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Post by grindle on May 2, 2018 4:09:06 GMT
that's about where mine are at the moment  |
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Post by Nucleus on May 3, 2018 17:26:19 GMT
Woohoo!  I'm guessing the small reddish things starting to appear in the corms are a sign of good things to come? Just noticed them today.   |
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Post by Granny Goose on May 3, 2018 17:33:44 GMT
Yay.. We have lift off!! Well done Nucleus |
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Post by Nucleus on May 11, 2018 14:57:39 GMT
What's the procedure with those Gladioli plz folks? I understand they need canes to support them eventually? And I'm guessing they can't be transplanted from the pots I started them in, just leave them as they are and add canes when required? Couple of them are about a foot high now.  |
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Post by grindle on May 11, 2018 15:16:31 GMT
not sure Nucleus but I would think it should be ok to plant them out, I do that with tulips and daffs, so I can't see a problem, maybe someone else will know. I do know the tall ones need staking |
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Post by SueA on May 12, 2018 7:36:20 GMT
I think the 'butterfly' type gladioli are shorter than the normal whopping big gladioli so you might not even need canes, it depends how/where you plant them out. If you put them fairly close together in a large pot or border they will probably support each other & may not need staking, they should be O.K. to plant now as they're fairly hardy.
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Post by Granny Goose on May 14, 2018 18:25:55 GMT
What's the procedure with those Gladioli plz folks? I understand they need canes to support them eventually? And I'm guessing they can't be transplanted from the pots I started them in, just leave them as they are and add canes when required? Couple of them are about a foot high now. Crikey Nucleus mine are about an inch high !😁 I've not grown them before, so I'll see how tall they grow and stake them if necessary. Mine are all in pots, and staying there. I'll just pop the pots into borders if I have gaps in the summer (I am a very lazy gardener 😁) |
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Post by Nucleus on May 31, 2018 16:06:26 GMT
Update... As you can see (image below) six of the nine Corms have started growing the plant and seem to be moving along nicely now, but three don't seem to want to know. Is this normal, is there anything I should do to encourage them? All nine pots have been outside my polythene greenhouse for about a week now. And can I show you a pic of my pride and joy (second image). They being Begonia (Apricot - Super Cascade) which I did from seed. I bought ten pelleted seeds and got six plants, gave a couple away. As any of you who have grown begonia from seed will know, they take a very long time to germinate - even in a heated propagator, I can remember them as tiny little shoots just bursting through the compost. I've bought one of those wall basket things and I think I'm going to put them in there, see if they go and cascade (as the name implies). These are my pride and joy. Edit: The ones I did from seed. I saw a couple of vids about removing the female flower (the flower sort of 4 petals not like the male full flower) to get a fuller plant, so I removed them? Any advice plz, you do that too? Anyway, as mentioned, anything I should do to encourage the three Corms that haven't started?   |
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Post by SueA on Jun 1, 2018 7:37:31 GMT
Congrats on growing those from seed Nucleus, they look great, you don't 'have' to remove the female flowers but I think it does encourage more of the bigger & showier male flowers. My begonia corms/tubers are absolute rubbish this year, I had 2 trays of 6 in the greenhouse & only about 3 are showing signs of life so far, I think it's a case of I've overwatered one tray & the other has got baked in the sun. If they get too hot & dry they just dry out/shrivel up & too wet & they rot it's just a case of judging the watering etc. which obviously I've not managed very well this year. Your other 3 might still spring into life, just check that the compost is slightly moist, or if they still feel firm & not soggy or dried out you could try potting them in fresh compost, that might give them a boost. |
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Post by Nucleus on Jun 1, 2018 7:51:32 GMT
Congrats on growing those from seed Nucleus , they look great, you don't 'have' to remove the female flowers but I think it does encourage more of the bigger & showier male flowers. My begonia corms/tubers are absolute rubbish this year, I had 2 trays of 6 in the greenhouse & only about 3 are showing signs of life so far, I think it's a case of I've overwatered one tray & the other has got baked in the sun. If they get too hot & dry they just dry out/shrivel up & too wet & they rot it's just a case of judging the watering etc. which obviously I've not managed very well this year. Your other 3 might still spring into life, just check that the compost is slightly moist, or if they still feel firm & not soggy or dried out you could try potting them in fresh compost, that might give them a boost. TY SueA . I'm assuming they shoot some roots from underneath the Corm, I'm debating whether to very gently prise those three out of the compost and see if there's anything going on underneath. If nothing is happening, I will as you say remove them and try potting them up in some fresh compost. Hmm yes watering. You might recall my recent thread about watering/feeding plants in general, and I can only repeat that it really isn't an easy thing for newbies to get to grips with, too much, too little? I think watering your plants is just a case of practice and learning from experience, and of course taking advice from those more experienced with it, but expect success and failure along the way - the learning curve. TY again for your advice, I will try. I'll post back the results a bit later. |
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Post by Nucleus on Jun 4, 2018 10:47:22 GMT
Just a quick update...
I did gently lift those three Corms that hadn't started, nothing at all happening. So I took them out, and have just left them sitting on a rack in my polythene greenhouse, if nothing happens so be it, have to write them off as non starters.
btw: Those free Gladioli which some of us in this thread had. They're slug magnets aren't they! Some of the leaf stalks are about 18 inches high now and I noticed some shredding, so I Googled it and found to look for slugs and/or snails, sure enough there were slugs on a couple of them - and they're in pots on a slabbed area! So I guess a few slug pellets on the compost may prevent any further.
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Post by Nucleus on Jun 13, 2018 12:49:24 GMT
Aarrgghh!!!  All of a sudden today the birds or squirrels have developed a fixation for the Begonias in pots, they're growing quite nicely but today three of them have been out of the pots and the compost thrown all over the place!!! What's the fascination, something in the compost they're after or have they tried to have a munch on the Corms? They now have crisscross string over them with bits of silver foil dangling. |
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Post by Geumlover on Jun 13, 2018 14:17:04 GMT
When the birds start attacking my potted Auriculas like that, it is because there are vine weevil grubs in the compost. Before replanting I would check that the compost is clean of grubs.
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Post by Nucleus on Jul 15, 2018 10:29:10 GMT
Quick update... I couldn't get those three failed corms to go. But the rest have developed lovely, I have two baskets, three plants in each. Today or tomorrow I'm going to drill up the brackets and hang them. Edit: Can I get advice about those couple of brownish leaf patches you see in the first pic? It's like those patched have died off and the leaf there has become brittle. Over watering at some stage?   |
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Post by SueA on Jul 16, 2018 7:28:16 GMT
They're looking good Nucleus, I wouldn't worry about the few brown patches, it could be a bit of scorch from the sun or over/under watering but it only looks like cosmetic damage & you could just pinch the leaf off if there are other healthy ones on the same plant. |
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I'm guessing the small reddish things starting to appear in the corms are a sign of good things to come? Just noticed them today.
Sept 6, 2018 17:58:08 GMT
Sept 6, 2018 17:58:08 GMT