Having "transplanted" many of these and other chaparral bulbs (rebuilding trails many dozens parted from root and leaf). No resprouts if potted moist nor any rotting, in fact no rotting under cool moist conditions all summer. Storage warm dry, or cool dry/moist caused no effect on breaking dormancy in the fall. They would probably do fine planted now, or as convenient over the summer or fall for the rains. Robert planting native bulbs in baskets so the damned gophers don't steal them and cache them in bad places On Tue, Apr 4, 2023, 6:48 PM Jack & Val Myrick via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > They are also native to the Sierra foothills where I live and where the > temperatures can spend several > months in the 100s. If they were mine, I’d also do what Jane advises. > > Val > Sonora > > > On Apr 4, 2023, at 4:46 PM, Vince Scheidt via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > > Yes, sorry I'm in San Diego. The summer should be very hot down here and > I > > am also worried about rotting. I think it's probably too late for them to > > germinate new leaves this year. My first inclination is to keep them > cool > > and dry, and put them in the refrigerator when the temperature is get > super > > hot. > > > > Thanks! > > > > On Tue, Apr 4, 2023, 4:37 PM Jane McGary via pbs < > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > >> Vince does not say where he lives, so it's hard to give advice. In its > >> native Pacific Northwest, I would just plant them in a rough area of the > >> garden. This is a very tolerant plant, still known to most of us as > >> Dichelostemma capitatum. If the leaves are missing, there's no point in > >> watering the corms and they might rot, so they could be put in a pot and > >> set aside in a cool place until next fall, when, if surviving, they can > >> be planted out. > >> > >> Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA > >> > >> On 4/4/2023 3:29 PM, Vince Scheidt via pbs wrote: > >>> I was given a couple of damaged Blue Dicks (*Dipterostemon capitatus*) > >>> corms today and I am unsure what to do with them. They had leaves, but > >> the > >>> leaves were broken off, so just the corms at this point. Should I > replant > >>> them? Refrigerate them until next winter? Keep them dry until next > >> winter? > >>> Plant them and begin to water them? > >>> > >>> Vince > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> pbs mailing list > >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > >> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > >> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > >> PBS Forum latest: > >> https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…