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Mark Griffiths
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Re: Cyclamen 2016
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December 14, 2016, 11:00:55 PM »
I'd sow now - I have all my seeds in a room, pots under plastic bags and then I put a black bin bag over them to keep the light out. I also soak them for a day in warm water with a drop of detergent.
After about 3 weeks I check them every few days, when they germinate I move them out into the greenhouse.
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December 15, 2016, 12:43:14 AM »
I do exactly the same as Mark although if I have the space I keep the pots of young seedlings on a south-east facing windowsill indoors rather than move them straight to the greenhouse. They appreciate the extra warmth and I find they make good growth throughout the winter if given good light.
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Thank you both for the answer. Will go the way you have suggested, thank you, Thomas
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December 15, 2016, 10:02:48 AM »
I was sort of thinking about it as I wrote it but I agree with Steve, if I had somewhere relatively cool and light in the house I wouldn't move them to the greenhouse immediately - but I know they would just shrivel up in the house as it's too hot and dry.
I suspect also it may stop any un germinated seed from sprouting with so great a temperature change.
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I delayed sowing seed until April this year to see if germination rates improved. They were about the same as winter sowing (between 5 and 10%). Photo shows C. rohlfsianum seedlings. They were sown in the greenhouse in April and have been there since img. 1020244.
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Rimmer de Vries
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C. rohlfsianum seedlings sown 2 September 2016 (3 months ago) started outside and brought inside basement when temps became consistently close to freezing. Both pots have the same lot of seeds.
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Rimmer
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36.9685° N
USDA zone 6b-7a
Long hot humid summers
Cool wet winter
Heavy red clay soil over limestone karst
Gerdk
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December 15, 2016, 06:10:38 PM »
This is
Cyclamen elegans
, flowering since a couple of weeks this season.
Gerd
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Gerd Knoche, Solingen
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Re: Cyclamen 2016
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December 15, 2016, 07:47:02 PM »
Gerd, that looks great, elegans can be a tricky thing.
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Gerdk
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Re: Cyclamen 2016
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December 16, 2016, 09:08:55 AM »
Quote from: Mark Griffiths on December 15, 2016, 07:47:02 PM
Gerd, that looks great, elegans can be a tricky thing.
Thank you, Mark!
Why do you think
C. elegans
is tricky? For me the species is as easy as 'normal'
C. coum
.
There is one exception however - I never had seeds from 2 different clones.
Gerd
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Gerd Knoche, Solingen
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Re: Cyclamen 2016
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December 16, 2016, 11:51:34 AM »
Hello,
One week to go for Christmas. Cyclamen did well this year. Wishing you all a lovely Christmas and a very good, healthy and lucky 2017.
Gert-Jan Achel (BE)
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Maggi Young
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December 16, 2016, 12:28:57 PM »
A perfectly festive Cyclamen, Gert-Jan!
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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!
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johnralphcarpenter
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December 18, 2016, 01:28:30 PM »
Cyclamen hederifolium
is still flowering in the garden after several months, and now the
C. coum
is starting to flower.
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Ralph Carpenter near Ashford, Kent, UK. USDA Zone 8 (9 in a good year)
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