[pbs] What promotes blooming?

fierycloud2002 fierycloud2002 at yahoo.com.tw
Fri Oct 12 08:17:36 EDT 2007


Hello:
Maybe these links help.
http://www.actahort.org/books/430/430_32.htm
http://www.pubhort.org/actahort/books/134/134_5.htm

Fierycloud, Taiwan. USDA Z11+ AHS Z12+.

--- "J.E. Shields" <jshields at indy.net> »¡¡G

> I'd like to know too!  I have several different
> Nerine bowdenii 
> batches.  Only one of them, from a nurseryman in the
> Netherlands and used 
> there for cut flower production, blooms every year
> -- and that one only 
> blooms 4 or 5 out of 9 bulbs (not always the same 4
> or 5).
> 
> Some are in communal pots, many are in individual
> 1-gal. pots, others are 
> individually potted in 5.5" sq. X 6" deep pots --
> most of these have never 
> bloomed!
> 
> What are the secrets?
> 
> Jim Shields
> in central Indiana, where all the pots are now
> inside the grenhouses.
> 
> 
> At 05:55 PM 10/11/2007 -0700, you wrote:
> >    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.
> 
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