Yes, I would leave it outside and let it bulk up. It will look like hell but put it where you don't have to look at it.
I used to store potted bulbs in the back of the greenhouse because they aren't safe in pots outside, even tho they do fine here in the ground. But in the greenhouse, they sprout early and then are leggy by the time it's warm enough to go outside (April 15 roughly). So now all the potted inventory is just buried under some straw and they do fine outside. For your situation I would suggest digging the bulbs and storing them dry; that might keep them dormant longer.
Judy might have more to contribute as she winters hers inside in NJ.
Note that 'Sparkling Burgundy' has light pink flowers. The name refers to the foliage, which is purple in spring.
Bob Zone 7 where a few of the eucomis are already starting to put up spikes and the Eucomis Working Group have almost completed the buildout of our species bank
On Saturday, June 11, 2022, 11:09:12 PM EDT, Kathy Purdy via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
I normally just lurk on this list but I have some confused eucomis and I
don't know how to straighten them out. I planted 3 bulbs of Eucomis
Sparkling Burgundy in a container last spring. They grew but did not bloom;
I figured they needed to bulk up. Our first frost that autumn was a freeze
and caught me unawares. My pot of eucomis might have been frozen solid when
I brought it to the basement. My basement stays in the mid- to upper 50s
(F) and the eucomis apparently thought winter was over and spring had come,
and started growing again in early January, which is deep, snowy winter
here.
So I brought it upstairs and treated it like a houseplant. It grew and
grew, had two blooms that weren't burgundy (probably not enough light) and
they grew--well, all the leaves and the flower stalks got very elongated
due to not enough light. In January, through a window, there's just not
enough. So I have an already-bloomed eucomis with long floppy leaves that
droop over the sides of the container when now I would be bringing out a
pot of just-emerging bulbs to grow and bloom in the summer sunshine.
What should I do? Leave it outside with its current set of leaves and let
it build up the bulb for next year? Let it dry out, cut off the current set
of leaves, and hope it pushes out another set? Throw it on the compost pile
and start over? Well, I don't really want to do that, but I'm not sure how
to get it back on schedule.
Kathy
Oxford, NY (USDA Hardiness Zone 5)
35.4°F (1.6°C) on June 6, 2022 at 5am.
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Kathy Purdy
2018 Winner of *two* Garden Writers Association
Silver Awards of Achievement for Blog Writing and Newsletter Article
http://www.coldclimategardening.com/
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