Boophone excitement!

arnold140@verizon.net arnold140@verizon.net
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:48:20 PDT
For the non-Yankees that's just a bit larger than a criket ball. 

Arnold

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        From: "MARK MAZER AND FREDRIKA MAZER" <markmazerandfm13@earthlink.net>
        To:  "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
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        Sent: Thursday, 05 July, 2012 09:05:38 AM
        Subject: Re: [pbs] Boophone excitement!
        
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> Will Boophone bloom in a pot?  I've had one in a pot for several years
and it has yet to bloom.  I wonder if I need to find a permanent home for
it.

Yes, big ones.  It takes 10 years or so from seed for B. disticha.  Mine
bloom when the bulb gets to be about the size of a hardball.

Mark Mazer
Hertford, North Carolina USA
Zone 8





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