Gloriosa superba tubers

[bulborum]

Yes Magie

I leave them till March April dry
and put the pot then in my poly-tunnel
where it stays till November December
I bring the plant in the barn
and when the potting-mixture is dry
I collect the tubers
break and dry them
and one or two weeks later I re-pot the tubers

They get every watering a little fertiliser with the dosatron

This year The plants are very poor
I forgot to bring the pot to the poly-tunnel
and by that they didn't get water
But the first flower arrived last week

Roland

[meanie]

It was a poor year for me too - whilst I did have a bumper crop of flowers, they all came along over a very short period, and were on unusually short stems too. I think that like me it just gave up on our summer!

[Ezeiza]

Meanie, what book would advice giving afternoon sun to a sand dune tropical plant? Please let me know so I never buy it.

Now that you have a number of tubers plant them in several pots, just in case.... Don't they say "do not put all eggs in the same basket"? Particularly if any of them is bruised by the wreckage.

[meanie]

Meanie, what book would advice giving afternoon sun to a sand dune tropical plant? Please let me know so I never buy it.

More than say full sun actually!
This link backs that school of thought up, especially bearing in mind their natural habitat.

http://www.plantzafrica.com/frames/plantsfram.htm

[Ezeiza]

I have seen numbers of habitat photos of them in fierce raging sun scrambling through shrubs and flowering up in the sun. Some were in pure sand and some in red lateritic soil.