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Author Topic: Gladiolus 2009 -2010  (Read 12621 times)

Rogan

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Re: Gladiolus 2009 -2010
« Reply #75 on: July 27, 2010, 08:54:33 AM »
G. alatus can be a late "bloomer", i.e. germinator - I had only two near-flowering sized plants from seed sown two or three years ago, now the rest have started germinating in the same pot!  8)  I'm very happy of course as it's my favorite Gladdy. An elderly, since-deceased friend of mine hated gladioli and used to call them "bloody-olus" - I could never understand why!   ::)
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Lesley Cox

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Re: Gladiolus 2009 -2010
« Reply #76 on: July 27, 2010, 09:19:35 PM »
"bloodyolus?" I like it. Though I like gladiolus too, especially the species. I went right off the larger hybrids once Dame Edna got her hands on them but I'm getting over that.

It seems Rogan that G. alatus at least, maybe others as well have a very erratic germination pattern. I never had any come up but maybe I should have waited longer before heaving them, though I think both times it was about 3 years.
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

 


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