Moraea

Lauw de Jager dejager@bulbargence.com
Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:45:17 PDT
TheAfricanGarden@aol.com a *crit :
I guess the secret would be in the storage of the Moraeas. I don't grow 
Moraeas but I grow other spring irids, they often need quite high winter
light levels to produce flowering sized bulbs on an annual basis. Hence
I  would try and store them as long as possible through the winter so
that the emerging bulbs get as much light as you can possibly give them.
However there is often a very fine line between holding back a bulb and
dessicating  it. Lauw may be able to give you a better idea about
storing Moraea.

Dear All,
 I am not accustomed to growing Moraeas  outside a mediterranean
climate, where I keep the period out of the ground as short as possible.
Example: M polystachya is already back in the ground and shoots are
poking up. Most other species will be active by the end of august if
planted or left in the ground.  I cannot see  why: "store them as long
as possible through the winter so that the emerging bulbs get as much
light as". This might be valid for summer growing species, but most
wintergrowers will stop growing as soon as day temperatures rise above
25° (77°F).  Unless  one wants to go through the trouble to inverse the
cycle  and expose the corms to a warm winter storage  and grow them as
cool as possible during the summer.
Kind regards 

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Lauw de Jager 
BULB'ARGENCE, 30300 Fourques, France
Région: Provence/Camargue; (Climat zone 9a Mediterranean)

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