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Alex

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Re: Crocus elongation
« Reply #15 on: January 01, 2009, 10:26:20 PM »
The greenhouse is at the end of the garden and in full sun almost all day throughout the Summer (well, except for the shading I put up); in the Winter, it only gets a few hours of direct sun a day but is still what I would think of as well lit overall. What is noticeable is that some clones of michelsonii (and all species in fact) appear to etiolate much more than others, and the photo shows the worst. Compare it with the baytopiorum I have shown in the Jan 2009 thread, which has been sitting as an unopened bud for over a week but etiolated only modestly.

I'm not sure which pots you mean exactly, but they're all just reused and swapped around year after year so are probably several years old. You ca see some of the long toms in which I grow Corydalis and Junos in the background, I wish I had a reliable source for these but encounter them only rarely and buy up stacks when I do!

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Re: Crocus elongation
« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2009, 06:02:55 PM »
My Crocus michelsonii, forced to open today, is a normal size
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Re: Crocus elongation
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2009, 02:15:28 PM »
O what a great day for this subject. It is 11c and dark,lights on in the house all day. The crocus are growing visibly and falling over before my eyes!
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Re: Crocus elongation
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2009, 02:49:08 PM »
11 degrees here also, Galanthus wide open, Crocus open, not a cloud in the sky and .......

sings Oh happy days

The sun now shines on the green house again. It may be setting soon but it has moved far enough west to let the evening sun in. Now I remember why, last year, I had my Crocus pots on the left plunge. That's where the sun is.
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Re: Crocus elongation
« Reply #19 on: January 15, 2009, 04:32:34 PM »
Quote from: Luc Gilgemyn on December 27, 2008, 11:04:05 AM
I have the same experience with C. baytopiorum - very neat, elegant flower but much too elongated (12 cm !). I blame poor lightlevels... does anyone manage to grow them more compact ?

My C. baytopiorum are normally well behaved but this year they have really elongated for some reason (no major change in my cultivation technique).
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Re: Crocus elongation
« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2009, 04:35:31 PM »
Just the opposite with me and mine were from the same stable as Luc's ???
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Re: Crocus elongation
« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2009, 04:40:07 PM »
No sign of mine  :-[
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Re: Crocus elongation
« Reply #22 on: January 15, 2009, 04:47:39 PM »
Quote from: David Nicholson on January 15, 2009, 04:35:31 PM
Just the opposite with me and mine were from the same stable as Luc's ???

Yeah, but you live on the sunny South coast of the Uk don't you David...  ::)
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Re: Crocus elongation
« Reply #23 on: January 15, 2009, 04:52:40 PM »
Sun? What's that? ;D
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Re: Crocus elongation
« Reply #24 on: January 16, 2009, 09:18:04 AM »
Quote from: David Nicholson on January 15, 2009, 04:52:40 PM
Sun? What's that? ;D

 ::)
Look at the above emoticon David ant think away the eyes and the mouth...  ;D
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