Jim:
Glad to hear that your crinums fared well this winter. As for pot sizes,
we grow all of our crinums in the nursery in 1 gallon pots (6" diameter).
They grow, multiply, and flower. They may not get quite as big as they
would in larger pots, but growing and flowering has never been a problem.
At 08:49 AM 5/21/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I was not shocked a couple weeks ago to see scapes appearing in the tubs of
>my large crinums over-wintered under the benches in the greenhouse, but I'm
>very surprised to see a fresh spent scape on one of the Crinum bulbispermum
>plants growing outdoors in the ground on the east side of the greenhouse.
>
>I can't figure how I missed seeing that when it was in bloom. It must have
>been in the past two weeks; guess I've been busier than I though.....
>
>Among the crinums in containers, I have blooms on C. x-powellii roseum and
>C. x-powellii album. There are scapes growing on CC. bulbispermum and
>macowanii so far.
>
>In deference to Dave Lehmiller's ("Dr. Crinum" in IBS) insistence that
>crinums grown in containers need pots at least 20 inches across, I am
>gradually moving my plants to 7.5 gallon (15-inch diameter at top, ca 25
>liters) plastic tubs. Since these have handles, I can move them (just
>barely!) onto the front loader of my Kubota. Most of them are in 5-gal.
>plastic nursery containers, and when they burst these they go into the 7.5
>gal. tubs. Bigger than that I cannot go without buying a forklift!
>
>Regards,
>Jim Shields
>in central Indiana
>
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