What is a sand plunge? On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net> wrote: > I'd recommend either a plunge, or keeping the pots in full shade. Sylvia > doesn't say whether the pots are plastic or pottery. My cyclamen species > that are not in the ground are in clay pots kept under my shaded plant > stands in summer, where a little water drips onto them so they are humid, > if not wet. In the Bay Area no species should need winter protection; I > keep C. rohlfsianum and C. creticum indoors under lights in winter here in > Portland, Oregon (colder than where Paul lives), and C. rhodense is in a > raised bed in the unheated bulb house. All the others are outdoors all the > time (I don't have C. libanoticum, C. persicum, or C. balearicum, also > rather tender). I don't think any species needs to be completely dry in > summer; indeed, there's a volunteer C. graecum in a heavily watered > perennial bed of very organic soil, and it flowered this year too. > > Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA > > > On 6/27/2018 4:34 PM, Paul wrote: > >> I maintain many Cyclamen in pots five miles from the ocean near Brookings >> OR. After killing many seedlings from over drying, I now keep my pots in a >> sand plunge and water the sand over the summer. Cyclamen seem best served >> in as small a pot as possible, but I discovered that if the roots desiccate >> too much the plant is doomed. >> >> Paul Otto >> Brookings Or ( where the rain is absent from June to September) >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Jun 27, 2018, at 4:00 PM, Sylvia Sykora <slsykora@sbcglobal.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I’d be grateful for suggestions from those who grow Cyclamen in pots in >>> Northern California (Bay Area) or elsewhere with a similar lengthy summer >>> drought some heat, some abundant fog. C. hederifolium and C. coum seem to >>> take care of themselves in the ground even with summer water (the former >>> beginning to bloom this week before all the leaves have died down). But >>> small pots of other species baffle me. Do I keep them shaded and dry all >>> summer? Dry but in the sun? Can they take our sometimes abundant fog drip >>> from June through August? Do they need a sand plunge bed? And why did C. >>> cilicium put out fresh leaves and a few blooms two weeks ago? As the kids >>> say, “So, what’s going on?” In past years I’ve left the pots out on plant >>> stands, moving them out of fierce sun during heat waves and letting them >>> take what fog drip blows in from the ocean. I’m keeping seedlings in >>> their first and second year watered through our summer. Any ideas that >>> might work for a collection of small pots of these lovelies would be >>> welcomed. >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> Sylvia Sykora >>> Oakland, CA >>> _______________________________________________ >>> pbs mailing list >>> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net >>> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net >> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… >> > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…