside street
over ledge and going into a collection pond of old quarry land. Very wet.
Sandy soil and acid.

I thought I found my pot of gold!  Some large, some babies etc...they just
increase like crazy!  I moved some in the springtime into pots, with
success.  Seems like location, location, location, is the answer to the
setting of seeds.  They must like moisture, acid soil and good drainage.  ?
Now, I just collect seed from mine and distribute them in a wet location and
hope for the best. Hey, if mother nature said it should work...I just try to
duplicate!

Hope this helps!

Bobbie

Bobbie Brooks,  MA    zone 6.5
Gardens In An Old Fashioned Way
http://daylily.net/gardens/bobbiebrooks.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Gail Korn <gkorn@BLOOMNET.COM>
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [SG] transplanting Jacks in the pulpit


>Karen, yes you can move your jacks now or later this month.  I'd probably
>wait till later this month.  I plant the corms just as I do lily bulbs--3
>times the depth of the bulb.  Not sure if that is quite right or not, but
>they always grow.  I did collect those red seed clusters one fall,  and
>planted them in a flat of pure compost.  I placed the flat in an unheated
>greenhouse over winter.  The next spring, nothing happened.  I didn't get
>around to dumping them  and in mid-late June, the babies started popping
>up.  I later transplanted them to a shady area.  They aren't very big yet,
>but they are coming.  I was just guessing about what to do with the
>seeds.  If anyone has a better method,  I'd be interested in knowing it.
>
>Gail Korn
>Wayne, Nebr. Zone 4A
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