Fritillaria atropurpurea, et al

Cody H plantboy@gmail.com
Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:21:10 PDT
You can sow them like seeds under a thin layer of grit/sand/lava rock in a
fast dranining gritty mix in a large flat and raise them to larger sizes,
if you’re interested in propagating them. I imagine in the right
microclimate they’d do fine down in the ground this way too. I’m currently
doing the same for a zillion or so rice bulbils from F. recurva. Last year
I grew them on under lights indoors, and they doubled their size over the
winter (to about 3-4mm). I’ve kept them dry indoors over the summer but am
about to put them back out in a protected spot where they’ll be exposed to
a small fraction of our upcoming winter rains. The parent bulbs did fine
with a similar treatment last winter (outdoors), I’m curious to see how the
tiny ones fare. I’ve also got a pot of slowly increasing rice bulbils of F.
camschatica. They seem to appreciate not drying out too completely or
getting too hot in the summer.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 3:12 PM Hansen Nursery <robin@hansennursery.com>
wrote:

> It seems like there was a discussion in the past about what to do when you
> go to transplant a large pot of Fritillaria atropurpurea and how to deal
> with a zillion rice bulblets in addition to what seems like the "mother"
> bulbs.  Maybe a zillion isn't far off.  I quit counting when I became
> overwhelmed at the number of babies.
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> I'll transplant the mothers into separate containers, but how to manage the
> babies eludes me.  Any help would be appreciated.
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> Robin on the OR southwest coast where the wind is blowing way too much
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