Tigridia pavonia

Garak garak@code-garak.de
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 23:56:09 PDT
Hi,

I agree that water is the key to Tigridia Pavonia - they do need a lot 
of it in my middle European summers, at least whenever the continental 
climate coming from the east is  dominant. During winter they actually 
tolerate a lot - even seedlings can be kept dry without any protection, 
just laying openly in a shelf in the basement. As they are indeed easy 
from seed, i sometimes leave some deliberately out in my Zone 7, rather 
wet winters - they have a good chance to return if the winter was mild - 
I've yet to see if they survived the 3 weeks of severe frost this January.

Rimmer, I don't know when your last frost is to be expected - for me 
it's in the middle of May, so I plant the Tigridias at the beginning of 
April - they start flowering mid June. Late frosts are definitely not a 
problem for emerging foliage. I wonder if your vegetation period is long 
enough for them? do they diminish for you ?

The same routine works for me with Tigridia vanHouttei and Cypella 
herbertii - the latter one has the very nice habit of giving a second 
flower spike in fall, which Tigridias never do for me. Unfortunately, I 
had to find out that Tigridia orthantha needs better protection from 
drying out.

-- 
Martin
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Southern Germany
Likely zone 7a



Am 17.03.2017 um 13:58 schrieb Rimmer deVries:
> Hi Mary Sue, i use dahlia culture to grow these here in Michigan where we get hot summers and frigid winters
>
> i plant them in the open garden in early June when the clay soil is warn and water them well all summer, no water means no flowers. they bloom in July August Sept.
> I dig them when it gets cold and put the bulbs with dirt clods in a box or bag with crumpled newspapers and store in basement all winter at 50-60ºF and plant them next June,  some dry out but the dirt clods on the bulbs and the newspapers keep them all from drying out. i have been doing this for over 5 years. i may soak the bulbs for a hour before planting if they look to desiccated.
>
> see http://srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/… <http://srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/…>
>
> Rimmer
> SE MI
> Zone 5-6
>
>
>> On Mar 17, 2017, at 1:02 AM, Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> wrote:
>>
>> When I lived in Stockton, California I grew Tigridia pavonia in raised beds with perennial flowers. It came back year after year and produced a succession of flowers. I haven't had a lot of luck growing it successfully in coastal Northern California where we get much more rain in winter and summer temperatures are cooler, especially at night. Purchased bulbs I put in the ground didn't reappear so I tried growing some from seed and keeping them in pots. I had some success with that, but very few flowers and nothing in subsequent years. Still, when I saw the photos of Ellen's 'Sunset in Oz' I was smitten and so when I saw if offered in the NARGS seed exchange I decided it would be worth it if I got to see a couple of flowers. And I was curious what they would look like. I had discovered from my other experiences growing this species from seed that it was possible to get it to bloom the first year if you transplanted it up to a deeper pot after it came up and fertilized it. I sowed seed on February 22 and seedlings started emerging on April 15. The first flowers appeared in September. Five bulbs bloomed that month. Luckily I was home as the flowers only last for part of a day. Two of them resembled the cultivar and the other three did not. The following month a second flower was produced on two of the plants. And that was it. Seven flowers lasting less than a day.
>>
>> I moved the pot into my greenhouse so it could be dry over the winter and didn't repot. The second year there were lots of leaves and only one flower one day. But it was a beautiful red and it happened on my husband's birthday so that was special.
>>
>> I moved the pot in the greenhouse again when it went dormant and recently I unpotted and discovered there were lots of bulbs of different sizes which really surprised me. I probably should give it up as I obviously don't have the right climate to grow these, but I'm giving them one more chance and planted a few of them out and a few in a pot and am sending the rest to Dell for the BX. If they can flower from seed in months, it would seem there would be a chance for smaller bulbs to flower this year. I added photos of my 8 flowers to the wiki.
>>
>> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
>>
>> After years of drought we've had a lot of rain and some things are flowering that I haven't seen for years so that is very exciting.
>>
>> Mary Sue
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Martin
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