So dry them off and chuck them in the fridge? On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 17:58, Lee Poulsen <wpoulsen@pacbell.net> wrote: > I would love to hear a summary of all that you were told, Uli. > > And to add one more set of suggestions, I asked Alex Cespedes of Bolivia > if he knew anything about flowering C. fragrans. Alex has just published a > new Chlidanthus species, Chlidanthus ariruma, and grows all three species. > Here’s what he told me: > > “I have fragrans collected from habitat. These plants, more than anything, > need rest/dormancy during cold for half a year. They flower in November and > have leaves until February. Afterwards, they enter dormancy all winter and > part of spring. Their climate is dry and cold. Only with the abundant rains > do they sprout and flower. The majority of those who cultivate this species > commit this error; they don’t let the bulbs rest.” > > --Lee Poulsen > Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a > Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m > > > On Jul 7, 2019, at 1:21 PM, Johannes-Ulrich Urban < > johannes-ulrich-urban@t-online.de> wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > > Thank you very much for your help and advice in flowering this plant, > most of it was sent to me privately. Interestingly the advice given is > extremely different if not contradictory but the common issue seems to be > to keep it hungry and thirsty. I will change the growing conditions of this > plant and will patiently observe...... > > > > Bye for today > > > > Uli > > _______________________________________________ > 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/…