[pbs] What promotes blooming?
Vicki Demetre
vickidemetre at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 11 20:55:21 EDT 2007
This is a bit off the subject but related - does anyone have an
idea of what can prompt or encourage Nerine bowdenii to flower? I
have several (in containers) which have nice foliage, but
no flower stalks as yet. Is it too soon to get nervous?
Vicki D.
On Oct 11, 2007, at 4:26 PM, MARK MAZER AND FREDRIKA MAZER wrote:
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>> [Original Message]
>> From: jegrace <jegrace at rose.net>
>> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs at lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Date: 10/11/2007 5:49:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: [pbs] What promotes blooming?
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>> I like the idea of barometric pressure and will need to test- I
>> had been
>> thinking it was something having to do with lightning
>>
>> I can tell you for a fact that several of my Zephyranthes,
>> Habranthus,
>> Crinum and Rhodophialas can tell the difference between natural
>> rain and
>> anything I can come up with. I have tried hose water, sprinklers,
>> (both
>> city water) and rainwater from a barrel. Depending on the bulb
>> some of
> the
>> more "easy" ones respond to quantity, a few more to quality
>> (rainwater)
> but
>> most of them stubbornly wait for the real thing- rainwater from
>> the sky.
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>> Size, age, temperature and timing definitely come into play but I
>> still
>> think some bulbs have other triggers.
>>
>> Erin Grace
>> Thomasville, GA, USA
>> Zone 8b, AHS heat zone 9
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