Diane, it is a regular practice to remove any BUD from cut flower Chrysanthemum to avoid access to further propagation of the variety. > From: voltaire@islandnet.com > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:48:09 -0800 > Subject: Re: [pbs] Dahlia rooting > > Back about the same time, I thought I could do the same thing with > cutflowers that I bought specially for the purpose. Chrysanthemums, I > think. When I got them home I found all the buds along the stems had > been removed. But that won't have been done for a flower show, so > I'll try again. > > Diane > > On 11-Mar-11, at 8:59 AM, Brian Whyer wrote: > > > Back in my flower show days (the late 1970's), I discovered that > > many cut flower stems could be rooted after the show was over, > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/